L&S: Amal Clooney ‘considers herself the world’s most glamorous attorney’

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Here are some additional (and better-quality) photos of Amal and George Clooney at the Tokyo premiere of Tomorrowland yesterday. As I said in Monday’s post, Amal wore Maison Margiela by John Galliano. Galliano did what he could with yellow satin, but many people absolutely loathed this look. I have mixed feelings about Amal as some kind of “new style icon” – just because she wears Galliano and got the ring from George Clooney, doesn’t make her an iconic style figure. She’s not actually Carolyn Bessette, even though the Clooneys have been trying to mimic a “modern Camelot” feel for the better part of a year.

But as always, many prominent fashion people disagree with me. Amal is the second coming of Coco Chanel and must be treated as such. So would it really be so shocking to learn that Amal is hellbent on getting her own Vogue cover?

Amal Clooney wants to appear on the cover of American Vogue. The British human rights lawyer, whose husband George Clooney is close friends with the fashion bible’s editor Anna Wintour, has reportedly set her sights on gracing the cover of the magazine.

A source close to the 37-year-old beauty told Life & Style Weekly: “One of Amal’s great goals is to land the cover of Vogue.

“Amal considers herself the world’s most glamorous attorney and is obsessed with fame and fashion. Amal thinks nothing of going on $20,000 shopping sprees at high-end department stores and designer boutiques.”

She was also recently spotted having dinner with Anna at Lambs Club in New York City, sparking rumours the cover is already in the works. The insider added: “Amal thought she’d died and gone to heaven.”

[From L&S via The Hamilton Spectator]

First off, I would rather see Amal on the cover of Vogue rather than another Blake Lively cover. Anna Wintour does take an occasional risk with cover subjects, although I think it’s far more likely that Amal would simply get a large feature in a future Vogue issue and not the cover. As for Amal believing that she’s “the world’s most glamorous attorney” and how much money she’s been spending on clothes… I kind of believe that. Just let the Alamooney wash all over you.

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  1. Size Does Matter says:

    Oh, vomit. You’re not allowed to give yourself titles or superlatives, Amal.

    • mimif says:

      HODOR! Oh sorry, wrong spot.

    • sofia says:

      I’ll vomit on that Vogue if it happens. I think I even dislike Amal more than Kim Kashardian, because Kim never pretended to be something she is not, whereas Amal… If this is true it seems that the idea of her being smart is just of facade for something else. UGH.

      • Belle Epoch says:

        Are there ANY other lawyers who spend that much time and money shopping and having their picture taken? I don’t think most lawyers go to law school to be on the cover of Vogue. It’s a little bit like a doctor who wants to be a TV entertainer. Oh, whoops —

      • nicole says:

        If she does get a Vogue cover its only because she married George, same as Kim Kardashian only got it because of Kanye. They didnt get it on there own merit. I dont think she will get a cover but probably a article in the magazine along with a photo. I actually would like to read an interview with her to see what she comes over like and does she gush about George as much as he does.

      • sofia says:

        @nicole: I actually would like to read a proper interview from her, because so far it’s just what others say about her and photos. Didn’t she already gget into vogue because of her wedding dress?

      • nic919 says:

        Women have enough trouble being taken seriously in the legal profession as it is that aspiring to be on Vogue isn’t exactly something that will add gravitas to her developing legal career. If she wants to be taken seriously as a lawyer, then she isn’t looking to be on Vogue, but if she does show up on the cover one day, that will tell you just how much she cares about her legal career. You don’t see Madeleine Albright or Ruth Bader Ginsberg saying they want to be on Vogue.

      • Tracy says:

        Imagine! Being interested and accomplished at both law AND fashion! What nerve.

    • PoppyAdair says:

      All the plusses!

    • melodycalder says:

      I call bs. No way would they meet for lunch- a colonic maybe, but not for such a peasanty and fattening activity as eating. These women don’t eat.

      • belle de jour says:

        I pitched something once: interviewing the real waitstaff – and the lounge attendants – at the places where Ladies Who Lunch go in midtown.

        In a way, it’s sort of a perfect, quiet power play set-up: chefs acting like they’re cooking food to be eaten; actors acting like waiters; ladies acting like they’re eating; loo attendants acting like they don’t hear anything.

  2. minx says:

    I actually love that dress.
    I don’t usually wade into these Amal Clooney threads, but I really doubt someone close to her is talking to Life and Style.

