Salma Hayek wore a revealing McQueen to the ES Theatre Awards: tacky or fine?

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Here are some photos from last night’s Evening Standard Theater Awards in London. The biggest fashion moment came courtesy of Salma Hayek, who was there to present an award to the people who presented the McQueen Savage Beauty show.

Sigh… quite honestly, Salma Hayek and I have similarly-sized breasts. In the past, I’ve worked cleavage-y stuff and the low cut styles make me feel sexy. Ladies who are well-endowed know that it’s a double-edged sword though. One woman’s “sexy” is another woman’s “trashy.” While I’m sure Salma was feeling sexy in this McQueen gown, I tend to believe she looks tacky as hell with this much skin showing. The gown simply isn’t flattering for a curvy, busty woman. Beyond that… I kind of don’t even think her boobs look all that great here. And I kind of think that she wore something so revealing because her face looks different/weird.

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Here’s Nicole Kidman, also in Alexander McQueen. She loves lace dresses so much, right? For a lace dress, it’s okay. Not great.

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Kate Beckinsale in Alberta Feretti. I love the dress, actually. This was her first red carpet since the news came out about her separation from Len Wiseman. She was not wearing her ring, for those of you on Ring Watch.

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I can’t even tell you how little I’m feeling for James McAvoy these days, now that he’s completely shorn. My crush increases with his hair growth. He wore Burberry. He also took home the Best Actor award for The Ruling Class.

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Gillian Anderson looks fantastic.

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Burberry. SHE IS SO PRETTY. I’m meh on the dress though.

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Photos courtesy of WENN.

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  1. Jaded says:

    Inflatable Barbie.

    • Dyla says:

      Correction. Over inflated Barbie. Careful me hearties, she’s gonna blow…

    • LeAnn Stinks says:

      I cannot believe that she has the nerve to claim those volleyballs are real and that she prayed for them-LOL!! How stupid does she think the public is?

      They should be dubbed the “Man Made Mega Mammaries.”

      • Steph O says:

        My engorged nursing breasts just found their celebrity doppelgänger.

      • Hally says:

        Not nursing but that’s what my boobs look like, naturally, if they’ve been smushed into a dress. And i’m thin everywhere else. So I tend to believe Salma when she says they’re real. I’m absolutely horrified for what my pregnancy boobs will potentially look like.

      • LeAnn Stinks says:

        Sorry, not buying those puppies are real in the least, and I have natural double D’s and are petite.

        Those things defy gravitational force, tape alone could NEVER hold, at least 10 pounds, of natural breast tissue up like that. Also the shape looks unnatural, the edges are too round not to be ridiculously sized implants.

  2. Locke Lamora says:

    Anne-Marie Duff and James MacAvoy are my favourite celebrity couple. I wish she would get more exposure because she’s an amazing actress. I’d say even better than him.

    None of these dresses look good, but Salma takes the crown as the tackiest. Are her breasts real? Because they look quite fake in that dress.

    • Azurea says:

      They are fake. She used to be much, much smaller, and looked wonderful. In Desperado she was perfect! Looks to me like she recently got even more inflated. They look painful, and full of stretchmarks. Msybe she’s in the early stages of pregnancy? She doesn’t look too well.

    • Azurea says:

      They are fake. She used to be much, much smaller, and looked wonderful. In Desperado she was perfect! Looks to me like she recently got even more inflated. They look painful, and full of stretchmarks. Maybe she’s in the early stages of pregnancy? She doesn’t look too well.

    • Bae says:

      Yeah! I can’t believe the writer didn’t even mention Anne-Marie. She’s awesome. Thsi isn’t her best look though,

      • Holmes says:

        YAAS, Anne-Marie Duff is the business. She certainly deserves better than this dress (one that actually fits would be a great start). I know it’s an unpopular opinion but I’ve never been overly impressed with McAvoy, looks or talent wise.

      • tealily says:

        James McAvoy + Anne-Marie Duff 4 lyfe!!!!!!!!!! They are one of my all time favorite couples forever and always.

      • Jib says:

        I thought he was with Reese Witherspoon. Reese making a funny face.

