Rinnavation by Lisa Rinna

Author:Lisa Rinna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2009-01-21T05:00:00+00:00

Glammed up in Herve Leger at the Soap Opera Digest Awards in 1992. I hosted with Kelsey Grammar.

Sixteen years ago, the “who are you wearing?” red-carpet coverage that is so prevalent today did not exist. (That started only about twelve years ago, with the rise of Joan and Melissa Rivers.) Since being noticed for my clothes was a new thing, and I love to push the boundaries, this was an awesome time for me. In the late nineties, celebrities like Toni Braxton, Carmen Electra, Heather Locklear, and Jennifer Lopez were wearing daring, risqué designs, especially at the edgier music awards shows. They were the perfect opportunity to play extreme dress-up, so in 1997 (during my Melrose Place stint), when I was a presenter at the American Music Awards, I teased my hair really wild—too wild—and wore a yellow gown cut all the way up to my armpit, with only a tiny little string holding it together at the hip. It was really out there, and I loved it. My feeling is if it scares you a little, it’s probably good. Why not go for it?

Years later, when I was on Dancing with the Stars, Louis Van Amstel and I designed our own dance outfits. In the beginning Louis did most of the clothes, because he knew the dances and the best styles and colors for them. Slowly I started getting more involved in picking the clothes (especially when it came to choosing the colors, because I know which colors work for me and my coloring and which don’t). Louis designed the dresses for the first two dances. The first was a leopard-print number and totally out of the box for a waltz. The second was a sexy coral number with bejeweled netting for the rhumba. We were starting to get noticed for our outfits along with our dancing, and that gave me the confidence to push the envelope a little more. For the third dance, a jive number, I had very specific ideas about what I wanted to wear: a halter top that showed off my neck and collarbones, and an open midriff because my stomach muscles were starting to get so cut from the dancing. I chose hot pink because it’s a good color for my skin tone. Louis wanted to do a fringe all over, because it moves really well when you’re dancing; I thought the fringe was too long on the skirt and wanted Louis to cut it shorter. The spot where the hem falls on your leg makes all the difference. If it is cut even a little too long, it chops off your legs and makes them look shorter. If the cut is higher, your legs look longer and leaner. Which look do you think I wanted? I was dancing next to Stacy Keibler, who has legs up to her ears. I had to do whatever I could to stand out!

I’ll never forget standing backstage, right before the show, telling Louis, “Cut it higher, cut it higher.

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