    • Miss M says:

      I thought her mother worked as a PR…

    • Carmen says:

      I like the dress but not on her. She’s skin and bones and and her posture is awful, and that dress just accentuates all that.

      • Suzanne says:

        I see her and him 20 years from now humped over…her still trying not to look taller than him…and having to slump even further with the arm cocked to the side…like usual…These two are starting to get on my nerves. She can’t go outdoors without scouting for a camera facing her. She walks nowhere publicly without posing….and smiling…and looking and looking for another camera to pose for. GET OVER YOURSELF.

    • BNA FN says:

      @minx, The person talking to Life and Style is her husband. I belive her husband just can’t help himself. GC wants them to be the next Brangelina without the children.

      • minx says:

        If it is Clooney, though, wouldn’t he be talking to a more high end publication, rather than Life and Style?

  3. Miss M says:

    Hahahahahaha, she is really funny. Greag joke, Amal!

    I’d rather see a model or supermodel on the cover of Vogue. Also, she needs to improve her posture. In yesterday’s post, she looked like she had a huge bulge in one of the photos…

    • Gea says:

      Me too, I agree. Kind of tired of celebrity covering fashion magazine and some are trying way to hard to look fashionable.
      Well, we don’t know if she actually thinks or she said that she is all that( most glamorous attorney). It sounds more like Clooney’s saying or his team of make belive. If somebody spend tons of money on latest fashion deosnt really makes them glam. It can turn otherwise if person deosnt own presence. She is still working on her posture while walking in high heels and still learning really hard that trending deosnt mean chic.

  4. psuedointellectual says:

    Her arms are scary skinny. U see her bikini underwear line and her jutting hips. Her boobs are uneven.
    Other than that, she looks great (sarcasm)

    • Lorenzo says:

      Her boobs wobble around on different heights, one is going down south, sadly making friends with her elbow, the other one is still glued in the bra, trying to break free.

      Showing off her undergarment and the Joan Crawford hair just complete the total mess.

      She doesn’t look like a reasonable person to me…..

      • nicole says:

        She seems to wear a lot of padded bras, because the shots of her at the airport in the missoni dress, she looked very flat chested.

    • Bellejar says:

      Never got the hype on her as some great beauty….more like new skeleton married to a celebrity to wear designer clothes. She looks terrible. IMO

  5. Kitten says:

    Puke.

    • Izzy says:

      Hairball? Can your kittehs save the day with them if this cover comes to pass? And if so, can you please post pics of that cover with the hairballs all over it? It would make my YEAR.

  6. FingerBinger says:

    If Kim Kardashian gets the vogue cover then Amal Clooney can get the cover too.

  7. nicole says:

    Attorney is not a term the British (or canadian!) use for lawyer, so it’s not like that’s a quote (obviously). So I guess the reference point is “world’s most glamorous lawyer” or “world’s most glamorous barrister”.

    It follows that I am lawyering from home today in care bear pajama pants and a concert t-shirtn so she has some stiff competition for this title. Bring it on, Amal.

    • Anonamonapia says:

      Bow down, Amal!

    • BNA FN says:

      No wonder lawyers fees are o high, we have to pay them for leaving the house, just figured that out just now. Don’t kill me Nicole with lawyers speak, I’m just having fun.

    • PoppyAdair says:

      Hey, I am a lawyer who is staying at home today too! Wearing a high school T-shirt and Lacoste tennis skirt! But I will not be working on cases…instead I will be cleaning up flood water in my house. Yay.

      Whoever is praying for rain in Texas, PLEASE STOP! ENOUGH ALREADY!

      • Katy says:

        PoppyAdair – I have made that same request from my fellow Texans. Please STOP praying for rain!!! We have a creek behind our house and it keeps getting scary high!!

      • laura in LA says:

        Please give California the rain so we can avoid drought. Flooding’s no fun, though. Sorry to hear about all that going on in Texas.

      • PoppyAdair says:

        Thanks, CBers! I wish we could pipe all the water to CA too. Still cleaning up…and it is raining again but not enough to flood the house again. Fingers crossed…

      • nicole says:

        I feel so sorry for you, hope the rain stops, I live in Ireland and beleive me we get a lot of rain, but lucky not much flooding. Hope it stops soon and youre ok.

  8. manda says:

    Gosh, just because someone is pretty and thin does not make them a fashion icon! Also, so people are cool with galliano now? I thought he was the crazy anti-semite

    • oneshot says:

      The apology alone wouldn’t count for much, but he did own up to his actions and seems genuinely repentant and not just paying lip service, if the Rabbi of the Central London synagogue believes in his sincerity then I’d say maybe there is hope for him yet.

