Michelle Williams’ pink Dior gown in Paris: adorable or cotton-candy disaster?

Here are photos of Michelle Williams at the Paris premiere of My Week With Marilyn. I don’t… I can’t… ugh. She’s wearing head-to-toe Dior – her dress is Christian Dior Couture from the Spring 2011 collection, which surprised me because this looks like a vintage dress. And I said that to myself in a bitchy way, like, “This looks like vintage. How sad.” For the most part, I dislike blondes in pink. I feel it’s too obvious, too cutesy. Someone like Viola Davis can work a bubble-gum pink dress and she’ll look awesome and vibrant. On someone like Michelle, with her little Mia Farrow haircut and her affected “fragile” look and vibe, it just seems too… childish. It’s not just the color – it’s the style too. The bow at the bust is killing me. Then the lacy appliqués and the long train… it’s all just… too much.

I’m going to go on, okay? It feels prom-y, like Gwyneth Paltrow’s 1999 Oscar dress. It also gives me a strong cotillion vibe – in many cotillions, the girls can only wear white, but sometimes they can pick their own gowns, and this style and color will be a popular choice for Southern debutantes. While there is nothing empirically wrong with prom dresses or cotillion dresses, or even with too-girlish, too-twee dresses, I just get so tired of it on Michelle. But I’ve learned not to expect her to rock my fashion world. This is her “thing.” Cutesy. Girlish. Virginal. Which is a whole other discussion.

Oh, and she looks like an upside-down cotton candy ball. There, I said it.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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  1. Camille says:

    Beautiful dress but not for her. She is too short and looks heavy.

    • T.C. says:

      She doesn’t look heavy. I wouldn’t like this dress usually on her but since she is promoting her Marilyn Monroe movie it’s fitting. I would rather see her in vibrant colors than looking dull, washed out and depressed. So go Michelle!

    • JudyK says:

      She does NOT look remotely heavy.

      When I first looked at the dress, I didn’t care for it, but the more I looked, the more I liked it. In fact, it’s gorgeous.

    • normades says:

      I think she meant the dress looks heavy. I agree 100%, dress is AMAZING, but she is too petite to pull it off.

  2. Dawn says:

    On her it’s cute. Although I don’t think just anyone could pull this off. She is over 30 so one of these days she is going to have to start dressing like it.

  3. Agnes says:

    Not the bow! Noooooooooooooo!

  4. TruthTella says:

    Am I an absolute douche bag because every time I see her I just think “FFS GROW UP! Stop trying to be a cute toddler”? lol

    • Zelda says:

      She’s got a case of Deschenel syndrome, for sure.

      • TruthTella says:

        LMAO! I actually think Zoey(Y or no Y?! lmao) is cute! and her style is ok, Maybe it’s Michelle’s awful wannabe child hair and constant dress up looking outfits that annoy me… I mean… she is NOTHING like how she used to be in dawsons creek she seems to have regressed lol

    • Agnes says:

      couldn’t agree more.

    • Asli says:

      Yup, that’s what I think too. I think it’s more of a Disney princess-syndrome. Like, you know she was at home making that dress out of curtains and sheets, dancing around while animals sewed the thing for her……….Maybe not but I bet she’d love that.

      • TruthTella says:

        LMAO!

      • Lee says:

        ha! that’s EXACTLY what it looks like!

        I actually think this IS something different for Michelle. Her usual style is somehow both girlish and matronly and a bit simple. This is more princess-y and OTT. So it’s kind of nice to see her in something that’s a bit different. But I still think it’s a fairly hideous dress. It should be in Matilda’s dress-up chest or something, not on a grown woman.

        That being said, I think her make-up looks gorgeous.

    • Joey says:

      Yeah I agree, she should get real.

  5. Marjalane says:

    Funny. Cotton candy was the word that came to my mind as well. Pretty tired of Michelle Williams and her boringness.

  6. Natasha says:

    It is a beautiful dress but doesn’t really look the best on her. I could see this on Nicole Kidman or some one else who is much taller. It overwhelms Michelle. I also really dislike the red nails and lips with the pink. The dress is amazing on its own and she should have gone with more natural muted nails and lips.

  7. Arock says:

    That would be a hard dress to where for anyone. The pink ball gowny effect does not work for her. I get it, she’s willowy, pixie-ish and demure but she’s also a woman. Totaly sick of seeing her in one note matron do’s and quinceria dresses. Mia farrow did it, move on.

  8. smith says:

    I’m so tired of this woman’s round face beaming at me.

