Lupita Nyong’o in custom Jason Wu at the Glamour event: beautiful or blah?

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Here are some photos from last night’s Glamour Magazine Women of the Year event. Glamour honored several prominent women in culture and it seemed like a nice evening. Unfortunately, the fashion was kind of meh-to-bad. Let’s start with Lupita Nyong’o in this custom Jason Wu. Lupita was and is a style star. Even from the very beginning, when she first started showing up to red carpets, she was always notable and interesting and often wonderful. But this seems… wrong. Ill-suited for her beauty. Is the color off? Is the design too conservative for her? Is her hair throwing everything off? I do miss Lupita’s short hair. Still, does she seem like a bitchy ice princess to you?

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Here’s Reese Witherspoon in Erdem. Erdem is increasingly popular with a certain segment of ladies who enjoy “fussy” dresses. That’s how I think of them. Like, there’s something too uptight, too lacy, too high-collared about Erdem these days. This dress is a good example of that fussy trend – there’s no real reason for the lace at the top. Instead of making Reese look ancient, it makes her look like she’s wearing her school-aged daughter’s frock.

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Victoria Beckham wore her own VB design, of course, and her son Brooklyn was her date. She must love the fact that her sons are getting old enough to walk red carpets with her.

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Sofia Bush in Zac Posen. The satin looks kind of cheap, right? I would have been more into this if it was designed as a two piece, like a mermaid skirt and a cropped satin top with cap sleeves. I think the whole idea of cutting off the fabric at the breast is weird, and it leads to weird satin bulges in the mid-section.

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Karlie Kloss in Thierry Mugler. Meh. It’s not a “boring navy dress,” but it’s not all that noteworthy either.

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Selena Gomez in patent-leather Valentino. I… don’t have words. The design is “schoolgirl” but the patent leather is “dominatrix.”

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Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

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  1. Esteph says:

    Call me crazy Kaiser, but I actually really like both Lupita’s and Selena’s dresses….

  2. Kip says:

    Is it just that photo or is Posh’s face super tweaked? Also Lupita’s lipstick is off somehow.

    • sofia says:

      Before reading the text I thought “who is this woman who looks like Posh spice but with a weird mouth?” I guess that’s bc we see her teeth ^_^

      • antipodean says:

        sofia, I think she has had her knashers done, and they are too big! I like VB, but her dentist should be admonished for this travesty.

      • Kristen820 says:

        @ antipodean – I couldn’t quite figure out what was “off”, but I think you nailed it with the veneers…

    • Kitten says:

      Posh got lip fillers I think…

      EDIT: Just looked at some other pics from last night and she doesn’t look quite as different as she does here.

    • ldub says:

      i think posh got veneers.

    • QQ says:

      Something something with the lips I too Paused like ..wait ..what?

    • Hally says:

      Something is definitely up with VB’s mouth area

    • Kaye says:

      Her teeth look strange – too white or something. Maybe it’s because she usually smiles with her lips together?

      • Anne tommy says:

        Victoria usually doesn’t smile at all of course, allegedly because she didn’t like her teeth being seen rather than because she was a miserable cow or felt that pouting looked classier…Ridiculous, it’s not as if she couldn’t afford to get them sorted years ago. She seemed to give a forced Looking grin at one Point last night. I like Lupita’s dress, and Yes I like Reese’s too. The wipe clean one not so much, though handy for any wine spillages.

    • GingerCrunch says:

      I thought the same then zoomed in. Looks like they caught her mid sentence. I got nothin but VB love, please never eff too much with your face, Posh.

    • Jaded says:

      Something looks different about her nose too….like she’s had that cute little uplift at the end straightened out or something – and yes, def veneers.

    • ican'tsnap says:

      New chompers for sure.

    • Antonym says:

      Her mouth is open. She always poses with the same face and this open mouth midsentence snap is very different from her standard pose. I almost feel bad for thinking she looks so different, doesn’t she not smile because she hates her teeth (or something).

  3. Kitten says:

    This is how unforgiving satin is: it can even make Sofia Bush look bad.
    Reese’s dress is the worst sh*t I’ve ever seen in my life. I would like Lupita’s dress more either without the peplum, or without the cap sleeves.

    I can’t believe how big Posh’s son is! Holy sh*t…I feel old. Her face looks different..lip fillers or is it just because she doesn’t have her trademark sullen look?

    • mimif says:

      Could be the angle, but I’m almost seeing a nose job.

      I legit cackled at Reese’s get up.

    • Bridget says:

      Sophia Bush is a lovely woman, and that dress makes her look like someone’s frumpy bridesmaid.

    • V4Real says:

      Brooklyn looks as if he could be a member of The Jonas Brothers. He’s a good looking young man.

      • vauvert says:

        Really? I was looking at him and thinking that there’s no way he would have been picked by Burberry if he weren’t a Beckham. Seriously, I see better looking kids that age at the hockey arena every week. (And I am not just talking about mine:-), LOL)

      • Anne tommy says:

        Not wanting to diss the kid but yes, he’s quite pleasantly average looking.

  4. mimif says:

    Not buying the bitchy ice princess bs at all.

  5. Pandy says:

    God, all of the fashion is brutal really. Reese’s is the worst – gak! And I’m already tired of pimp mama Beckham. Pushing the next generation on us a la the Kardashians. Honestly, her boys are decent looking but they are not model material.

  6. Bitchy architect says:

    What the F happened to VB’s face? Her lips are so puffy she can’t even close her mouth. She looks like that blonde skeleton who used to be on fashion police now.

  7. Norman Bates's Mother says:

    I like the cut of Lupita’s dress, it suits her and gives her nice curves. Sophia Bush looked like a mother of the bride. I like some of Erdem designs but Reese’s dress is hideous beyond words.

    • EN says:

      > like some of Erdem designs but Reese’s dress is hideous beyond words.

      It still doesn’t compare to the horror Kate wore 2 weeks ago. I don’t know what the Erdem designer was thinking.
      Reese’s dress would be tolerable but it washes her out.

  8. Danskins says:

    As some noted above, I’m loving Lupita & Selena’s dresses…the looks somehow work on them.

  9. caty1313 says:

    Is it just me or has anyone else noticed VB’s teeth? Maybe it’s just that pic but she kinda looks like she has horse teeth in that particular one and I have never seen her teeth that prominent especially on a red carpet in any pic.

  10. Bread and Circuses says:

    I love Lupita’s dress! Maybe it’s the colour that’s a bit off, even though I like that colour, because the cut makes her figure look awesome.

    I also basically like Selena Gomez’s dress. The dominatrix and the schoolgirl cancel each other out to make something pretty cool-looking.

  11. Nikki says:

    Wow, there’s not a dress in the bunch I like. Lipita’s dress is pretty nice, but I think the color is wrong? Wrong, wrong for her. Katherine Heigl would look good in it (random, I know).

  12. Green Is Good says:

    Lupita’s gown was probably beautiful in person. I love it!

    Reese W. : yikes! Nope nope nope!

    Selena Gomez: love the dress. The shoes, nope.