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<\/p>\nI used to totally eat up celebrity gossip. I mean, it was my multiple-times-a-day guilty pleasure. Save for the latest Britney Spears drama (because in my world it will always matter) I\u2019ve managed to take it down a serious notch. So I wasn\u2019t planning on doing a post on this. Until I saw pictures from this event that is.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion\u201d Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was last night and was a complete flutter of amazing looks and spectacularly awful ensembles. That\u2019s right. Spectacularly awful. See for yourself.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ll start in alphabetical order because, well, it\u2019s easier. Anna Wintour went with a long Chanel Couture dress. She looks stiff as ever but I kind of like the dress.<\/p>\n
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Oh Miss Anne Hathaway. I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s the dress. Or the hair and makeup. But something here is just totally not working. I actually kind of like the dress, (it\u2019s Marc Jacobs btw) but the hairdo and smoky makeup is just TOO much. She needs to take it down a notch. Looks like you\u2019re trying too hard darling.<\/p>\n
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You can always count on the Olsen twins to wear something to be talked about. I do like the back of Miss Ashley Olsen\u2019s dress. It\u2019s simple, sophisticated and an open-back is always sexy.<\/p>\n
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Bar Rafaeli sports a Marchesa, the only short dress of the evening I don\u2019t hate.<\/p>\n
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Blake Lively picked a super-thigh-high super low-cut Versace dress. I like the color and though I\u2019ve seen it all over the fall runways I really really really just don\u2019t care for one-sleeve dresses. A goddess cut is one thing, but longsleeve on one side and nothing on the other? Ugh, I\u2019m just not feeling it.<\/p>\n
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Cindy Crawford also went with a Versace number. Looks like it came from Cache. Bleh.<\/p>\n
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I definitely like Eva Mendes in this Calvin Klein dress. It\u2019s simple, beautiful and the color looks lovely with her complexion.<\/p>\n
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Gisele Bundchen went with a teenie Versace number. I\u2019m definitely over sequins, so I\u2019ll say this one is just O.K. Though I will admit only someone this leggy can pull it off and I\u2019m way jels.<\/p>\n
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Heidi Klum wears a super poofy J. Mendel dress. Do you love it or hate it??<\/p>\n
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Iman looks just lovely in this gold Donna Karan dress. Love it.<\/p>\n
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To be honest, I\u2019m really surprised this couple is still together. Check out the Louboutins Jessica Biel is sporting, they\u2019re as fab as her flaming red Versace dress. Have to say, I wouldn\u2019t have expected this from her.<\/p>\n
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Going to a gala? You pretty much can\u2019t go wrong with a Marchesa. Kate Beckinsale clearly knows this.<\/p>\n
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Kate Moss went with a gold Marc Jacobs dress that I\u2019m definitely not into. A little too space-looking for me. Plus what\u2019s with the head piece?<\/p>\n
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Leighton Meester. Oh. My. God. It\u2019s so tragic I don\u2019t even know where to begin. I\u2019m not sure in what world you looked in front of a mirror and decided it was a brilliant idea to leave the house wearing this. Seriously. Fire your stylist.<\/p>\n
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Back to something a bit better, Liv Tyler in Stella McCartney. I don\u2019t love it or hate it. It\u2019s just O.K.<\/p>\n
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Dear Madonna, what is on your head?????? I mean seriously?<\/p>\n
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Is it me, or does Mary Kate Olsen look like she\u2019s 90 in this picture? I think it\u2019s the hair. And makeup. I also don\u2019t care for her Christian Lacroix dress. It ages you sweetie. Big time.<\/p>\n
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Molly Sims. I know, big powerful shoulders are a big trend. Definitely in the fall runways. I still hate it.<\/p>\n
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I think Rachel Bilson looks quite cute. It\u2019s a bit on the sexy side for a gala, but she\u2019s young and at least has the hair and makeup toned down unlike some of the other 20-something starlets (*cough, Anne Hathaway) above.<\/p>\n
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Rihanna in Dolce & Gabanna. Wow how I totally hate this. Still not feeling the power shoulders!<\/p>\n
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Shalom Harlow. That\u2019s, a uh, nice trash bag you got there. Yup.<\/p>\n
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Victoria Beckham in Louis Vuitton. She always looks great. Though she does pretty much always look the same. I would like to see her in something a bit different. Though clearly for her, she does well with sticking to what works.<\/p>\n[poll id=\u201d2\u2033]\n
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