    • Pandy says:

      I used to think she was real but not since seeing the girls in this dress. No one is that naturally round without a round implant. I know – mine are fake and huge like that. I was always well-endowed before and never round like that. I’m wondering if she and the hubby are breaking up? Look at me dresses like that usually foretell …

      • antipodean says:

        Well spotted Pandy, I wondered that too. Getting the girls out front and centre is quite often the harbinger of relationship problems. Maybe it’s on a par with advertising the goods, or putting them all in the front window, as my mother used to say. Whatever happens with her and hubs du jour, she certainly won’t be hurting for cash ever again. I always thought her husband looks like he has his face on inside out, so I guess looks were never the attraction? Maybe it’s time for an upgrade?

  3. Hawkeye says:

    Doesn’t look so much sexy as painful.

    My best dressed are Nicole and Gugu. (And Gillian Anderson looks great, no matter!)

    • I Choose Me says:

      They look really painful. I have sympathetic pains just looking at her.

      I actually love what Nicole is wearing and I love the print on Kate Beckingsale’s dress as well. Agree that Gillian does look fantastic as does Gugu sans outfit.

      • Hawkeye says:

        LOL I Choose Me! I think Gugu is one of those people who elevates anything she wears, so an okay dress looks better. I also like the print on Kate’s dress, but the construction of the dress is off to me. I am punching myself in the face though over Nicole Kidman’s dress, I love it so much!

  4. antipodean says:

    Has Selma had her bolt ons reinflated? They look painful, and are such an unnatural shape. Compare them to Gillian Anderson’s cleavage. Selma usually does better than this. She has also had her face “refreshed”, it is good work, but work all the same. Why do these beautiful women allow themselves to be butchered?

    • zinjojo says:

      They do look painful, they look like over-inflated balloons, and it’s so tacky, her dress doesn’t even cover the boob tape!

      Coincidentally, last night I showed my husband a completely different article in the Daily Fail (about Hercules, the grizzly bear that lived with a couple in Scotland), and he pointed out the picture of Salma on the side, and remarked about how awful she looks. My teenage son then came over to see (talk about boobs gets a teenager to move!) and even he shook his head and thought she looked tacky. When your boobs are too much for a teenage boy, it’s time to rethink what you consider “sexy”.

    • Becks says:

      Those implants are the size of her head! Not a good look.
      With her wealth , you would think she would have access to the best plastic surgeons.

    • qwerty says:

      She actually rarely does better than this lately…not sure what happened but this is not her first mistake of this kind. She looks like a pornstar. And the boobs are terribly fake-looking. She probably had her implants replaced lately and went for a bigger size.

      • Aren says:

        She really has never dressed differently, and she was rumored to have a career thanks to sleeping around with producers.
        She somehow managed to make the USA market believe that she was super intelligent, but she’s just another Kim K.

      • Bridget says:

        Yes, that’s why Salma Hayek is famous. Her intelligence.

      • qwerty says:

        Aren, I actually saw an old vid recently where Salma, Beyonce and …. someone else? were talking about women’s rights before Chime for change and was impressed by how thoughtful and articulate she was (whereas Bey sounded lame and stupid according to half the comments). I don’t know much about her but she’s not vapid. Kimmy couldn’t even read half the words she used let alone come up with them on her own.

    • SydneySnider says:

      Her chest looks horrid, just like her new face. That reminds me – my Tupperware cupboard needs sorting…

    • TwistBarbie says:

      Ha ha so you’re not buying the story she tells about praying to god or the virgin Mary or whatever and then magically sprouting giant tupperware bowl boobs?

  5. Maude says:

    Gillian Anderson is a vampire. Mulder and Scully should look into it. I swear, she gets prettier each year. It is amazing.

    • mia girl says:

      This. She and Paul Rudd are clearly the leaders of the Hollywood vampire coven.

    • lucy2 says:

      She really does – she’s one of those lucky women who looks better with age.

      • LeAnn Stinks says:

        That is how I feel about Rob Lowe. I am convinced that he is Dorian Gray. He gets hotter, and even younger looking, with age.

    • qwerty says:

      Yep, saw her in the Jamie Dornan serial killer series and it was freaky how youthful she looks. At the same time, its not fake and you can clearly see shes a middle-aged woman and not trying to look 20… amazing. Hated the freaking silk blouses though lol

    • Jessica says:

      I love Gillian Anderson. She is aging well.