      At least Galliano apologised and seems to be trying to make amends, which is more than Tommy “my clothes are not for black people” Hilfiger or the relentlessly racist Jean Touitou of APC have ever done (apparently having Kanye for a black friend makes repeated use of the n-word and making fun of Asian accents ok)

  9. lower-case deb says:

    much as it is entertaining, i just can’t bring myself to believe this as anything other than fanfiction by LS writers.

    died and have gone to heaven?

    granted that she can be very pap-amusing sometimes and George can be overzealous when it comes to selling his wife’s image. but Vogue magazine cover as a reason for her to go to heaven? i think she’d reserve it for something more directly related to her professional career?

    like if she died after Vogue cover, what’d she do if she gets a nobel?

    and 20k is nothing for a high powered lawyer right?

    for me that’s one heck of a lot of money, but good for her to spend her money on things she like.

    the yellow dress… still bad. satin is soooo unforgiving 🙁

  10. Sherry says:

    Who is trying to make this woman happen? I feel like I did regarding AnnE Hathaway when she was campaigning for the Oscar. It’s too much and I’m ready for both George and Amal to just quietly retire to Como this summer.

    • JenniferJustice says:

      Agreed. I forgot about the Hathaway push and most ended up with a bad taste in their mouth for her. If it doesn’t happen naturally because the person is talented and has the “it” factor, it can’t be forced. They can try, but they never get the reception they hope for.

  11. Hautie says:

    Uh. I was thinking she was already on the cover for Vogue. Back when she wore that Oscar de la Renta bridal dress, for her wedding. I guess it was an layout then?

    I don’t see any reason why Amal couldn’t be a cover girl. I mean geez… Lucifer’s Home Girl, favorite spawn, got on the cover. How big of deal could it be?

    I suspect that Victoria Beckham lost all interest in her goal. Of being a cover girl for American Vogue, since then too. 🙂

  12. JenniferJustice says:

    Okay. She’s tall and thin – but why does that automatically make someone model material? She is NOT good-looking in the face. She is passable in front shots. Her profile leaves much to be desired. I can’t imagine anybody actually claiming they think they are the most glamorous anything, so I’m taking that with a grain of salt. George’s suit is ill-fitting and for the love of God – button up your shirt. I really can’t stand him and he pisses me off with every stupid reference to Camelot I hear from his PR team – AS IF!!!!! George, you are NOT a King or even a Knight. You are not a Kennedy. Please don’t tell me you’re running for any kind of office. Amal is NOT any comparison to Carolyn Kennedy. Those types of comparisons are seriously offensive.

    • Belinda B. says:

      +1
      I don’t get the hype and don’t see why Amal is considered good looking, yes she is tall and thin and has great hair (with the extensions) but she looks like a man to me. I’ve always thought Clooney was gay and his Tom Cruise-style PR for this marriage makes me even more convinced.

    • Tdub30 says:

      Agree with all you’ve said.

    • Christin says:

      To compare them with Cary, Jackie, JFK Jr. or Carolyn is absolutely delusional. George looks like a rumpled mess lately and most recently, Amal forgot to purchase proper undergarments to smooth out her dress look.

      I thought she supposedly had a fancy dressing area with multiple mirrors, lighting, etc., to avoid little wardrobe snafus?

      • Jib says:

        And you can see her camel toe in one of the shots from yesterday. As someone said on another fashion blog, “Jackie Kennedy would NEVER have camel toe.”

    • Tessy says:

      To me she looks like a female version of Omar Sharif. And I’m sorry, but she looks dangerously thin possibly anorexic. That said, I really don’t mind the dress, I think it probably looks good in motion.

  13. Jegede says:

    She probably eventually will, but I actually hope a Kardashian gets the Vogue cover again.

    Just for the hysteria, anger and meltdowns.

  14. Jayna says:

    It doesn’t surprise me that’s her dream and that it’s been her aim when you look at her fashion pap walks. But I doubt it came from a source. It’s just easy to surmise that from her actions.

    Google “Amal Clooney Fashion” and click on “Images.” I am surprised by how much of her looks I find very interesting, even though she’s had quite a few misses. Great work attire. I loved all of her wedding activities outfits before and after, great gowns, many great casual outfits. Some funky stuff that isn’t funky in a great way, but in an awful way. Yet, some that do work. Overall I was surprised by the amount of fashion pics there are of Amal in the span of like just a year. It’s an onslaught of her in designer wear since she came onto the scene as George’s girl.

