Costume Institute Met Ball fashion – The Trashy

Actress Hendricks arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit in New York

Look at my girl! You know I love Christina Hendricks, so I’m anointing her “Queen of the Trashy” for last night’s Costume Institute‘s Met Ball, not so much for her electric-blue goddess gown – which really isn’t bad – but her continuing forays into clown makeup. Her styling kills me every time. However, if you’re going to have a major fashion f-ckup, there are fewer higher-profile venues with which to bring your trash. On that note, let the “Bad/Trashy Fashion” post begin!

Oh, Oprah. Oprah was the co-chair of the event, and she was dressed by her date for the evening, Mr. Oscar de la Renta. Do you like this? I didn’t. The dress makes Oprah look heavier than she actually is, and the hair is terrible:

MET Costume Institute Gala Benefit - 2010

It’s not even that I hate Jessica Biel’s dress. It’s actually kind of pretty, and it’s definitely one of the better dresses I’ve seen her in. But her styling is hideous. What’s with the stringy hair? It’s not like she rushed to the event after a full day. The bitch was photographed with JT in New York for the past three days, and she’s just been hanging out. She had time to get her hair done properly, but she paid someone to make it look like she was just washed her face in the sink.

Actress Jessica Biel and singer Justin Timberlake arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit in New York

Kristen Stewart got high and thought the dress was cute. I need to smack her stylist.

Actress Kristen Stewart arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit in New York

I like that Tina Fey wore pants. I like that she wore navy. I like that she was trying out a new red carpet look. But this is a failure. The jumper looks cheap, it does nothing for her figure, and her eye makeup is sh-t.

Actress Tina Fey arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit in New York

Donatella Versace, ladies in gentlemen. Trashy Hall of Fame. What kills me is that it’s not a bad dress at all – it would have rocked on a young starlet.

The Costume Institute Holds American Women Gala

Laura Bush! No, it’s Marion Cotillard, wearing a dress I swear Laura Bush wore to a major event as First Lady.

MET Costume Institute Gala Benefit - 2010

Eva Mendes = wallpaper. Or maybe a couch?

Eva Mendes arrives for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala in New York

Vera Farmiga looks hideous. I think she knows it, too. I spy embarrassment on her face. But, she’s pregnant. That might explain the weird fit, but in general, a designer should not make a pregnant woman look like this.

Actress Vera Farmiga arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit in New York

God, where I once used to enjoy Nicole Richie’s style in a “she’s a quirky little hippie” way, I now loathe it. This dress could have been interesting, but it’s not on her. And her hair is horrible. On the plus side, she looks healthy.

Photo by: DP/AAD/starmaxinc.com 2010 5/3/10 Nicole Richie at the Metropolitan Museum of A

Kiki Dunst stars as “The Crackhead Bride”.

The Costume Institute Holds American Women Gala

Joy Bryant, you look like Kleenex:

Joy Bryant arrives for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala in New York

Elizabeth Banks. I really don’t get her. She’s smart, she’s funny, she’s talented, she’s beautiful. Why?

The Costume Institute Holds American Women Gala

Padma Lakshmi looks like hell. Bad color, bad dress, bad fit. Her makeup looks alright, though.

Padma Lakshmi arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit in New York

Ivanka Trump has drag queen style. She looks like a flamenco drag queen.

Ivanka Trump poses at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit celebrating the opening of American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity in New York

Okay, I’m going to stop there. I’m sure there should have been so many more inclusions on the list, but this is just what I’ve got so far. Wait breathlessly for the (Classy) Best Dressed post!

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  1. Paige says:

    I agree with Kaiser on everything here except Jessica Biel. I LOVE her dress. I also think her hair and makeup look good.

  2. Constance says:

    Wow, talk about filling up a ballroom with the most useless names/faces in Hollywood with bad taste.

    To think I actually thought Donnatella (minus her face) was actually dressed quite lovely in comparison. What has the world come to?!

  3. Bella says:

    I like some of the dresses. Christina Hendricks needs to let the twins breath once in a while because if she squeezes them in any harder they would pop like water balloon or come out the other side on her back. She is a attractive woman but everything she wears looks somewhat trashy on her because of those big breast, she needs to concentrate in showing more the rest of her curves then her breast. As for Kristen Stewart, I just want to throw cold water at her to see if she will finally wake up.

  4. canadianchick says:

    Ooo Kaiser love it when you got your bitch on. I think Christina looks good though you’re right that lipstick is clowny. Love Donatella’s dress. If she had an updo it might’ve worked. Can you imagine the cattiness of the invited guests, pure psychological warfare that would do CB ladies proud.

  5. Hautie says:

    I also like Donatella!

