I recently got an email from commenter Virgilia Coriolanus pleading with me to write something about Stella McCartney’s Spring/Summer 2014 show. You can see Vogue’s slideshow of Stella’s collection here. Come back after you’ve finished laughing. I mean… yes, it’s always fun to discuss Stella McCartney’s awful designs, but they are nothing new. She’s always been (at worst) a flat-out awful designer and (at best) highly unoriginal and prone to jacking better designers’ work and putting her own fug spin on it. Her latest collection jacked a lot of crap from Dior from what I can see, only Stella makes it her own with terrible tailoring and cheap materials.
I bring this up because Sandra Bullock wore this little Stella dress last night at the UK premiere of Gravity at the London Film Festival. No George Clooney to flirt with on the red carpet unfortunately. So all we really have to discuss is the dress. I actually think the dress is decent and rather cute, and I bet Sandy picked it because her default style is darker, a little bit goth and rock n’ roll. But should we even give Stella credit for this dress considering it’s a knockoff of a Valentino, plus it’s something that we’ve seen versions of on Kristen Stewart, Taylor Swift, etc? Still, it’s one of the cuter things I’ve seen from Stella.
I will say this… the dress is being helped along by Sandra’s styling. Her hair looks great – I love the waves and I love when she does BIG hair. She’s wearing too much makeup overall, but I love the dark lips and I like that she’s mixing it up. I’m calling it, y’all. Sandy is going to get another Oscar nomination.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
She looks young.
My first thought as well.
I wish Sandra had left her face alone. She was one hollywood star that I wanted to stay natural. Now, you can tell her face has had a lift or needles, one or the other. Why do hollywood stars feel the need to stay young when everyone knows their age?
Think she looks pretty and looks like its only fillers…with no surgery. There is nothing wrong with fillers as long as its not too overdone. She looks fine. Plus, its OK to want to look good for your age. Problem is when women are trying to look twenty. Sandra is in the class of looking younger versus trying to look like she’s twenty. Big difference.
I’m meh on the dress, she looks lovely.
/love her legs
She must have sold her soul for those legs. I mean, hot DAMN, woman! Get and look older so I feel better about my 34 year old stubs!
Damn that girl has some great legs. I can’t believe those legs belong to a 50 year old.
On the last Sandy post a bunch of commenters were saying how she doesn’t have the legs for a short dress.
It made me angry.
She looks awesome here. I’m not a huge fan of lace but she’s owning that dress.
Both Sandra and the dress are lovely.
She is drop dead gorgeous. I can only pray I look half this great at almost 50. WOW!!
The dress is generic, but the face…damn, the face sells it. SO good with a bold lip!
Ditto Anna. Sandra looks awesome!
It’s a serviceable enough dress which, had she accessorised it properly, would have looked quite pretty.
I wonder what it is with Sandra and her red carpet looks. Does she just not want to put the effort in? Does she not know what to do? IDK. It’s a headscratcher.
Edit: she’s too made up. I would have liked to see her look less caked.
I actually think she simplifies so that she is the focus, not the dress. That’s my impression anyway.
I happen to really like the dress, although I personally would need it a couple inches longer so I could, like, sit down or walk without showing my hoohaw.
I loved her color-blocked day outfit at Venice and the silver Marchesa. But yeah, she gets it more wrong than right…
Yeah that dress with boots. Or clunky heels. Add some badass to the ultra short dress. She could tots pull that off.
Beautiful lady!
And excuuuuse me but Faux Bebe Dress aside: Her Body is BANGING! like for reals in the movie in 3d? I just kept marveling over how good she (HER skin!!) looks
Never mind the dress, Sandra looks spectacular. That’s how you tweak.I’m looking at you, Kidman.
Oh yeah I also saw something on her face during the movie and thought: WOW That is some GOOD ASS subtle work!
Agree, she has work done, but very subtile. I’m actually against beauty surgery or Botox, but it works for her. Hope she knows when to stop.
Apart from that I love Sandra Bullock, such a great woman! 😉
At times she looks VERY tweaked, but here she is perfection. Hopefully she sticks with exactly what was done here! I love her whole look, think she looks drop-dead gorgeous.
Her boobs are definitely bigger than before in the movie, but she’s wearing an obviously padded bra, so that probably accounts for it.
That dress is very 1966. Find an old Glamour and that is what you see on most pages Sandra looks great!
She reminds me of Selena Gomez here.
This lady is smokin’.
Her face and hair look amazing, and the dress shows off her great legs. It’s probably the best I’ve seen her in a while.
She looks breathtaking. And I really like the dress on her even though others think it’s budget. She’s been looking really, really good during the Gravity promotion. She’s just glowing. Go Sandy!
She looks really really good.
We’re going to see Gravity on Saturday in a 3D Imax theater in the ‘burbs-this is not my usual venue (prefer a small art-house theater in the city) so this movie better be worth it!
