Amy Adams in Versace at the VF Oscar Party: hot or bad color combo?

Vanity Fair Oscar Party 2016
Of the handful of women in Versace at the Oscars ceremony, I think Tina Fey was my favorite. The color was exquisite, the fit and draping of the gown were elegant and she just looked regal. These are some of women in Versace at the Vanity Fair Oscar party last night (some photos and IDs are still coming in so I may have missed someone.)

I like the idea of Amy Adams’s dress more than the execution. It’s really a bombshell dress with both the way it clings to her and the mixed use of the draped white pieces and the black sequin net sections. There’s some visible craftsmanship in this gown. I just wish the colors and fabrics weren’t as contrasting and that the difference between the sections was more subtle. I would like to see this gown with black instead of white fabric, or just all white with white sequins over paler (not nude) mesh. Her hair and makeup are very pretty.

Vanity Fair Oscar Party 2016

Vanity Fair Oscar Party 2016

Heidi Klum redeemed herself, somewhat, after that terrible one sleeve Marchesa at the Oscars ceremony. She’s in Valentino and while the beading along the front is busy and continues too far down the skirt for my taste it could be much, much worse. She brought her 29 year-old boyfriend as her date, Vito Schnabel, and he looked both puffy faced and drunk. This is the guy who gets to bang Heidi Klum.

Kerry Washington, who also wore Versace to the Oscars, was in this plunging v-neck white Versace which had like a contrasting yellow butt shelf. I don’t even know what’s going on back there. The front of that intricately beaded dress is hot and I like the strappy structural details on the front and back.

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  1. Crumpet says:

    Oh Kerry. The front looks hot and the back looks like a full diaper.

  2. GlimmerBunny says:

    I’m sorry but I think this dress is too badass for Amy. It would look good on someone like Charlize but Amy is too cutesy for it.

    I really like Heidi’s dress (esp compared to the first one)

    • Kate says:

      Sorry don’t agree. Amy has a curvier body than Charlize and I prefer a curvier body in that dress. I also don’t think Amy is “cutesy.” I think that’s an unfair label that people keep sticking her with because she once played a Princess but it’s clearly not how she sees herself or who she really is so maybe people should stop forcing it on her and let her just do her thing.

      • Beth says:

        While I agree that it might be unfair to label her as cutesy, people don’t do that just because of the Enchanted movie. It’s her entire filmography before “The Fighter:” “Catch Me If You Can,” “Junebug,” “The Office,” “Leap Year.” Even in serious movies, she carried a naivete. She’s talked about this in interviews for “The Fighter.”

    • Esmom says:

      Agree about Amy, it doesn’t fit her persona. And I think her husband/fiance looks cray with those cuffs.

      Heidi looks better but she still looks gaunt, which is an aging and unflattering look for her.

      • Bridget says:

        But is it really her persona? She’s nice and polite, but the only reason why we project cutesy is because she once played a fairytale princess. She herself seems pretty normal and un-cute.

    • Farhi says:

      Amy seems to be a such a cheerful person with striking and bold coloring, I like dresses in color on her. I loved the lilac dress she wore last year, it was the same color as her eyes. This dress is too severe for her.

  3. vauvert says:

    Amy, I love you, but that dress, nooooo! (Her husband is gorgeous btw.)
    So Heidi can wear a beautiful gown! Wow, I love this one, why did she go for that fug Marchesa on the red CP.
    Kerry, a second fail. How can such a beautiful woman look this bad???

  4. missmerry says:

    the back of washingtons dress looks like it’s there to catch poo, like those bags behind horses who are pulling carriages…

    sorry, not sorry. the front is nice though.

  5. cleveland girl says:

    There is something just off about Amys look. Maybe it’s the makeup, maybe its the black and white, or that weird netting on the dress. This is a Fail.

  6. raptor says:

    Kerry Washington’s butt shelf reminds me of the Coppertone baby sunscreen ads: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Coppertone.jpg

  7. Mimz says:

    WTH is going on with Kerry? I understand wanting to bring the sexy on, but this dress is very close to trashy. Actually, it is trashy. Looks like a diaper on the back. Ughhh Olivia Pope can do so much better than this!!

  8. TheGrandSophy says:

    Kerry’s dress looks like something Pinocchio Butt would wear.

    Amy’s dress is too ‘structural’ for her. Agree with @GlimmerBunny – Charlize has the panache to pull off something like this.

    Amy looks good in cleaner lines +/- minor frills to soften the look.

  9. Sarah01 says:

    Amy’s dress had potential but the contrasting textures and colours are wrong. If it was like 2 different shades of nude ( plain) or 2 different textures of black, one shiny one matte, it would look way better.

  10. QQ says:

    I would have preferred Kerry to have worn that to the show!, ditto with Heidi Klum who at this point think is trolling us with her red carpet looks like this is miles better than her dressed as Lavender Fairie or whatever that was

    Also I wonder where the “Amy Adams is soooo classy this is how you do it, not showing your blah blah” tut tutters for AmyIslajessicafisherChastainAdams committe is to defend this TERRIBLE Dress LOL

    • Bridget says:

      Amy’s dress doesn’t actually bug me – I’d imagine for some of these women that are regulars on the awards circuit, they wear so many dresses that one ‘meh’ look doesn’t bug them on a year when they’re not nominated for anything.

      Serious question: why did Kerry Washington and Heidi Klum need TWO dresses?

  11. Lucy says:

    I trust she’ll find something better to wear when she finally wins her Oscar.

  12. Maum says:

    Amy why???????????????

  13. frantasticstar says:

    Looooove Heidi Klum’s dress here! Her toy-boy is a very rough 29 yo, isn’t he?

  14. Kate says:

    I think Kerry looks really great. Yeah, the dress is ugly from the back but I don’t care.

    Kerry is 39 and I’m all about the older ladies basically challenging these moronic idea that you have to put it away and stop showing your body as soon as you hit 40.

  15. meme says:

    Amy and Kerry look awful…those dresses are terrible. Terrible.

  16. lucy2 says:

    I love Amy, but kind of hate that dress. Oh well.
    I do like Heidi’s though, but anything would look good in comparison to her ceremony dress.

  17. Lorelei says:

    OMG, Kerry looks absolutely fantastic from the front, but the back…why?!?!

  18. Katie says:

    Does Amy Adams (I adore her) look a little…pregnant in the face area?

    • Kate says:

      She looks really different than she did at the Golden Globes only in January. She’s either pregnant or she’s put on a ton of weight….which is weird bc she’s about to start doing press for Batman v Superman. So you would think she would be watching her weight/working out right now given she has to stand up there next to Cavill and that skinny Minnie Gadot.

      She still looks gorgeous but …yeah. I think she’s pregnant.

  19. islandwalker says:

    Amy and Kerrys dresses are both big fat No’s. Amy looks like a Kardashian sausage, She’s too good for that.

    • elle says:

      “Kardashian sausage” – you nailed it!

      Her hair and makeup are really severe, too. I think she looks terrible, if not insane, with that painful grin.

      Heidi’s face looks beautiful, but I look at her with her bf, and think, “Heidi, Heidi, Heidi…”

  20. Betsy says:

    What is the world?…

    Agree that Ms. Washington’s dress looks like a full diaper and that dress makes the very slender Ms. Adams look much larger than she is. I hate when dresses do that, especially expensive dresses made for someone!