These are new photos of Michelle Williams at last night’s premiere/screening of My Week With Marilyn at the AFI Fest. The dress is Oscar de la Renta and… I don’t like it much. Yes, this particular shade of gold works well on pale blondes, and it suits her figure and everything. But… I find this look super-boring on Michelle. I know that’s “on” me, because I’m not in love with Michelle as a person or as an actress. I feel like this dress is too “cloying” and “young” and “precious” on her, which is how I feel about her personality too. This feels like a very young woman’s party dress – like, this is something a rich girl would wear for her 16th birthday party. It’s strange on a 31-year-old hipster with a weird affected accent.
I kind of hate Michelle’s chopped hair too. The resemblance is so strong with Mia Farrow, it bugs. In her recent Elle UK cover profile (I covered some of the photos here), Michelle explained her rationale for keeping the chopped hair:
“What Matilda would love is for her mom to grow out the cropped hair, though that’s unlikely to happen any time soon. The only people who like it are gay men and my girlfriends. Straight men across the board are not into this hair! I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it. I’ve really grown into it. I feel like myself with short hair.”
[From Elle via The NYDN]
So we can’t dislike her short Bieber hair because she wears it this way for Heath Ledger, I guess. And she’s going to keep wearing it this way as a “memorial” to him. Sigh…I know that moved a lot of people, so I’ll try to be careful here. Let me just say it this way… I hope My Week With Marilyn is really poorly reviewed. I hope no one considers Michelle for any awards this year. I hope she doesn’t have to give many more interviews.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I like the short hair on Michelle regardless of how odd I find her reason fo it….I mean, come on MIchelle- it’s time to move on. She has really small, delicate features and sometimes long hair just overpowers those faces- kind of like Halle Berry, who looks terrible in long hair.
I love her hair and I think she is beautiful. I love the dress from the waist up- but not the skirt because it’s so stiff that it looks like she’s wearing a lampshade. The shoes are to-die for.
i like this look and she rocks the haircut, it’s very soft and feminine despite the lack of length. some people look bad with short hair (i.e. evan rachel wood) but michelle looks classy and fab. but then again, i like her a lot so maybe i’m biased.
LOL, I love her hair I think she wears the gamine really well and it doesn’t remind me at all of Bieber’s (his is longer isn’t it?) She looks great.
Just glad she doesn’t try and ‘become’ MM off screen like many many actresses would have.
She keeps her own identity.
That is great.
Love the dress. The fabric is fascinating and it looks really well-made.
Loved her since dawsons creek…love everything about this look
From the clips and trailer for MWWM, I don’t think she’s getting a nomination. A lot of hype over nothing.
She is keeping her hair short for a dead ex-boyfriend? Even when all the living people hate it? That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard!
I am turning on Michelle. I just have a hard time liking her these days and this Marilyn movie is ridic.
I didn’t particularly like her in “Blue Valentine.” However, I love her hair; I’ve worn mine like this since the mid 90s and it’s very liberating and has given me much more self-confidence.
I hope the opposite. I think she’s a wonderful actress whose personality induces the irk and ire of some people on which I have theories why. I like how she’s going with Marilyn because she wasn’t just a bombshell and I bet she’ll show nuances and complexities to the character that would give more depth to Marilyn. Often I only see in movies one moment she’s bombshell the next she’s depressed and nothing in between. Michelle could change that.
Looks like an IKEA lampshade.
I think she looks completely stunning. I like her hair, especially when she keeps the bangs shorter. Very few women can pull off this hair cut. The dress is gorgeous too. The material,fit,structure, everything is perfect.
I’m not so keen on her dress, but I think her hair is lovely.
I love the whole thing!
I adore the dress but do think the color is a little too matchy matchy with her hair, which mutes the overall effect. Lighter blond or more makeup contrast would help.
If anyone can pull this look off, it’s Michelle. Both the hair and dress style look very good on her body shape/style. The gold color flatters her blonde hair. I LOVE the shoes! I think she looks great here, but then again, I think she usually does look great. I like her casual style too.
Her make-up is so fresh and pretty looking.
She’s so pretty.
My goodness. I’m not the biggest Michelle Williams fan but you sound as if she personally insulted you.
Regardless, I do like her hair.
So am I a horrible person for wanting to punch her for her “memorial” hair excuse? They weren’t even together when he died. UGH. This is JMO, but it seems like she’s exploiting something. I can’t fully explain it.
lovely
I like her hair on her, but the reasoning behind it, even if 100% true (and I doubt that very much), is a bit odd. Wear your hair for yourself, honey.
Love it, love her! She looks great short hair and all.
The “reason” for the short hair seems to be a big, fat lie.
It sounds too much of a PR advice that was carefully guarded to be exposed at the right time for movie promotion and Oscar campaign
I mean, if it were really true (which I doubt it is) isn’t it an incredibly private and intimate thing to share with a MAGAZINE and the public?
Good for Kaiser for not jumping on the Michelle William’s fake pity party of false sympathy wagon. I knew I liked you, K 😉
I think she looks beautiful. Love the dress on her.
nice hair,great face but i’m not fan of her dress
the journalists praise her acting in the movie on Marylin Monroe even if the movie doesn’t look very good
There is and only will be one Marilyn; and no actress to date has been able to come close to portraying her accurately. I don’t expect that MW will change my mind.
Anyway you put it, it’s harsh.
I like Michelle but I can see when she dresses badly or gives bad interview.