    She looks like a deranged twee chipmunk with an Oscar agenda.

  9. Tazina says:

    Everything she wears looks awful. It’s amazing how someone could wear expensive designer clothes and yet every single outfit is bordering on hideous, the necklines, the styles, the colors, some bordering on frumpy. The hair too is unappealing, too short and does nothing for her.

    Michelle Williams is a beautiful woman who is spending her best years looking as unattractive as possible.

  10. OriginalTiffany says:

    Looks like a pink wedding dress to me. You’d think Dior could at least tie an even bow.
    Horrible.

  11. Eleonor says:

    Good Lord can this woman dress like a grown woman?

  12. JudyJudyJudy says:

    absolutely fairytale beautiful. If you are going to Paris and Dior will dress you say oiu!

    Matilda will no doubt be enchanted.

  13. Messenger says:

    gorgeous! that is a beautiful dress and perfect for a paris premiere imo.

  14. Madpoe says:

    Recycling Bridemaids gowns since 1987.

  15. Franny says:

    I wish she had grown her hair a bit longer for this MWWM tour. Then we could at least picture her playing the part of Marilyn…now its all just “so twee, so cute, so pink”

  16. SamiHami says:

    Why are people so fascinated with this unattractive, untalented try-hard? As usual, she looks awful.

  17. Jules says:

    Why RED lipstick???? It ruins it. So does the bow.

  18. Nessa says:

    Not a good look for her. The dress is awful.

  19. Rose says:

    Wow Kaiser, you woke up in GrumpyTown today 😉

  20. hateonit. says:

    she needs to grow out her hair. like now. her face is very…young. she looked so beautiful with longer hair. with her hair like this I can’t find her to be beautiful. i feel like her face is too round…and short hair doesn’t flatter. this dress is ridiculous. it’s not pretty it looks like it was meant for some recital for a child :/

  21. demian bichir says:

    I love her!I love the dress,she’s beautiful.

  22. Rhea says:

    It looks like something that my 4 years old daughter would love to wear for playing “Barbie the fairy-tale princess” 🙂

  23. kristipistol says:

    Cotton candy and what’s with the red lipstick? A pink gloss would have been better

  24. TruthTella says:

    I bet she’s dying to meet Duchess Kate and ask her where she can find that perfect Tiara she’s been searching for her whole life…

  25. mel says:

    How old is she? God…..she tries way to hard to be cutesy…she is so much betterw when she is all hipster. She just bugs me.

  26. dena says:

    The gown is gorgeous, she looks great in it…except for that bow at the top of the bodice.

  27. Kaboom says:

    Acceptable if she was filming a princess marrying in a Disney movie.

  28. Scandoll says:

    Red lips, red nails, then black toenails?! Ugh!
    Btw, I can not stand the thought of her as Marilyn

  29. ladybert62 says:

    I think she is cute and I like her haircut and that dress – I dont like the red lipstick and red nailpolish but other than that – it is OK.

  30. Mouse says:

    Forget the dress, I just can’t get past her face anymore. What has she done to it??–it’s like there isn’t enough skin for her to smile without stretching the hell out of it! EW!

  31. Princess Lizabeth says:

    Aww, her assistant is teaching Michelle to walk in photo #4. How sweet.

  32. Aiobhan says:

    This looks like another case of mothers letting their daughters pick out their clothes. It did not work when SMG did it at the Globes and it is not working here. Maybe if the bow was removed and it was knee length it would not be so bad. Or I might be biased because I hate pink and think anyone over the age of eight is trying to hard to be cute. There were prettier dresses in that collection to choose why did she choose this hot mess of dress.

  33. mia girl says:

    Lately, I only click on Michelle Williams’ links in hopes that we might finally see her emerge from the Farrowesque fragile women-girl syndrome she seems to have been living for the past couple of years. But, it’s still the same old facial expressions, make-up and hair – along with fashion choices that continue to drive her wispy-childlike persona (you know the kind of young girl that brings her BFF to all events). Please Michelle you need to grow:
    – your hair
    – your fashion risks
    – the tone of your voice
    – your emotional state
    – your perspective on being a woman

    You are at risk of becoming a caricature of yourself.

  34. Amanda says:

    I cannot stand this woman. People think that her whole “wispy ethereal fairy princess” shtick is something new, but it’s not. Go back and read her old interviews and she’s just as freakin irritating. It’s like she thinks she’s hipster Tinkerbell.