Get ready to not breathe for an hour and a half. Lol. Hubby and I walked out, and basically just exhaled!
I concur! She looks amazing! More to the point, she looks like a movie star …. instead of like she rolled out of bed and attended a premiere *side eye to Kristen Stewart*…
Agreed.
I’m glad you posted these pics, I saw them on another site the other day and thought this is the best that Sandy has looked in her past few appearances, I actually like the dress, but to be honest when I look at the pictures the first thing I notice is her legs and beautiful face (with the heavy makeup it doesn’t look as jacked with). I haven’t seen Gravity yet, but it is on my list of must sees, but I think it would be great to see her nominated again.
I love the dress, and Sandy has shapely, smokin’ legs. But the dress is too short for almost 50. She looks beautiful, though. I suspect she wore it because she hasn’t been in this kind of shape in years. She really worked out for this role because she was in those tiny shorts, and it looks like she’s kept it up.
Why would her age matter? If she looks good, she looks good, regardless of her age.
And the dress? I think it is awful! She looks good in spite of, not because of, that thing.
Ok then. At 40 we stop having sex (thanks Miley!) and at 50 we stop showing off legs that most 20 year olds would kill for. Guess I better just jump off my roof and get it over with….
btw–You can’t be in shape like Sandra is at almost 50 and have not always have been in shape. You’ll get this in a few years..when you stop having sex.
Ha! Thank-you Cheerfulg!
Ha!
I think Sandy looks great in this dress. She took the classic advice of showing off one asset and one asset only – in this case, the legs. Cleavage and arms are decently covered.
Yeah, most (the vast majority) of women her age couldn’t pull it off. Even the ones with the legs don’t have the face for it.
But then, the vast majority of women of any age don’t look like her.
She’s working it like it owes her back rent.
I know. Through the entire movie I was thinking “hey, it’s a standard chick-in-panties approach, but this chick is my inspiration for the years to come.”
She looks amazing.
Want the number of her surgeon and her makeup person, stat.
She looks better than she has in forever.
And her trainer!
I’m thinking of a Seinfeld episode with those hands.
She looks good, her body is in perfect shape, but she has the old Katie Holmes (affliction?) style of posing, which is stand on the red carpet straight on and look as uncomfortably awkward as possible.
Stunning and sexy, despite Stella.
Sandra is bringing sexy back, she looks amazing! Go ahead Sandra…
Only a few weeks left till Gravity hits theatres in here in South Africa 😀
She looks beautiful, but that dress is way too short even with her too-die-for legs.
And, just my opinion, but those platforms look dated and ridiculous from the side view.
I love this lady like crazy!! she’s soo beautiful!!
I don’t love the shoes but she looks phenomenal. Her body is insane and that bold lipstick really is amazing on her.
She looks amazing!! Those legs!! Idc what a woman’s age, if you got it, flaunt it. She looks better than most 20 something’s.
See here, THIS is star power and class. The dress is okay, the shoes are okay. But it’s the way she presents. I suppose it helps that her film is by all accounts amazing and so why not be confident on the red carpet. But in general she is who she is and she’s fabulous.
And so are her legs.
Lovely and HOT AS HELL!!!! She looks amazing, fresh and young.
Now, that’s a great actress and role model. Slowly but surely climbing Hollywood ladder. She also lives private life and has been able to create a stable home for her son. Nothing crazy there! Sure, she was married to that moron Jesse something but that could have happened to anyone. Just an episode. Now at the age of almost 50, she has it all
Wow. She is stunning. Her makeup and hair are better than I’ve ever seen them.
SHE BETTER WIN THAT OSCAR! Oops, sorry for yelling. I LOVED that movie and she carried the entire thing on her back. Incredible actress. Just try to imagine others pulling that off. Ha!
She looks beautiful. Love the hair and makeup, and her skin looks flawless.
I love that Kaiser did not let Stella take credit for that look. Worst “designer” ever. Sad that she takes up design fame space while any number of truly talented designers languish on the sidelines, unknown.
OMG this a thousand times!
Sandra looks amazing.
That may be the only Stella dress I’ve ever liked so it figures it was copied from someone else. I wish the sleeves weren’t sheer though.
I too love the dark lipstick and Sandy’s fabulous gams. I think Sandy’s basically a lock for an Oscar nom at this point.
I like the dress on her, it suits her. Should have been a tad longer, she has great legs, but at almost 50, time to lower the hem. I love her hair color and style and her makeup. She really has great hair and knows how to change it up, rarely gets the hair wrong like Nicole Kidman and it doesn’t always look the same like Jennifer Aniston. Her 40 something actress peers could learn from Sandra’s hair success.
Yes, she should run a hair school.
Really.
She looks amazing and I really like the dress. I typically don’t care for Stella McCartney’s style but it works.
Love Sandy but so sad she fell victim to the style mess that is Stella No-Talent McCartney!
