No celebrity is actually required to donate money to any kind of coronavirus relief or anything like that. Let’s start there, at the absolute bottom. Some celebrities are donating because they really care and want to make a differences and others because they’ve always seen themselves as the most important people when it comes to “raising awareness” and “putting a face” on an issue. What is actually needed is for billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates to get extremely involved, more involved than they’ve been so far. But in lieu of that, we have this: a charity auction spearheaded by Leonardo DiCaprio in which celebrities are donating clothes or “experiences” or movie props to benefit coronavirus relief. And since Gwyneth Paltrow is Gwyneth Paltrow, she half-assed it. She “donated” a dress which she is on-record saying is one of her least favorite looks.
Gwyneth Paltrow announced she is donating an old gown she wore to the Oscars to help provide coronavirus relief. The actress’ act of kindness is a part of the All-In charity challenge spearheaded by Leonardo DiCaprio that allows contestants a chance to win once-in-a-lifetime fan experiences by celebrities.
The gown Paltrow decided to auction off is a hand-beaded silver Calvin Klein dress she wore to the 2000 Oscars. The Goop founder explained she believed it was a “good one to donate” because its “end of the 90s” style has since made a comeback in the fashion industry. However, her recent comments contradict ones she made years earlier where she suggested the designer frock wasn’t very special, and in fact, quite boring.
Fans immediately blasted the star in the comments section of her Instagram announcement to remind her that she once listed the same dress on a list of her best and worst Oscars looks. In her own words, Paltrow formerly labeled the gown just “okay.”
“The first is the Calvin Klein. It’s an okay dress but not Oscars material. I chose it because I wanted to disappear that year,” the actress said.
“Bid on a dress. Are you joking. Just help people. I can not applaud you,” one fan chastised the star in her Instagram comments. “My uncle has started a covid challenge to GIVE to people in need. And you are talking about auctioning an old Calvin dress right now. Wake up!!”
“The dress you said was one of your worst, wasn’t Oscars worthy, and that you wore because you want to disappear that year?” questioned another.
Yeah, doesn’t she still have the candy-pink Ralph Lauren gown she wore to the Oscars the year she won? Peasants won’t get their grubby little hands on that. But I wonder why she didn’t donate the gown she always said was her worst choice, that “goth” McQueen that made her boobs look sad? Probably because that McQueen is worth a ton of money too – I mean, it’s vintage-y authentic McQueen and someone cool could have pulled it off. That Calvin Klein dress is just a basic little cocktail dress.
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I actually like that silver dress but I am quite into the vintage style anyways.
I really like it, too. I think it looks better on her than the pink one and the McQueen, too.
Of course.
Yeah. Of course. But what do we expect from a snob?
Selfish and shallow, gonna be selfish and shallow!
As I said before: the pandemic will lay bare everyone’s true nature, and you know Gwyneth is NEVER going to do anything like Sofia of Sweden. Never anything in the echelon of Angelina Jolie. Heck no on any real sacrifice.
A poster said she was on brand: this is so true
That goth McQueen dress is actually may fav even though it wasn’t working for her, but yeah, his archives are worth a fortune now. She’s def not giving that up!
Maybe they don’t get to keep all the dresses?
But yeah after watching The Goop Lab (a solid 3 episodes) I am convinced she is Valley Girl Empty Narcissist Brain so…
My favorite pastime has been watching physicists on YouTube comment on the energy episode of Goop Lab.
A Leo or an Affleck could do a lot of good by organizing and FUNDING a food delivery service to LA’s underserved and homebound communities. They can put on masks and help deliver themselves too. Instead we get this nonsense.
Leo has partnered with Laurene Powell Jobs (Steve) and Apple to organize America’s Food Fund, which is supporting the work of Feeding America and World Central Kitchen. He’s one of the organizers and was the face out front in the accompanying publicity. The Ford Foundation is on there now and Oprah also donated $1 million. Not sure how much everyone else donated, but when I looked at the GoFundMe page the day it started, the total was already over $12 million.
The CEO of Feeding America thanked Leo, Laurene, and Tim Cook for their generosity and support, so presumably Leo also made a donation.
Typical Goopy.
She does stay on brand.
A used dress for the peasants!
What I don’t get is… what’s the point of keeping those dresses? She won’t use the pink one again (and she has one from each year she attended, and from every awards show). I say Gwyneth, but I refer to all the actresses who don’t just get them for one day and then return them.
What’s their use? It’s not like they can wear them to a wedding or repeat them at another awards show (God forbid they should actually show an eco-conscience).
