Duana's Best Dressed – Chase Infiniti

If I'm honest with myself, I never stood a chance. There are always a few dresses, right when a carpet begins, that make you despair for any fashion to come. They're usually not really that bad, of course, only pedestrian; the kind of looks worn by people who are invited to come to a carpet very early, and whose stylists are working with other, higher-profile clients, these are the outfits that are available. But it makes you really thirsty, even anxious for the looks that will come to wow you, and it's a weird little thrill when they're unexpected. Cynthia Nixon's Issey Miyake was . . .