    There’s no doubt when scrolling through pages of images and all of the fashion she has been wearing and designers that she has captured the attention of people and that her big aim is to be seen as a fashion icon. Sorry, George, we know you want it too, and that’s the goal even though according to you she has a real job and just puts up with this “celebrity world.”

    I wouldn’t mind her on there. It’s better than a Kardashian. LOL but I agree, she is no Carolyn Bessette Kennedy.

    • nicole says:

      I wouldnt compare her to Carolyn Bessett at all, I loved her looks, very classic and simple. She never looked like she was trying too hard. I loved her Prada coats, pencil skirts, plain sweaters and long boots. She had real style from the beginning. You also felt she really didnt like the paparazzi and genuinely wasnt comfortable in the public eye. Amal is completly different. Her style was awful at the start does any one remember the red dress, big gaudy hoop earrings and silver boots yuk! And dont forget the hello kitty tshirt and little denim shorts with big high heel sandals ugh, nobody with any kind of fashion know how would like those outfits. The only thing I liked her wearing so far was the black and white striped Dolce and Gabbana dress, it was lovely. She just doesnt have that it factor for me.

      • Christin says:

        As one example of many — Carolyn would have never remotely considered a floral dress with the front hemline nearly exposing her private areas like Amal wore on her honeymoon (to board a boat, no less).

        Carolyn = Timeless, effortless STYLE

      • Wheeze says:

        @nicole I think those silver boots were actually open toe boots. Yep. Really bizarre. But she was closer to the healthy weight range back then.

      • Jayna says:

        I also loved Carolyn’s effortless, impeccable style, and never try-hardy. And she definitely didn’t like the press and never sought it out.

  15. Esmom says:

    I didn’t even need to read the story, the headline alone was the best laugh of the day. It does sound like BS, though. Typical tab.

  16. Sayrah says:

    Wow George has a bit of an old man look in that cover photo.

  17. scottiegal says:

    It would be nice to see an accomplished woman on the cover of Vogue. They don’t all have to be in the entertainment industry to be on the cover. It shouldn’t be limited to actresses and models.

    • FingerBinger says:

      I’d rather see an accomplished woman on the cover of time magazine or the economist not vogue.

    • oneshot says:

      I agree with the sentiment, but I know for a fact that when Vogue in my country chooses its feature subjects, a huge part of the conversation revolves around how close they are to sample size/how much retouching they will need. I imagine US Vogue is no different.

      Personally I would love to see Victoria Beckham on the US Vogue cover because she’s actually accomplished a great deal by setting up a successful business and turning her image around, but sadly we will never get to see that because Nuclear Wintour is a weird type of snob (famous for a sex tape and famewhoring = cover material! Turned her tabloid-fodder life around and went from fashion’s laughingstock to a legit successful designer = not cover material!)

      • Jayna says:

        It infuriates me that Victoria hasn’t been on the US Vogue cover. She deserves to be on it.

      • oneshot says:

        @Jayna – well, imo cover-wise, Victoria got a bigger prize than US Vogue – Vogue Paris! Anyone with any fashion nous knows VP has the cool/influential factor that Vogue US has not had for, oh, a decade now.

      • LAK says:

        Victoria has a US Vogue cover. January 1998. Granted she’s sharing it with the other Spice girls, but she has a cover.

        And Edna Mode is on record saying that she regrets putting the Spice Girls on the cover, so there is that.

        Victoria was a regretted trashy pop girl cover and is now a respected designer. How many designers have US vogue covers? None.

        Victoria will live with the significant backing she receives from Edna Mode – her show is one Edna attends consistently in recent years, and forget the cover for herself.

  18. jen2 says:

    I don’t think being on the cover of Vogue is the big deal it used to be. After KKW made it, the value went way down. Though with all of her “fashion pap walks” and high fashioned airport attire, I think she would enjoy it. It would cement her status as a full blown celebrity. But I also don’t think L & S is accurate, like all the other trashy tabloids, so I will not judge what is being reported too much.

    Still don’t like the dress on her though, it is just not complementary. Her posture is just, I have no words for how bad it is. If she stood up straight, it might help the way the dress fits and falls and it would help all of her clothes look better.

