13 photos in galleryAs I was nosing around the list of Golden Globe nominees and saw Mila Kunis’s name, I thought, “Wow, she’s had a hell of a year — she’s been all OVER the place.” But after doing a little searching, I realized we’d only featured her three times on the site. Often, when a celeb slips through the cracks like that so frequently, it’s because her outfits were rather benign: nothing spectacular nor spectacularly bad, and thus, nothing that inspired us to write at length about it and then make random Dynasty references before bringing up a) snack foods we like, b) booze, c) Diet Coke, or d) Jon Hamm.
This is my attempt to catch us up on all that, especially now that she’s going to be working it during awards season. We’ll all feel so much more educated in loving or hating her Globes dress, for instance, if we can glow with the smug satisfaction of having seen what came before it. And, in case you’re too short on time to flip through the slideshow, here is the summary: black. Somebody rescue this girl before she develops an irreversible Aniston complex.
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Im probably blinded by my girl crush on her, but I think she always looks great.
I really like most of the looks individually but when you put them all together into a gallery, it kind of gets boring. Mila Kunis is to black as Kate Bosworth is to beige.
Mila probably knows she’s come a long way from “That 70′s Show” and doesn’t want to screw up. For now. I really hope she busts out something crazy glamorous and colorful for the Golden Globes. She deserves to get more positive attention.
And to stand in front of Natalie Portman’s face.
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Why does she always look like she could be the poster girl for Xanex?
I agree with the first two commenters — I’m both blinded by my girl crush on her, think looks absolutely fab in just about every one of those dresses. Buy oh yeah, does she need to branch out. Jennifer and Angelina are already boring us with neutrals. Mila shouldn’t feel so contained by a rigid image she’s trying to project. Go have fun, kid!
Anonymoose: What browser are you using, perchance? The site’s loading nice and fast for me, so maybe it’s still mad at specific browsers. It’s never gotten along well with IE, for instance. But people ARE working on it so hopefully whatever is slowing things down for you will start to perk up soon.
I do hope she branches out but so far she is rocking all of these individually, it’s just as a group they start to look a bit bland. I consistently hate the shoe choices though. Which makes me sad.
I agree that when you put them all back to back in a slideshow, it seems boring. But, actually she has really good taste. I don’t have a girl crush on her, but objectively speaking, she has a very exotic and pretty face and gorgeous hair. For that reason, she doesn’t need to wear crazy colors and outlandish get-ups to stand out, unlike Aniston, who is pretty, but not striking, and that’s why she looks so boring all the time. I think Mila is appropriate and tasteful.
Also, Jennifer Aniston wears really minimalistic shapes with few embellishments. Mila just keeps it simple with color, but the styles are interesting.
Conservative yet developing a great style.It takes time and she is a work in progress. Clearly she is trying to be taken seriously and isn’t ready for fashion to hijack her dialogue. Smart move when you are building credability.
I think she keeps it to black to keep it from overwhelming her. Most of those dresses in any other would end up wearing her instead of the other way around. While she is in danger of becoming as one note as the parade of mini pencil skirts Kristen Stewart wears to absolutely anything and everything, she does play enough with style and cut to keep it interesting. But she always plays it safe.
Plus I think she gets away with it because she’s one of those lucky bitches that is naturally very thin without looking like a heroin addict.
I love the new site. It has some great new features. Unfortunately, it doesn’t translate well for mobile devices which what I normally use to read blogs. Is there any chance you’ll have a more mobile-friendly site near future?
Yes, we’re going to have a mobile site soon, allegedly.
I like her style. She’s so gorgeous that the clothes don’t outshine her. Granted, this is a site about fashion, but it’s nice to see actresses who wear clothes as secondary to them.
As you guys have said previously, there is nothing wrong with choosing to just look pretty, and I think that that is what she often does.
Elle and JJ – totally agree. Her face is the true star of the show, and the clothes never wear her. This is quite an accomplishment for someone so petite, so she should be getting praise, rather than grief. I think she looks consistently stunning, and occasionally even a bit exciting. Good for her!
She’s just so pretty, and she never wears anything that distracts from that. So, I say it is a win.
GFY Heather and Jessica: I use IE and have no complaints re: speed. Also, LOVE the slideshows! Bravo!
My feelings for Mila make it impossible for me to be objective about her. I adore her, for many reasons.
But you have to give it to her for #5 (grey/white???) which is drapey foldy and very classic, and #12 (navy/black???) which is textural and interesting, among her other hits.
Maybe she’s not all up in our grille with color, cut, style, etc. because she doesn’t need/want to be. I know it’s radical, and probably heretical, but maybe, just maybe, she will be noticed for her TALENT because she actually has some. Just sayin’.
love mila, love the attention she is getting, and I hope her star rises like a meteor. style-wise, the only thing I have to add is that girl is SHORT. yes, she is also lithe and she can get away with certain figureskatery outfits that on busty/curvaceous women would scream tanya harding. but sometimes I think that her choices don’t do her any favors height-wise. those goth ballerina shoes are a perfect example – they stumpified her already short legs.
The colors of all the dresses really suit her skin and hair coloring. The clothes all fit her small frame very nicely and she always looks refined. If this is her style and that’s what she is comfortable with, I can find no fault with that. I wish these were the types of dresses Angelina Jolie had been wearing on her latest press junket.
Man, she absolutely nails the hair & make-up, doesn’t she?! Personally I’m not a fan of beach hair on her, and in one she TOTALLY looked like Fergie, but … yup, lump me in with the rest of the girl-crushes!
Jesus, does the woman wear anything but white and black ??
