Jenna Lyons at the CFDA

"Thanks!" to Raina (of the amazing "If The Lamp Shade Fits" blog), as well as Irina, who shared the following article from Fashionista (click here to read in its entirety) with us:

Jenna Lyons Tells Us How She Pulled Her CFDA Outfit Together at the Last Minute
By Leah Chernikoff
June 5, 2012

We always look forward to seeing what our style crush Jenna Lyons wears to formal events. She never fails to mix J.Crew with high fashion in a way that seems effortless and just, well, cool. Our friends over at The Cut were keen on Lyons being the desperately needed “wild card” of the CFDA Awards last night, especially since style icon award recipient Johnny Depp wouldn’t be there to grace it with a pinstriped vest, a fedora, and thousands of man-cessories.

Luckily Jenna was sitting right in front of us during the awards so we got a good look at her striped sequined pants, printed periwinkle silk blouse and navy blazer.

So how does she feel about being a buzzed about fashion person to watch? “I was shocked to see something on New York Magazine,” she told us. “I didn’t actually think about [my outfit] until this morning and then I was like, ‘I probably need to think a little harder.’”

But, but! How does she always manage to mix and match to such quirky cool perfection? Especially sans planning? “Well, I’m not so good if I plan because then I think about it too much and I over think it,” she confessed, rattling off what she was wearing last night (“J.Crew, J.Crew, J.Crew, Celine” [Ed. note: I'd like to be able to say that about my outfits someday]).

Turns out her CFDA look was really down to the wire. “I was thinking what looks cute that I can have tailored before six o’clock,” she said. “I had the pants tailored today because they were a little big on me. We have an in house tailor and I called and said, ‘You know I haven’t actually figured out what I’m wearing so can we have somebody standing by’…The pants were delivered to my house as I was finishing my hair and make up.”

"Thanks!" also to st (in this post), who also let us know about a related article over at the Daily Mail: "Dressed-down Jenna Lyons and Lauren Hutton prove you don't need a ballgown to wow the fashion elite at CFDA Awards" (click here to read). They share:

Ms Lyons wore her trademark thick-framed glasses with blue and white striped and sequined trousers that evoked a maritime theme paired with the navy blue cocktail jacket and a periwinkle silk shirt.

On her feet, playful red pumps added a hint of femininity to the look as she posed for photographers with friend Solange Knowles.

Lastly, Fashionista has another article called "Solange Knowles Wishes She Hadn’t Chowed Down on Two Bags of BBQ Potato Chips Right Before the CFDAs" (click here to read in its entirety) that shared the following:

The more we know about Solange Knowles the more she seems like a normal down-to-earth girl that we’d want to hang out with. In a not creepy way, we swear. Last night she attended the CFDA awards with one of our other favorite people in fashion, Jenna Lyons. And since Solange wasn’t even wearing J.Crew (she was wearing an awesome yellow paillette-covered Marni number) we’re pretty sure Solange and Jenna just came together just because they’re buddies. But we had to ask, of course. ...

So you and Jenna are buds–why do you click with her and J.Crew?
I mean, we’re friends first. I of course love what she does at J.Crew. I just think it embodies my style in that it has so much color and texture and character but it’s classic with great tailoring and I think if you have one you have to have the other. And she’s just so freakin’ cool. What else can I say?

I really like Jenna's outfit and would totally wear it myself. Not sure about wearing it to the CFDA event (seems more formal). In any case, she looked great!

Also, it must be really nice to have an in-house tailor at your service. That is an amazing perk!

What are your thoughts on Jenna's outfit? Do you think it was the right choice for the fashion event?