  6. Lambda says:

    Noo Salma!
    I don’t even see tacky cleavage, I see chest-attached butt cheeks.

  7. Tash says:

    Gugu and Gillian are gorgeous. I’m glad my love, James, won! 🙂

  8. Green Is Good says:

    Nice to see Salma take the implants out for a walk. (Which nobody said).

  9. JenniferJustice says:

    Selma’s boob tape showing so obvious and in more than one spot is supes tacky!

    Gugu is breathtaking!

    Nicole’s dress is gorgeous!

    Not caring for McAvoy’s date’s metallic dress. Have to be careful with that material – it’s like lame`- have to have a concave tummy or it makes you like you have a pooch belly.

    • noway says:

      I thought it was boob tape too, but I close up looked on her boobs to see stretch marks someone mentioned. which I don’t see, but I think that is a shadow. Whether from the boob or dress who knows. I am big chested too, and that is such a big Don’t. How anyone noticed anything else is beyond me. I had to go back and look at her face too because someone mentioned her face overdone. Maybe she wore that dress to hide the bad botox, as really all you see is boob.

  10. Leah says:

    random group of people for a theatre award.

  11. LAK says:

    This is the best pic of Kate Beckinsale (sp?) from this event. All other pics show her big cheek fillers. It’s really sad and I hope her face settles quickly.

    • kai says:

      She hasn’t looked like herself in years. Did you see her in the “Total Recall”-remake? Her face didn’t move, it was freaky. It’s just horrible.

      • LAK says:

        I’ve thought for years that her face stopped moving when she moved to LA.

        I’d become used to her immobile face. These cheek fillers though…..eek!!

  12. Arock says:

    Not tackier than kieth Urbans soul patch and skater highlights.

    • Seszie says:

      I’m dying!! I’m legit dying. Thank you for making this girl smile on a horrible Monday. Stupid Monday meetings. 😕

    • Aurelia says:

      I bet keith still goes in for the frosting cap where hairdressers in the 80’s would pull tiny strands of hair through 200 little holes in the weird cap. He has frosting like my mother used to have.

  13. Louise says:

    They really look like they’re about to rupture. Too big, too pushed up, too fake.

  14. BendyWindy says:

    I really like Kate Beckinsale’s dress.

    • Lambda says:

      I so love it, too. I’m an art ignoramus, but it looks inspired by some Versailles interior wall panels, no?

      • LAK says:

        The designer says was inspired by the Italian Renaissance.

        Versailles was remodelled and expanded towards the end of the period that covers the official Italian Renaissance. It’s a hodge podge of various styles, some of which are inspired by or were actual artists from the Italian Renaissance.

  15. littlemissnaughty says:

    Excuse me, whose blood is Gillian Anderson drinking and why won’t she share??? She look effin’ gorgeous.

    Salma looks … well, like she’s dressed as Sexy Billionaire Witch for Halloween. It’s the hair and makeup though, not the dress. I have quite the girls myself but I’m not a woman who can pull off cleavage. It just doesn’t go with my personality at all, if that makes sense. So I know the struggle to find clothes that fit well everywhere but … I mean, I can’t have everything tailored. She could. This is not a woman of limited means so she must’ve done this on purpose. Bit much for my taste.

  16. Jag says:

    Salma seems to have had cleavage and face work done. I think the dress would have been better with less cleavage showing.

    Nicole looks amazing! I don’t like Kate’s dress. Gillian and Gugu look great as well. The rest are meh.

    • Aurelia says:

      Yeah, salma’s husband must have a new younger side piece. So she gets bigger, traumatized tits and a new face.

  17. AJ says:

    What a great looking red carpet! Salma’s painful looking water balloons are they only eyesore and that’s amazing!

  18. Nicolette says:

    Oh Salma. That’s not sexy it’s vulgar. Those oiled up balloons look ready to explode. Why is it so hard for a woman who is married to a gazillionaire to find and wear a gorgeous, elegant haute couture gown?