    It is the first time I have seen her with Texas Hair! Big ole Blonde hair-do. With a sweeping bang. And she rocked it. So I am giving Donatella a big thumbs up.

    A huge pet peeve of mine is someone who refuses to keep their roots up. And I am looking at you Jessica Biel.

    All that time and money spent to attend this event and she could not be bother to get that hair touched up.

  6. Jag says:

    I like Biel and Versace’s dresses, but totally agree with you on the rest. “Looks like Kleenex” is the funniest thing I’ll read all day. Thanks for the laugh. 🙂

  7. Meimei says:

    “To think I actually thought Donnatella (minus her face) was actually dressed quite lovely —”

    Yup. She has a nice figure, and the dress looks pretty good; she might benefit from some Gaga-esque headdresses…

    To me, Oprah’s styling resembles a cocker spaniel. I just wonder if she had the irresistible urge to flung herself into anything that might look juuuuust a little bit like water. After all, a spaniel is not complete without being soaked.

  8. Crash2GO2 says:

    I thought Nicole Richie looked great!

    The feather duster dress was hahahahahahaha! What is it with feather dusters in Hollywood lately? They wear them on their shoulders, in their hair, on their bodies, on their feet, glued to their eyelids…

  9. an says:

    Jessica Biel’s dress is the best very 30’s style but the hair looks unkempt.

    Kristen Stewart is a mess. As usual.
    Girl, lay the bong off and try enjoying the life that many would love to have.

  10. susan says:

    JT forgot to zip his zip up all the way. and speaking of zippers-hope Tina Fey didn’t have to try to use the bathroom!

  11. Lala11_7 says:

    I LOVE Nicole Ritchie’s WHOLE outfit…I love how she’s ALWAYS rocking the disco 70s look…and she’s got the style to do it…I also love her hair color and her hair…she looked good…glowing and healthy…

    I thought that Jessica looked good also…I get what she was doing with her hair…perhaps if it were thicker and the tendrils more defined…

    Donatella…actually looked to me…for the first time…in a long time…GOOD…everything worked and that blonde hair color is PERFECT for her…if she would gain 20 pounds, it would take 20 years off her face…but I think she’d rather cross the river Styx than do that…

  12. Melanie says:

    have to agree that Donatella Versace’s dress was wrong on her. But isn’t mutton dressed up as lamb her signature look?!

    Love Nicole Richie’s makeup, not so sure about the hair – she looks like a less wizened Rachel Zoe though

  13. TRT says:

    Constance,

    I couldn’t put it any better!

  14. Iris says:

    What?! Nicole Richie’s dress was bomb! Her hair didn’t do it any favors though, she would have looked blonde.

  15. bros says:

    Padma ought not to have smooshed herself into that awful colored gown. she has a great figure but this was pushing it right after having a baby. I think donatella, inexplicably, is pulling off that dress, and its a pretty great dress. Ivanka could have lost those purple fringe things on the dress and looked 100% better because she is statuesque, but those organza wings are fugly and cheap looking. january jones should have been on this list. she ordinarily rocks, but tonight she looked absurd.

  16. danielle says:

    Loved Jessica B’s dress – hair wasn’t great but the dress was the best – makeup beautiful too. Let’s see Marion and Zoe looked great too. Didn’t see too much that impressed me tho. Padma may get my vote for worse dressed because she’s so beautiful and that was SO bad.

  17. Vi says:

    i love christina too but that is a horrible dress and bad makeup 🙁

  18. Theresa says:

    Nicole Richie looks fabulous, would kill to have that hair! And Jessica Beal looked lovely, the pics make her hair look stringy and flat, but I bet it looks much better in person. As for the others, pretty spot on analysis.

  19. Mrs.Darcy says:

    Have to disagree on Marion Cotillard, I think she looks like sparkly heaven and totally pulls it off. Also like Biel’s dress agree the hair is scraggly though.

  20. Melanie says:

    Sorry, but Christina always looks like Ronald Mcdonald smuggling the Hamburgler under her dress. What the sam hell is on her shoulder? It looks like a bloody rag.

  21. padiddle says:

    I think Nicole looks great, Marion’s dress is interesting, but her hair is kinda weird.

  22. kaligula says:

    what on earth is going on??? did christina hendricks develop an illicit drug habit over the past few weeks? or did she perhaps lose a bet in which the loser was forced to go to a public event looking like an 85-year old unkempt insane person? it’s one or the other, because there is truly no way she walked out looking like that under any kind of normal circumstances.

    i love eva mendes’ dress. i love anything with flowers. the print could have been nicer, though. jessica biel’s hair always looks inexplicably awful. and her dress is so boring. i really think JT is crushing her self-esteem. tina fey’s jumpsuit would have been cool if the pattern weren’t cut by a blind, intoxicated person– did she really not notice that huge dumpy bulge in the front crotch??? and, finally…. i didn’t think it was possible for padma lakshmi to look bad but whaddaya know….

    god i love these things!!!! :)))))

  23. D says:

    I like Oprah, Nicole, Marion and Ivanka’s dresses. I also like Elizabeth’s but not the tights.