She looks FANTASTIC.
I’m gonna go ahead and call Gravity a classic. I haven’t felt so much awe watching a movie since I was a kid watching the Matrix.
I find Sandra enormously likeable, and I’m glad she’s having a great year.
As for the ‘pull your skirt down, you’re fifty now’, I sincerely don’t get it. Being sexual and sexy doesn’t stop at 30 – at least I don’t plan to.
Oh i so so so agree – after i saw it all i wanted to do was watch it again. I dont think i took a breath during the entire movie. Some scenes were the most beautiful visuals in a film i have ever seen. it was incredible.
Best I’ve ever seen her look: Great hair, great makeup, great dress, great body, great legs! I’m officially jealous.
Agreed! She looks amazing!
Why exactly should she lower her hemline? I don’t get it! She looks great.
She is hot!! She’s going to be 50 in July. God bless. She looks ah-may-zzziiinng!!!
She looks gorgeous in this dress! I love her acting & her in general!! Maybe Kanye should hook up with Stella Mc? Wouldn’t that show be a hoot! Lol 🙂
She is beautiful and one of the most sympathetic actresses. However the dress is too short and décolletage is too tight- she looks like ham before cooking.
Don´t like her legs either but she was born with them so what to do? and now kill me for my opinion!
Just curious, why do you not like her legs?
The most important thing about beauty is proportion, in Sandras case she has very tiny face , thin upper part of body and suddenly those huge legs are coming out. it is like two part from different bodies are making one person.Same with Katie Holmes, Rihanna, Beyonce, Mischa Burton.
and Alicia Keys , Nelly Furtado , Christina Aquilera has some very bad legs too but what to do? You are born like that.
They look in proportion to the rest of her body to me…
I think most women have legs like that, most of us don’t have pin straight legs because women tend to put on weight in their lower parts of their body while men put on weight in their mid section. It’s genetics and helps with birthing children.
Sandra’s legs look great to me. They’re muscular but obviously not everyone’s taste, especially those who like model pins which is unrealistic for most women.
Strangely enough, I always hear women complain about this. Men seem to like curvy legs/thighs while (some) women obsess over straight skinny legs.
Strange world we live in.
Marta, her legs are toned and beautiful. Perhaps it is your thinking that is distorted and out of proportion.
perhaps, perhaps,perhaps.
I like Cyd Charisse legs.
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amazing….but should I feel bad that every time i see the Gravity movie promo on tv i laugh??
“ahhhh….blaaah AWWWWWW ahaaa awnhhhhhhhhhhh george HELP ME! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I’m LOST IN SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
clooney: “Bullock, I told ya women should NEVER work in space!
Stella McCartney is so fug. How that “designer” has kept her gig going for so many years is beyond me.
She started out really strong at Chloe. Everybody loved the aesthetic there. But as soon as she fooled the Gucci/YSL group into backing her own label we all realised just how untalented she was.
It was actually Phoebe Phillo’s (her 2nd in command at Chloe and obviously Chief designer) talent Stella was riding on.
Case in point. Any time fish stix Gweneth Pountry looks foul its ALWAYS Stella McCartney.
She looks amazing here. I’ve thought she had a banging bod since I saw her in Miss Congeniality. I love her legs especially. Has anyone seen Gravity yet? Is it as nerve wracking as it looks?
Bullock is a very beautiful woman with great legs who could ooze sexiness.. but her ‘tomboyishness’ is very palatable in her pose her…very athletical pose (How her shoulders stands are typicval of athletes), like she doesn’t know what to make with her arms and how to stand with that elegant feminine girlish poise
I’ve always had a girl-crush on Sandra; was made when she married idiot Jesse James. She seems like a sweet woman, and very intelligent with a great sense of humor.
She looks BEYOND Amazing. Love her and love how she has made a life for herself and her son outside Hollywood.
Saw Gravity-loved it and loved her. My hands were sore from my death grip on the armrests. She is phenomenal in it.
She looks fantastic! Good for her, I’m so glad she’s back in the spotlight again. She’s one of my faves….
In general, I don’t really like lace designs, but I sort of like this one–but it’s so basic. I guess we should give Sandra props for picking one of the few looks that was actually fitted properly–unless she hired someone to fit it properly to her body.
I swear, almost every single design Stella had on that runway had a bulge SOMEWHERE—either in the crotch or at the hip areas.
And Good God–Marchesa was even worse. I don’t understand how she took what was a long, flowing, soft, and very sort of grecian-but-with-tulle aesthetic (long flowing soft little dresses) and turned them into ice skater fug AGAIN. Kerry Washington got the best dress out of them all.
She looks lovely despite the dress. It’s pretty ‘blah’, but she’s gorgeous and she’s aging wonderfully.
Fresh, Pretty!
She’s gorgeous and the dress is perfect on her. Those legs. What the heck is she doing to keep them that amazing?
She looks stunning!