  19. PunkyMomma says:

    The color does not flatter her at all. Is she trying to look like an Oscar?

    • jen2 says:

      Interesting comment as the last ceremony Stacy K went to with Mr. Clooney before being kicked to the curb were the Oscars and she wore a gold dress. Just saying….

  20. Cody says:

    She needs Spanx and leave her hair down with that yellow dress. She is having her 15 minutes of fame. Unless she is a famous super model or beautiful actress, she needs to get her cover or feature soon, because she will be to old for Vogue and will have to work on the editor of More magazine.

    • oneshot says:

      well, the FLOTUS got her cover at age 44, I think? But she is the FLOTUS after all…. Amalooney’s got a few years left in her yet, and you know old Anna Wintour loves extreme skinniness, celeb ass-kissing and photoshop.

  21. oneshot says:

    if they can have a Kartrashian on the cover, not to mention all those rando starlets no1curr about unless it’s about their bf (Biel) or because Anna inexplicably took pity on some mallrat-looking downmarket type (Lively) , they could do much worse than Amalooney.

    But good lord, this pushing of her as the next big thing is getting exhausting. She’s an attractive woman and the rush to call her ugly or mannish is a bit strange and reflects more on those saying it than on her, but her style isn’t interesting to me at all. It’s basically Park Avenue stereotype cranked up to 1000, though I suppose to people whose style influences are limited to tabloid Best Dressed roundups and have never picked up any fashion magazines other than US Vogue, she might pull the wool over their eyes for a bit.

    • Tdub30 says:

      As one who finds her unattractive I find it odd that my opinion reflects poorly on me (per your statement). She has overly large features, terrible posture and is just…unattractive. And believe me, the only time I see or think of Mrs. Clooney is when I come here and see her, so I don’t actively contemplate her. I’m not trying to pick a fight or stir up a fuss, I just don’t find her at all attractive.

      • oneshot says:

        I get the criticism on posture and style, it’s a valid one because those things are within an individual’s control, but I find the criticism of her “large features” really strange.

        She is not working in a field that depends on whether someone finds her pretty or not, and if she got plastic surgery to change those ‘large features’ to something that was a closer fit to Hollywood standards, you’d get a whole different crowd piling on her for it. It’s not about Amal Clooney the individual who may well be an obnoxious socialite-wannabe, but her kind of looks are actually quite common in certain regions and communities and you guys are indirectly calling them all ugly.

        I personally think her kind of looks (again, not her personally, but women with looks like hers) can be really beautiful, but I did see a lot of women with facial features in a similar mold to hers while growing up so I don’t think of them as ugly or mannish, just a different kind of beauty (Amalooney herself was quite attractive as a youngster, before the recent extreme weight loss).

      • nicole says:

        I dont find her attractive either and I think it also has to do with her personality that makes me not warm to her. I think some middleastern women are beautiful. Queen Rania of Jordan is stunning and has great style and a lovely warm personality thats what makes me like her, as well a Yasmin Le bon she is also lovely too.

      • LAK says:

        Oneshot: Amal has had a nosejob and dental make over and weight loss since she was outed as GC’s girlfriend.

        It’s hard to find her before pictures, but they exist. Different nose, teeth and more weight.

  22. norah says:

    i think she is so over rated and wish that both her and clooney just disappear for a while esp since his movie has bombed. what is so particular abt her? i thought she was different from the usual hw wife but it seems like she is like that. its fine to support the husband but too much hw posturing for my taste. and that yellow dress shows how terribly thin she is – she loves the limelight imo

    • Jegede says:

      +1
      I do like Clooney and am indifferent to Amal but yep

      And its funny her fans call out at people for describing Amal’s looks as ‘mannish’, who then promptly turn around to disparage others looks.

      But ‘online fashion connoisseurs’ know best I guess. Lol

  23. Helen says:

    Just a thought. If she had an enemy, all that enemy would have to do is release a quote saying something like this. Knowing it would bring out the claws.

    That would be the best form of attack on a woman in the spotlight, just let it get about that “she thinks she is really beautiful” and people will hate on her and drag out that quote nastily for the rest of the woman’s life.

    I’m not saying that’s what’s happened here, but good lord, what have people got against this woman? No one is jealous of her being married to George C are they? He old.

    Is it the money they have, or that she seems to “have it all?” It just seems so disproportionate.

  24. Dhavynia says:

    The color of that dress looks like the color of my vitamin B complex exiting my body

    I know it’s TMI but that’s the first thing that popped in my head.

