Well, THIS is a new look for her:
I like it. It’s girly as hell, but it gives me hope that, if she’s popping up at a French film premiere in a giant pink ballgown, Oscar Sunday might not be as mumsy as we all have feared.
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Comments (80):
Good grief that is shockingly awful. Dreadful. Horrid. Ghastly and all the rest.
Thank you, Feena, I thought I was going crazy when I looked at the dress and then up at the “well played” heading. Yick. The color is terrible, the shoes are satin platforms (just no), and –sweet lord — is that a BOW on top of a pink flowered dress?!
I too think it is The Worst, but I agree that it at least shows she might wear something without a crewneck to the Oscars.
Bleh! It looks like the dress was hemmed for different shoes, so now we have to see those awful hooves.
Agreed! This is horrible!
Silver satin platforms. Ugh.
Thirded! That is just…wow. Ugly barely begins to cover it. The front is too short (I HATE that!), and the flowers look like they’re falling off the back of the dress.
Badly played, Michelle.
I so agree. I cannot believe this got a Well-Played. Let’s not allow our frustration with her usual matronly dishwater style blind us to the fact that this is a straight up monstrosity. “They want pretty? They want colorful? I’ll show them! POW! Bedazzled pink satin ball gown!” Friends, we cannot encourage this behavior.
I agree. Just awful. Ugly cutesy color. Horrid SATIN shoes. I her lippy clashes. And I’m sorry, this woman always appears so very twee and smug. Dear god, the bow is just ridiculous.
I like it, too! I don’t think there’s anything wrong with girly. Not all the time, anyway. The shoes are awful, but the dress itself is cute.
It’s very…Pepto pink…! Sort of like a Valentine exploded all over her! I would have picked different shoes as well, something daintier…especially since she wants to project that kind of delicate girly vibe.
I like it, but I fear it’s something she’d only wear in France. I am 99.5% sure she’ll wear white to the Oscars.
I like it, too, but conversely, I feel that this look is best left in France. It has that fashion fussiness that plays better on the rightward continent. I could definitely see this at a big splashy Cannes premiere, but for an American awards show, something more minimalist will play better for our red carpet.
She definitely has a fascination with the clunky platforms shoes, which ruin the entire effect of all the floor-length gowns that she wears.
Minus the platforms, the bad hem and the bow, I imagine I’d like it. And I do love a pink dress paired with red lips and nails.
I’m just so happy to see her playing around with different styles. I’m not sure that I love it, but it is SO refreshing to see her away from a boring, depressing crew neck dress. And something that finally has volume.
This. Totally agree… not a fan of those fugly shoes but this is really a nice change.
It is just me, or does she look weirdly like Rene Zellweger here? I think its the lip colour.
Oh, I cant unsee it.
It’s not good and the embellishments are just hideous. She looks like a walking fly trap.
the dress is not to my taste, but she’s wearing it well and, more importantly, she looks happy instead of terrified!! It’s been years since we’ve seen her smile on the red carpet! Yay Michelle Williams!
Pink, ball gown, covered in sparkles and feathers…Yeah, add a tiara and white elbow length gloves and you have my DREAM outfit from when I was 7. It went great with my castle/sheet fort.
Are you KIDDING me?!? This dress is where dreams go to die. It’s a step away from being Miss Havisham’s worn out wedding dress!
Yuck – on top of a cake!! need some good glamour – see designer kaftans http://www.bluemojito.co.uk and embellished tunics
Adds another YUCK and a BLECH.
I’m still hoping she will go away soon, I am SO sick of seeing her picture everywhere.
She’s almost graduated to the Aniston level of self promotion.
I’m not completely sold on the dress (but I don’t find it as hideous as some you!) but THANK YOU FOR COLOUR!!!!!
Seriously, this whole nude phase has got to stop. Think of the children!
There must be a shorter name out there for those ghastly hoof shoes – I dunno, maybe Shooves? Seriously, she needs a blacksmith, not a pedicurist.
Yes, but I believe this is the incorrect season to wear tinsel on your person.
I think she looks fab! Okay, the bow is superfluous, but the rest is brilliant. The embroidery is gorgeous and the feathers are just whimsical. I don’t mind the length, why does everything have to be in the tripping zone?
The dress is actually really familiar in a way I can’t quite put my finger on.. It reminds me of something that maybe Grace Kelly or one of her contemporaries wore, back in olden times.
I’m with you, I love it overall except for the bow and the clompy shoes. But the colour I love especially. All the colours – lips, nails, dress, flower thingys, hair, even the shoe colour (although not the style).
I was thinking the dress Cinderella’s creature pals make for her before it’s destroyed by her stepsisters.
Yep, count me in on the love for this look.
Awwww, come on–I have this whole storyline playing out in my head about how Matilda asked her to let her choose her dress for this event and Michelle showed her all of this black and white and Matilda begged for a pink princess dress. It’s girly, it’s pretty, and so what if it looks like something a four-year-old would love? It’s adorable!
my theory is that she always dresses according to the films she is doing which at the moment should be the new wizard of oz thing in which she plays the good witch. hence, the dress is very literal.
