For some reason Demi Moore was the last presenter of the night on Sunday, she presented Best Ensemble in a Drama which went to Spotlight. When she came out on stage I was struck by her hair, she was wearing one of those topknots which is inexplicably popular now along with some loose strands hanging down, and by how gothic her gown was. She was in a full length black gown with stripes and ruffles that looked very 90s. It turns out the dress wasn’t that old, it was from 2002 (the Spring 2003 collection), just 13 years ago, but there was definitely something dated about it. Designer Zac Posen noticed Demi in one of his older gowns and posted about it. Apparently Demi just dug the dress out of her closet and People writes that she didn’t consult him before wearing it, which you can pretty much surmise based on what he wrote.
I would totally wear this dress, but I have a very 90s sense of style and this isn’t a great dress for an awards ceremony. The ruffles at the bottom really kill the look. Still, Demi looks hot albeit rather tweaked. What’s going on with her face is it too much filler? It’s subtle enough (by Hollywood standards) and she still looks damn good, just filled and pulled.
Also, considering her casual style she could have done much worse styling herself for this event.
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My first thought upon reading the headline was, “Has Zac Posen been designing long enough to have ‘vintage’ dresses?” It was done for a 2003 collection? No. It’s not yet “vintage.”
I agree. I find that hilarious.
I have to agree…vintage in my mind means something from the forties.
I think vintage is usually 20+ years (though I like on 1970s and earlier), so 2003 fashion should probably not be considered vintage.
In the antiquing world, vintage is 50 years old, but it may be different for fashion. 20 years makes sense because there are so many collections per year.
I came to make the same comment. Vintage is a term reserved for things at least 25 years old in fashion — absolutely no less.
Was just going to say this. He’s like 12 isn’t he? Vintage?
Technically “vintage” is supposed to mean 20+ years old (though once you hit close to 100 years it becomes “antique”) but in terms of high fashion they frequently fudge the term just to mean from collections from several years past.
While generally that is correct, couture is different. Just takes about ten or twelve years for couture to be considered vintage.
Not too keen on the dress, but Demi looks so much better. She had a hard time there for awhile because of douchebag Ashton Kutcher.
She looks great. Smartest thing she ever did was not mess with the lips.
Definitely agree!
She looks freakin FANTASTIC. Isn’t it weird that normal, unaltered lips are now considered exotic and unusual? lol
agree! this is why she looks normal. if you keep your lips normal – all the rest of the work looks so much more subtle.
Demi and Courtney Cox must share the same plastic surgeon. Their faces both look stretched and tight.
Who cares about Courtney Cox, was she ever considered a beauty? Not a big loss if she looks old and weird, but Demi has an image to uphold.
I cant reply to Hollis’s comment. Courtney was very beautiful in her prime imo, the beautiful eyes, the striking coloring, nice figure… Demi was and is way overrated looks-wise imo..her features are too harsh
She looks incredible! I have serious hair envy. As far as I can see this is her real hair, right?
I always thought she colored her hair to be darker, but it seems she has natural hair & color! She does have great hair – always so shiny!
It’s her real hair.
Source: A while back, I spent waaaaaay too long researching whether they were extensions or not. It’s possible she puts in an extra piece or two to make it look a tad fuller for events but her hair really is that long and gorgeous.
Sigh. Demi and Amanda Seyfried are my hair idols.
Wow ya – close up you can see the strands of grey, but I have more grey than her and I’m 20 years younger…… so jealous.
I like that she has stopped dying it and is allowing some of her greys to show, it looks pretty and more ‘real’. Her face is definitely tweaked, but somehow she looks the prettiest she has ever looked here (and I’ve never found her all that pretty to be honest).
She looks the best she has ever looked…love the dress, the hair.
She looks amazing. Good for her. Getting rid of 170 pounds of douche can work wonders.
agree!
I wish I had something in my closet from two years ago that fit, let alone thirteen years ago! She looks great. The style is kind of refreshing after the neverending onslaught of granny panties and sheer skirts we’ve seen over the past couple of years.
Yes to everything!
I like the dress, but the sleeves should have been longer to my taste anyway. It’s funny how these women share the reverse aging process with Benjamin Button. She looks younger now than she did twenty years ago. Love her new cheekbones!
I really like the dress from the waist up, I am a sucker for sleeves.
That strand of hair hanging down her face bugged the crap out of me, too long and stringy to look casually undone.