    • wolfpup says:

      Although unusual, I think that Amal’s dress is beautiful. The problem is the few pounds she needs to fill it out; curves can make a woman beautiful, and it makes me sad to see her go the way of the wisp.

  25. Jess says:

    I mean…shoot. She IS the most glamorous attorney. I would love to see her on a cover of Vogue and an interview. She is a great example of a modern working woman, a strong, self-assured woman who has her own merits (though it is a shame she’s known mostly for being Mrs. George Clooney as opposed to who she is). A put together woman from an upper middle-class background who worked very hard, kept her head on straight. Was admitted into an extremely prestigious, storied and competitive school (Oxford). Moreover won a MERIT scholarship to said school. Then, worked at one of the top law firms in one of the most competitive cities to practice law (Sullivan & Cromwell). Her clients may be shady and she may like having her hair done but she IS a smart, hardworking woman. I would love if I had a daughter and she turned out like Amal, and when George married her as opposed to a sub-20 year old, I thought better of him.

    • Penelope says:

      (though it is a shame she’s known mostly for being Mrs. George Clooney as opposed to who she is)

      @Jess, I hear you and agree she has many admirable qualities. But honestly, no one would know who she is, period, if she weren’t Mrs. George Clooney. There are many, many beautiful, accomplished, and successful women we’ve never heard of because they didn’t marry the biggest movie star in the world.

    • MediaMaven says:

      “I mean…shoot. She IS the most glamorous attorney.”

      I dunno – for my money, when Judge Judy is rocking the lace collar over her lawyerin’ duds, she is the height of glamour.

    • M says:

      YOU can put your kid in OXFORD too if you can afford it and your kid half smart.that degree is enough to work at one of the top law firms in one of the most competitive cities to practice law (Sullivan & Cromwell) ,IT’S NOT A MIRACLE,i ‘d not like my kid to take role model of Amal and work for evil people that doesn’t worth for me.

      • Beast says:

        No, that degree is not enough to practice at Sullivan & Cromwell. You have to be in the top quarter(?) of the class at Harvard Law to get a job there. You may not like her, but it’s not easy to have accomplished what she has. It’s not impossible, but it’s not a cakewalk.

      • M says:

        @Beast,still you don’t have to be Mensa or exceptional only half smart as i said and believe me the rules must be harder for Harvard US students in general to join these law firms ,studding law in US is a lot harder too Amal studied 3 years for her degree and 1 in NY master, tell me how many years US student study for law degree and masters in US???
        i don’t like Amal but Amal is fairly overrated.

    • Jib says:

      My question is, when does this modern working woman work?? Haven’t seen her headed to any kind of work in the last few months. I’ve seen her strolling around, dressed in 10K of clothes, hair done, make-up on, but work?? Haven’t seen that.

  26. Lola says:

    Wait what? She is joking, right? Does she know every attorney on the face of this earth??

    • lisa2 says:

      This is what proves the story to be untrue. I don’t see her making such grand statements like this. Because as you say we are not seeing pictures of other high powered female barristers/lawyers featured on gossip sites.

  27. Comity says:

    any attorney who really hustles knows it is not about glamour. It is hard work that leaves time for little else, certainly not month long vacays and minimal spare time for shopping. She’s not really working that hard at least not at her paying job.

  28. lizounette says:

    George looks so old in that first picture. It’s like he’s clutching his stomach with pains and about to keel over.

  29. Jessica says:

    She’s the most glamorous attorney I can think of. And she’s beautiful and brilliant. She deserves the cover of Vogue as she’s an awesome representation of the modern woman.

  30. wow says:

    Yesssss for the Carolyn Bessette shout out!

    Amal can sit down. I hate how the media just throws around he fashion icon title on women who happen to marry rich and famous men.

    Carolyn had style even before marrying JFK Jr. Women like Amal and Kate Middleton receive fashion praise by marrying prominent men. Big difference. Kate and Amal do wear certain things that look great on yt? hem, but to me having style is more than that.

    • Jayna says:

      It reminds me back when Katie Holmes married Tom Cruise and within a year they were calling her a fashion icon because he put her in designer wear and got her hair styled. I am sick of it also.

  31. Dotty says:

    She is Mr. Bean in a dress.

  32. Esmerelda says:

    Who’s the guy in the blue suit?

    • Citresse says:

      Her half brother.

