Red carpets hailing in Hollywood’s awards show season bring out en masse the town’s designer-donning divas, intent to capitalize on such priceless opportunity to flaunt on national stage their best, most fashionable selves. And with on ready their personal stylists, shoppers, designers, and (ahem) plastic surgeons, (not to mention disproportionate share of the world’s gorgeous genes born with), they most often succeed. Their finished red carpet productions are typically so lovely as to entrance us regular folks in captive audience to suspend otherwise cynical disbelief of what we well know is impossibly manufactured. Thus, on those rare occasions that a femme fatale’s exorbitant self-fashioning results in fashion fatality, it’s a veritable gift by silver platter to our collective inner schaudenfraude. Compound such faux pas by its occurrence at the Oscars’ most unforgiving red carpet, and well, let’s just say that by the perpetrators’ own self-incrimination they’ve asked for our self-righteous ridicule. For your guiltless pleasure, oscar 2010′a three worst fashion fails:
- Charlize Theron: It boggles the mind that Charlize could look at the purplish satin thing bundling her flawless figure and fail to see what the rest of the world gawked at once: the two certain roses prominently placed on her chest, cupping their assets in a manner decidedly reminiscent of a pair of cinnamon buns.
- Vera Farmiga: Nominated for her outstanding work in Up in the Air, Vera indeed stood out–by way of her inexplicable choice to don a maroon ruffled layer cake , apparently masquerading as a gown, for her big night.
- Zoe Saldana: Avatar’s leading lady graced the Oscars looking like she got lost on her way to prom. The purple tie-dyed atrocity that Zoe foisted on our eyes—complete with pom-pom bedecked train—made us yearn for way back when she was just a naked blue alien.