BORING,
The problem is that when she switches away from black, it’s to wear white or some shade of white, or a color that is so pastel it may as well be white. Meet Roy G. Biv, darling, he’s such a colorful character, you’ll just love him!
I think she looks good in almost all of them, but taken as a whole it really strays into yawnsville, so much of the same over and over. Would like a bit more variety, hopefully she gets some new ideas for awards season
FFS, even Dorothy Gale got to wear color after a while. Unless she’s living on a Depression-era farm in Kansas with a little mop dog, she needs to change it up.
Mila reminds me a bit of Freida Pinto in that she has the face/figure/skin tone to wear almost anything and still look stunning. Except that Mila is short, so the poofier long dresses (like the met ball one) overwhelm her a bit.
I don’t really have a problem with the neutral tones, but it would be nice for her to wear colors once in a while… she would look fantastic in an eggplant purple or darker teal.
i like her looks most of the time, but she looks like a zombie right now.
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love mila, love the attention she is getting, and I hope her star rises like a meteor. style-wise, the only thing I have to add is that girl is SHORT. yes, she is also lithe and she can get away with certain figureskatery outfits that on busty/curvaceous women would scream tanya harding. but sometimes I think that her choices don’t do her any favors height-wise. those goth ballerina shoes are a perfect example – they stumpified her already short legs.
Coming from New York, you can’t go wrong with black and I love her choices in styles, but once in a while, if I were her, I’d do red, and then go back to black. Us short girls have to be careful the dress doesn’t wear us.
I think she looks gorgeous in pretty much all of these (exception: the busy foldy one with the goth ballet shoes), but yes – colour! Even a subtle, muted colour! And maybe just one or two accessories, occasionally? I love that she’s not afraid to go simple, but a couple of these pieces could have used a bit of jewelery to liven them up.
my opinions in bullet form!
1. mila is TOO GORGEOUS.
2. she always looks great, but i hope she goes with color soon.
3. WHY HAVEN’T YOU SEEN BLACK SWAN YET?!
She looks like she’s got devil horns in slide 2.
She is an amazing actor with a big personality who is playing a supporting role to a Hollywood Princess (in a would have schooled Julie Andrews would she have turned out to be the princess-in-the-rough ala Princess Diaries One).
While the looks are timeless and fit amazingly (seriously…when someone looks this good and can’t get the fit right I feel a little rage-y) I wonder if she should have sassed it up to distinguish herself from La Portman a little. IT IS A DIFFICULT CONUNDRUM.
I think I agree with almost all of the comments above.
She wears her clothes well.
Mila reminds me a bit of Freida Pinto in that she has the face/figure/skin tone to wear almost anything and still look stunning. Except that Mila is short, so the poofier long dresses (like the met ball one) overwhelm her a bit. I don’t really have a problem with the neutral tones, but it would be nice for her to wear colors once in a while… she would look fantastic in an eggplant purple or darker teal.
I’m with Stephanie- I think my judgment is clouded because I love her.
Ok, a little boring but she always looks fantastic. Also, I love that she doesn’t do the typical petite-girl-fashionista-princessy that some of the tiny starlets do. (not that it looks bad). But the adult dresses on her tiny frame give her stand-out appeal.
Plus, she’s you know… gorgeous.
Very elegant. She has transformed so much from the girl on “That 70′s Show” it’s crazy.
ooo, thx fer responding, heather! i am using firefox 3.6.12 on a mac. it’s the scrolling that takes forever with all the loading and reloading on the right. and i forgot to say that mila looks fab and polished, if not dazzling. what she lacks in outright dazzling impact she holds in class. class is always in style. wish she had more color in her makeup though. the raccoon eyes are dull; and i’d love to see some red lipcolor without going goth. not that there’s anything wrong with goth…unless your name is tyler dadson or whatever.
this black theme, then the white dress . .it’s like angelina.
She looks so good.
Agree with many commenters–gorgeous girl, fab hair and makeup. But I don’t see anything wrong with wearing mostly neutrals–and she looks great in them.
mila’s face wins.
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They are so beautiful !
Think she’s totally gorg and the outfits are generally lovely – but does anyone else think she’s trying to channel Angelina? The volume-y hair, clean designs, smokey/nude make up…
anonymoose…(1 week later-sorry) Oddly, I too am using FF 3.6.12 on a MacOSX and it’s loading well, but only because my ISP upgraded their equipment this morning. Prior to this upgrade the pages did take forever to load and were all kinds of glitchy.
We don’t have regular Internet service and use a company that uses radio signals to get to the house, which are ordinarily slow compared to other methods, or so I have been told.
It helps that we hardwire the signal inside the house. If you’re using a wireless network setup you may want to consider hardwiring your Mac and see if that improves your image loading. Good luck.
About MIla. I think it’s 50/50. It looks like she’s swimming in some of these but when she nails it, it’s amazing. She’s tiny so she needs to wear clothes that show her figure. When she doesn’t, she looks like she’s wearing one of my Mom’s caftans.
love it!
Other than the fact she looks a little Angelina-esque, she looks fab! I love me a good black dress!
Make Mila Kunis the Queen of the Ice Capades!
She’s Disney Material for sure!
Would it have KILLED her to have worn a black version of Bjork’s swan dress?
To be completely honest, I didn’t really want to vote for BORING, but I only loved about half of her outfits…..
Is it me, or does she look like a slightly younger, less anorexic Angelina?
@ sam mac- COMPLETELY agree. other than the retro shift, there’s nothing there that Angelina wouldn’t wear. Maybe nothing she hasn’t already worn some variation of, even. It’s all I could see.
Mila Kunis is definitely nailing it!
Is Kunis really from Coco?