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Oscars: The lady hath a way with a Lanvin tuxedo

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I’m not a huge fan of the ‘Freaky Friday’-style cross-dressing schtick, and though James Franco looked uncomfortably like an off-the-rails Anna Nicole Smith in a floor-length pink gown and blond wig during the wardrobe switcheroo sketch at Sunday’s 83rd annual Academy Awards, co-host Anne Hathaway looked lovely in Lanvin.

Monday morning, the Lanvin folks provided some details about the outfit: It’s a black tuxedo with a satin shawl collar and a single, jeweled-button closure with matching pants, a white tuxedo shirt (also Lanvin), with a cream-colored tulle square bib and pearl buttons -- with one of Lanvin’s signature bowties in black.

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Call it a rare cross-dress success.

-- Adam Tschorn

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Adam Tschorn

Senior features writer Adam Tschorn is a former small-town newspaper editor, game-show question-and-answer man and fashion scribe who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2007. He currently covers a wide range of pop-culture topics with a focus on cannabis culture. Holding a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in journalism, he feels perfectly suited to looking at things, asking “why?†and writing down the answers.

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