I had a conversation with some friends this weekend, and we all agreed that if we came home and our boyfriends were like, “Honey, I’m leaving you for Helen Mirren,” we’d all be like, “….Yeah. I can’t argue with that.”
Which is why I’m putting this up to a vote despite the fact that IT’S INSANE. I really don’t want to see anyone wearing a starred bra-top connected to her skirt with stretch-lace. It’s like Madonna got stuck in one of those episodes of Saved By the Bell where Tiffani-Amber Thiessen spent the whole time looking like she was either coming from or going to a step aerobics class. If this were on anyone else, I would just say, “I CAN’T.” But Helen Mirren is awesome. So….
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But she was attending the British Comedy Awards, so maybe she wanted people to laugh?
I could get on board with this without the stars and black tights. And the leather gloves, which Jesus Christ I just noticed now while scrolling back up.
Yup. The accessories are the real problem.
I’d be fine if it didn’t have those gloves. Not even Helen Mirren can get away with formal dishwashing gloves.
Helen Mirren or no Helen Mirren, this is FUG. Except the necklace, which I desperately want.
Ummmmm…..I like the necklace?
No lace panels and no tights and this would actually be incredibly hot. Even WITH the gloves, in my opinion!
She is definitely hot, but the outfit is a mess.
I agree this garment is terrible. (Although, I didn’t even register that it wasn’t all…you know, fabric…until I read your description and had to look again OMG). But I just love that an older woman who is not Cher is rocking this crazy shit! Look at that face. She is all, “What. Wanna fight about it? I didn’t think so.”
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I think I might have been able to actually like this if it weren’t for the tights and gloves. I’M SORRY.
I feel that Helen Mirren’s hotness does not give her a pass on just about everything she wears, compared to ladies such as SWINTON or Blanchett. She often gets it right but she most definitely bungles it from time to time and this is one of those times. The dress is a mess. Also I hate the gloves and tights.
Honestly, even SWINTON could not pull off this fug, fug outfit.
I concur. Not even SWINTON.
My girl friends and I were talking and decided that the BEST actress would be spawned by combining Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren DNA. Cate Blanchette will, of course, raise this child.
Is this Dolce & Gabbana?
If so, there are far more age-appropriate and superior pieces in their fall collection than this dress.
That said, I think the styling is atrocious, making the dress worse. Needs nice stilettos, no gloves, nix the necklace, updo/sleek hair, and a red lip. If you’re gonna vamp it, then vamp it.
Oh for hell’s sake! Yeah, the styling is awful but the dress itself is bats–t crazy. Nobody could look good in that. No-one, not even were she twenty years old and eleven feet tall. The lace inserts look like a particularly gangrenous rash and the stumpifying, frumpifying skirt must be exterminated with EXTREME prejudice. It makes her hips look wide, her legs look short, and her knees particularly knocked. (With which I sympathize; my own knee-caps nearly point towards each other). Just blecch all around.
Yo, I didn’t say she looked good, just that the styling *makes it worse.*
I found the dress, and again, you’re not wrong, the dress is ugly.
http://store.dolcegabbana.com/dolce_gabbana/item/tskay/9F93F567/cod10/34229031RP
I wish she had worn this D&G:
http://www.designscene.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Dolce-Gabbana-Fall-Winter-2011.12-by-Steven-Klein-DesignSceneNet-10.jpg
The sequined one on the left would have been GLORIOUS on Dame Helen.
Thanks for the link! I thought maybe she was just too hip-py for the dress (not a criticism, we know she is a real woman), but the dress is pretty awful.
I see this is a comedy awards show- perhaps it was supposed to be amusing?
That’s kind of what I thought. I’ve decided she chose it for comic impact. That idea will help me sleep at night.
No. No. Even Dame Helen can’t carry this off….
How does she manage to walk with that band of lace around her knees?
With the exception of Dame Helen herself and the necklace, this is completely FUG.
She looks like the resident dominatrix professor at Hogwarts and yet I can’t fault her because she’s Helen Mirren. I’m almost mad at her for that.
Ha, Ha, Jennifer. Dame Mirren looks like Belatrix’s little known sibling Dominatrix LaStrange.
I also thought “Hogwarts prof”–she looks kind of good-quirky in it somehow but it’s still clumpifying. I’m not on board the “my man can leave me for Helen Mirren with no argument” train, either…even if he left me for Marion Cotillard, I’d still be a vengeful fury about it.
SHE is amazing. THAT OUTFIT, however, is too cracked-out for words. And I love stars.
I think you are being tested. She wants to see if you will love what ever she wears, just because she is wearing it. Embrace the fug and let her know she can return to her regularly scheduled awesomeness.
My brain broke.
Why is she wearing my bathing suit from when I was 3, turned into a “dress…” over a lace dress? And is that my grandma’s door decoration from Florida she’s wearing as a necklace? HM, I love you… but, WHAT? HOW? WHY?
Love the gloves, as an outdoor accessory. They look fiercely supple. Everything else can go.
It would be great without the lace and without the tights. But mostly without the tights. She’s HOT.
OK, now I kind of want Helen Mirren to play Wonder Woman’s mama Queen Hyppolyta. Not sure if that makes this a Fug or a Fab.
She’ll need a gold tiara made, to match that horizontal gold pattern happening in the dress.
Dress horrible, but she’s still Helen Mirren.
Wow, Helen Mirren is human after all. I’m so disappointed; this is like finding out Santa isn’t real.
And why would anyone wear thick dark tights with see-through lace on various spots, so that some parts are see through flesh toned and others are merely horridly textured black?
Helen Mirren puts the AWE in Awesome, but I can’t sign off on this. I’m sorry, Helen.
It’s Helen. She, and she alone looks good in this.
Even on Madonna it would look like she was wearing a childrens sleeping bag.
Oddly enough, this is kind of doing it for me (mostly in the dominatrix Hogwarts teacher kind of way) but I think with a few changes to the bottom it could be HUGELY improved.
Insane, yes, but it fits the venue perfectly! \o/
Well, first, it’s definitely FUG. But given the venue, and the sh*t-eating grin on her face, I’m giving it a thumbs up anyway. I can imagine (sadly) any number of celebrities wearing this without an ounce of irony. But it looks like she’s having a great time – and can you think of anyone else at that event you’d rather kick back a drink with at the after party?
I like this A LOT. She could go up a size, wear the wonderful necklace with a simpler frock, wear hose instead of tights, wear closed-toe shoes with her hose, carry a simpler bag etc, etc. But it’s cool as is. And she cannot CANNOT lose the gloves.
If she were wearing this in front of a red background on the cover of the holiday issue of Vogue we’d all be pretty happy, no?
Not even on Helen. No. Those gloves need to get on my hands NOW, though.
Ok, I have to admit that with a few tweaks… I would wear this! I love Helen Mirren, but this is not styled properly! She should be wearing a strapless bra, no necklace, no gloves and no thights… Just simple earrings, the nice clutch and the cute shoes! That’s how I would wear it, but only because it’s black and white & I’m a sucker for black lace! I love her, no matter what!
Mary Elizabeth Winstead wore this a few weeks ago and I loved it on her…. I think they both work it. Helen Mirren is the queen.
she is doing this on purpose to see how much she can screw with us. “Exactly how crazy can I appear to be before everyone stops completely adoring me . . . .?”
I am completely riding the “Love her, hate the dress” train here.
But, here’s proof positive that the Dame CAN rock ugly gloves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQh1G8yrfqg