Nicole Richie’s continuing evolution into Judith Light is freaking me out:
It’s so weird to me that over the last several months, she’s morphed into something sort of crispy and 80s, just one giant-shoulder-padded blazer away from asking Tony Danza whether or not he is, in fact, the boss. Who looks in the mirror in the morning and says, “I just spent the last three years looking great. Do I need to screw it up somehow? YES.”
The dress, I pray, is this cheap looking because it’s actually one of the designs from Fashion Star and thus was made overnight by, like, Ashlee Simpson using a Holly Hobby sewing machine in the garage at the back of Simpson/Johnson Manor.
I mean….if this isn’t the result of a reality show challenge, I don’t know if I can handle the truth. (Since we’re referencing the 80s and all.)
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I don’t think the dress is so bad, the color actually looks good with her skin tone (at least on my monitor) but the hair is too light, and washes her out.
You mean the hair is too Light?
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(sorry, couldn’t resist)
I just snorted really loud at work – thank you!
The fabric is terrible; it’s all wrinkly and strange.
Aside from the fabric being wrinkled, I do actually like the dress. Her facial expression is just weird.
I loved her as a brunette and feel only meh about the blond.
kind of like the dress actually, except it makes her look about 3 /12 feet tall.
Street Lovely
It looks like the dress is made from two different fabrics, a brighter and more substantial fabric on the top, and a slightly darker, cheap fabric that wrinkles easily on the bottom. Like this was a cute, too short mini (or a long tunic) and someone said, Hey let’s make this into a floor lenth dress…we’ll just sew a longer skirt to it and call it a day. Except the fabric doesn’t quite match up. Or is the light just playing tricks? I think the top of it is cute though.
Silly girl, she should have used her iron on her dress instead of her hair.
Thanks for the chuckles, M! Astute observations.
Ha!!!
That hair is terrible. Im having a hard time seeing the dress simply because I cant see past that hair.
And that makeup! Where have her lips gone?!
And that face? Has she had work done? Something is off, but it could be the makeup.
Now that I can see the dress, she looks like shes wearing a “Sexy Banana” Halloween costume.
*giggles*. Skankybanana. And a bit overripe at that. The freaky orange skin tone, the freaky overprocessed hair, the freaky lack of lips, the the freakish heavy eyeliner, the freaky bronzer, the freaky facial expression,…I am freaked out by this total ensemble! Her mirrors must be broken.
Her hair looks awful :/ Too bad, she really is cute but this dress is not doing her any favors. The color is nice but satiny materials rarely hold up well, they wrinkle and crinkle to no end. Cut the bottom off and change the type of material….
That thing needs more fabric on the sides. I don’t think the tape is up to the job. Of course, there are many other terrible things about this dress. And as Caroline Bingley would say, “her hair, so untidy, so blowsy!”
aaagh! Love the Pride and Prejudice shout out!
While I can’t give it a full-on love, I just love that she ended up being classier and saner than her ex-BFF Paris Hilton.
That being said – better hair and makeup, please, Ms. Richie. This color blond doesn’t suit and you need some lippy color at the least
Show the pics of the black and white outfit she wore the other night. was STUNNINGLY gorgeous!
When you critique budding fashion designers wearing skull jewelry (last night’s show and no matter how deserving some of the criticism is), you’ve got to be verrrrrry careful about how you look when you leave the house. Catty bitches like me are watching.
This is awful. She looked so cute on Andy Cohen the other night! What happened?
Yes, the dress and hair are terrible … but I am totally distracted by her face. Am I the only one who thinks she looks kind of …. mannish in this photo?
Her face looks so different to me lately, yet I can’t pinpoint why. And I wish she would go back to the super cute bob she sported when she became suddenly chic. That is one of my all time favorite haircuts (and I desperately wish my hair would do that.)
The dress is as bad as Fashion Star which is HORRIBLE.
I mean, is Fashion Star even a SHOW? 45 minutes in and I was still totally confused by the format and whether it wasn’t just 9 5-minute promos strung together.