I don’t want to sound mean, and it’s super easy to hate on Gwyneth because she’s just SO in her bubble, but in this case, why not donate one of the far fancier dresses that might actually raise more money, seeing as how she won’t use it again other than for… no, can’t come up with any examples.
I understand keeping the pink one, as it is the year she won and it might be special to her. And maybe another one or two you loved. It’s like keeping a wedding dress.
But no, why hang on to the deep cuts that you don’t even like? Gwyneth won’t choose one of the better ones because a) they’re worth more and b) she would want to choose who got it, not allow some random plebe to wear it to something common, like a wedding.
she might be keeping it for her daughter lots of people do that not just celebrities. I’ve got some friends whose parents have kept some of their designer clothes when they were making a bit of money and also know people who are doing that for their children now. obviously it’s assuming your children would even want them but I guess people want to hang on to them just in case they do.
Maybe she chose that dress because it’s one that a “regular” person is most likely to actually be able to wear somewhere?
Gates seems very involved and isn’t he helping set up multiple vaccine factories so one or two are ready to go once the best model is ready?
Yeah Gates is doing a LOT and shouldn’t be included with that group. Not sure what the other billionaires are doing.
He’s also been warning the world about a pandemic for years.
This whole bid thing is obnoxious as hell.
Open up your damned purse!
I don’t understand. They are not actually donating money but giving away crap and people are supposed to spend their money to buy an old dress or something? If I’m wrong then please correct me. If not then give me a break and like another commenter said donate your own money. I don’t want some discarded dress in a size 0, stop talking and donate some of your millions or actually go do something.
This auction is about me, me, me with this group. Just donate money —- pass a hat —- please. Also, I’d be surprised if most bidding for this item could fit into her size 0 (or smaller) dress. But, to be fair to her, at least she’s not donating the jade egg or a GOOP vibrator. Finally, there is always something off about her dresses. Especially early ones, they never fit her in the chest area. They’re too baggy, or droopy, or bra less and they do her no favors.
I don’t think her breasts look saggy in the McQueen dress. They look fine.
I feel…conflicted. I visited the “All-In” auction site. On the one hand it comes off as tone deaf and insensitive to ask people to spend $10k or more on items or experiences with a famous person during a time when so many are facing unemployment. Because let me tell you, now that I’m furloughed dropping thousands to hang with Will Farrell sounds like just the thing!
On the other hand, maybe these famous folks are donating large sums privately and are using these auctions to entice wealthy fans (and not us commoners) to give money themselves?
it’s hilarious that people found her old comments. Typical Goopy, probably had her assistant dig in the back of the closet for something that would be painless to part with. I sure hope she’s donating some of that money she’s made selling snake oil to morons too.
But hopefully the initiative is successful and raises a lot of funds. There’s all kinds of stuff on there, and you can buy an entry for as little as $10, looks like it’s a random raffle kind of thing.
ETA: Just saw it’s up to $13 million total raised!
This is all so tone-deaf. You can argue that celebrities “aren’t requited to donate money”… but actually as human beings with gross amounts of money, they are.
Actually Bill Gates has been pretty front and center doing interviews I feel? It was announced just days ago he and Melinda are donating “another” $150 million to coronavirus relief efforts, on top of the $100 million he pledged to donate with his foundation. He also denounced Trump’s defunding of the WHO and did a TEDTalk in 2015 talking about how the world was not ready to take on a pandemic (based on the former ebola crisis). So dude is doing quite a lot IMO.
I googled Jeff Bezos and all I could find out was he donated $100 million to Feeding America. Nothing to sneeze at but he definitely could be doing more too, especially for his workers who were complaining just weeks ago not enough was being done to maintain their safety in Amazon warehouses.
As for Gwyneth, I mean sure she gets some kudos for donating a dress for charity but it’s pretty clear she saw it as a convenient way to get rid of a dress she didn’t particularly like. What else is new lol.
Remember the lovely speech Duchess Meghan gave about charity vs. community at the Smart Works capsule collection launch?
“ And a big piece of this is trying to transform the idea of charity to community. And the way that we do that, I think, is people is when we go into our closet as a woman, and you say, “I’m going to make a donation,” you don’t go through your closet and just toss in a box whatever you don’t care about anymore. That’s charity, as we know it today. Community is going through your closet and saying, “This is the blazer I wore when I nailed my first job interview and got my dream job. And I don’t need that anymore because I’m where I want to be. But if I’m able to share that blazer and be part of another woman’s success story, then that’s community.”
I wish Goop could hear and understand that. She epitomizes the charity end of the spectrum.
I don’t think showing up to the Oscars with your nips visible counts as “wanting to disappear.”