Here are some photos from last night’s New York City Ballet 2013 Fall Gala at the Lincoln Center. I was going to start off with Sarah Jessica Parker (who is always in attendance at NYC Ballet events), but then I glanced through these photos of Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied. Natalie wore this color-blocked Christian Dior gown (from the Fall 2013 collection) which is… weird, right? If this had just been sleek, normal silk or whatever, I think this would have been a great look. But the fabric is 3D – it’s, like, a weird “spiny” quilting technique I think? I don’t like it. Also: her watch doesn’t go with the look whatsoever.
And here’s Sarah Jessica in a gown that was dubbed “Meeting of Two Minds”. It’s a collaboration between Prabal Gurung and Olivier Theyskens. Prabal did the bustier, Theyskens did the skirt and the belt. It’s okay. It’s cool that they collaborated, but surely they could have worked out a better fit on both these pieces, right?
Amber Valletta in a weird fuchsia gown. I love Amber, but this is not her best look.
Drew Barrymore in Chanel (and makeup from her Flower Beauty line). This widow-chic garb makes her look like she’s 50 years old.
And finally, my girl Doutzen Kroes and her love Sunnery James. I don’t care for the exposed-bra thing at this point, but otherwise she looks very chic.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
SJP!!!
Amber looks great!
Doutzen and her guy. Happening looking couple.
Natalie looks like a different person.
Did she tweak her face?
SJP has such a “sweet” dress on, but as always, she won’t compromise with a softer eye liner.
Drew’s make-up looks okay, the hair is blah, the dress, WTF-ness.
I agree, Natalie looks different in the face.
I’m calling Drew preg, this is the third ‘roomy’ dress in as many weeks, i’m calling it!
I was just thinking the same thing.
There is something off about her face. She looks like Sandra Bullock. Do they share the same plastic surgeon?
I saw these pics of Natalie last night and I couldn’t decide if she had started tweaking or if it was a combo of different hair color/different makeup that was making her look not like she usually does. In that second pic she looks like Rumer Willis, so if she’s tweaking, she needs to find a new doctor!
She looks like kiera knightly
In second pic
She and Keira have long had a striking resemblance. On the set of Star Wars, Episode 1, Keira played Natalie’s character’s decoy, and when they were both made up, even their mothers couldn’t tell them apart.
That said, I think Keira is currently looking better. My first thought upon seeing that photo of Natalie was what on earth did she do to her face??? Whatever it was, she should never ever do it again. She now looks like the 45-year-old version of Keira Knightley.
I had to actually read the title to make sure that was really her. Very strange.
I noticed she looked a bit rough in the Thor 2 trailer. What if industry people felt the same way and advised her to get a facelift.
Yup, Natalie’s face seriously looks surgerized.
Totally agree with the surgery observations.
What a crying shame. Hollywood is seriously f****ed up.
I liked this until I realized it was reminding me of those shirts that were popular in the 90s… they were like crinkled, shrunken shirts that you put on and they expanded… please tell me someone else remembers those!?
I remember those! I’m ashamed to say I had one, and that’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the dress. I actually went to the comments to see if someone else thought the same thing.
I do! They are still around. My 75yr old neighbor bought me one last year for Christmas. She thought it was the bees knees! Bless her. 🙂
That was the first thing that came to mind! Now I’m all nostalgic
We called them popcorn shirts here (I live on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean). I think they came in tube-tops too.
is her dress rubber?
also, probably encouraged (paid) to wear the watch as well.
I love Natalie’s dress, love it love it love it.
It’s too long for her though, maybe by three inches?
+1
Same!! Think the look is edgy without being ridiculous. Also love SJP’s dress.
Natalie’s dress looks like her transformation to the black swan.
+1.
Natalie’s dress makes me think of those massaging/acupuncture sandals.
If I saw that dress in person, I’d be tempted to give it a pat, just to see what the spikes feel like.
As such, probably a dress best left to those who employ bodyguards and/or those who don’t mind strangers touching their clothes.
I say Drew is preggers again… time will tell
I think so too. She’s been wearing a lot of dropped waists and flowy clothing again recently.
Oh my gosh I am obsessed with Natalie’s dress and I like SJP’s as well.
