Liking the face and hair…
… and might actually also like the dress. The prim sleeves/schoolmarm vibe it exudes kind of works because the rest of it is pretty, and it fits. Some days, I don’t have the energy require much more. Are you yanking it up? No? Good. Does it make me want to quit this planet and take up on Mars, risking certain death just so I can get a break from all the aggressive fashion reekitude? No. DONE. Pass the Tylenol.
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Comments (30):
I think I would like it better if it was a shorter dress.
It feels like a squinting Gwenyth Paltrow.
This reminds me of a long version of the dress Jamie Lee Curtis was wearing in “True Lies” before she tore it up and made it “hookerish”.
I don’t love it, but I like it. I love her makeup, though.
Her hair and makeup are really beautiful!
The dress looks like something the exquisitely evil mother of the groom should wear to her son’s wedding if she does not approve of the bride.
Ooooh the hair and makeup are divine. I agree, either make it cocktail length, or… actually no, just make it cocktail length and we’re golden.
I’m guessing that this, too, is from the current Valentino collection, which is nearly all schoolmarm. I do applaud the attempt to make covering up ones bits and pieces stylish again…but all I see is pioneer days fancy dress ball, and I’m not a fan.
Hair & Makeup are FLAWLESS! The Dress is EXQUISITE & REGAL! She is PERFECTION! I LOVE THIS so much that I would quit this planet to get it! COVET!!!
Agreed!
Thank you!
I love everything, and I am usually not a Kiki fan. Three Cheers for K. Dunst!
I’d either make it cocktail length, or loose the sleeves and keep the length. Currently it’s too too…something. Sexy funereal?
At first glance, I thought this was Cate Blanchett.
I think the whole look is gorgeous – sometimes this type of dress is much better in person, when you can see it move. It’s all covered up, but the lines are slim and beautiful and the fabric drapes amazingly – I’ll bet it’s much less “schoolmarm” in person.
Um. She looks like she should be haunting something.
I’m sorry, but it’s hard for me to dislike this because she is SO PRETTY when she tries. Good lord, her hair and makeup are beautiful.
@e: I consider that a compliment of the highest order – and I totally agree!
Jessica Biel’s full-on hostess dress came off as a bit silly. She looked like she auditioning to play the ghost of Lily in the Secret Garden. Miss Kiki, on the other hand, has donned a black version of the society matron hostess dress, but totally makes it work. She looks utterly lovely. The dress fits her beautifully, the details are flattering and not too old. She looks elegant and her hair and makeup are gorgeous. Well-played in my book.
The dress is too close to Rumspringa-wear for me.
Why did she dress up as Gwyneth Paltrow?
Love her. Love this. And nary a leg-curtain in sight.
This is so prim it’s very tempting to dismiss it outright, but it fits her so beautifully and her hair and makeup are so very spot-on that I just can’t. Kiki’s basically taken what could have been a boring-ass dress on anyone else and made it look regal and polished – hats off to her for that.
I almost bought a shirt like this top of this dress today, but it was too itchy.
Maybe that explains her facial expression.
Kiki reminds me of my daughter, and I could totally see her in this… like it more than I thought I would.
She’s looking her prettiest ever… For me, what’s making the dress schoolmarm-ish is the shoulder’s sleeve ruffling… But other than that, the dress is regaly beautuful and she’s working it.
This is so not pretty. Calling a 19th century mourning dress “lovely” is serious business. When you say something fugly is pretty, 40% of the voters agree with you just because deep down they think they must be missing something, so they go with the flow. That skews poll results which causes a rip in the space-time continuum allowing giant earth-sized planets to collide with ours, our whatever it is that happens in Melancholia.
This is fugly. Fugly!
I think this is stunning from top to toe. I get that sometimes a long sleeve, long black dress can be Morticia-y, but this works for me. Her hair and makeup are bright and sunny and make up for it. If a brunette with long dark hair wore this I don’t think it would work (a la me), but this does…love.
I think it would be amazing if it hit above the knee. As is, it just works – no better but definitely no worse.
I wish we could see the shoes, Kirsten always seems to wear a pointy toe with a ruffles or a bow attached. I actually really like this dress, I wish it had come to her knee and maybe then it would have lost it’s Scarlett O’Hara feel.
I like it—it really works. But, I honestly thought that this was Cate Blanchette at first—which is not a bad thing to be confused about.