    • jinni says:

      Haute couture isn’t really made with bodies like Salma’s in mind, so it’s any wonder that most of those outfits don’t look that good on her figure. Like Kim K, I think Salma used to dress better before she got with her husband. But since both are with guys that are into high fashion, they wear clothes by these couture designers that don’t make clothing for the curvy.

      Also, I find it annoying that if a flat chested woman wore this outfit she would not be called vulgar or accused of showing too much skin. Those comments only seem to be leveled at well endowed women. I don’t get why a small breasted woman showing off loads of skin (ex. Kate Hudson) are labeled classy and tastefully sexy, but when a large breasted woman wears something that daring, she gets labeled all kinds of negative things. That double standard always reminded me of the how men can walk around shirtless without a problem, but when a woman does it’s a problem. What do people have against woman with large breasts? Oh and I doubt it’s because she has implants because Hudson also has implants and no one says anything about it.

      • Nicolette says:

        Well first of all with her husband’s money she could have things custom made to fit her body couldn’t she? Having a curvy figure myself I know it’s what I would do. And yes you’re right there is a double standard when someone who has ample assets exposes a lot is prone to criticism whereas a flat chested woman is not. I can’t say why that is but I’ll admit I would have a different opinion if someone with a flatter chest had such a plunging neckline. Salma has gorgeous cleavage and has worn things in the past that looked great, but this just squeezes her girls together in an unflattering way. As someone with large breasts myself I’m not hating on her for having them but sorry this looks tacky.

      • jinni says:

        @Nicollette: Considering how a lot of these clothing are cut, they’d have to change the whole shape of a lot of those dresses to accommodate Salma’s curves. Plus, I think her husband uses her as free model/publicity for the fashion houses that his company owns, so it wouldn’t make sense for her to only wear custom clothes instead of a piece from one of that seasons collection.

        I give you this, her boobs do look a little painfully squeezed. But even if they weren’t so squashed, people would still be complaining about them just because they aren’t all covered up, which I find unfair.

      • swack says:

        @Nicolette – I agree that the dress just something to her girls and it’s not flattering. You can show cleavage and skin but this is just awkward looking.

      • COSquared says:

        Her hubby, Something Arnault owns LVMH. Under the LVMH umbrella is McQ, Dior, LV of course, Givenchy to name a few. No excuse to not have a proper couture gown.

      • Elle says:

        I get what you are saying. That came to mind when I commented. People did comment on Kate Hudson when she got breast implants. But they didn’t scrutinize her. We did talk about it when Jen Aniston showed a lot of her chest in that burgundy suit, and she was mostly praised for looking natural. I think it’s more the unnatural and/or obvious look of it. They are pushed up very high and very round and it is where your eyes are automatically drawn. Unfortunately the bigger and/or more unnatural looking your breasts are the more people take notice, mainly due to mere size and appearance. This is definitely unfair. However, when the term ‘well-endowed’ is used to describe big breasted women, it inadvertently implys that small chested women are ‘lacking’. So small chested women often recieve the sentiment of ‘having less’ therefore people ‘notice less’. I presume that doesn’t always feel great either but it is in definite contrast to the typical: Whoa! Attitude to big boobs.

      • Maxime DuCamp says:

        I think it’s an instance of just because you physically fit into something, doesn’t mean that you should wear it and its corollary “all things do not look good on all people.” I don’t think it’s breast size shaming to say that as a general rule large breasted women tend not to look their best in such a dramatic plunging neckline (and it’s frequently not a good look on absolutely flat-chested to the point where you can see their breastbones–a la Lupita in her otherwise gorgeous gown that she wore when she won her Oscar). What isn’t fair is that at least in the world of haute couture fashion, the range of body shapes that are taken into consideration in the design stages is severely limited.

        That being said, as others have mentioned Salma Hayek has the resources to have something custom designed and fitted so she really doesn’t have any excuse. And if that’s the look that she likes and makes her happy, more power to her, but like a lot of others here, I don’t find it flattering AT ALL and yes, it does cross over into the “vulgar/trashy” category. It may not be fair that a smaller breasted woman could pull it off without being called vulgar, but life isn’t fair.

  19. Chaucer says:

    Are uou guys going to cover Gemma Arterton? We never get news on her. She’s beautiful and talented, she won an award last night!