Finally someone else who likes the dress.
I think it’s cool. The texture would be too much on a different kind of dress, but with the simplicity of the cut and the color-blocking, I think it makes for a really interesting effect.
It’s couture, guys.
Me too. I love Natalie’s dress and think the spiky look enhances it rather than detracts from it.
I love SJP but the skirt on her dress needs an iron. It seems to be par for the course with a lot of these pale satin dresses these days, but all I imagine when I look at them is my mum giving me grief as I try to leave the house in a very expensive dishcloth…
I like the fabric, I just don’t like the colors. I think if the colors in the bodice had been different–I don’t like the neon green/blue and the yellow together–with the black.
Everyone’s hair is horrific.
Hmm, the dress could’ve worked if one part was spiky and if it was shorter.
I am a huge SJP fan, but geeze, she looks harsh. I think that color pink looks best on someone younger and fuller. She is looking so wirey and her hair and make up aren’t doing anything to help her out. This is a fail in my book.
Yeah, I love SJP but she would benefit from another ten pounds – after a certain point in a woman’s life, she looks better with a bit of flesh on her.
When a woman in her late forties is too skinny and then she bares her arms and shoulders, all you see is veins, tendons, and bones.
She needs to stop with the lower lid eyeliner and fire her makeup person.
I think Olivier looks like Michael Jackson near the end.
Natalie is turning into Susan Lucci. She’s aging, and fast.
I came to here to comment that she looks just like Susan Lucci, but other people already noticed. Weird. Who’d have thought this is where her good looks would take her?
Too much eye makeup on Natalie. She looks like an alien.
Doutzen and Sunnery (love his name) are a lovely couple.
Why is Drew dressing like a grandmother? Her clothes are becoming very conservative.
I like Natalie’s dress, I’d have to continually touch it though.
Drew always does that when she is with a guy. Her husband comes from a conservative, Jewish family so that is the part she is playing.
Natalie is so beautiful. Too bad she sucks.
‘xactly.
I think I need to invest in a tin foil hat. You read my thoughts exactly!
I actually love Natalie’s dress but I don’t like her hair. Is it for a new role or something?
I kind of love it. And she looks kind of different here. I’m not sure if it’s just because her hair is back off her face and so voluminous
Sorry, but SJP looks like she’s wearing a bad bridesmaid’s dress.
I think Natalie looks great. She does look a bit different, but my impression is that she’s finally growing out of her baby face. I like the dress too, and I like how happy she and Benjamin look.
And what’s wrong with being fifty years old????
Natalie’s dress reminds me of this prickly squeeky ball my dog likes to play with and Drew’s dress looks matronly. It is a ly sort of morning. Even if she is pregnant, that dress makes her figure look worse. Amber and Jessica look great
My dog has the same toy!
Love Natalie’s dress — great texture and colors.
SJP can usually do no wrong – but this dress is awful. It’s part prom dress/part bridesmaid. icky bad.
LOVE Doutzen! Sooo beautiful and an incredible body.
I think Drew wears Chanel because her father-in-law was the former CEO (or something like that) – but it’s Chanel! There has got to be something better for her to wear!?
I can’t stand Portman’s dress and a watch, no matter how dressy, should never be worn with formal clothing.
Natalie Portman is one of the consistently worst dressed on the red carpet. This isn’t one of her worst, but it’s not doing a thing for her.
Is it just me or is Natalie Portman looking a little like Brooke Shields these days?
I don’t know why but I saw a young Susan Lucci…
Doutzen en Sunnery zijn toppers!!(TOP!!)
do not like Nathalie.
Natalie’s dress is way too long, and those black pumps peeking out do not go with the dress at all. I don’t hate the dress, but I hate it on her.
+1
This dress could be great on someone who could actually pull it off..Maybe Diane Kruger? Marion Cotillard? Even Jessica Alba???
Also she almost always wears a watch with her gowns! Why do you need a watch on a red carpet?? Hideous!
Not only is the fabric of Natalie’s gown strange, but it appears to have eaten her breasts as well.
SJP’s wayyyy too dark eye makeup is hideous as usual.
