There is so much I love here.
Her lips may need a splash more color (“just a splash,” Sally Albright’s voice is saying in my head), but the soft Adele-ish hair and that adorable printed dress are so fabulous and covetable together. It makes the shoe choice that much sadder to me — those feel like a tremendously wasted opportunity. People say a nude pump comes off like an extension of your leg that will lengthen it in the eye of the beholder, but to me, too often it stretches it into a toeless rubberized Barbie point. Imagine this with Nina Dobrev’s gold Jimmy Choos instead, which would play off the belt. Or there are probably even some colorful options that would’ve been more playful without being distracting. Don’t forget your feet, y’all. Finish the outfit.
As for Holland’s co-star, Crystal Reed… well, let’s take a look:
I keep expecting her shoulder bows to sprout googly eyes and attempt to get her to switch to Geico.
[Photos: Getty]
Comments (31):
I COVET that first dress. Gorgeous!
Holland my queen! She is perfect.
Crystal Reed’s dress looks like it’s trying to knock off Emma Watson’s Marchesa from the 2011 MTV Movie Awards. And doing it badly. Which is something, considering how easy it is to improve on Marchesa these days.
http://style.mtv.com/2011/06/05/movie-awards-2011-emma-watson-marchesa/
It is a Marchesa!
*sigh* Should’ve known.
OK, it is now BEYOND time to deal with this Marchesa scourge. Someone needs to pass a freaking law.
Must be stopped!
Ahahahahaha… Oh, GFY Heather, you kill me! I love Holland’s dress! COVET! Her styling is great! Hair, makeup & accessories all work, but gold or navy shoes might have been a better choice than the nude ones! FAB, though! Now, I like Crystal’s dress, but the hair, makeup, lack of jewelry & blank stare ruin it for me! The shoes are fine, but that dress deserves something more dramatic! I enjoy her so much as Alison on “Teen Wolf” that it bothers me to see her so emotionless on the Red Carpet!
that first dress is perfection. I’d like one in solid teal please.
The second dress would actually be fabulous without the shoulder whatsits. It’s a lovely cut, with skirt that’s both trendily full and flattering on the hip line. The shoes are DELICIOUS, and if there were no shoulder whatsits, and she had a good bracelet and clutch, we’d all be drooling. IF there were no shoulder whatsits.
The first dress is too twee for my taste, even for someone so young.
See, I kind of like the second dress. I wish the shoulder whatsits were better integrated with the rest of the dress rather than looking like they were just plopped on there, but they definitely make the dress more distinctive than if it were a plain white A-line dress.
I want Holland’s dress soooooooooooooooo bad….. I mean…usually I look at the stars in their dresses and I’m happy for them, they can pull it off, I can’t…. but you know what…that dress would ROCK on me!! Oh….it….hurts I want it so bad.
http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/alice-olivia-reese-pleated-frock/3338614?origin=category&fashionColor=&resultback=570
At nearly $500….it will be a NEVER!…but thanks for the link!
That dress is a little too on the nose for someone named “Crystal”!
“…toeless rubberized Barbie point.” Ha ha ha!
1964 called and wants that first dress (and the hair!) back.
They both look very pretty. If only I wasn’t so old and out of touch, I might have some idea who these girls ARE.
Love that floral.
Holland is adorable. But what did Crystal Reed do to her HAIR? She’s so lovely with the dark locks. This color–dirty reddish-blondish brown?–completely washes her out.
Oh I’m so with you! Why why why?? I don’t even care about the weird, sparkly, shoulder whatsits because I’m too distraught about her hair!
The bodice of the first beautiful dress seems a tad squashy. Take off the ridiculous floppy epaulettes on the second, and it’s a tedious rayon 70′s disco dress. Maybe use the sparkly shoulder augmentation for a belt and matching shrug for that pure Donna Summers feel.
I want that first dress SOO badly! I rarely envision myself actually wearing something I see on a celeb, but this dress is perfection! Would love it with Nina’s Jimmy Choos, but that’s just getting greedy.
I like Holland’s whole outfit unreservedly; I think the shoes work with it. Very nice, and tasteful.
Crystal, on the other hand… well, it’s hard to blame another Marchesa victim, there have been so many. And I quite adore her shoes, though they should be about a half-size bigger.
Dianna Agron wore the same great dress that Holland is wearing about a month or so ago on The View. Maybe Dianna wore it a little better, though. Also she had better shoes.
I just looked up pics and while I think this person looks cute in the dress, I love the look Dianna had going with the long coat as she was entering the studio.
Remember that one kid in the class picture who totally wasn’t ready when the photographer said “CHEESE”? In this photo, Crystal Reed is that kid, except that there’s no class in her picture. Like, literally OR figuratively.
snappy comment is snappy.
Take away the epaulettes on the second dress and I actually love it. It might be one of those dresses in a store that I check and see how securely attached an accessory is and whether I can safely get it off with a seam ripper.
And I have a pair of nude pumps and wear them frequently with a lot of things because I’m just not a person who owns crazy cool shoes. Maybe if I were a star walking the red carpet, it would be a different story, but I think they’re simple and classy and go with a lot of things. In this case, I think they keep the focus on her dress and cute self.
“toeless rubberized Barbie point”
That’s IT! I’ve been trying to figure out what exactly bothers me in nude shoes and that description hit it perfectly.
Perfection. Love it!
Thank You! I HATE the Nude Shoe! Barbie Feet would be preferable to the distorted HOOVES I see! That is not what feet look like! ((Wonders what her version says about her, contemplates itchy pentagram-shaped rash on tummy…))