  20. Chinoiserie says:

    I usually like dresses that are the color of Gugu’s I wonder why I do not here. Maybe the color does not suit her well. But she looks nice but I have noticed before that her dress choices could be better.

    I do not know what Selma was thinking.

  21. Elle says:

    Did Coco style her? This really looks like something she would wear.
    If she wanted to go for something classier the neckline would have to go up to the centre of her chest. She would still have lots of cleavage to show, and it would look much more flattering.

  22. Jayna says:

    Salma looks horrible.

  23. Minxx says:

    OMG.. Salma. She looks ready to explode.. in a close-up you can see stretch marks 🙁 Why would any woman do this to herself is beyond me. Someone said she looks like she’s smuggling couple of bold men to the event. LOL. But seriously, I’ve never seen her looking so desperate for attention and so tacky.
    Gillian is a goddess, seriously. She must have a portrait of herself stashed away somewhere – she looks better and better every year! Kate looks very overdone and princesse-like but I forgive her, at least she looks pretty and fresh. And happy! Unloading Len must have done her a lot of good. 😉
    Oh.. James and Anne Marie.. lovely couple, so low-key, so in love (though she should invest in some good undergarments to lift her girls but she probably doesn’t give a damn about it and she’s still fabulous anyway, so I give her a pass).
    I absolutely HATE Nicole’s dress – too much going on and (on other photos) her neck is so sqeezed, she has a wattle of an old lady. But she looked happy and genuinely in love with Keith, so that’s good.

  24. Jess says:

    Love Kate’s dress, even though she has always inspired a total “eh” from me (before this dress nothing she has ever done/worn inspired me to have an opinion either way on her). And Gugu is so beautiful and awesome but I don’t care for her dress. As for Selma, her boobs are definitely bigger than they used to be and they just look so painful here. I get that it’s hard to dress big boobs and not look tacky, so I don’t mind her wanting to show them off, but she’s got to show them off in a flattering dress and in a way that doesn’t make me grab my own (much smaller) boobs in sympathy!

  25. Martika says:

    She is married to a billionaire yet she wears the tackiest stuff. Money can’t buy you taste.

  26. lizzie says:

    salma hayek looks like an insane person. WHYYYYYYYY

  27. Andrea says:

    I don’t remember her boobs being that large, when did she get implants?

  28. Spugzbunny says:

    I did not realise Anne-Marie Duff was James McAvoy’s wife! I like him a lot more now. She always come across as a very fun and down to earth person.

  29. mia girl says:

    Shorn or not shorn, my love for McAvoy can not be thwarted. It’s true love, and true love lasts forever.

    So happy he won. I desperately wanted to take a trip across the pond to see him in that production but it was not to be. Instead, I’m stuck with watching Victor Frankenstein this weekend.

  30. Mimz says:

    I don’t see a big difference in Salma’s face, whatever she did was subtle. Not botox, I don’t think
    No comments on the boobs since I have mixed feelings, but I don’t think she has implants she’s always had them big.
    I love Nicole Kidman’s dress, that pattern on the dress is gorgeous. But she’s the good half of the Botox Couple here, Now Keith … sigh… so sad.
    Hmm Gillian is my forever crush. Gugu looks like she’s wearing a doily dress. I don’t like it at all, although she’s such a beautiful woman.
    Kate B looks meh to me.

  31. Eleonor says:

    Salma: that is something Kim K. would wear,but with more fake tan.
    Do the maths.

  32. Nikki says:

    Salma looks very tacky to me, and even Gillian looks a bit tacky.

  33. Eggland's worst says:

    Unless those are made of air, that woman needs an Advil asap. Her back must hurt something fierce.

  34. lucy2 says:

    Salma looks like she has to be in pain, those things look ready to explode. I don’t understand how anyone could look in the mirror and think that looks good.

