Is the Oscars red carpet neccessary?

I am sitting here watching the red carpet for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards and there’s a lot of eye rolling coming from my end.

As a “fashion writer” I should be excited by the red carpet, but for many fashion journalists (not broadcast personalities or style bloggers) that I have talked to, the red carpet is a dreaded battleground of irritable regurgitated two-dimensional reporting. Don’t ask me why. It just is.

I am waiting for the actual ceremony and avoiding Facebook and Twitter at all costs to avoid any spoilers. And whilst doing this, I am watching Randolph Duke talk about how posing the wrong way can ruin a dress and how Meryl Streep’s white gown has broad shoulders which is really “in” for fashion.

Yawn and vomit.

AP Photo/Matt Sayles

I have a proposal for next year’s Oscars: how about every single person who attends wear the same thing? Everyone could be in a plain tuxedo – men and women. This would make the Academy Awards red carpet a little bit boring – but when in the past 10 years has the red carpet been really exciting? By having everyone in a red carpet uniform tuxedo, we’ll make the Academy Awards all about the movies and and the actors – which is ultimately the basis of the whole ordeal.

If we absolutely need fashionable red carpet intrigue, the aforementioned uniform tuxedo could be a “contest” amongst designers all over the world. Much like designers submitted sketches for Michelle Obama’s inauguration dress, they can submit sketches for the “Oscars 2011 Uniform Tuxedo”. The chosen one will relish in the fact that they have monopolized the red carpet.

Sounds like the greatest idea. Ever.