      • boredblond says:

        Th

      • Jaci says:

        So, one of the many things that confuses me about this relationship is the many ‘hangers on’ members of Amal’s family that are being paraded for the media. We’ve already had Tala, her sister, and now we have Samer, her half brother walking her down the red carpet in JAPAN!!
        I could just about understand it if this was the Lebanese premiere, but I simply cannot understand why Samer and his wife are making an appearance in Japan.
        This, more than anything else makes dm think the marriage is in real trouble. Did Amal insist upon her relative being there for moral supprt? Even if they came for moral support, could they not have taken a back seat role. Was George not strong enough to ask them not to appear at the premiere? Surely their presence takes away from the real star’s limelight.
        It certainly looks like an Alamuddim takeover.

      • siri says:

        @Jaci: It certainly IS a takeover. Her mother seems to think she knows how PR goes, not that George’s ever was particularly smart. But this truly is alerting, since it puts the emphasis completely on Amal- and why would George agree? I can only guess, so I think he is hoping for new sources for financing his films, as well as new markets to sell them to. THAT might have been the deal, not politics, or just an image makeover. BTW, we’ve seen her parents (who are divorced), both of her half-brothers, her cousin, her sister+boyfriend, and her nice on carpets/sets already. HIS parents are noticeably absent from all of these occasions.

  33. Zombie Shortcake says:

    I can see how she might land a non-US solo Vogue cover. I think George would have to be running for/in public office, or holding a diplomatic position of some sort, for her to get a solo US one.

    • Zombie Shortcake says:

      Edit: Or she would have to be holding public office or a diplomatic appointment.

      • BNA FN says:

        I cannot see George C running for any office in tge united States. First I’m of the opinion he has lots of baggage in his private life. Second with the type of barrister his wife is some of tge voters will use that against him.

  34. Guesto says:

    The problem with Amal is George Clooney. He taints everything he touches.

    I feel strangely sorry for her although I can’t rationally pinpoint why.

    • Wheeze says:

      I honestly think he’s a nice guy, just not very bright and too desperate to become as loved and heroic as angelina jolie and brad pitt. I think he’s a bit challenged intellectually and in terms of having an ability to treat serious issues like refugees without the shadow of mythomania. He’s just not very bright.

      • nicole says:

        Wheeze I think you could be right. I still like George no matter what, even though he gets on my nerves alot of the time.

  35. BNA FN says:

    I’m surprised AC did not make Forbes 100 most influencitional women in the world list. OMG, George is going to be really upset. First his movie tanked, then his most influential barrister in the world wife was was omitted from Forbes list. I see Bey, Angelina, Ellen, Oprah, FLOTUS, Ect all made the list without their spouse help. George needs to slow down with the pushing his wife on us, and his wife needs to tell her husband to stop trying to make her into a movie star instead of a movie star wife.

    • siri says:

      She won’t tell him to stop- she came on board for this. She managed to bring her whole family (two half-brothers, sister&her boyfriend, nice, cousin, parents) to red carpets and/or movie sets in the meantime…this woman will stop at nothing. George tied himself to some sort of deal in the (vain) hope it would brighten up his image- he won’t easily break away from it.

      • boredblond says:

        Sort of looks like the yacht boy bros have been added to the payroll…I got scoffed at before, but I still smell reality show (the only blind not yet confirmed..).

      • siri says:

        @boredblond: If THAT would happen, George can kiss his career goodby. But I’m sure her mother would love it. It’s very obvious they put Amal central within his PR strategy- an unwise move in my understanding. What in god’s name has her half-brother and his wife to do on that red carpet? And George being asked about the film telling people “Go and see it!”- what?? That’s what films are for, I thought, but he can’t manage to say something more inviting/exiting? George seems to be completely under the spell of the Alamuddin family…I just don’t get what might be so important…it might be the connections they have to open new markets/financing sources for his films…it can’t be just the concern about his image.

    • Wheeze says:

      She’s really not that influential, even as a lawyer. She’s only had 10 (?) years of experience, max. Contrast with Geoffrey Robertson’s CV.

      • Ange says:

        *sigh* I met him in London once, he was just… so far above anything I’d ever experienced in a human. I felt so pedestrian! He was lovely though.

  36. Matty Strom says:

    Who do they think they can fool? His little trophy wife who is so serious and hardworking and still has time to go and visit him in those trashy clothes all the times. That hair, bad bad wig.