  35. Marianne says:

    If it just the colour, it would be fine. The fact that there is bows and different embellishments on it (ADDED with that bubblegum colour) makes it seem to me like it’s a little girl pageant dress.

  36. Kimlee says:

    Too princess prom Barbie.

  37. kristiner says:

    WHY does she let Matilda be her stylist? Why!?!?

  38. Floridaseaturtle says:

    I am assuming that the fashion people asked her to model this, but, why? I agree with the other posters, this dress is def not for her. Personally, I kind of hate the dress, but, if they lose the bow, and the train, put it on a young girl with black or very dark hair, it could look ok.

  39. Mi says:

    The dress is seriously fugly, who would wear that? Besides a 10-year old that is.

  40. Jackson says:

    Ugh. Still hate that hair color and that shade of red lipstick on her. As for the gown, in and of itself it’s not bad and I am not a pink and lace and bows kinda gal. But what makes it bad is MW doing the ‘I’m a fragile, virginal, pink flower petal of a child’ routine. If this was a one-time thing or a change of pace for her I might actually like it. However, we all know this is standard MW. Ugh. Grow the eff up already Michelle.

  41. Ron says:

    There are A LOT of women who want “fairy princess” dresses. A LOT. This is a beautiful dress, but it is too much dress for her. Chalrize Theron or Nicole Kidman would rock this dress. it also needs so edgier accessories so it doesn’t look so precious.

  42. jen7waters says:

    Ugh, looks like a 90’s Barbie doll dress.

  43. hopperlea says:

    This is a dress my 6 year old would wear. That is such a ‘botox’ smile. I dont care what artistic virginal agenda that Williams is trying to pull, but she is such a sell out. MW is trying to sell a victim act and it is so transparent.She is not some helpless teen, she is a 30 something year old woman who needs to actually grow up. What did Heath ever see in her?

  44. fd says:

    Disaster. It doesn’t fit her. It’s cut for someone taller.

  45. Patsy says:

    She’s adorable but that dress is wearing her, not the other way around. I think she’d look really great in a little black dress. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a picture of her in one.

  46. Juu says:

    I think she’s so homely, so “meh”… Why they chose her to play gorgeous Marilyn?

  47. I am gay. says:

    LOL there are a lot of comments on this… I like it!!!

  48. carrie says:

    Marie-Antoinette wants that her dress comes back!

  49. dahlia1947 says:

    I think the dress is too much on her small frame and I agree about blonds in pink. Just too much cute, cupcakey and barbie-ish. 🙂

  50. Isabella says:

    Was it just me that though that My Week With Marilyn movie sucked?!? First of all, I thought Michelle Williams looked NOTHING like Marilyn, even with all that make-up and blond hair, just looked like a really bad dime-in-a-dozen fake amateur Monroe impersonator. Secondly, it seemed to me that in the movie Williams was oddly putting on a British accent which Marilyn certainly did not have and thirdly, she was wearing those obvious bright blue fake contact lenses that despite popular belief Monroe in reality had dark eyes.

  51. Camille (The original) says:

    I don’t like it.

  52. Amy says:

    That weird closed-mouth/half-closed mouth smile she does really gets on my nerves.

  53. ccoop says:

    She looks like a Howdy Doody Barbie.

    • Lucy says:

      lol…she does look like howdy doody…just a few painted on freckles and she would be the spitting image…Dear God…I HATE THAT HAIRCUT…What blind movie exec looked at this woman and thought…Marilyn..Michelle Williams has as much sex appeal as the sock fluff between my toes…

  54. fd says:

    She never looked better than when she was on the carpet with Heath. That mustard yellow dress she wore that one year at the Oscars was great — and not little girlish at all. Then the year after she had Matilda and wore that purple dress, I thought she also looked great. She used to be MORE sophisticated, now it seems like she is trying too hard to be cute.

    • Jin says:

      I agree. That mustard dress was one of the best Oscar looks ever. I love her dress from last year too though.

  55. original sandy says:

    i like it on her, she looks very nice, she has color on.

  56. alex says:

    I think she’s lovely, just sometimes I feel she dresses in a way that goes with her hair, which gives her a very VERY young look…and it gets a rather twee.

  57. Ka says:

    Wow! She really looks a giant bottle of Pepto-Bismol!

  58. marie says:

    Why does she want to dress like a Disneyland character? Her choice of dress is so childish. She needs a psycologist.

  59. Jin says:

    I hate it it’s too princessy and she looks immature in it. Why is she acting, dressing and even talking like a little girl lately? Has anyone noticed this?