Right, raise your hand if you have ever been up at 2:00 am just browsing random gowns online, and not during awards season either...just because. Extra points if you were also wearing enough flannel and fleece to smother a lesser beast and eating frosting while riding the satin dragon, yeah - it's like that.
I blame Disney...
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| Gateway gown... |
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| Gown = magic. Fact. |
Consequently, every year, I anxiously await the Met Gala and the accompanying fashion hoopla, like Rob Ford waits for his dealer or Kanye waits for...well, anything.
I love the ladies that bring the GLAM, but equally precious to me are the brave/gullible souls that bring the WTF like it's their business, lest we all take ourselves too seriously. A star-studded reminder that with money does not necessarily come taste.
The theme of the Gala this year was "White Tie with Decorations" based on the designs of Charles James, for those of you who don't have an unhealthy obsession with big skirts...Charles James was a self taught designer who put the GUH! in gowns in the 40's and 50's...
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| So. Much. Satin. *drool* |
The Good:
Charlize Theron - A black and white bowl of YAAASSSSS!!! Love the hair, love the jewelry, love it all. |
| Charlize poses, unaware the Olsen twins of doom are lurking...waiting... |
Sarah Silverman - she is a wild card, sometimes gorgeous, sometimes a hot mess. Even though it's the color of a blood clot, I love the corseting and the grandness of it.
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| Plus she brought Michael Sheen who is awesome no matter what he's wearing. |
Blake Lively - a little bored of her Veronica Lake impression, but damn if she doesn't nail it. She's a one trick pony, but it's a damn good trick...
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| Also nails Ryan Reynolds. |
Emma Stone and Reese Witherspoon - clearly their dresses were chosen to celebrate that JEM!! is finally coming to the big screen and I approve. Synergy, bitches!
Liu Wen - Love the color, love the drama! If you're gonna go to a gala, go big or go home.
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| Sitting is overrated... |
The Bad:
Katie Holmes - gurrrrl, just because you had a mustard-colored duvet cover laying around was no excuse for this...damn you, pintrest. The hair and make-up is just as tragic. No way that mess was Suri-approved.
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| So. Much. Yellow. |
Lupita Nyongo - It hurt to put her on the bad list, but, sweetie...no. It's like a beaded curtain from the 70's, a chandelier, a flapper dress, and a parrot committed an act against nature and this was the result.
Lilly Allen - Another DIY...FYI, a rag bag plus a glue gun does not equal gala gown...
Maggie Gyllenhaal - looks like a hemp version of Twister...
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| Right hand, organically farmed, free-range "soul catcher" indigo... |
Kirsten Dunst - all I can say is someone needs to stop picking dresses while on vacation in Colorado...it's like three different dresses fighting for control, and they are all awful. Annd, yes - that is the Death Star on the skirt. At the Met Gala.
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| Woulda killed at Comic-Con |
Kate Upton - So much NO. Frieda meets goth saloon girl...
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The Olsen twins - at this point, does anyone else think they are just floating heads? Seriously, when was the last time anyone saw their legs??
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| Color is for the weak. We're sooooo going to journal about this. |
And finally, NPH and David B. - honestly I have no idea what to make of this...it's soooooo bad, it's kinda good. I feel like there is a message here I am not cool enough to get. Vented flood pants?? Not that I don't love a good leg slit, and men do get short-changed in that respect, but is this for serious or did we all get gay punked?
Update: the dangers of late night blogging - realized with both eyes open that they are actually sporting skinny ankle-flood tuxedo pants with loooonnnng tails, not that it's really an improvement, but in the interests of accuracy...*shrug*
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| That's a whole lotta cummerbund. |
Gay punked. I'm going to use this (whenever possible and appropriate!).
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