Here are new photos of Halle Berry at last night’s premiere of Frankie & Alice, that dumb-looking movie where Halle plays a chick with split personalities – on a be-afro’d cage dancer, the other a old Southern lady who wedding crashes. You can see the trailer here – it looks rough. Rough as in “Halle could do so much better.” Anyway, last night Halle didn’t go for some goddess gown or simple strapless cocktail dress. Instead, she went for this Balmain monstrosity. It’s a brocade suit – and the fabric is super-shiny black and gold. This looks like a shower curtain from a 1970s blaxploitation film. Something nice: beyond the fabric, I really like the cut of the pants. You can tell that Halle actually put some thought into this hideous suit, and that she probably got it tailored.
Halle brought along her French lover too – Olivier Martinez walked the red carpet solo. They’ve been together since at least the end of August, which means they just hit their three month mark. They both look tired and happy – endless French sex can do that. Olivier looks kind of worn down, right? Halle must be a demanding lover.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I like her suit. It’s really cute.
I’m feeling Prince, circa Purple Rain.
Not good.
hideous.
@susanne that was my exact thought too. Look who’s been raiding prince’s closet! 😉 Yet it somehow works.
Good Lord…I’m feelin Elvis with this suit. How tragic.
Too much, Halle. I think the jacket with a solid color pant or a solid color jacket with the patterned pant could work.
This get up screams Sharon Osbourne.
come on–I freaking love that suit! you have got to be bad-ass to wear something like that!
lol! susanne, you took the words right outta my mouth! Only I was going to say “circa 1990”.
The cut of the suit is nice, but the fabric is a bit much. Halle on the other hand has amazing skin. LOL, my old ass now notices the neck and decollatage area and Halle’s looks phenomenal.
OH MY EYES.
Suit jacket + blouse is pretty but adding the trousers has just resulted in a whole heap of mess.
That view might induce seizures, you should put a warning pop-up on it.
Ye Gods!!! Maaaaybe the jacket alone. With lots of black. And low lighting.
Just add some gold chains and call her Halle Vegas.
tragically hideous. upholstery fabric is not a good choice. & he does look tired…halle tho…not so much. ha. AND he’s so much hotter than gabriel.
I like the jacket, but not the pants (on top of everything else, they look too long).
I like it in an Elvis Presley sort of way.
I don’t hate it. HOWEVER – there’s so much going on, and it’s so INVOLVED, I wish she’d nixed the pointy-toed shoes and gone with some barely-there strappy sandals. Would have lightened it up a little?
Yikes – the proportions are all wrong here – the pants don’t work. She could have pulled it off if the pants were a skinny leg and slightly cropped to show off an amazing shoe like a YSL Tribute. Regardless, the fabric of the suit is pretty ugly.
RETURN OF THE SQUINT EYE.
Halle looks gorgeous, and Olivier looks like he got hit with the Leanne Rimes ugly stick!
I agree with everyone else – change to black pants.
Channeling Susan Hayward as Helen Lawson in “Valley of the Dollas”.
Yeah, I’m old.
ew, no
Definitely tragic! OMG!
I bet it looked much better in person. I also think it would look better with a pencil skirt.
Tragic suit. Gorgeous woman. Over exposed cleavage.
Umm that is all sorts of NO. On a different note, what happened to Oliver’s nose? He looks SO much different than his “unfaithful” days…
Eek, not her best but if anyone can pull it off it’s her.
Elvira’s sofa fabric. Ugh!
I think Demi Moore wore that blouse with a bra top under it. She should have paired the jacket and blouse with jeans, not those awful pants (she makes ’em look good tho).
I almost wanna be jealous about how good looking she is to pull that off but I have to say I don’t hate it. Now in regular every day life yes it’d be crazy … but for a premier … I mean aren’t we all tired of the little black dress … cute but yawn … she is wearing something insane and I think that’s the fun part of these little movie premiers. I give it a thumbs up.
fab! Fits her like a dream.
I can’t help myself, I think she looks great.
Wow – she really does look great in anything! On anyone else – probably no. On Halle, yup, I say it works.
She should have went with either the jacket, or the pants, coupled with another fabric instead of wearing the whole suit.
I guess it’s all about being original somewhat, but too much brocade kills the brocade Halle girl!
She’s still ravishing and has a great figure though so, it doesn’t look too tragic
I think she looks great!!
She looks really good in it. Not many people could say the same thing…
She gives off a “frigid” vibe to me, always has. I think this Olivier Martinez thing is a PR set-up to hype their movie, give him a career boost and to make it look like she’s moved on from her break-up with Gabriel. I’m sure he HAS been having endless French sex, just not with her.
Hideous. I’m sorry but this is far, far, far worse than Angelina Jolie’s red carpet outfit from the other day. I hate this outfit.
You don’t have to be rich to be my girl, you don’t have to be cruel to ru my world!
Rock it Prince!
I would say the suit is tragic, but her body saves it, so I’ll vote tacky.
She is not a very good dresser for red carpet type events. When she dresses casual she looks good but for appearances she typically wears clothes way to revealing, tight or low cut, for a mother her age or leather or some other outfit thats screams “Look at me Im hot – really I am.” Ive never gotten why pretty, successful women feel need to flaunt themselves? Lack of self esteem?
I love it on her….She is like cate blanchett-she and Halle can both get away with pretty much anything on the red carpet. they are so beautiful and have a sophisticated vibe to them.
yea, halle is on the edge of tacky here-but somehow, she pulls it off.
oh, and is it just me, or is she playing to the afro 70’s style on the red carpets lately? as well as doing them solo and not with OM-who is white?
I’m just sayin’ the way they do this PR stuff is very interesting…and it appeals to the subconscious of the culture or the mainstream alot.
This kind of stuff matters still to some people.
Not that tragic, however, it’s way.too.much…
On her; Gorgeous, on (almost) anyone else, fail.
It’s Halle and she definitely works it! Gorgeous!!
yeesh…it would cut my fingertips off.
Hideous! And as if she wasn’t satisfied with just armchair shiny pants + blazer, she added the low cut glittery thing below.
Please please please change up your hair, Halle Berry. Please.
I think the pants in that pattern are a crime against those of us capable of vision (which may not be too many after seeing those pictures xD)
But I think it would have worked as just the jacket with solid dark tone pants. That aside, Halle is gorgeous as always.
I kinda like it. It’s a bold choice.