And Natalie has had her nose slimmed–again. It ages her. She’s so naturally beautiful, too. Damn, yet another gorgeous actress who for some reason decided to “improve” her already lovely face. She looks worse than she did, not better. Sad.
i agree it appears to be the nose thats somehow, ever-so-slightly different. it almost looks like the tip was raised up a bit. ya she of ALL people, did NOT NEED TO TWEAK HER FACE. and the way folks have ragged & ragged on the Duchess about her eyeliner – yet noone ever says anything about SJP…. cause its her signature look i guess, but who on earth hasnt figured out that this only makes your eyes look smaller!???
Lord.
Is that what it is? I was thinking that she looked different but I couldn’t put my finger on it.
Will have to check out the photos again…
Natalie looks great! SJP? No… she still thinks she’s on Sex in the City, not a good look.
Natalie looks beautiful and I love that dress.Natalie’s face looks like her original to me but maybe a lot more makeup than we normally see on her.
I think Natalie looks great. The dress is unusual while still staying close enough to her usual minimalistic style and her face is flawless. I don’t understand where all the hatred for her comes from – I think she’s a great actress and an iconic beauty who seems smart and down to earth on top of that. I love her!
I love her too, but she’s not well liked here.
Where is “here” ? and why isn’t she liked there? just curious…
Eh, I actually thought NP’s dress looked pretty cool, albeit in a unique way. I think she probably had a major ahhhtsy-fahhhtsy ‘collaboration’ with the designers of Dior that resulted in the bizarre fabric that could be pretentiously called ‘futuristic’. That being said—
Can I just say how much I have not missed Mrs Amidala Bug during her hiatus from two-dimensional acting? How much I am not looking forward to seeing her pompous face plastered all over posters for a million substandard & overhyped movies/year again? How much I have not been pining for her high-and-mighty advice to the unwashed, carnivorous masses and pretentious ‘critiques’ of things the movie industry does–generally as she is doing the exact damn thing she is talking about?
All I’m saying is…she could take another year off. Or two.
Yes, agreed.
Natalie Portman is beautiful to look at – but as soon as she opens her mouth, she reveals herself to be preachy, pompus, and quite tiresome.
Prabal Gurung and Olivier Theyskens were commissioned by SJP to do costumes for NYCBallet. Benjamin Thousandfeet commissioned Iris Van Herpen but apparently her designs weren’t good enough for the Mrs to wear, so she resorted to Dior instead?
I’m actually surprised SJP agreed to work with Theyskens again, considering the debacle with her NR-dress at the SATC movie premiere. I think she even called it unethical? Bitch, it’s a dress…
Benjamen Centipide is a nobody in reality. Who he is known as other then the guy that knocked up Natalie Portman? He can’t comissom any designer to dress his wife. His Wife is a bigger star then him and Dior practically owns her, so she has to wear what Dior tells her to.
I don’t hate it and I don’t love it.
This guy’s head (Benjamin’s) looks like it could store two sets of brain
Drew’s 100% pregnant again. And I like what Natalie’s wearing, tbh.
Good call – she does look pregnant! I wouldn’t be surprised.
she’s a deflated puffer fish.
I actually think Natalie’s dress looks amazing, much better than the others. Agree with the comments about her face though, her jaw looks different? Something’s off.
Natalie looks great, it’s an edgy look, I love it, AND I think the watch works with the sporty vibe of this dress. None of the other ladies look that great, and Sarah’s dress just does not fit, a high school home ec class could have done better for her.
I actually really like NPs dress – it’s weird, but I like it.
I think a minor tweak of having the black skirt portion in a smooth fabric would have made me love it.
Plastic surgery was so much better sixty-five years ago. You didn’t see consistently crooked bridges or ones so prominent that they looked as though they were inspired by a Lego piece. You didn’t see nostrils that resembled arrow slits, refined tips that are reminiscent of a flesh-coloured blueberry secured to the rest of the nose with dental floss or noses so thin and out of proportion with the rest of the head that one would wonder if certain parts of the face could come down with anorexia, Doutzen. You didn’t see the egregiously lopsided noses that make the person look she’s made of two different humans and you didn’t see the overly-raised tips that probably look like a ski jump in profile. Heck, half the time that makes them look like they’re wearing semi-snouts.