  24. kelbear says:

    Wow, Padma’s dress and look is awful but I do like her.

  25. lucy2 says:

    I like Donatella’s dress, but she is so disturbing looking it distracts from the dress.
    Like Jessica’s dress, but the hair is awful.
    I actually don’t mind Nicole’s, but on most anyone else it would be silly.

  26. a says:

    christina hendricks looks 50…

  27. skibunny says:

    maybe JT got a BJ on the way to the event and that’s why Jessica’s hair and make-up look messed up and his fly is half un-done. Her dress is nice!

  28. carrie says:

    Biel’s dress is better for me even her style can trash it!
    Stewart needs to learn smile , stop drugs and fire her stylist

    the rest is too much even if Cotillard ‘s face is gorgous

  29. journey says:

    why is Christina Hendricks wearing a Ken Paves hair piece perched on her shoulder like a little pet monkey?

    Jess Biel’s hair was a career move– cuz her great beauty gets in the way of her getting movie roles! (snicker!)

    Vera Farmiga decided to go with TWO shoulder pets, ruffley ones stead of one big hairy one.

    Kiki D, yet another furry little shoulder pet. Have they replaced itty bitty dogs as the latest accessory?

  30. Chelsey says:

    Ugh, we get it Christina…your boobs are HUGE. Now put them away for awhile, please.

  31. original kate says:

    jessica biel’s dress is fantastic – it’s the hair disaster that ruins it. that and the bitch-face she’s always making.

  32. imo says:

    *scratches head* umm where do people want Christina to put her boobs? There’s no way to hide those babies and personally I don’t want her to LOL. I liked Ivaka, Jessica, Donatella, Marion and Nicole.

  33. Kitten says:

    I mean, it is a *costume* gala..peeps are gonna be bringing the funky ya know?
    Donatella Versace looks like she’s been sucking on a Hoover vacuum.

  34. Diva says:

    LOVE Nicole’s dress, and hair, and make-up! I love her dress up style.

    Kristen Stewart will be waking up with a hangover and seeing these pictures and wishing she could take last night back.

  35. GatsbyGal says:

    K-Stew UGGGGHHHHH WTF IS THAT

    Seriously, that’s the trashiest, grossest dress I’ve ever seen. And on her, it reaches maximum trash.

  36. Shawna says:

    I really liked Nicole Richie’s outfit and styling. That said, it was the wrong venue for that outfit.

  37. jane says:

    Hahaha! Great post kaiser! Spot on!

  38. DrM says:

    I agree on most of them except for: Nicole who I think looks fab…much better brunette than blond…and the dress is great and Eva Mendes who can pull off the floral drapery look with style!

  39. Juice in LA says:

    Gah! I have had a migraine all day, and had no energy to comment, until i saw these atrocities. Good lord where to begin.

    How on earth could Liz banks not know how awful those tights looked with that horrid dress.

    Seriously- Biels hair looks almost like she is growing really weak dreads.

    WTF Eva Mendes, WTF to infinity

    Kiki crack dunst- no excuse, but honestly: who on earth would even make those boots?

    I could easily comment on every other one, it was truly a never ending parade of hideousness, the like of which I haven’t seen since my sister wore neon orange parachute pants to her jr. high sadie hawkins dance.

  40. Toni says:

    Demi, Blake and Chloe should’ve been over here with the TRASHY…

  41. Mistral says:

    I adore the dresses/styling of Joy and Marion! I think they look amazing.

  42. Aitch says:

    Ivanka’s dress is gorgeous. dont care for her though. ANyway agree with the choices otherwise. Elizabeth Banks wtf?!

  43. Peanut says:

    I agree with everything except Nicole Richie. I think she looks really good.

  44. Pia says:

    Jessica Biel’s hair is terrible, but that dress skims her body perfectly. It looks incredible. Also, Marion Cotillard’s dress is cut conservatively, but the material appears to be sheer under the sequins. Other pictures might show it better. Regardless, I dig it quite a lot.

  45. Camille says:

    You nailed it Kaiser. Spot on on all accounts!

  46. Luci says:

    I agree with your list EXCEPT Marion cotillard and oprah, which look amazing IMO!

  47. Persistent Cat says:

    I really liked a lot of those dresses.