    • boredblond says:

      Mirrors? I’m convinced a lot of celebs don’t have them..they hire people to tell them they look fabulous instead. She sure looks over-inflated…Tom Brady would be horrified, hehehe

  35. rice_bunny says:

    Her boobs seem bigger than usual, but I don’t think it’s implants…probably a push-up bra or she’s lactating.
    (If only she could donate some of her boobage to me…she got melons and I got pancakes lol)

    • TwistBarbie says:

      Noooo! I find flat chested women incredibly sexy!!! Like, a billion times sexier than those goofy globes up there,

  36. serena says:

    I love Kate’s dress!! On the other hand, what the hell was James McAvoy’s wife wearing? It looked like she had no boob support and the dress was the wrong size.. all in all not a good look at all, she needs to improve her dressing game.

    • ichsi says:

      Anne-Marie Duff often goes bra-less and I prefer those naturally perky breasts to balloon tits. Also James looks great with hair or without. What a beautifully shaped head this man has!

  37. Holmes says:

    My boobs hurt just looking at Salma. I don’t know if they’re actually fake, but they LOOK fake. If they are, she should get a refund.

    Gillian looks nice. Everyone else looks like they’re wearing some kind of tablecloth or curtain.

  38. Emma says:

    totally thought Anne Marie Duff was Reese Witherspoon

  39. tabasco says:

    I am also well-endowed like Salma and am wearing a cream column dress for a holiday gala that has a low cut neck – – except I’m having the neckline on mine taken to the tailor and sewn closed a few inches higher so as to avoid the boob explosion look! Salma easily has the resources to have done the same.

  40. Lisa says:

    Damn. Gillian Anderson will never stop aging in reverse.

  41. Nayru says:

    Her breasts looks so ridiculously squeezed and ready to explode I am feeling a combination of sympathetic pain and nausea. For whatever reason the looks is particularly unsavory for me.

  42. siri says:

    That’s quite a vulgar look on Salma. And those breasts look so unnatural as well. It’s a pitty since she’s such a beautiful woman. I do find Nicole’s dress interesting, but would prefer the colors the other way around…dark dress, light birds.

  43. jammypants says:

    Gugu <3

    Salma looks ultra tacky.

  44. Miran says:

    I’m with you, it looks tacky in this case.

  45. Chantal says:

    I am surprised, I hadhad kate’s dress as D&G.

  46. Deedee says:

    One of Salma’s worse red carpet moments.

  47. Debutante says:

    HOLY CRAP ! ! Selma’s boobs are out of control !!!

    I truly believe her husband loves, loves, loves big boobs. Ever since she married him, those things have gotten bigger and bigger and have been on display and propped up like never before.

    Once again, proving money does not buy class !

  48. Debutante says:

    Oh, and Gillian Anderson kinda looks like the Joker .

  49. maggie says:

    Omg. Such a lack of class.

  50. Carol says:

    Salma’s dress is tacky but if I had boobs like hers I’d be wearing outfits like that all the time – at work, at church, to the market, at my little niece’s ballet recital etc. I’ve got no boobs – well little raisins that are beginning to mate with gravity – so I envy any woman whose boobs can be used as floaters across the Atlantic.

  51. Naddie says:

    I think she does look tacky, but I also wonder if her chest was small, how would my perception change. Are boobs unfairly sexualized? Really, as a new feminist, I need help on that one. But since it’s Salma Hayek, I really think it’s about being as tacky as possible.

    • Mrs. Darcy says:

      I kind of feel the same way – like we’d be saying how elegant it was if she had no boobs. But at this point she knows how to dress them, and she chose to showcase them in a super tacky looking way. I know it must suck to have to deal with it and it’s obviously not easy but it can be done more tastefully.

      • Mrs. Darcy says:

        edit: Having looked closer at the dress, the shiny white embroidery, the clown ruffle, I take it back, it would be tacky on anyone, so I don’t feel as bad!

  52. Mrs. Darcy says:

    I had written a comment about Gillian being a vampire who drinks sexy blood but then read all of the other comments that beat me to it! She looks insane, how does she do it? Meh to the rest, Kate Beckinsale looks pretty hair and face wise but her dress is too scarfy/napkin-y. Anne Marie Duff – her dress is a bit too big up top, otherwise it could have really dazzled. Nicole, no. Salma, the boob cleavage pageant is down the street.

  53. Pondering thoughts says:

    If Hayek’s dress had covered her bosom by a hand-width more then it would be a lot better. I feel like they constructed this dress for a woman with only 15% of Hayek’s bosom.
    Otherwise she looks great.