This dress is boring, it flatters her figure, but kind of washes her off. I don’t like the chopped hair too but hey, if that’s what she wants so be it.
On the other hand her make up is fabulous!
I don’t get the hate for this hair. Mia Farrow is not the only woman in history to have short blonde hair.
Personally I’m glad there are more and more actresses who are not doing the “unrealistic extensions with big shiny Hollywood curls” thing. Variety = Good.
She still manages to look soft and feminine even with a drastically short haircut…she can pull it off when most women can’t…it suits her. So I give her credit for having the guts, and not caving to the pressures about looks that fame imposes on people. The dress is nice, but a little too simple and the color doesn’t flatter enough.
I saw a preview of the MM movie and she just doesn’t pull her off. Her body is all wrong to play Marilyn. She doesn’t have enough curves.
I love the dress but not on Michelle. Why does it always have to be beige and boring with her? So drab. I can’t believe she’s keeping her hair short for Ledger. She’s so greedy for that oscar nom that she’ll bring his name around again this year if she has to.
She looks like she raided Taylor Swift’s closet. Yes, too precious and young.
I find her really annoying and the idea of a “memorial haircut” is just way too bizarre.
while she doesn’t look horrible with the short hair, I still don’t think she looks super fab. It kind of makes the rounder features on her face and her jawline stand out more. So the effect can be chipmunkish. And as for the reason, it seems less endearing and more attention grabbing. She never really had short hair when she was with Heath, did she? And, like someone else mentioned, they weren’t together when he died. While it’s obvious he meant a great deal to her, Michelle seems to act like they broke up 5 minutes before his death.
Plus the “memorial through your hair” seems a little shallow. Aren’t there better ways to memorialize someone?
I think she looks fantastic. When I saw the thumbnail on the home page I thought ‘Well, unless the dress is absolutely hideous I don’t see how she could look bad.’ I think her hair and makeup are perfect and the short hair really dies suit her face. The bottom of the dress is the only part that could be considered questionable, but with a plain A-line she would look boring. Love it. Although I am getting a bit tired of all the weird references to Heath lately. It makes it seem like she can’t move on, which isn’t good for her or her daughter.
I agree with others who feel she’s bringing him up for attention – they were broken up when he died!!!
I have no idea who she is but I LOVE that haircut and it looks great on her – I like the dress also.
I think she looks really good here when I look at it objectively. When I look at her throught the prism of her “precious” personality, she grates as usual.
Strange how personality can affect what you think of a particular outfit. Oh well.
She looks lovely! I’d say this is the best she has looked in quite some time because her choices in dresses were kind of fugly.
1. I like her hair and think she rocks the pixie look.
2. There was ABSOLUTELY NO NEED for her to reference Heath Ledger in the comment. She could have simply said “I feel like myself with short hair/I like my hair short”
3. Yes. She tries too hard with the gamine hipster precious fragile vibe.
I had no idea she was wearing her hair cropped for Heath. Everyone grieves in their own way at their own pace, so I can’t knock her for keeping her hair cropped. Plus, it works for her. I like it.
Love the hair, the dress, and the shoes. She looks nothing like Mia Farrow. Lots of people have the same hair style, it doesn’t mean they look alike.
Actually I really like this ensemble, everything works very well together, even the hair.
Having said that I dislike short hair on most people and Michelle is no exception. I hope she grows it out one day. No, in fact I don’t really care either way, I’m not that fond of her, I just hope we never get to see her everywhere, she has an “I’m more edgy than you are” side to her that annoys me.
She looks great in the dress it really suits her, love the shoes. The hairstyle looks good on her she has the face shape to carry it off.
My problem is not with the hair or the clothes as such, it’s that she’s had this look forever and it doesn’t seem like she’s giving it up anytime soon. I get Kaiser, it’s time for Michelle to change it up.
Michelle is growing on me. And my favorite haircute is the pixie cut. Wish I could do it. You have to be able to wear it well and with confidence. I keep wanting to do it but then I realize that you also have to be willing to fix it to look nice and wear the right clothing and makeup and too many women in their late 30’s and 40’s and onwards just chop their hair off but it doesn’t have the same look and I know how lazy I am so I would just end up looking like the mass of unattractive women out there instead of chic like Michelle and Hale the Crazy.
She’s not too young for this gorgeous dress. Perhaps she’s playing the gamine card more successfully due to the Farrow haircut, but nevertheless she is playing it and then some.
She’s had short hair long enough to consider it her own hair do geez.
Gorgeous!
I rarely like what Michelle wears but I like this with her hair very much. She seems to know herself and her style (which is streamlined) and beautiful. I do wish she would wear some earrings or some jewelry occasionally. Diamond studs or drops would have been gorgeous with this.
Head to toe perfection!!
Wait if she missed Heath so much why wasn’t she back to being his girlfriend before his death. The guy was lonely with issues, I bet he would have appreciated her attention while he was alive instead of her name-dropping him in death to win an award. I agree with the person that says this dress looks straight out of Taylor Swift’s closet. It would look good on Taylor not so much on Michelle.
She sort of looks like Renee Zellweger.
Heaths own family family arent that sad about his death and never did memorial for him so Michelle shouldnt since she was jus a flame and @Jay:yes Michelle has had short hair when she was with Heath
no. just NO. horrible shape on her. color is meh. if the fabric was a dark aqua, something to match her eyes or something, it would be totally lovely with her skin. but the lampshade effect is just AWFUL on her. stupid.