First of all: Dianna’s eyes look AMAZING here. The color is so arresting — I don’t think I’ve ever really noticed them before. Way to have enviable genetic material, sister:
Second: the top of this gown in all its many laser-cut-swan glory, is sort of fascinating. It’s like the more intricate and slightly creepiest homemade Valentine ever, like if your child brought this home from school for you, you’d send her out to play and and then stare it in front of the refrigerator thinking, “either my child is a genius or a budding sociopath. What ARE we going to have for dinner?!”
Let’s see the whole thing, shall we?
I desperately wish the skirt weren’t ALSO Laser-Cut Swanville, because I am a little concerned that the Excessive Crazy on the bottom, as interesting as it is, is distracting from the legitimately fascinating crazy on the top. Everyone knows a crazy dress divided against itself can not stand.
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I actually an in love with it and think that Dianna has never looked better! FAB!!!
No, I’m with you.
The dress is very cool looking; even a bit risky (without being risque) from a design standpoint. And it fits her beautifully.
What a pretty girl. <3
Yes!!!
I completely agree, I am IN LOVE with this dress, ready to bloody well propose. In fact, how gorgeous would it be in ivory as a wedding dress? SOLD!
OMG, yes!!!
Instead of a solid skirt, maybe a matching red underlay would have helped make the bottom less distracting without being too plain.
I might be crazy, but I feel like maybe red LEATHER could punch it up some? But it might veer into Gaga territory then.
I do agree that a solid, sleek skirt would look much better. Maybe if she did a sleek skirt with cutouts at the hem, to tie in with the top? I do love the top. It’s nice to see her try something tougher than the girly stuff she usually goes for, while still keeping the romantic edge she obviously favors.
I kind of want the bottom to be plain red satin, minus the cutouts and layering, so that it’s not competing with the prettier top half.
I agree. A little too much going on as it is….. awesome top though and she is really so beautiful.
When was the last time she got it completely right? She never seems to, but maybe I’m not remembering correctly.
And I also love Lea’s, even though she looks a little like Lwaxana Troi, so there!
I love it!
Her face is so beautiful, I can’t look away! I want to weep.
she is gorgeous and the color is fantastic….don’t love the flesh colored undergarment thing that I can see thru the cutouts and on the skirt…but she is making the best of it!
Flip flopped a lot with this one and have decided that I love it. It’s freaky enough that I don’t hate the “red on red carpet” aspect. And yeah, she’s really ridiculously pretty.
It would have worked perfectly as a knee length dress. Remember those weird swan dresses with urine yellow accents that were kind of popular a bit ago? (I think Florence Welch wore one) I think it would have been cool with a skirt like that, just more covered up. but it might have been a bit too. Gaga
The only thing I can think of right now is the original ‘Shit Girls Say’ video that started this whole craze; “Do I look like a doily?’
I think the top half, including said arresting eyes, are DIVINE. The bottom half, not so much.
I wish the waist to the knees of the skirt had been cut more like the knees down….I don’t like how the short tiers lay. However, the color is spectacular and the bodice makes me incredibly happy.
It reminds me of those colored paper cut-outs that hang in Tex-Mex restaurants. I can’t remember what they’re called, but I’m pretty sure you aren’t supposed to wear them.
Weirdly, I hate the top — it distracts so much from her face — but the bottom mostly works for me.
“I should have been Katnis!”
Sorry, that was mean, but this dress is awfully girl on fire
I actually love the dress–but not on her. Dianna’s a beautiful girl, but her looks are way too sweet and wholesome to pull something like this off. On an actress with a more striking, edgy aura? This would be spectacular. On Dianna? It’s wearing her.
Now I am just squeezing my eyes shut and pretending Rooney Mara is wearing this, and god you are so right.
Fetchingly fab for me.
Love it. Want to know why my hubby doesn’t take me places so I can wear something like this.
I have to say that I LOVE this dress, but not on her. This on Cate Blanchett?? YES. Or perhaps someone like Nicole Kidman? I just don’t thinks she has enough presence for this dress.
All I could think of when I saw it was Fawkes.
