Nicole Kidman in a beaded Dolce & Gabbana in Shanghai: stunning or dated?

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Nicole Kidman was in China this weekend to promote Grace of Monaco and to attend the opening ceremony of the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival. These are photos from the opening ceremony – Nicole actually wore a Dolce & Gabbana dress from 2007! This is not a new design, and while it feels familiar, I don’t remember seeing this particular dress on a red carpet before (maybe I’m wrong about that). I actually love this dress on her. Is that wrong? This feels like old-school Nicole Kidman, when she would wear amazing beaded concoctions that weighed forty pounds but looked incredible on her statuesque figure.

Something else that’s nice: while Nicole’s face still looks frozen, at least she’s not AS Botoxed to hell and back, like she was during the Cannes Film Festival. Maybe the fillers/Botox have settled? It’s too much to hope that she actually gave up her injectables.

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Something not nice: Nicole was in Australia last week to attend the Celebrate Life Ball, and she wore a terrible Prada gown which looked awful on her. Is it alright to admit that her bolt-ons are just too big? I mean, if she wanted bigger boobs, God bless. But I feel like these were poorly done and they really do look stiffly bolted to her chest.

Photos courtesy of Getty, Fame/Flynet.

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  1. GiGi says:

    Oh, no! Her boobs! Hopefully they’ll settle well…

    I really think that D&G is a line that just works for Nicole’s body. I may not always like the design, but she always looks great when she wears it. Certain brands/lines are more flattering for certain body types. Like I know Ralph Lauren & Tahari fit me the best. She should steer clear of Prada, though – yipes!

  2. lassie says:

    It looks like Keith Urban is posing with the Nicole Kidman figure at Madam Tussaud’s in the bottom picture.

    • Belle Epoch says:

      LASSIE absolutely! Nicole is way too fake and uptight for me. I would find her much more interesting is something MOVED – her face, her hair, anything! Pictures of a mannequin just don’t interest me, even if it is wearing a pretty dress.

      Keith is a girly man.

  3. Lucy2 says:

    The beaded dress is pretty on her , she looks good there.

    • Esmom says:

      Agreed. And her face looks way better, i.e. far less frightening, than it did a few weeks ago.

      • kri says:

        In the D&G she looks better than she has in a long time. That Prada is even tackier than Eve’s wedding dress, though. Burn it, put it in a blender, give it to a Times Square Hooker for The Hooker Awards Show-whatever, just don’t wear it again.

  4. MediaB says:

    If the Prada is what is being offered to her now, she’d best stick to 2007. The beaded dress is stunning.

    And no, her face is still as stiff as her chest is now :sigh: I wonder what she sees in the mirror…

  5. paola says:

    I can’t look at her any longer. Her plastic boobs and face are painfully sad. She was just so so beautiful and she has utterly ruined herself.
    I wonder what these celebrities have on their mind when they look in the mirror.
    Is it low self esteem? Is it trying to turn back time? Is it jelousy of other women’s fake boobs and duck lips?
    I really don’t get it. I think the bad surgery we see every day on these people is such a bad advertising that someone in their right mind should never go down that route.

    • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

      I agree, paola. She could have been a gorgeous mature woman, but she refuses to stop trying not to change at all. That never works. You just end up looking weird and desperate. She’s not twenty-five anymore. What’s wrong with that? Just be a gorgeous forty or whatever she is – stay in shape, take care of your skin, eat healthy and be happy.

  6. Lee says:

    I don’t get it either. Why? Her natural face and body were so lovely. Now she is ruined, just ruined. She can’t see what we see, or she’d remove those sacs, and let her face return to normal.

  7. Ellen says:

    That Prada showed that her right implant migrated a bit toward her armpit. Her cleavage is off center, and no amount of settling can fix that. Sigh.

    I get so discouraged when celebrities have bad results, because if (presumably) the best doctors that money can buy can’t guarantee good results, what hope is there for the rest of us?

  8. lamamu says:

    Her bolt-ons are totally proportional to her figure. Other, much skinnier actresses, have gotten them much, much bigger in recent years and didn’t get any sh*t for it. (And that’s fine, too, btw.) These just need to settle a bit.

