That’s right, folks — we no longer limit our fashion police posts to award shows. Red carpets of the world, beware!
Adele Dazeem
Kate: Hah, get it?
Erica: Yes. Yes, I do. I don’t know for whom I feel more sorry, her or John Travolta, but either way, we are never going to give this up.
Kate: This is a bit too bridal for me, and her normally gorgeous hair looks stiff and weird. I feel like she is still recovering from the Oscars shakeup.
Erica: I am not a fan of this look. I am surprised you haven’t made anything of the lipstick.
Kate: It’s a little much against the light dress, light skin and dark dark hair, but it doesn’t offend me.
Allison Williams
Kate: Ok, she’s g-ooooor-geous, but it’s time to get her a new stylist. She keeps wearing the same dress!
Erica: Yeah, but it looks good on her. She’s so pretty.
Kate: And her hair needs to be down at all times. It’s too fabulous for up-dos, like a mini-Connie Britton!
Amy Adams
Erica: God, she is just gorgeousness.
Kate: I like this a lot better than her usual Oscar numbers, but the color is a smidge too light for her fair skin.
Erica: I don’t have the same thing you do about dresses the color of someone’s skin although I do prefer her in color. But she gets to look like Amy Adams, no matter what the color.
Anna Wintour
Kate: So I know she’s like, the queen of everything, but don’t we think Anna Wintour basically wears the same dress to every event?
Erica: Really? I thought this was unusual for her. Maybe it’s just unusual for the Anna Wintour that lives inside my head.
Kate: And hasn’t her hair not changed in decades? I mean…
Erica: That is correct. It’s her “thing.”
Anne Hathaway
Kate: Not sure what that facial expression is all about, but she looks lovely. I just do not love the structured crop top, at all.
Erica: No. It is not a good choice. I find I generally do not like her fashion choices. Which is not to say I don’t like her.
Beyoncé
Kate: This is a bejeweled bathrobe with a peplum. I’m done.
Erica: I actually . . . I mean, I don’t like it. But I’m kind of seeing the kind of look she’s aiming to pull off and I get it. And I appreciate it.
Kate: I most assuredly do not.
Blake Lively
Kate: I looooooooooooooooooove.
Erica: Holy moly, I have never seen her looking this good.
Kate: This dress is so perfect for her body – shape, material, color, everything. I’m not fond of the red earrings and red lips, or the hairdo, but the dress is stunning. Best dressed nominee!
Erica: I kind of do like the red, actually. But she’s not nominated for . . . Oh, you’re saying you are nominating her for Best Dressed of This Post. I getcha.
Charlize Theron
Kate: So it’s Charlize Theron, but…It’s not that flattering?
Erica: Well, I’m on the record as not really liking black-and-white evening wear, and this certainly isn’t an exception to that.
Kate: The tuxedo jacket over the shoulders is a little much, and the dress is nice, I just expect more from her I guess.
Claire Danes
Kate: Angela, your dress is wrinkled!
Erica: I swear I’ve seen this dress before. In Jessica McClintock. When I was prom dress shopping in 1999.
Kate: I do love her with blonde hair, though. So young and fresh looking.
Erica: I suppose. Her make-up’s a little off, though.
Diane Kruger
Kate: The fact that she was cast as Helen of Troy still bothers me every time I see her face.
Erica: What’s happening with her hair?
Kate: This is O-K. The two skirts thing is interesting, but the color makes her look washed out.
Erica: The two skirts thing would be interesting if the dress made more of it. As it is it’s too subtle to be interesting and instead just looks weird.
Dianna Agron
Kate: Oy.
Erica: Yeah, I got nothing. This is really terrible looking. Dianna, you’re such a pretty girl!
Kate: Not good Dianna, not good.
Dita Von Teese
Kate: Ok so I know she is generally a ridiculous human, but I wanted to include her because I actually LOVE this dress.
Erica: I in fact do not find her to be ridiculous. I find her to be mostly fabulous. And yeah, this dress is killer.
Kate: The mermaid bottom is exceptional and the whole gown is perfectly tailored – very elegant and professional. She is not messing around.
Erica: What’s crazy is, this dress isn’t even as nice as the one she wore the next day just for, like, walking around (and knowing full well she was going to be photographed walking around, but still.):
Emma Stone
Erica: Still wildly adore her. Still don’t like this.
Kate: I am not even 100% sure why, but I am obsessed with this look. I would normally abhor the braid, as you well know, and everyone was calling it a “Frozen braid” on social media the night of, but it works on her. And the two pinks and the skirt with the slit and the shoes..Just wow. Best dressed nominee!