Definitely not well played. I also LOVE that she’s doing something different to change it up, but this wasn’t the way to go. It’s so pretty pretty princess got attacked with some crafting supplies. I do love her, and I do hope she knocks it out at the Oscars!
Hmph. I don’t like this. The strapless line and the fit of the bodice are good, but overall it looks like Easter craft accident. And slightly chewed-on. And the front is too short. (For a dress like this to hang correctly and look balanced, it really does have to just barely hit the floor. That’s why it’s called floor length, girl.)
Sooooo… a flock of seagulls flew into Natalie Portman’s Globes dress, and for some reason Michelle Williams decided to wear it?
It’s not the right pink for her (at least in this lighting). But I’m giving her props for not having sad-waif face and for wearing something fitted and not black and white. Maybe designers all throwing clothes at her for her round of award shows have made her realize she looks good in colors and properly fitted clothing.
On someone else, I’d say “eh, maybe in a different color.” But on Miss “Look at me, I’m cute as a button tee hee I dress like a Care Bear” up there? In THAT shade of pink? No, no, no. I can barely look at it. Put it on a @#$%^&ing Barbie Dream Prom Queen doll where it belongs.
I just can’t look at that hair anymore.
This is very mommsy – it’s too big, shiney Barbie pink, too short, 1950′s prom with a really big BOW.
And the way she is standing, if you swapped out the pink dress for sweats, trainers, a baseball cap and stuck a whistle in her mouth she’d be Soccer Coach Mom.
I think this is beautiful – I love it! She is stunning – it’s a girly colour, sure, but the unusual embroidery/texture of the dress make it interesting, and the colour suits her skin. With long hair it’d be overkill but her haircut means a really feminine dress looks perfect on her.
So agree with you about the hair
She looks like Madame de Pompadour’s fancy couch.
Ooof, i agree with the majority of these comments: just because it’s different for her, doesn’t make it good. i like the color, and even the shape somewhat (although i wonder if maybe it needs to fit her a little better), but that bow has to go. and the little bits of something (feathers?) that are sticking out here and there make it look like she’s molting.
I like the dress’s style, and I just wish it was a more subdued pink. And that she hadn’t painted her nails and used such a deep red lipstick that’s about two shades from blood.
BUT! I am so relieved it’s not a black-and-white thing that I’m in full agreement of the “Well Played” tag.
I get a Marie Antoinette vibe from this. I’d like it a lot better without all the wispy stuff trailing off of it. Seriously, what is that? It looks like the crap we get in the air in June when the cottonwood trees are shedding. But a bold color and some attitude are a welcome change for MW.
OMG. Vomit. Well played? REALLY?????
AWFUL. Fits poorly, terrible color on her, bad design. No no no.
What the fug. This looks like it was made up of all the remnants of that disgusting dress that Andi made in Pretty in Pink. You know, the one that was supposed to be “cutting edge” and “very cool” and “awesome” but really was “absolutely gross”?
This isn’t the best shade of pink for her, and one that would be hard for most people to pull off gracefully. She has done girly before, in her own overplayed, twee, innocent way, but at least that suits her. This looks like a bedazzled bedspread from the bedroom of a grown woman who “used to do pageants,” wrapped around and knotted at her chest.
There are other photos out there where you can see that the hem length is intentional – and thus better. But then the shoes look even worse.
That dress is butt-ass ugly.
My eyes are bleeding. NO.
Oh y’all are breaking my heart because I love this and I, too, think it deserves a Well Played. I’d like it better, however, on a Fanning or Halee Seinfeld (sp?)
Ick! Swamps her and looks like Barbie’s duvet!
Oh goodness, I could have gone without this. I hate the Cinderela dream dress, the hideous blackmith shoes, the lipstick & nail polish combo but mostly that matronly smile. It’s awful when someone is fashion-lost, but if they are happy with it, what the heck. Her expression is just “you know, I don’t know, I’m just a good actress, and they told me to wear this”.
Was Meryl Streep like this when she was young?
I think she looks great. I think pink is her color. I also love her hair. After reading the other comments, I’m afraid my contrarian spirit is taking over. Of course, I liked the crying clouds dress, too.
It’s girly as hell, an interesting shade of pink, and maybe the shoes aren’t ideal, but I LOVE it for her. I saw this earlier this morning and was sooo hoping it would be covered here. Thank you for covering and thank you for the well played! I agree! Also, I LOVE her short hair and it makes so sad when others say otherwise!
Ummm cheap prom dress or quinceanera dress. Just drive to the ghetto and you can get this from the window display
Yes!!! This makes me happy! The dress is GORGEOUS, the hair & makeup are FLAWLESS, the lipstick & nailpolish are PERFECT, the pink & silver look BEAUTIFUL on her! LOVE! ADORE! COVET!
EXACTLY – this makes me happy to look at! is it perfect? does it really have to be perfect to be well-played? i would say no. and thank you, Michelle. not much making me happy today.
