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Vogue World went to Hollywood this past weekend to honor some of the showtime greats in a giant runway show at the Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles, CA. Over the past two weeks, the world has mourned the untimely loss of Diane Keaton, and there was no more apt place to celebrate her iconic style. Model Betsy Gaghan was chosen to embody the actress, walking the runway dressed in a Ralph Lauren recreation of the famous “Annie Hall” look. In this past weekend’s show, she wore a white button-down shirt with oversized khaki pants, a polka dot tie around her neck, beneath a dark suit vest with a single button fastened. Looking around the crowd as she walked, just as starry-eyed as Annie Hall herself, Gaghan’s look was finished off with a wide-brimmed hat and raffia tote, tennis racket pocking out from the inside. Ralph Lauren is habitually credited with creating Keaton’s on-screen look, though even the designer himself is quick to point out that the style was all Keaton’s own. “I’m often credited with dressing Diane in her Oscar-winning role in ‘Annie Hall,’” Lauren wrote in Keaton’s book “Fashion First,” adding, “That’s not true. Annie’s style was Diane’s style.” Any view of the late actress’ own wardrobe throughout her life would support that, for not only “Annie Hall,” but also many of her other on-screen personas. Keaton was such a style icon in life that her wardrobe permeated nearly everything she touched. As such, director Woody Allen asked her to dress herself for “Annie Hall,” knowing her true genius. Though The Hollywood Reporter reports that it caused her to butt heads with Costume Director Ruth Morley on occasion, who “initially envisioned a character who wasn’t so fully formed from a style perspective.” In an interview with People Magazine last summer, Keaton credited her mother with allowing her the space to express herself through her wardrobe, saying, “She was my biggest supporter and manifester of my creativity.” In a true “life imitating art imitating life” scenario on the Vogue World stage, Keaton had added, “Later in life, my inspiration came from countless hours of cutting and pasting my way through magazines like ‘Vogue Magazine.’”