    • boredblond says:

      Well they fooled a lot of people here..to be fair, she has worked tirelessly, nonstop to be a Celebrity..I can’t think of anyone who has gone to such lengths..surgeries, name change, style reversal, rewriting of past..for Celebrity–not even the Kardashians.

  37. maggie says:

    I think she’s very pretty along with being successful. The hypocrisy on here is astounding in regards to her weight. If this were Saint Angie it would be body shaming blah blah blah. I love the dress and the color looks gorgeous on her. Yes she’s very thin but she’s not a movie star and not used to the pressure of being scrutinized so harshly. They look happy together but George is looking his age….older actually.

    • KellyBee says:

      Lol girl you must be talking about yourself when you’re talking about hypocrites because your comment is full of it.

  38. Nimbolicious says:

    Ugh. These photos really show the horribleness of it all. He looks like he’s having an appendicitis attack; she looks like she’s wearing a cheesy prom dress complete with that fugly bow on the top. And there’s something really wack going on in the pelvic area too that, I swear, looks like a strap-on. Lousy hair and makeup, crooked boobs……THIS is supposed to be The Most Glamorous, Awesomest Woman Of All Time? Jeez…..

  39. DottieDot says:

    They’re both A-Holes!

  40. Wheeze says:

    I said this all along. She values a Vogue cover more than being appointed a QC. This person can’t get enough of the limelight. Fair enough if you’re doing something with it. But unfortunately all Amal and George are interested in is being perceived as being elite and known and nothing of the grimy crap associated with the responsibilities of actual activists and advocates and real influencers in the public sphere.

    • siri says:

      Spot on. And that’s sad. But even more sad is, that so many people are still letting themselves be fooled by this shallow couple. There are plenty of true activists around to look up to.

      • nicole says:

        I agree. You dont see too many photos of her in Lebanon helping her own people, who have most of the syrian refugees as I gather. She seems only interested in people with lots of money.

  41. Heathering says:

    There’s an old British saying to describe a woman who makes a show of herself trying to make herself seem better than everyone when at base she may well have actually less class than most she looks down upon:

    “She’s all fur coat and no knickers”. A bit crude but… heading on for apt – literally and metaphorically.

    • siri says:

      Why do you think people are an easy prey for this kind of fiddle? The PR isn’t even very professional, and rather obvious…

      • Heathering says:

        Sorry, tried to reply. Not allowed by moderation.

      • siri says:

        Had similar experiences a couple of times. I just wonder why people would pick such a fake woman for admirational purposes;-) And I wonder what her collegues, other lawyers, or his parents actually really think about all this. I noticed the latter are quite absent for a longer while. All we see is Alamuddin family…

      • nicole says:

        Siri, I saw through her from day one when she was walking out of the airport with her head up in the air, completly ignoring the airport staff who were pushing her luggage like she was some big superstar. She never once looked at them, that told me what kind of a person she was.

      • siri says:

        @nicole: There are plenty of women to admire- we don’t have to pick this one;-)

  42. I had to laugh when Amal was compared to Carolyn Besset..the only thing they had in common were: they were tall, had a long nose and married rich men. The yellow dress is still nasty, you can’t unsee the neither area, Amal needs a full length mirror.

  43. Veronica says:

    I’m sure this is totally something she stated herself and not something a magazine came up with in order to contribute to our typical procedure of tearing women down after we build them up.

    • Heathering says:

      But, in this case, ‘tall poppy syndrome’ doesn’t wash. *We* didn’t build anyone (Amal) up. The negativity is not coming on the back of an organic and natural build in public admiration and acknowledgment. Amal was, pretty much, presented, at the outset, as the complete finished and exceptional article. That many, with reasoned sourcing and credible perceived doubts, now question the foundations for that Clooney/self-presentation isn’t that “typical procedure” in action.

      I don’t disagree that can and does happen, but not in this case.

  44. Anare says:

    I know some brilliant female attorneys who are quite glam and could give Amal a run for her money. That dress is no bueno. I guess it’s true that she isn’t using a stylist! If you’re going to wear a slinky satin gown it has to be perfectly designed, perfectly fitted, with perfect under pinnings and on a perfect body. Few can pull it off. Amal does not pull it off here actually she looks cringe-worthy. The dress is not a great design, it doesn’t fit her, she is showing every bump under the dress and she does not have the perfect body to wear slinky satin. She’s too thin so the dress doesn’t lay right. This is a fail!

  45. Nonny says:

    Her safe colour will guide her back to The Village…..