  9. PunkyMomma says:

    The Prada gown is a disaster, plain and simple. Don’t show your flaws – fashion 101. The D&G gown is so glam and Old Hollywood – it suits her.

    Glad her face has thawed. 🎭

  10. Barrett says:

    I disagree. She has gained weight as she’s gotten older, which bc she was so tiny she could afford. But now when I look at her the fake bolt ons give her a “Big amazon like” quality which she did not have before.

  11. poppy says:

    despite excellent skin, she should never wear décolletage exposing tops.
    you could park a mini cooper between those “breasts”.

  12. serena says:

    Love the dress! Though, as usual, her face is so frozen it just hurts to look.

  13. kass says:

    Botox is one thing, but the fillers and the bolt ons make her look like a plastic blow up doll.

    • mary simon says:

      The bolt-ons are too far away from each other and very uneven. Looks trashy, trying to show off obvious sacs of silicone.

  14. yuck says:

    China’s actually one place where this film might make some money. They were shut off from the world when the Grace Kelly story was being lived, and they love a good “fairy tale” replete with fancy clothes and cars. Smart move to distribute it there, Harvey.

  15. Tig says:

    The beaded dress is so lovely and she wears it well. The Prada number is just a disaster. Like earlier poster- what is with the landing strip bet her breasts?? Hard to believe that’s an example of breast enhancement at its finest.

    • Jayna says:

      My friend has that. It was so bad the first time she had to go to another plastic surgeon for a consult who was known to fix bad plastic surgery on breasts. He told her it’s how her chest was built (I”m paraphrasing). She’s a tiny girl all over, I was surprised when he told her she had a wide chest. I can’t remember what he said was wide. She’s small-chested and didn’t want to go big. He said she needed different shaped implants than were used but also she had to go bigger, the bigger the closer they would come. She only went a little bigger than the first implants, because she’s too small and didn’t want big boobs. They look much better with the different shaped implants and going a little bigger, but will never be like her friend’s who used the first doctor and came out with gorgeous boobs. It’s why she went to him first, but her boobs were out to the side of her arms they were so bad. So she was happy with the second doctor.

      Nicole’s boobs usually look better than this. That dress and how her boobs are positioned in it and pushed up isn’t flattering. A different bodice style would look better that would bring then in, not a wide bodice top leaving them wide, but pushing them straight up because the cup isn’t big enough.

      I like her hair color. It has some red back in it. I like how her eyebrows are low and she hasn’t done her eyelids. Thank God. She had that high arched eyebrow thing for a while years ago because of too much botox.

      I think she looks pretty.

      • Ellen says:

        It’s not that they’re only wide-set. The left implant is positioned near her sternum, and the right one is wandering. At first I thought it could just be a fit problem but after spending way too much time looking at Nicole’s cleavage, I think that right one was slipped.

        It’s so discouraging, I deflated after children and would love a pick-me-up, but there are so many poor results out there, I don’t dare.

  16. Kiki says:

    Gorgeous. Stunning. This is her best dress/look of the promo tour so far.

  17. Triple Cardinal says:

    The Prada wasn’t the only dress mistake she made. On the second day of this appearance, she wore a dark grey dress with a lovely skirt that draped just below her knees. Problem was, however, that the bodice was pulled tight-tight over her breasts, giving her a top-heavy, matronly look. Like she was busting out of a shirt that was a size or two too small. She didn’t wear a bra, so the look was completed with two very noticeable n!pples on display.

    Clothes like these make her look …desperate.

  18. TheCountess says:

    Argh. Her boobs look like they came from the Kardashian Kollection at Sears.

    I do like both gowns, though.

  19. Hissyfit says:

    I love both gowns. Very pretty. Her face however looks scary.

  20. A Fan says:

    From the neck down, yes, really nice…if you skip over the fake tits.

    [*It’s the face I can’t get past*]

  21. Lahdidahbaby says:

    Omg, that dress is so Mother-of-the-Bride.