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Monday, February 25, 2008

Gossip The Best Dressed Woman at the Oscars

Posted by Marjorie Skinner on Mon, Feb 25 at 2:03 PM

I don’t really care that much about Oscar fashion, because most of it is totally unremarkable. I mean Björk only shows up dressed as a swan every once in a great long while, and most everybody is just wearing something totally safe that their PR team signed off on. I will say that the only person who really stirred my interest was Javier Bardem’s mom:

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Check out all her rings!!! I love them. I now plan on wearing copious amounts of jewelry when I become a “woman of a certain age.” Yes. And the runner up has definitely got to be Marion Cotillard, who looks so good with her eyebrows grown back that she’d probably look good in anything, including a fish, and who totally had me rooting for her until she thanked “love” in her acceptance speech.

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As for the worst dress, I feel like it’s kind of obvious about Tilda Swinton, who look so surprised to have won that I really thought she was going to say something like, “I would totally have not worn this dress if I thought I was going to win. I’m sorry.”

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Somehow the photo doesn’t even look as bad as I remember it. And I will give her points for just being weird. Huh. Should I be rethinking this? As an aside, the cutest moment of the entire ceremony has to have been Cate Blanchett’s facial expression after they played the clip of her in Elizabeth.

Comments

I don't know why everyone puts Tilda in the worst dressed category.

She's another entity altogether compared to all the boring, predictable people that surround her, and that in itself makes her wayyyy cooler. Much more interesting. She has a personality.

The dress goes well with her severe, make-up less face, long neck, and interesting personality. No, it's not flattering to her figure, but who says a dress has to do that? She looks like a statue from another planet. I love it.

She's a brave woman.

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