Not only stitched overnight,, but tossed onto the front porch in a laundry bag where it sat in the rain until morning.
Too bad she doesn’t have Mona living with her to tell her “you’re going out in that thing?”
Is her head Photoshopped onto that body? If so, somebody needs to remember that it’s not just enough to paste one layer onto another and then hit “flatten image.”
^^^ This! On my monitor, the second picture in particular looks like it was cut out with scissors and pasted on none too carefully.
I love the color but I hate the dress and it looks like Nicole had her face pulled back about four inches. Also, I had that haircut in third grade in 1988.
Judith Light?!?! Ahahahahaha… That’s HILARIOUS! Next thing we know she’ll be selling Proactiv on QVC! She looks awful! FUG!!!
I’ve seen many worse dresses here. This is mild in comparison. Sideboob, foot-eating, wrinkly banana satin ain’t nothin’
But her hair! Over processed, dry, shredded.
This.
Hey … give her a break … she’s found a creative way to use napkin and tablecloth overstocks!
Sorry, but she is scaring the shit out of me! How do you change the entire shape of your face!? Her head looks too big for her body and how can I pay attention to anything else?
RE: Her Hair
I think she took her expensive extensions out. This is just what she looks like without three feet of plastic hair glued to her head. I find it refreshing (if not in need of a hot oil treatment).
oh, man. she was looking consistently good for a WHILE there! This is sad-making.
I’ve worked on set with Nicole Richie, and if you look closely most of her hair is a weave.. like 85% at any length. You can see that her hair is VERY thin, and that “extension” hair (which I’m sure is super expensive because it fools EVERYONE) is always woven in with the small amount of her natural hair.
Ahh.. that explains the fried hair. But I don’t know what’s making her head look too big for her body. Maybe the cut of the top of the dress.
She should have stayed at home and read a good book – um – I mean watched a DVD. As long as it doesn’t have subtitles.
Makes her look incredibly short
Get rid of the yellow mini skirt petals in the front and the dress looks great.
The dress is okay, but the hair needs a cut and intensive moisturizing and a different color. She can carry the yellow of the dress really well, and not everyone can, but the hair color is just wrong. And some color to her lips would be nice.
Also — why does everyone feel they have to pose with their mouth open? Granted, at least it’s not her tongue, or duck lips, but posing with your mouth open makes you look unintelligent.
“A Few Good Men” is from the 90′s, love. That said, good LAWD she DOES look like Judith Light!
I had a Holly Hobby sewing machine! It was awesome!
Are we sure this is Nicole Ritchie? Really??
Her name in Latin: Vomitus Giganticus.
Well this is a mildly disappointing turn of events. I had imagined that Richie as an emergent idiot savant of fashion. But nope. Back to reality. It was a case of monkeys at typewriters–A great sartorial novel Ms. Richie managed to accidentally fling out there for 3 years. Now we have ourselves a tiny, oversized head amalgam of Joyce DeWitt & Suzanne Summers.
There’s no debate about the dress. It’s unforgivable! From the hip down. The fabric doesn’t drape, obviously wrinkles like cheap acetate, and it appears the top is actually a dress belted on over a skirt – a yellow halter version of what Peter Pan might wear if he was cross-dressing.
The dress is hideous, and what in god’s name has she done to her face????
I think that she has been morphing into her former stylist, Rachel Zoe. Do they have a working relationship at all since their weird “scandal”? Check out the hair, the silhouette, the hats! Judith Light circa “Who’s the Boss?” (and possibly “Golden Girls”-era Bea Arthur) must be on their inspiration boards.
Anyone else getting a Betty Rubble vibe from this dress?
I’m always amazed when someone so much younger than I am looks like they have at least a decade on me in the age category.
Jungle red lips and nails, a sleek updo and black eyeliner and the whole thing makes nice!
You’re right. The gown DOES look like something that was run up 2 hours before the event.