Erica: Seriously? Kate, is that even you? I mean, I actually like the Frozen braid, but the dress? For real?
Kate: For real! I agree it’s weird for me to love it, but I do dangit!
Gisele
Kate: I’m bored by this.
Erica: I mean, she looks good. But yeah, there’s nothing else to say here.
Hailee Steinfeld
Kate: LOVE! How fun is that ballet pink bottom with those ballet pink shoes?!
Erica: Yeah? I’m a little meh on it. I like the shoes, though.
Kate: She is becoming quite the gorgeous young woman – great hair and makeup – and I really love the optical illusion dresses like this create.
Erica: I guess that’s cool but I don’t really like it. But yes, she is gorgeous and her hair and makeup look fantastic.
Hayden Panettiere
Kate: Finally!
Erica: I think hair, make-up, and shape of the dress work on her. I do not much like the dress itself.
Kate: I’m not obsessed with the colors – tis a bit cotton candy-esque – but she finally looks like the cute actress-turned-singer she is instead of trying to be something she’s not. (I’m alluding to her Golden Globes look; bleh!)
Jessica Alba
Kate: Is she pregnant? Or is she trying to make herself look pregnant?
Erica: You thought pregnant? I thought too skinny.
Kate: Either way, I don’t love this. Frump city.
Karolina Kurkova
Kate: I don’t really know who this person is, but I wanted to include her because this is what I call a Met Gala gown – interesting structure and looks to be a work of art in and of itself.
Erica: I could be mistaken but I think she’s a Victoria’s Secret Angel. And, yes, this dress is the Platonic ideal of Met Gala gowns.
Kate Bosworth
Erica: Whoa.
Kate: Omg, she is so frighteningly skinny. I actually love this dress and how she accessorized it, and I don’t think anyone much bigger could pull this off, but Jesus H. Christ it almost hurts to look at her.
Erica: Holy shit. I mean, I don’t like all of the magazines that are all, “She’s got an eating disorder, says me, a tabloid writer, and an ‘unnamed source’, and a doctor who has never treated her or seen her in person or done anything other than look at this picture we provided,” but seriously? Seriously? This girl needs some medical attention, stat.
Kate Upton
Kate: Gah!
Erica: Well, this is pretty weird.
Kate: This could be the most unflattering thing I’ve ever seen on the red carpet.
Erica: Oddly enough, I can sort of see what she’s trying to do here. But yes, mega unflattering. And it’s hard to be unflattering to that face and that body.
Katie Holmes
Erica: Suri dressed her. I understand. I also have a fashion-forward daughter and that kind of stuff happens to me sometimes, too.
Kate: Everyone was comparing this dress to Belle’s, and I have to say a Belle costume would have looked a whole lot better than this. What a mess little Joey Potter has turned into, eh?
Erica: The thing is, she’s usually pretty polished. Here, her hair is all messy and her make-up is practically non-existent and the dress is . . . well . . . I mean, y’all can see it, I don’t need to explain. It’s just pretty weird coming from her.
Kendall Jenner
Kate: I continue to hate the Kardashian clan in all possible ways, but Kendall is a striking young woman.
Erica: She’s a pretty girl, for sure.
Kate: This is a lovely dress but she is almost too tall for it, and it should be worn by an Oscar-nominated actress instead of a teeny bopper.
Erica: Her waist is super tiny. I mean, I’m assuming it has help, but still.
Kim Kardashian
Kate: UGH.
Erica: Heehee.
Kate: I just hate them so much. But this dress looks terrible on her. Nice color but unflattering in the boob, hip and leg area, and the shoes with the slit make her legs look terrible.
Erica: The dress is just kinda weird. It looks more bathrobe-y even than Beyonce’s bathrobe. And she’s standing like, “Did you notice I have a slit? DID YOU?!”
Kirsten Dunst
Kate: Seriously, what has happened to this girl?
Erica: She has the Death Star on her dress.
Kate: I don’t think she was ever too good at the red carpet, but this is just weird.
Erica: I don’t know, man. I mean, if you want to wear the Death Star on your formal gown, where else CAN you do that than at the Met Gala? As far as I know, there are no formal events at ComicCon. My question is, what has happened to her acting career? Has she been in anything lately? Because, IIRC, she’s a damn good actress.
Kristen Stewart
Kate: Just when I thought I couldn’t possibly hate her more.
Erica: If I were writing an SNL skit to send up Kristen Stewart, this is what I’d dress the character in. Kristen Stewart is becoming unparody-able.
