I had a friend who, right out of college, decorated her apartment in full-on Ikea. She bought a zebra-striped rug which looked exactly like this mess than Paula Patton wore last night to the Grammys. Right? She wore a budget, cheap zebra-striped rug-dress. It’s by Nicolas Jebran and I just can’t even start with her style. It would be one thing if Paula just liked to dress cheap. It would be one thing if Paula just liked to dress to show off her body in the tackiest way possible. It would be one thing if Paula didn’t understand how to get her red carpet gowns tailored appropriately for her body. But she puts all of those awful elements together, and we get this, over and over on the red carpet. Tacky meets try-hard meets LET YOUR BOOBS BREATHE, GIRL. One nice thing: I like her earrings.
As for Robin Thicke… I was happy that the Grammy producers didn’t let Robin just do a version of “Blurred Lines” by himself, that they put him with Chicago for a tribute. The problem? Chicago still sounds really good (right?) and you could hear that Robin’s voice is rather weak.
Speaking of shady couples (cough), here are Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz. Alicia wore Armani Prive. Is this tacky? I find it tacky. I loved her voice and she has one of the best voices in music today. I have no desire to see most of her sternum. Also: Spanx much?
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Naaahh. Yall dont say! Paula Patton looking a tipsy plumb mess at an awards show! No! I reject this phenomena
I thought they both actually looked good. And I’ll add the obligatory, “RRoarr”.
They looked great on the red carpet, these are just unflattering photos. Pink was the exact reverse, ok in the photos but a manly mess on film.
Agreed.
I think Paula looks good, I had to look at the dress a few times to see if my eyes were deceiving me because I think it was a good look. I like the dress on her. Katie Perry is tacky tacky tacky, IMHO.
Tell me that after last night, the pressure to excuse his tacky sexual leering and her bad choices in husbands and clothes is over.
Is paula ever not try-hard at such events?
Nope. When I first saw her in “Mirrors”, I didn’t know who she was and thought “What a beautiful woman”. That got totally crushed by her attitude and character. Can’t stand her now, she’s so unbelievably try-hard!
A cheap couple with a cheap fashion style. If they didn’t have millions of dollars to thinly veil their trashiness, they’d fit right in with the couples you see on Jerry Springer. Paula Patton is very attractive but she screams cheap and tacky. She has bad taste in men and clothing. I get the feeling that Robin Thicke probably likes the stuff she wears though. He seems like the kind of sleazy guy who likes a woman in anything tight that shows off butt and cleavage.
Her dress is also *so* unflattering. It makes her look pregnant. And why does he always pose with his arm sticking out like that?
I was just going to post about that. Why does Robin Thicke always stand like some kind of stiff Sears catalog mannequin?
@stef my exact first thought! Why does he stick his arm out like that every single time like he just can’t contain his billowing chest hair or something?! Eck! No matter how much he showers I have a feeling he will always look greesy.
I agree that she’s a pretty woman, and I also agree that she is tacky. it’s like her fashion sense is stuck in the late 80s.
Just adding a ditto to each and every one of the above comments.
Ditto to above comments, as well.
The only thing that could have made that dress worse was if it had a feathered bottom… I actually half expected to see feathers as I scrolled down. I gotta say …even though this dress is a hot zebra, tiger headed mess, it’s a MILLION times better than that ‘boobs on a plate’ dress she wore a few days ago..
Please let Paula and Robin’s 15 minutes end already.
Amen.
ITA! It’s way past his 15 minutes. I cannot stand that he (Mark Anthony too)always wears sunglasses inside. He looks more tool than cool.
Hate the dress, full stop. What’s with the lion? Wolf? Bear? heads at the neckline? Is it a zebra stripe dress or what? Makes no sense. She could be so beautiful if she would only develop some taste…or hire some taste.
My real question is: why does robin thicke always stand with his arm out like his bicep makes it impossible for him to put his arm down??
“My real question is: why does robin thicke always stand with his arm out like his bicep makes it impossible for him to put his arm down??”
Maybe it’s because he’s used to having their side piece on the other side of him. Force of habit. 🙂
LOL!
They both look bad. She has terrible style.
V4Real….your comment just made me actually laugh!
I totally needed that. You are too funny! 🙂
I also am wondering about that – he looks like a 6 year old ballet student who hasn’t figured out how to stand at the barre yet. Why does he do it? Does he think he has a fat arm or something? It’s a mystery.
And another one! 6 year old at the barre…awesome! 😀
I will be glad when this couple goes back into obscurity.
Her dress looks like it was made from his Beetlejuice suit
Of course she looks tacky. I’m being serious. Isn’t that her thing? She’s trying to be tacky, no?
And AK is a beautiful woman, but this dress is horrible! Spanx give away (besides the shaping) is you can see where it pinches into her thighs and you have a small skin ripple.
Funny you caught that, good call! I had to go back and look again.
The dreaded skin ripple…always a giveaway on the thigh slimmer. Her spanx are definitely too small. Sigh, what an embarrassing way to tank a look.
Why are these people famous when we can all do it so much better?
Robin Thicke needs to take off his shades…he looks STUPID!