Did she get Gwyneth Paltrow’s badly fitting Oscar win dress altered and add bows and think…yes..this is a good look? I’m happy that she is venturing out of her comfort zone and I’m happy that we can be glad for her and encourage her in her fashion movement BUT this is probably something that Matilda chose….in fact we may yet hear that it was indeed her daughter how picked out the princess dress. It could have been great – the colour is beautifully Marie Antoinette but..it all went pear shaped!
Terrible, and NOT well played. The color, the bow, the ugly flowers stuck to it…just awful! Sorry Jessica, I can’t agree with you here!
The dress is very pretty in theory, as it is anything pink embroidered in silver. But this is the kind of dress that loose 50 % its appeal when hemmed for a shorter person than the one initially intended, as it appears to be the case. The bow detail is unnecessary, and if the designer was clever enough, it should be removable. Without it, hiding the silver plattform shoes and adding up a piece of jewellery; the overall effect would have been less Barbie-like. And she’s really overdoing the red lipstick thing, BTW.
Are you kidding me!? I saw this dress on another site, vomited in my mouth a little and then came straight here to reslish in my fug girls scathing wit. Such disappointment on so many levels.
I give up. I really like her – she’s a very good actress, and she made me cry in that film about the homeless girl and her dog – but this is something Shelby in Steel Magnolias would have forced her bridesmaids to wear.
Why does she do this to herself? Why? Why? I have no hope for Monday. She’ll probably show up in something suitable for Dorothy Sbornak.
I think this has the potential to be lovely but somehow falls a little short and meringue-y. Also the red lip is a terrible combo with the dress.
//Was Meryl Streep like this when she was young?//
@neiges – yes, Meryl was actually; or at least I recall her being very quiet and soft-spoken when she collected her first Oscar, wearing something very “feminine” and not seeming entirely comfortable in her own skin, or how to present herself in comparison to now.
This feels very much the same way – the dress is wearing her, not the other way around. If you’re going to wear this, you need to own it; this reminds me of the fake wedding dress-front that Holly Hunter’s character has to put on for a wedding photo in The Piano (and that she rips off as soon as the shutter snaps). And maybe it’s my monitor or the lighting but I can barely get past the way her fire-engine red lipstick and nails clash with the pink. I’ll give her props to her for trying, but not a “well played”.
This is god awful. I am so sick of every fashion blog lauding ANYTHING that michelle williams wears. Most of her looks are just meh, and some, such as this, are absolutely dreadful.
She looks like a little girl who went to play dress up in mom’s closet. She pulled out the dress from when mom was crowned “Miss Cotton Candy” and the shoes from her prom in 1988. That and she looks like she’s been sucking on a red posicle with those lips. Is it just me or does the colour look weirdly blotchy?
In the thumbnail I wanted so much to like it. But when I looked at it full-size, it just overwhelms her. The bow in front obscures her lovely figure, and there is too much fabric. You could make three normal dresses out of that much fabric. Too much business at the bodice, boring bustline, and yeah the satin platform shoes are a NO. I love color, so I think the fact that she thought of wearing a color is great. But this is rather flawed in the execution.
This gets a Fug… head to toe. The most egregious part of this is the bow. Is she trying to look like a Barbie doll from 1957?? The bodice is poorly fitted. There is too much fabric, it looks too loose, plus with that gigantic bow — it makes her torso look thick and heavy. Something with a long train should be full length; he hem is too short and looks like a mistake. And, the shoes are clunky and look like something you would wear to a junior prom. Bad choice for her. Bad fit. Bad accessories.
And the hair. Cute for daily life, for walking around the city in normal clothes. I’m sure it’s easy to take care of. But it seems to be posing a big problem with her formal dressing. Usually she picks super-twee child-like clothes or 1960′s style clothes that more of less “match” the hair….and winds up either looking like a child or like she stepped out of 1967. But when she tries something more grown up or sexy or modern, it frankly looks at odds with the hair, like a little girl playing dress-up. I don’t think better hair would have made this dress work for her at all, but if she changed her hair, I think she would have so many more options in her dress choices.
Hm. I love the shape on her — the skirt gives her a little volume at the hips — and I actually kind of like the girliness of it all, because she looks like she’s having fun. What better time to be frilly and super-feminine than on the red carpet for a Marilyn Monroe movie? Her pose is sassy, too, instead of her usual glum, droopy-gorilla-arms stance. But the utter matchy-matchyness is boring me — red lips and red nails, silver Dyeables ™ shoes and silver embroidery. Dark fingernails or different shoes (both color AND style) would throw some interest into the mix.
The dress is wearing her with the poorly fitted bodice and bow, hemline too short for the height of the shoes, peculiar train, feather decoration, pink in the extreme. I prefer the Mumzie dresses than this mess.
This is dreadful GUH
I hate this. I often defend Michelle and her samesy style, but do like it when she goes somewhere new. Not this somewhere, though!
I like the embroidery, but as others have said, not the bubble gum-y color, the bow, or the feathers.