Amal Clooney is a force like no other.
Back in my incubation days as a baby lawyer-to be (that dream has long, long smouldered to ash), she was the pinnacle of grace, the one to model my eighteen year old conscience after. Since 2015, Clooney has been a visiting faculty member as well as a senior fellow at Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute.
In between working full-time as a barrister and chairing the Clooney foundation, the lawyer, mother and red-carpet attendee is a trois threat in many ways. Clooney, qualified to practice in the United States, United Kingdom and Wales, also speaks to the first lady in all of us. I loved her dedication to dressing shoulder-to shoulder with Evita Peron and Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy. Her stateliness moves through her style, and whether she's chivvying the arm of her own Clooney towards the cameras or sitting in-session on committee for the United Nations, she always presented with a fatal polish.
The human rights lawyer favours bold colours, bejewelled sequins and a smattering of Versace and Dior. She has a penchant for archival designer, and favours restyled pieces from Galliano's Dior. Clooney is often in a pantsuit (by the nature of her work), and almost all of her outfits are crowned with her glorious, gravity-resistant hair. A classical silhouette is her forte, be it a mermaid hem-line on a red-carpet gown or a tailored blazer.
In commemoration of our very own flesh-and-blood answer to Elle Woods, we've rallied some of her sartorial best below.
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In atelier Versace at the Venice Film Festival.
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Stepping out in Venizia with a fan.
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Old Hollywood in one fell swoop.
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A simple white ribbon can cut through and elevate any black outfit. It's the CHANEL policy after all.
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Bottega Veneta Purple and Proenza Schouler yellow. It sounds tricky on the tongue, but it's seamless on the orbitals.
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A LBM (little black mini) can upstyle anything. Trust us on this one.
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Aquamarine cap-sleeve numbers are rare today - which makes this sighting all the more admirable.
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A Rita Skeeter ensemble in a lime green Burberry two-piece.
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Very French. Very demure.
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An all-red powder suit is a power move in any book. Notably ours.
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I am partial to an off-shoulder drop-waist number, and this side-stripe in pink and grey is making me woozy. I'll take three.
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A fluffy St. Bernard and a doting Husband are accoutrements a woman really needs. Particularly the former.
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Polka dot and camel tones. Not a combo I'd naturally gravitate to, but Clooney's making me seriously reconsider.
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A summer-ready, birds of paradise look.
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The black bag to offset any polka dot.
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This might take the cake for me. Bone-white and cut to form is always the way to go.
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An off-the cuff look in tasselled champagne.
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A Sergio Hudson jumpsuit for a most auspicious occasion: Meghan Markle's baby shower.
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Full-bodied tartan.
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The Onassis bloodline is strong here.
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Alexander Mcqueen and Stella Mccartney.
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Valleygirl, but make it Clooney.
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Armed with the twins and a baker boy cap.