Trying too hard! He hair and make up are lovely but the dress is just not quite right on her -she’s not woman enough to wear the heck out of it.
Somewhere January Jones is weeping because she always wants to wear something this edgy and it never works for her. Rooney Mara, too, should be thematically jealous, even if this is totally not her style from what we’ve seen.
Do I think this dress is Dianna’s one-and-only? No. But here’s reasons for her to date it seriously: 1) it’s a colour; 2) it’s a great colour; 3) it’s even a decent colour on her, although I think she looks better in cool tones; 4) it’s not a bland, oatmeal-shaded Grecian gown or a princessy frock or a mullet or a fishtail.
Google “Chinese Red Paper Cutting” on images…It’s so weird that she’s wearing a dress tribute to it. It’s something they do in China to bring good luck in on Chinese New Year and she’s wearing a dress for it. I don’t know how I feel about this. It’s odd.
That’s exactly what I thought, Grant: that it looks like a Chinese paper cut. But that’s what I really like about it!
I kind of love it. It’s crazy and shouldn’t work, but it totally does. And I’m just so glad that it’s INTERESTING.
The gown would be way stronger in black. Too much pattern for a bright color. Needs to be darker-almost goth like. Giles is an edgy designer. Surprised he did this in red. Maybe she requested the color. Ick
this is reeeeeal fashion for fashion ladies. LOVE. IT.
I think Katniss Everdeen is super pissed that Cinna sold her out.
I like the bodice, but not the skirt. It’s too frou-frou, and it looks like cheap nylon lace (which it probably isn’t).
Also, love her hair and face, but there’s too much pale concealer under her eyes.
its a chinese resturant wallpaper.. she is beautiful but I think this dress is too much for her, she cant carry it off
I think it’s a phoenix, not a swan.
I think it’s a doily, not a dress.
No. Sorry. The top of this dress should be suspended from the ceiling in a restaurant in Olvera Street. It is papel picado and it does not belong on a dress. The skirt looks like it came from the bottom half of a fake Barbie toilet roll cover. No again.
Also, why is such a young, gorgeous girl going with such a stunt-y gown? She’s not SWINTON, you know. She’s not even Rooney Mara. And the color is heinous.
This looks like something January Jones would wear. Maybe she wore it in tribute to her?
When I first saw this dress I LOVED the top half (and I still do). However the bottom totally distracts from the intricate design of the bodice and just screams doily / arts & crafts accident. I wish that the bottom had been much more plain so that the top (& her pretty face!) could shine. A big meh overall I think, which is too bad since the swan cutout had so much potential.
Beautiful! Absolutely LOVE it, probably my most fav of the night
textured but solid skirt, tea length = a wouldbe A+
I don’t know why exactly, but I love it. It’s like the third swan that never made the cut in Black Swan came back with a vengeance (and a pair of scissors) and forged her way to the red carpet. It’s both unexpected, and curiously crazy enough that it captured my interest, and therefore, my affection.
I’m sitting here trying to work out how to Unfug It Up. Maybe a different solid colour on the bottom with a black band to seperate? Black would be too hard… Yellow might be too bright.. Maybe a different red or pink would work? Even a flesh-tone / pink that could go all the way up to also be the backing of the top part (seen through the cutouts). i’m fine with the length but would prefer solid colour / solid material.
it’s exquisite. as usual, you guys are hilarious when it comes to bad fashion, full of praise for the fabulous-but-safe, and too tame to love the daring and out of the ordinary. as snarky as this site is, you like your fashion on the safe side.
I thought it was fabulous when I first saw it, but that was because I didn’t realise the whole thing was laser cut – I thought it was a plain skirt, with intricate top. Now I’m more “meh” about it.
The top is quite Romanov Empire, and I love how it is echoed in the tiers of swan lace, but it seem too much. Perhaps just the top with a plain skirt, or a more simple top with the lace skirt, but make the tiers at the hips more like the bottom- more picked-up and not in such distinct rows.
She’s a very beautiful girl, the color is lovely and the dress is stunning, but there is so much laser-cut into it that my first thought was ‘ OMG, it’s gonna shred down her body in front of the cameras’.