Kate: Just stop showing up to these things, you ill-mannered, poorly-dressed Negative Nancy!
Erica: I saw a thing recently, with .gifs of celebrities laughing, and you had to guess who they were. And 99% of them were totally obvious because that’s what those people look like and it wasn’t in any way a challenge at all. The one I didn’t get right away was her. I’d never seen her make that expression before!
Lake Bell
Erica: I am not a huge fan of hers, but then, I haven’t seen that thing she directed and/or wrote and I think starred in about the girl who makes movie trailers or something? Which actually looked pretty good.
Kate: This is a lovely dress, albeit too matchy-matchy with the red carpet, but she made that crazy face in, like, every photo that night. What’s up, Lake?
Erica: Pregnancy hormones.
Lea Michele
Kate: Without that weird extra material in the middle, this would be lovely.
Erica: She’s younger than me. I think she’s younger than you. Why does she keep dressing like she’s Joan Collins?
Kate: I do think she takes herself way too seriously these days, though.
Leighton Meester
Kate: This would be perfect if it were tailored better, especially at the waist.
Erica: Yeah, I think you’re right about that. Astute fashion analysis.
Kate: Also, her makeup is very drab.
Erica: Oh, on that we disagree. I think it’s simple and natural-looking and nice.
Kate: Drab.
Lena Dunham
Kate: I can respect the attempt, but this is not a good look for her.
Erica: It sincerely is not.
Lily Aldridge
Kate: I don’t really know what Lily Aldridge is famous for, but I really love this dress so I wanted to include her.
Erica: Her name is really familiar to me. Although it might be that it was used for a romance novel heroine once. And if it hasn’t been, it ought to be.
Kate: She succeeded in the whole metallic thing where everyone else has failed, I think.
Erica: Yeah, the dress is pretty spectacular.
Lupita Nyong’o
Erica: This is kind of crazy-pants but I like it.
Kate: I do not enjoy this particular ensemble, but I do respect it from the standpoint of “This is the Met Gala and we can wear some really out-there things”. You know?
Erica: Yes, that is exactly how I feel about this ensemble, except that I do enjoy it, because I enjoy out-there things.
Margot Robbie
Kate: She started out so strong with her Oscars dress, but everything since has been a major disappointment. Is that a bathing suit underneath a mock turtleneck? Come on.
Erica: Who is she? Whatever, this is a weirdly shaped, weirdly fitted dress that is simply unattractive on any level.
Kate: She was in Wolf of Wall Street. And I can’t STAND ankle-length things on the red carpet.
Erica: Totes.
Marion Cotilliard
Kate: This is fun in an I’m-going-to-a-fancy-lunch-with-my-fancy-gal-pals way, but I do not think it’s appropriate for the Gala.
Erica: I don’t know, I think there’s enough out-there going on to make it interesting enough. I guess it could be schmancier but I’m digging it.
Michelle Williams
Kate: Too short, Ms. Lindley! I feel like you are about t0 shopping near the Met, not attend the Gala!
Erica: Yeah, this is more an after-party thing. Her hair looks pretty cute, though.
Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen
Kate: I’m not a fan of the huge coat dresses.
Erica: See, I could see it as part of the whole fashion-history-at-the-Met thing, because there are some late 19th century fashions that very much took the female silhouette with the enormous bustle in the back and the tiny waist and then put masculine styling in, like military epaulettes or business-suit fabrics, and that looked pretty awesome. But these dresses are not structured well enough to pull that off. Which is a shame because I like the concept.
Kate: Also, why are they always SO serious-looking now? Have a little fun every now and then, twinsies!
Naomi Watts
Erica: Blech.
Kate: Even though it’s Givenchy, I really don’t like this at all. The half-sheer skirt thing really bothers me.
Erica: I can’t remember a recent Givenchy creation I liked.
Olivia Munn
Kate: Lovely! I personally would never expose that much of my breasts at an event like this, but the color is great and she looks all young and tan and refreshed.
Erica: You don’t think she looks sort of like the girl who would play the X-rated version of her? I mean, I like the dress, but that’s the overall vibe I’m getting.
Posh Spice
Kate: She and Kate Bosworth should start an I’m Way Too Skinny support group.
Erica: So I’m playing this game called Covet on my iPad in which you dress up your electronic model in real fashions to compete in various themed fashion events. Recently one demanded that the model be dressed up to look like a re-uniting member of a girl-power ’90s band – because I guess they can’t just say, “Spice Girls”. So I made a perfect little Posh model – and I didn’t win! I was so mad!