Paula Patton is dressing awfully to let us forget about how weak her relationship is I think, and her husband’s wandering dong maybe.
Yuck and yuck.
Cheap, tacky, try-hard, tasteless–I could go on and on.
That dress looks awful on Alicia. She has an amazing bod and this gown ruins everything. As does her date. Release the curves and ditch the douchebag!
Robin’s body language SCREAMS that he’s done…
Won’t be long before the divorce announcement comes…
Cue appearance on VH-1’s One Hit Wonders in 3…2…1
I think it’s probably tiger print and those are tiger heads at the top, no? At any rate, *blech*.
Paula – horrible
Alicia – too hippy. Too be fair a lot of women at the Grammys wore tight dresses that made them look bigger.
Robin – it’s night time lose the sunglasses.
Swizz Beatz – Alicia cut his allowance so he couldn’t get a good suit?
E! Fashion Police is going to have a field day tonight. They kiss up to them and say they look marvelous but they ripped them apart on the show.
I’m so ashamed….
I actually (may all the fashion gods forgive me) kinda sorta dig Paula’s dress. Or rather, kinda could see what the designer meant and think with some MASSIVE tweaks, it could be a cool look. Get rid of the sheer bits, make the whole shebang solid, find a fabric that has better drape and stretch. The idea of white tiger instead of the traditional colors is a cool one, and not an animal print you see often – just wish they hadn’t just made it look like bad zebra instead of white tiger (which, with the heads at the neckline, I’m assuming is what it was meant to be. But yeah, with edits and tweaks, there could be something cool.
To be fair though, at this moment I have 6 yards of hot pink & black zebra silky faux ‘fur’/terry on my sewing table and the plan to make myself a cozy kimono style houserobe to putter about the house in the evenings, so I freely confess my style is highly questionable.
I watched the Robin Thicke/Chicago performance last night. I’d forgotten about Chicago and it was fun to sing along with their amazing hits. And boy, did it show the difference between the real musicians of years ago and the talentless “pop” stars we have today. The difference between the strength of Chicago’s singing and playing, with Robin’s weak try hard voice was startling. And I thought it was tacky how Robin grandstanded the performance like he was Elvis, or Liberace-he should have shown more deference to the real talent on stage. When most songs we hear have been autotuned & produced to perfection and even live performances use enhanced vocals, it’s a good reminder that most singers (cough) today can’t really sing all that well.
Omg that zebra dress is awful!! Ick
This is probably not a nice thing to say, but Robin Thicke just gives me the heebie jeebies. I feel the need to shower after seeing a picture of him-it’s like the sleaze oozes out of his pores or something.
That’s Armani Privé on Alicia? Yikes.
The moment I saw Paula’s dress I read it as oh she is trying to promote blurred lines. The zebra stripes look like blurred lines….ugh. Anyways these two just look SO happy to finally be getting their 15 minutes and I’m sick of them already. I do love that song tho
I’m starting to love Paula Patton. She’s like the new Cher on the red carpet.
Hmmm I actually like Paula’s dress (*ducks to miss tomatoes being thrown at my direction *). 🙂 I mean, she has an amazing figure so why not show it off?
I like that she’s off the the wall a little with her clothes. I enjoy her in most of them. She looks fine in this dress.
Ok, this is going to sound nasty, but I don’t mean it that way at all; I’m really just trying to figure something out. Is it just me, or is there something kinda off about Paula Patton’s face? In every picture I ever see of her it looks like it was taken at a weird angle or something, and I’m starting to realize it’s just her, not the camera. Does she have a crooked smile? A janky eye? Or is it just that she is pathologically incapable of holding her head straight?
I don’t mean to insult her. I’m not perfect looking and I dig imperfections in others, too. It’s just driving me nuts that I know when I look at her something is not quite… symmetrical, maybe, and I can’t put my finger on what it is.
I’ve noticed her smile tends to extend further on the right side (her right, our left)
Paula looks beautiful.
I must say I always notice shade being thrown at beautiful women of colour by this writer.
I think Paula I SO gorgeous but I just don’t know about her fashion choices… and I’m pretty sure that after these last two dresses her terrified breasts are planning to make a break for it. Ouch.
I was with her until the wealthy driveway gate-topper doubling as her neckline. She’s a GORGEOUS woman and she’s got the body to pull off a bold dress. But zebra stripes AND lion heads? Dial it back, sweetie.
That dress makes her chest look like the entryway to the Ritz Carlton.
Why does Robin always hold out his arms like a muppet with sweaty armpits?
that zebra dress is f****** awesome.
I have to say NO to Paula’s dress…..too over the top and the zebra print just seems off to me. The print also takes too much away from seeing her, which is never a good thing. Definitely NO on this dress. Alicia’s hips look huge in this dress, which happened? Where did those hips come from? I know she’s small on top, so, hello….this dress just make her look VERY small on top, BIG on bottom, not a very attractive look for her. I love her, so I want her to look good, but this dress is a disaster, except for the color. I have seen her in the past singing in a red dress that really seemed to work for her……she needs a stylist to balance her body with the right clothing, and she can look amazing…..
Tacky & try hard? Maybe she wanted to be the sartorial version of her husband.