And doctor and patient knew when to stop.
Cosmetic plastics–ahem– ‘Totally Necessary Septoplasties That For Some Reason Change The Outside Appearance Of The Nose, Isn’t That Strange? R Us’ are just such a booming business that any jerk with an MD will relocate to Beverly Hills and not even try to do good work. Even a hand that’s too liberal with the Photoshop can’t disguise it and in the theatre? Jinkies.
Look at Marilyn Monroe, who probably put a bunch of kids through university for of the work she had done and she didn’t cross the threshhold into ghoulishness. I doubt that I was the only one who was surprised upon first hearing that Elizabeth Taylor had a nose job. Do I even have to bring up Rita Hayworth? Was there even a concept of ‘looking tweaked’ in those days?
Some people are getting quality work done, but so frequently patients don’t look refined, they just look obvious and old.
The trick is to keep the youth factor while not losing the thing that makes your identity unique. I didn’t notice the Susan Lucci resemblance, but now I do and it’s making me cringe.
I want to like NP but she annoys me, I don’t know why…I like Amber’s dress. It’s interesting. But Doutzen wins. Very chic.
I found a picture from the side and my first thought was that it should be a little tighter around the waist. Though it looks ok from the front. It’s probably difficult to get a really good fit with this material.
Why is it that SJP as Carey can look sh*tHot in -anything- but SJP as herself…notsomuch. Why?
Blenda. The new name for celebrities with so many procedures, they all look alike, hence “Blend A” I thought Natalie Portman was Winona Ryder. BlendaZ.
shes wearing the bahamian flag….
Love Natalie’s dress. I like to see someone take a chance and not be so safe in their design choices. SJP just needed to walk away from that pink dress.
Doutzeeeeen!!! She is insanely beautiful. Like, off the charts!!!!!
That dress looks like it was made out of three rubber bath mats. It’s almost as bad as that chocolate-covered melting banana bomb pop she wore when she was pregnant.
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I don’t know what it is with this woman but she gives off major bitch vibes to me. I positively cannot stand her.
The make up made her look like 10 years older, and the dress could just pass without the yellow thing.
Just saw a pic of Drew Barrymore at another event, with loose dress and sensible shoes — yeah, I’m pretty sure she’s pregnant 🙂
Natalie needs one of those MadPax backpacks to go with that dress.
Nice to see Natalie Portman and her gold-digging, f—king no name husband at this event. Nice to see she has helped in get every single job oppertunity and even make him the face of YSL. He is too ugly for high fashion. And it appears he has used his cash cows money to get himself a hair transplant. I could have sworn the dude had no hair around the forhead.
I wonder if she consideres her husband ” No diffrent then a Hollywood prostitue’ since he gets a ton of money practically doing nothing.
Wow, such venom, did he trod on your toes at some point in your life? There was a New Yorker article, made him out to have a bit more talent than just bedding movie stars….
And there was a New York Times article that basically said his biggest talent is to get other people’s money 🙂
Are we talking about the same NY time article where he was late and extreamly rude to the reporter interviewing him?
And yes he is a gold-digger, how can you forget about what happened to his girlfreind when he dumped her for Natalie? It doesn’t make sense how he is able to get all this PR, magazine exposure and perfume deals if not for his wife. Thanks to Nathalie Hershlag, he is famous and gets treated like a ‘star’.
I don’t have venom for this guy. I annoys me when people act like he an expection to cheaters and gold-diggers just because he is a ballet dancer. Also people seem to think he getting all these perks based on ‘talent’ when we know his cash cow is the one helping him all the way. His biggest accomplishment in life would be hitting the jackpot by knocking up a movie star. Thats all he is known for.
And just so you know, Paris Hilton and 50 cent were at this event. They are gold-diggers too and thats all he can cater too. Won’t be surpised when he invites Kardshians to one his his pathetic Paris Opera shows. And Natalie will have to sit beside them lol.
Natalie had a nose job. maybe somthing around the eyes.
Different eyes, different nose. She had such a great look and totally f*cked it up. Thank you Hollywood.
I think it’s kind of awesome in a NO BAD TOUCH! kind of way 🙂