Whoever crammed the People’s Choice Awards and the Critics Choice Awards into the two weekdays before the Golden Globes is an EVIL MONSTROUS SATAN-LICKING NECKPUNCHER. If we don’t write about it now, we never will, because Globes Fever is at least a week-long event, and I’ve looked at so many outfits in the last two days that my eyes are starting to cross and I think I can see into my own tear ducts.
So, I like Kirsten, she’s been looking a lot better lately, and I’m bummed she isn’t getting nominated for stuff because when you’re in a movie about a depressed bride during the apocalypse — or whatever Melancholia was — you should get something shiny at the end to cheer you up again. But is this a funky and awesome and black dress, or is it what the Death Princesses wear on a funeral home’s Rose Parade float?
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This is like “Wednesday Addams at the semi-formal” cute. I like it!!!
I’M IN LOVE… I covet all of it! She looks radiant and simply beautiful! Love the dress, love the shoes, the hair & makeup and the jewels! And, she won the award for Best Actress at Cannes, so she has something shiny to cheer her up!
The netting at the bottom throws me off. Otherwise I dig it.
That’s exactly my beef with it.
Me three, and the curtain effect the bottom tier has, if it didn’t have that it would be 100% love.
YES! Because the ribbon detail is sweet without being too twee…. (::humming twee for two….two for twee::)
Yup. It would be better without that last tier…though I still wouldn’t be a fan.
I love Kiki, and I want to like this dress.
But it’s as if the curtains are closing on the Leg-Curtains trend, in real time. And they’re closing right here, on her knees.
EVIL MONSTROUS SATAN-LICKING NECKPUNCHER. GFY Heather, you rock.
The dress does not rock. It looks like Miss Havisham’s dust ruffle.
That person may be an EVIL MONSTROUS SATAN-LICKING NECKPUNCHER, but huge thanks and kudos to you, Heather, for doubling up (and early, too!) on the posts for our Awards Season pleasure!
Mostly like this dress, but not sure about the side ponytail.
I really need an “in-between” option here. It’s meh. Not horrible, but certainly not adorable.
… and also, I want to BE a Death Princess on a funereal Rose Parade float.
Sure I’m in my forties! But I totally have the outfit for that, in fact several versions of it.
I could even help with the soundtrack.
Can I be one of your attendants?
As in Death itself, there is always room for one more.
MWAH hahahahahaaaaaaaa
Cut off the bottom tier and make the next one a bit longer and this would be fab.
I think the poll needed “both” as a 3rd option. The top half of the dress is adorable, but the netting leg curtains push the bottom over to tragic parade float.
I was looking for that option too. An adorable tragic death parade float!
It’s a beautiful dress. Kiki Dunst has been dressing fabulously throughout the season, and best of all is that it’s a reflection of her personal style (unlike Rooney “Vogue editorial try-hard” Mara)
Both?
Love her. But life is hard: black is not her color.
Not loving the dress – but damn, her hair and makeup look great! And she looks genuinely happy, which makes her even prettier.
My thoughts exactly.
Compared to what she’s appeared in lately, this dress is a disappointment. It’s not even festive enough to be on a sad parade float, alas. I do like its different textures/sheer/matte/shiny/layers but KiKi looks so great in those cut to fit, beautifully tailored clothes she’s been stepping out in that this just falls in the “presentable and nice” category for me. I do think she looks happy and accomplished and fresh these days, and that adds significantly to this mediocre dress.
I do have one other kvetch: the halter straps on the sandal are geriatric. I’m seeing this a lot lately, the return of thick, clunky straps and buckles, to go along with the unkillable platforms that everyone wears. I think we’re all due for a refreshing change there.
I kinda think this needed to be an “unfug it” post, because there’s a lot here that works, but then certain details ruin the look. Her hair and makeup, for one, need to change. That last tier of tulle or whatever that material is needs to go. I’m on the fence about the bows. And it might work better in a rich jewel tone.
Ladies, where is the “can’t decide” option? I neither love this nor hate it.
I’m one of the minority who LOVE it. It’s actually a younger, fresher look than most of what she’s worn on the red carpet lately (don’t get me wrong that stuff is lovely but it’s also really polished), especially combined with the pink lip and the side ponytail.