It’s interesting the way my feelings about a dress will morph from the moment I first see them, to the time when I actually get around to writing about them here. I mean, it is interesting for me. YOU probably don’t really care so much. I don’t blame you.
I DID NOT like this when I first saw it. But now that I’ve lived with it a bit, I’m willing to admit that I don’t dislike it from the waist up. (It’s hard to turn down something designed to make you look at that face, for one thing.) And if it were the same on the bottom as it is on the top — if it were tulle-less — I would probably be giving this the thumbs up. But the bottom looks so haphazard, y’all!
I mean. That just looks stapled on.
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Is it also slightly see-through? Ugh.
Can you see her underwear?!
I swear somebody else wore a dress just like that very recently and I remember people commenting about that one looking as if the tulle was stapled on too.
Also, I do think she is crazy. It seems like every relationship she’s had has ended really, really badly. Whether she is crazy and causing it or just has terrible taste in men could be up for debate.
She looks wicked fabu. And she radiates such shine
That stuff on the bottom portion of the dress is harmless.
This somehow reminds me of the harbinger of Gozer at the end of Ghostbusters.
Love this!
It looks like she got her legs caught in a cotton candy machine..
I actually would have liked it better if there was only tulle in the back of the dress.
Check out the original version: http://tomandlorenzo2.blogspot.com/2011/02/2011-oscars-red-carpet-part-2.html
It could’ve been such a lovely dress, but I think somebody fell down on the job when they were translating it into…this.
i was just so relieved that she didn’t show up mostly naked/transparent.
From the waist up – I love. From the waist down I am reminded of my bedside table that was recently covered in used tissues whilst I was recovering from a nasty head cold.
First off, she is acting totally crazy. That said, this dress reflects that. Chaos. Her dress as a metaphor? Hey, it seems to work here! And should her elbows look that dry? Could it hurt her to put some lotion on?
Bonus points for remembering the whole dress this time after the pink, and before that the black, lingerie she’s been trouncing around red carpets in! Baby steps Halle!
I don’t think it’s much of a secret anymore that Halle’s cray cray.
I can see her butt, which makes it just a more princess-y Madonna VF party outfit.
But Lord, she is beautiful and that dress rocks from the hips up.
no. she is the kind of pretty that makes me not-so-secretly hate her, but i dislike boob foam like that. (i yelled “boob froth” during the red carpet, and my boyfriend asked if i was insane)
It looks like the bottom is transparent?!? Nooooo.
Tulle-ectomy, stat, and it would be better in any color, any, except maybe pale yellow. Kudos to Catriona for the nifty link.
But dish- why you think she cray?
The moment I saw this dress, all I could think of was Peaches n’ Cream Barbie: http://tinyurl.com/4ctwtse, hence my vote in the do not like column.
Really? Fewer than 300 of us would rather speculate on what she did to earn the nickname “Halle Scary” from her ex’s friends?
I loved the dress. She looks as gorgeous as ever.
But, do you think she fell into that trap of super beautiful people where people fall all over themselves to please them until they have no concept of a normal relationship and freak out if a SO doesn’t treat them more like a god than a mate?
And the back. Poor dress, her bodice is all puckered & having an explosive diarrhea attack from eating too much tulle at lunch
No argument that she – in terms physical attractiveness – is just gorgeous, BUT … the rear view of this gown made me choke with embarrassment for her. Oh Halle, ’tis a far, far better thing to have sparkles spewing out of your crotch a la Biel, than…..well, how ’bout we let America’s middle school boys finish this sentence? Gah.
What tassie said. The placement of back tulle spray is unfortunate and looks like a visible butt sneeze. The top part is good, though. The bottom front looks like she is working a personal fog machine recently turned on, which is actually an interesting idea.
I’m not looking back to see if you can actually see her butt. I refuse to. It’s probably showing, though.
It combines both shiny sparkles and blah, capped off with tassie’s aptly named tulle diarrhea. What an unfortunate spot to place the explosion of fabric.
And I’ll bet there are some really good stories that we’ll never hear. I think the wackadoodle-ness is just beginning to surface.
This has grown on me over the past 2 days and then, I saw the back. Oh. Dear. Lord. Thank you, Tassie, for the perfect yet discreet explanation.
where’s Michael Kors when you need him?
“Halle, you look like you’re pooping fabric.”
i’m happy its a FULL dress, but that tulle is AWFUL. i guess if it wasn’t there, it would be just like claire danes’ awesome emmy’s dress. =/
I will echo someone above and say that the original blows this right out of the water. The tulle actually looks placed, and deliberate, and sewed down, instead of haphazard and stapled on whilst the costumer watched All My Children.
I also thought of Michael Kors! “She’s pooing tulle!”
National Geographic uncovers rare tulle pooing exotic bird species, prone to unintelligible squawking mumblage.
Still, if there was a hidden A-list requirement that *someone* had to poo tulle this season, we lucked out here…imagine the constipated little tulle tufts that would have trailed Kidman, wee hubby aside.
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The first picture makes me think of Charlie Brown’s pal Pig Pen, like she has her own personal cloud of filth. Otherwise, very pretty.
Is she wearing white shoes? White satin wedding shoes? Geez.
I was going to say, Oh, it’s not so bad, if you tone down the tulle a bit…………then I saw the back…………then I saw the original (thanks for the link, Catriona).
Girl’s got great genes – body, skin, yadda, yadda. We got it! But constantly sharing it with the immediate world is un peu mess up, non?
I thought we were supposed to consider if JESSICA were secretly crazy.
Who was that one-hit-wonder pop star from the 1990′s or whatever, the one who demanded to see women’s thongs? Cisco? This dress would delight him.
Yes, you can see it, and yeah, the back’s kind of a mess … but still, being Halle, she looks amazing. She’s gravity-defying gorgeous.
I love how your first shot captures the guy in the right of the frame trying his best to look anywhere else *other* than at Ms. Berry’s backside. He’s succeeding, but the man’s only human. Far as we can see.
Here’s the thing. The more that I look at that first picture of Halle Berry with her hand on her hip and that quirky little smirk that just seems to demand “What, beyotch?” the more I am reminded of a cat emerging from a box of Styrofoam peanuts.
Like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcgraths/235112299/
Both want you to believe that there’s nothing strange going on here, and both are wrong, despite their attempts to stare you into submission.
I also didn’t like it at first, then came around to liking the top (minus the tulle). Still don’t like the (lack of) color, though.
It looks like the bottom of her dress was on fire, put-out, and now there’s smoke billowing from it
Halle is certifiably crazy. In addition to the dress those shoes are pretty ugly too.
The back bit doesn’t look as bad – it makes a bit of sense. The front looks like a toddler went to town with tulle and some glue
I’m pretty sure I had a Barbie in the 80s that came with this exact same dress.
It looks like the winning gown from a Project Runway challenge, where they used hot glue as a last ditch attempt to “make it work”.
Also, does anyone else think it looks like she’s pooping tulle? The placement is just terrible.
To Judy, no you are not the only one.
It’s like a frothy Niagara Falls coming out of her ass.
Thank you ms_mcgee: all I could think of was Peaches and Cream Barbie too. Even down to that funny glitter mosaic stuff she had on the bodice.
Let’s discuss the underlying problem:
Her spiky hairdo at awards shows
It looks super cute when she’s wearing jeans and such, but it’s just too casual and bed-heady for a gown. Couldn’t she sleeken (pretend that’s a word) it up just for these events?