I think she looks great, and I think the dress is appropriate for the SAG awards, where the dresses are less glamorous than the Oscars. Some women wore tea-length dresses, so I don’t see how this one isn’t worthy. And I thought her face looked nice as well – she looks healthy and not distorted.
Yes! The top bun is now-ish, but the strands make the whole look 1990s, somehow.
honest, when i saw this pic of her i thought it was from the early 2000’s, and i was quite surprised to find out when it was taken. then i read the dress she’s wearing is from 2003 and it all made sense. the early 00’s were the worst in terms of fashion, ridiculously tacky, never bring them back ever.
I think she looks great and I like the dress, she has a killer body.
She looks like Courtney Cox’s bad cousin a la Samantha and Sabrina 😉
Yes! I was just scrolling down to say the same thing.
Lol. I think she looks much better than Courteney. Obviously Demi has been sculpted, but still looks like her former self. Courteney is just plain sad to look at now. But they do both have black hair…..only their hairdresser knows for sure, right…..since these woman don’t age, certainly their hair doesn’t go gray either!
Ha ha! Note that Zac repeatedly and carefully points out that this from an OLD collection!! He doesn’t want anyone to think he is designing this kind of stuff now!! I mean she looks great, her body is bangin’; but that was a terrible period for fashion and that style of button-down with frills is SO dated. I had so many shirts and short dresses in that style! Ha ha!
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Made it absolutely clear that this is an old dress
It’s because red carpet fashion ultimately has one purpose: to sell clothing. It’s the entire reason why designers lend out dresses. He’s just making it clear that this dress isn’t among the things that are for sale.
Anyone who could afford custom Zac Posen (or any of the other designers who lend dresses for these events) could get him to open the vaults if they wanted this design. Besides which those people have access to the latest couture a couple of months before it hits the red carpet. It’s not about the actual dress, but about aligning a certain type of celeb with a brand.
He doesn’t just make it clear it’s not new, he makes it clear it was his very early work, the take away being that he’s improved.
She does have great bone structure regardless of the filler.
Nothing to do with being dated, the dress was fug when originally designed, and it’s fug now. Black ruffles on the front, and the bottom, and the collar, AND on the sleeves? She looks like she’s wearing a budget Halloween gown. And Zac’s comment about it being vintage is hilarious. You know what’s vintage? Sleek 50’s gowns, and mod sixties pop prints, (ignore the seventies altogether), maybe an 80s rock outfit although that is pushing the definition. But this? No.
She looks good, but that is not her original face. Still, much better work than what we have been seeing lately. My first thought was “is she still acting or is she now just one of those people showing up at events”?
Don’t like the dress but she looks great!
+1
This.
Also, please leave Morticia Addams outta this. This dress looks like a moldy toilet brush. Morticia is gorgeous and dresses beautifully!
She was one of my favorites of the night. She looked fantastic.
Yes, beautiful.
I thought it was lovely in motion. I liked the whole thing.
Yes the pix of her walking, the dress looks fantastic. She looks great too.
I really like her casual style.
That’s a Corey Feldman tendril of hair she’s sporting.
*snort*
Demi looks fantastic.
Why does she have to consult with Zac Posen before wearing one of his designs that she purchased?
She looks fantastic. Healthy and fit. But a bit ‘deer in the headlights’ with the eyes.
Right??
I had to look it up. She’s 53??? And possibly older if she lies about her age like many in Hollywood. Wow! She looks amazing. I thought she was mid-40s! I don’t think she’s had too much work done- she has deep smile lines that aren’t tweaked. And I noticed a lot of grey in her hair which surprised me because I don’t ever remember her showing grey before. I think she looks great and I can only pray that I could look half that good at her age.
Her mom was born in 1944, so it’s unlikely she lied about her age, though I suspected it at first when I learned she married her first husband in ’80 b/c not many career women of her generation got married in their teens. Apparently she did it to get out of the house. Anyway, she was a goddess in her late 30s and early 40s. Her cameo in that Charlie’s Angels POS was a monumental comedown but she looked the most beautiful she has ever looked there.
There’s no doubt she’s had work done, but it’s the kind that enhances her looks not changes them. She looks a little tight, but still looks great. Take note Courtney Cox, Nicole Kidman and the like…*this* is how you do it (if you feel you really have to, that is).