Kate: Every time I read an interview with her I like her, but then every time I see her in a photo I don’t. She just tries too hard. This dress is nothing special, and she should have worn her hair up with it.
Erica: I like her a lot better with short hair.
Rachel McAdams
Erica: She’s in my Top 5 Prettiest People Ever.
Kate: Flawless. It’s just not fair.
Erica: I don’t even love the overall style. She’s just so pretty!
Kate: While the dress is extraordinarily elegant and perfect for her, it is a tad on the boring side for an event such as this. But do you know anyone with a more perfect blowout? I think not.
Rashida Jones
Kate: Awful! Looks like something Drew Barrymore would have worn 13 years ago. Makes her look so dowdy.
Erica: Aw, man, Rashida. You’re so much prettier than this.
Reese Witherspoon
Kate: This is a great color on Reese, but I do not like the shape on top at all. And I never like her hair like that – hello, Pleasantville!
Erica: Do you think she’s been re-watching some of her old movies and taking her styling ideas from them?
Rihanna
Erica: I kind of go, “Well, it’s Rihanna.” And at least she’s not carting around that creepy accessory on her arm.
Kate: This is gross. NO CROP TOPS ON THE RED CARPET, PEOPLE! (Except Emma Stone’s which is not really all that cropped and which I love unconditionally.)
Sarah Silverman
Kate: I think Sarah Silverman is actually quite gorgeous, but this dress is completely swallowing her. It’s not a great color, the skirt is too big, and her hair is too severely pulled back.
Erica: I kind of like how big it is. But if she did up her hair the way she should have, we might think she gives a shit. Hey, did I ever tell you her sister was the rabbi at the Brandeis Hillel when I was there?
Kate: Neat-o!
Selena Gomez
Kate: Along with Kendall Jenner, why exactly is Selena Gomez at the Met Gala?
Erica: I got nothing.
Kate: I actually really like this dress (great color), but for me not Selena. Get outta there.
Erica: Yeah, this would be GREAT on you.
Shailene Woodley
Kate: This is totally weird and different and not like anything I’ve ever seen on the red carpet and I shouldn’t like it but…Something about it on her is working. Maybe it’s the hair?
Erica: This dress is wild and kind of awesome. But is she not wearing shoes? But also, she has a long second toe, like us! And, I’m really glad she did her hair like that, not because I like it, but because before this, I kind of thought she and Hailee Steinfeld were the same person.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Kate: Had to show the front and back of this one because I first saw it from the back and loved it – it’s so something Carrie Bradshaw would wear. I don’t love the huge signature at the bottom (was that really necessary, Oscar?), but from the back I thought it was really swell. Then she turned around.
Erica: Well, you can’t have just as wild a front when you’ve got that on the back.
Kate: It’s OK from the front, but the skirt is so wrinkled! And her hair is CRAZY! Maybe it would have been better without the black leaves on the top of the skirt?
Erica: Actually, I am a fan of the leaves. She looks kind of like a cupcake, but who doesn’t like cupcakes? This is one of my few exceptions to the black-and-white evening gown thing.
Taylor Swift
Erica: This is kind of a rare misstep for her.
Kate: I like that this is a bit of a nod to Audrey (reminds me of her famous Sabrina dress), but again with the wrinkly skirt! It’s not well tailored to Taylor.
Erica: She can do better than this. We’ve seen her do better than this. Taylor, I am not tearing you down. There is no special place in hell for me. I’m supporting you to be your best (dressed) self!
Zoe Saldana
Erica: Loathe.
Kate: I really don’t like that ENORMOUS thing – one might call it an oversized peplum? — in the middle of the skirt; if it didn’t have that, she’d look perfect.
Erica: Loathe.
Zooey Deschanel
Kate: So just because she just did a collection with Tommy Hilfiger, she had to wear him to this event, eh? That’s unfortunate because this is a boring dress and she of all people could have done something really fun for this type of event.
Erica: She’s done a collection with Tommy Hilfiger? Is she regretting having been fashionably interesting all her life and now she’s trying to take it back? Zooey, your job is to amuse us on the red carpet!
Kate: So best dressed? My top 3 are Blake Lively, Emma Stone and Hailee Steinfeld.
Erica: Huh. I go Blake or the Victoria’s Secret girl. Or Dita. I actively hated Emma Stone’s ensemble and didn’t care either way for Hailee’s.
Kate: So Blake! Worst dressed has to be Katie Holmes, right?
Erica: Sadly, I think yes.
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