Monday, February 29, 2016

Red carpet disappointments and disasters

As already stated, the red carpet was underwhelming for me last night. A few key people whose looks I was so excited for (I'm looking at you Rachel McAdams) were really disappointing!

There were some looks where there was something a tad off to me, making me not love the entire look.

Example: Olivia Wilde in Valentino Haute Couture. There are a lot of things I LOVE about this dress: the colour, the pleated skirt, the winged shoulder that falls over her back. I don't love the plunging neckline though, I think its the rectangular-ness of it, that it is such a hard horizontal line across her waist.


Daisy Ridley in Chanel Haute Couture: I think this dress needed to be an inch shorter, and that her hair is too severe looking.

Rooney Mara in Givenchy: So I actually like the dress, but I hate everything about the styling. Those 1995 Le Chateau platform shoes are horrid. And the slicked back hair with the mini bun nubbin is again too severe.



All I have is love for RM (even though she hates me by association. Yes, she knows who I am, and many moons ago her best friend in TO dated my ex-bf while we were broken up, and then he left her to get back together with me, and he also happened to be building a deck at Rachel's house b/c he's a carpenter, and he accidentally dropped a 2x4 through her skylight.) Anyway, I've been loving her fashion choices during this campaign. Let's reflect shall we?

Noam Hanoch jumpsuit at Gotham Independent Awards; Elie Saab beaded gown at Critics Choice:


My personal favourite looks from this season: in custom-made pink Prada at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon; in white Elie Saab at the Santa Barbara Film Fest.


So, I was expecting her to bring it at the Oscars...and then it was this (by August Getty Atelier):

I mean its not horrible, but not worthy of her style and beauty. The back of the dress was great: I love the train and I love the colour. But the front was a MESS. You cannot wear a dress that creases like that across the tummy to the Oscars. Bad planning. Her makeup was good (and is usually done by her sister who is a makeup artist, which I think is so cute) but I thought her hair, which is normally so great (see: above) was horrible. It looked sort of crusty and frizzy all at the same time. I wish she'd have just rocked her wavy bob. Her look at the after party I thought was an improvement, but it's still just a pretty dress:

Now onto the winning actresses, decked out in their Disney princess wear. Lainey put it pretty perfectly last night:
What I don't understand is, when you know you are going to win, why wouldn't you pick a dress that is timeless; that is always going to be beautiful (just to be clear, I'm not saying that either of the dresses below are beautiful now-I actively HATE both of them-but there is an argument to be made that perhaps they thought this was a good 2016 look). These are pictures that are shown for the rest of their careers/lives. Why pick a ruffled seam bedazzled Belle the princess dress (it is custom made Louis Vuitton), or an under the sea, mermaid costume with chastity belt (it's Gucci)? Le Sigh...


I really feel like I don't have enough time to actually express what is wrong with these dresses (and the fact that both have been on most of the "best dressed" lists I've read today is appalling) I look at these 2 dresses together, and all I see is IKEA. Here are my initial reactions from last night:

They are both so Michael's Craft store, especially whatever that Christmas dinner at your aunt's house centerpiece is around Brie Larson's waist.

And the hair, good God, the hair:
The frustrating thing is that both of them looked SO MUCH BETTER at the after party (esp Vikander). I don't even mind that Brie Larson implemented George Costanza's "drape myself in velvet" strategy:



I won't waste a lot of time on Reece, as I never expect her to wear anything good, but this is droopy-boob Barney parachute hell (Oscar de la Renta would roll over in his grave):

Onto Jared Leto...what does one follow a Dumb and Dumber powder blue Jesus look with (see last year's outfit here)? A goth bell hop pyjama suit, obviously!


Then there's this:


1. Why was Heidi Klum at the Oscars? 2. What in the name of care bear acid trip hell is she wearing? Oh right, it's Marchesa, nuff said. 

My absolute least favourite look of the night? That honour goes to Kate Winslet, in a glad garbage bag/novelty store wrapping paper special (it's Ralph Lauren; How? I don't know):

All I have to say is Why Kate? WHY???????????? I mean I really don't know how you put this on and none of your team says, we could do better. 

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  1. liz272March 1, 2016 at 9:41 PM

    All on point. I actually liked Olivia Wilde's dress, but that choker is killing me, and possibly her?? Brie Larson's hair is the crappiest thing I saw all night.

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