I think she looks amazing. I’m glad she has avoided the wax lips look; whatever she’s had done really works.
Dress is fine. It’s the gwamma hair that killed the look. Demi looks great. She looks like Suzanne Pleshette which is a good thing.
If you are wondering why the world is surprised when Demi Moore dresses well …
http://www.people.com/people/package/gallery/0,,20168763_1149660_1001704,00.html
I miss the parade of crazy now that designers view the red carpet as an extension of the runway, and stylists have taken over the award shows!
I think it’s cool she just dug something out of her closet, but the white bralet is really throwing it off and I do not love the ruffles. I think she would look really lovely in more dramatic/modern type designers like Issey Miyake or Yamamoto, she has that dramatic colouring and the build to embrace a more daring or elegant look. Her face is looking a bit startled but overall good.
She looks really good and the dress looks great on her. I actually like it better than anything I’ve seen Posen do lately.
Props to her for using something she already owned! Also, she looks amazing (though I don’t really like the dress)!
I love it when people wear stuff they actually bought, like a normal person – or vintage! Although that defeats the whole purpose of the red carpet which is to sell, sell, sell. And I like this dress. The hair is the worst part.
When she walked out at the end of the night, I thought, “Wow! This is how it’s done!” Her posture, her walk, her smile–all great! She stood out in a good way from all the slinky sequins and fluff. Now that I see the photos from the red carpet, I do see the problem with the underpinnings. However, she rocked it when it counted.
I so agree with everything you said about when she came out on stage.
I loved it. I loved the way she looked in it. Her body is amazing. And although I’m not the biggest fan of top knots it was great to see her with an updo for a change.
Best she’s looked in years.
She looks great for age and I’m happy for her as she seems alot healthier mentally than she used to be. The dress isn’t great, but it’s lovely in motion, she wears it well, and for once, it’s age-appropriate. I dont’ care that some people think we should all wear whatever we want until we’re in the dirt, but for a long time, she looked like she was trying hard to be one of her daughters or fit in with their circle and it was cringe-worthy. She looks better now.
I just watched The Seventh Sign over the weekend on cabel. She sure has changed her looks over the years. She used to have the sweetest softest face. Now every feature is sharp, pointy, and harsh. I like her old face better.
This is the best I’ve seen her look in years, and the most “natural” compared to her looks over the last 10 years.
She looks really good, the bottom part of the dress is a bit much. But her face and skin look good, don’t like the stringy hair never liked it.
She looks better now than she did in the 80’s. A gorgeous classic beauty. My only criticism is that her veneers are too big for her face and are way too white.
I agree about the veneers being too big. Other than that, she looks gorgeous.
There are thousands of pics of her on gettyimages and rexfeatures.com where one can observe her facial transformations. She started out as a natural beauty, was unaffected by the first pregnancy, but after the second and third she accumulated a lot of weight in her face that didn’t seem to go away for years. She looked her ever-worst in The Juror. Even in Striptease, where she had a rail thin body, she still had a fat face. I suspect she had some face work done while her head was shaven for G.I. Jane in 1996/97. The best I’ve ever seen her look was at the premiere of that movie, her hair had grown back but not too long, and her face was perfectly chiseled. IMO her prime was 1997-2004, it’s too bad she only made one real film during that period.
Love the whole look. Gorgeous!
She looks good- I like her hair up, rather than the middle part, hanging down look.
That said- I think she and Winona Ryder both have the post- surgery crazy eyed look.
She looked good! Maybe the bottom part of the dress is a bit fuzzy, but I like it nonethelss. She has a great body!!!
I love it! Looks nice and swishy.
I think i see natural gray strands coming through on her hair. Love it. She looks great.
Demi. Honey. Back away from the ‘proceedures’, you’re looking on this side of odd. In all honesty, I am surprised this one hasn’t had a break-down. She has always seemed VERY fragile, to me. I know people go on and on about how great she looks, I simply don’t see it. Too many tweeks. And it seems she may be on some type of stimulate
She looks terrific, if a bit ‘surprised’.
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Demi is SO neurotic (Read about her mother and you won’t wonder the cause) and terrified about looking like the white trash she comes from, she’s beginning to look like her own wax figure. YIKES!
I agree about the ruffles, but what the hey, she looks absolutely fantastic for having had 3 kids and being middle-aged. Does anyone remember Leo and her having had a reported thing at the end of her marriage to Bruce?