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Anonymous wrote:Nicole Kidman and Halle Berry both with major leg slits as well. Love Nicole's dress (leg slit plus one sleeve plus huge floral appliqués but somehow it works?), Halle's is meh (weird floral detailing, too clingy and bare for my taste) but she, as always, looks amazing.

Berry

Nope.

Gorgeous! I love everything about this.

The roses rugby the same color as her skin feel wrong. Like they’re blossoming from
her hip. A strange infection. No no. No.

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Anonymous wrote:Melanie Lynsey -

Such a class look on a stunning woman. Outclassed Cara D in every way possible!!!

Errrm, no, this looks like a lot of TJ Maxx/Marshall’s dresses from the late 2010s. Seriously, the “random O ring on dresses” look is not Oscar-worthy. This looks like Macy’s sale rack. Hard pass. Cara D’s look, while it wasn’t my favorite, was at least in the ballpark.

Not even close. Cara D looks Fugly. Melanie exudes class.

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Anonymous wrote:Malala looks great

She does, but she looked SO uncomfortable in that cringey Jimmy Kimmel schtick just now.
Also, she really seems to be pushing the limits of what is a hijab. Much of her hair is visible.

You're not really familiar with Pakistani clothing, and it's evident.

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Anonymous wrote:Nicole Kidman and Halle Berry both with major leg slits as well. Love Nicole's dress (leg slit plus one sleeve plus huge floral appliqués but somehow it works?), Halle's is meh (weird floral detailing, too clingy and bare for my taste) but she, as always, looks amazing.

Berry

Nope.

Gorgeous! I love everything about this.

To paraphrase Michael Kors on Project Runway original flavor -- this has me questioning her taste level.

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Anonymous wrote:Hong Chau's ceremony dress. I love the pink on her, I love the cut of the dress. But three words: spangled butt flap. No one needs a spangled butt flap!

This is so tacked on, like the dress without it was too boring. It looks like someone else’s train caught on her dress.

I get annoyed when the Oscar dresses that are custom made for the ceremony by these very elite design houses (this is Prada) have less thought put into them than one of the dozens of looks the same house will send down a runway two-three times a year. Like if this were a dress from a collection, it would never make it on the runway with that thing attached. They'd rework it -- instead of a butt flap, they'd do a full overskirt in the fringe and see how that looked. They'd try embellishing the pink with individual fringe to see what they think. They'd do it on the hem with a longer train in back and see how that worked.

I do think these designers sometimes get flummoxed by creating a dress for a specific person, often with more normal variations in body type than models are most of their other clients (starving society wives), and they do weird things that come off like they didn't try. The Oscars happen every year, the nominees get announced two months in advance and it's pretty clear who will be invited and possibly nominated even further out than that. It shouldn't be this hard. But they do great when dressing Nicole, Cate, Julia, etc. -- tall, skinny white women. They just get so easily confused by everyone else and it's frustrating. There is no reason being short, or plus size, or having a big chest, or whatever should be so fundamentally disabling for these designers. And yet...

(Christian Siriano is really the only truly size inclusive red carpet designer I can think of who can dress almost anyone of any size and body shape and find a way to make her look her best)

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Anonymous wrote:I like Sharon's dress

I feel like we've seen several Imperial Senate from Star Wars fashions - Malala, Jennifer Connelly, and this.

No, this is Jackie Kennedy-inspired. Stunning.

Don't get me wrong - I like it. And I also think Sharon Stone would make a great Senator in the Imperial Senate and she should wear this dress.

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Anonymous wrote:Nicole Kidman and Halle Berry both with major leg slits as well. Love Nicole's dress (leg slit plus one sleeve plus huge floral appliqués but somehow it works?), Halle's is meh (weird floral detailing, too clingy and bare for my taste) but she, as always, looks amazing.

Berry

Nope.

Gorgeous! I love everything about this.

Anonymous wrote:I like Sharon's dress

This whole look is amazing. It’s an hard color to wear and her earrings are spectacular. I would have done a sparkly purse instead of the matchy matchy one but this is beautiful.

Anonymous wrote:Kate Beckinsale. Is it a bit much for the after party on someone who wasn't nominated or even, that I know of, worked in the last year? Yes. Does she care? Do I? Nope. Lady looks good.

Imperial Senator wearing the precious metals vital to space propulsion which are native to her planet in the form of a cape - BECAUSE SHE CAN.

Anonymous wrote:Hong Chau's ceremony dress. I love the pink on her, I love the cut of the dress. But three words: spangled butt flap. No one needs a spangled butt flap!

This is so tacked on, like the dress without it was too boring. It looks like someone else’s train caught on her dress.

Hong Chau's ceremony dress. I love the pink on her, I love the cut of the dress. But three words: spangled butt flap. No one needs a spangled butt flap!

Anonymous wrote:Rooney Mara's jacket (her dress is the same as she wore on the red carpet). She actually changed into this for the ceremony because I spotted it on her during Sarah Polley's acceptance. I looooove it and wish she'd just worn it for the red carpet. Still do not get the way the skirt of her dress is bundled behind her, but this jacket is cool and unusual and special to me. It makes the rest of the look make sense to me. Yes it's costumey but that's the point. The Oscars are about fantasy, high fashion, going big.

Imperial Senator from a poor planet where the crops have been destroyed.

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Anonymous wrote:Now this I hate - Mindy Kaling in Vera Wang. I get she's excited about her body and wants to show it off -- no shade there, I get it. But the dress itself is hideous and her styling is very plasticky looking. She looks like a Bratz doll (sorry Mindy). I wish she'd gone super classic instead.

She changed into the same dress in black before presenting! So strange.

Changed again for the after party.

LOVE the after-party look on her.

ITA, A+ for Mindy’s after party look.

Anonymous wrote:Donald Glover.

So what I'm doing is just going through the photos and posting anything that jumps out at me as notable -- lots of pretty but boring but this jumped out at me. I do like that there are more men out there right now willing to take risks and experiment, even if the execution of this is not my favorite.

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Anonymous wrote:I like Sharon's dress

I feel like we've seen several Imperial Senate from Star Wars fashions - Malala, Jennifer Connelly, and this.

No, this is Jackie Kennedy-inspired. Stunning.