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I didn't want to clog up the Oscar thread, so I thought I'd start a separate one for Oscar fashion.
I can sum up my feelings about this year's Oscar fashions in one word: uninspired. There was too much satin and too much loose, wavy hair and far, far too many quadraboobs (the condition that results from an ill-fitting bodice that cuts a woman's bust in half).
Good: Oprah Julie Delpy Maggie Gyllenhall (except her dowdy clutch, which did not match her dress) Kate Winslet Cate Blanchett Natalie Portman Beyonce (that girl knows how to seriously rock a gown) Sophie Okonedo Penelope Cruz Natalia Vodianova Jamie Foxx's daughter
Meh: Laura Linney (bad color) Emmy Rossum (she's a little young to pull that dress off) Kirsten Dunst (good idea, bad execution) Charlize Theron Halle Berry (that dress needed two straps or none) Scarlett Johansson Annette Benning Virginia Madsen Sandra Oh Ziyi Zhang
Awful: Hilary Swank Renee Zellweger (what in the world happened to her?) Johnny Depp (he's lucky he's pretty) Gwenyth Paltrow (her dress wasn't horrible, but she annoys me and she was sporting quadraboobs) Robin Williams Drew Barrymore Melanie Griffith Imelda Staunton
What did y'all think?
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I thought most of the dresses were ok, nothing totally awful, that anyone should really be embarrassed by in a few years. Hilary Swank's dress was at least a "meh" but not better than that.
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I personally thought Emmy Rossum was gorgeous. And I wasn't a huge fan of Oprah's look, but it wasn't bad by any means.
Otherwise I pretty much agree. Renee Zellweger's hair was the wrong colour and Laura Linney's was just bad.
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I actually liked Hilary Swank's dress. I think she chose it because she's still ripped from doing Million Dollar Baby: did you SEE the muscles in her back?!?
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No, I agree about Swank's dress. I know she selected it for the back, but the front was BLEH. It was like she was playing one of those funny vaudeville characters, half male clothes on one side, half female clothes on the other -- but sideways, so the front was one, the back was another. The back was all VaVOOM. The front was serious Dowd. If the front had at least complemented the back, it would have been quite a pretty dress.
I thought Julia Roberts dress choice was a bit unfortunate. Her breasts are still really swollen from pregnancy, and it showed. The makeup didn't quite cover the blue veins and such you get at that stage. I'd be all for showing off what she usually doesn't have, but it *looked* like she was verging on engorgement.
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I agree about Julia Roberts. I do not want to know immediately when someone is breastfeeding.
I love Hilary Swank's dress. It wasn't girly or pretty, but she really isn't either. I liked that it was so simple and conservative, and then she turns around and it's shocking, but still not tacky.
Kate Winslet is a goddess, but the color was a little too Malibu Barbie.
Cate Blanchett looked beautiful, and was the only one who looked perfect in the night's signature color. I'm also thrilled that she won. Yay! Oscar loves Katharine Hepburn even after she's dead.
I thought Imelda Staunton looked lovely and classy and sweet.
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But... I think he knows he looks odd and deliberately perpetuates it. It prevents him from having to be super-cool all the time, and takes the pressure off.
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Normally I hate "fashionable" dresses, so I was pleasantly surprised this year by how many I liked. My favorite was Cate Blanchett, my least favorite was Natalie Portman. There were probably worse dresses there, but I'm a huge Natalie Portman fan so I noticed hers.
I would have liked Selma Hayek's more in another color, blue isn't her color.
quote:Renee Zellweger is just generally ugly. She offends my sense of propriety, if you're going to make millions of dollars as a movie star I think you ought to at least be pretty.
It's funny...for me, you could replace Renee Zellwegger in that sentence with "Hilary Swank" and I would pretty much agree.
Oh, and because I don't want to just rag on the girls...I love Tim Robbins, but he is looking rough!Posts: 4077 | Registered: Jun 2003
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I didn't watch the Oscars, but I am actually enjoying looking at the different dresses. Maggie Gyllenhall's dress looks so unique! But I'm not sure how accurately still photos catch it. It is difficul to tell what is actually happening with the light and color.
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It's funny...for me, you could replace Renee Zellwegger in that sentence with "Hilary Swank" and I would pretty much agree.
Hilary Swank is never in movies I want to see, so it's incredibly easy for me to avoid her. I like the movies Renee Zwellweger is in, I just don't like her being in them.
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Salma Hayeck looks like she's in drag. Emmy Rossum looks really pretty, even if the dress isn't all that great. Johnny Depp ...ok, he does look a little wierrd...but it's JOHNNY DEPP! He can gat away with being a little wierd. Drew Barrymore needs to lay off the dark colors a bit...it doesn't look good with her pale skin. Scarlett Johansson is also really pretty, but should have used a lighter color dress and lipstick. I don't know who this is but...*rofl*... I like Charlize Theron's dress...it's blue...and frilly...and she's pretty. AAAAAH! Not just her dress, but the ones behind her are bad, too! She needs to fire her hairdresser. Him, too. OMG! What was she thinking?! *shudder* I think Melissa and Joan Rivers look very pretty, too.
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Hillary Swank's dress looks stunning. It works really well on her frame. Wow. Not a lot of people could get that to work well.
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quote:Renee Zellweger is just generally ugly. She offends my sense of propriety, if you're going to make millions of dollars as a movie star I think you ought to at least be pretty.
I don't think Renee Zellweger is ugly. She's just way too thin, and her up and down dieting is starting to age her prematurely. The bangs and flat dark hair were not flattering at all.
As for the fashion as a whole, what was the deal with the mermaid bottoms? It seemed every dress was ultra-snug to the knees, then flared out at the bottom.
Cate Blanchet was certainly best dressed.
Hillary Swank put her dress on backwards. She gets my vote for worst.
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I have never understood why “formal” for men means covering up as much skin as possible, preferably with multiple layers, and “formal” for women means showing as much skin as possible on the top half of the body while using all the excess material to drag down the bottom half.
I mean, I understand why a style that looks like a woman’s clothes are falling off might be attractive, I just don’t see how it can be considered formal.Posts: 9866 | Registered: Apr 2002
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