Back in the day, the Art of Elysium gala used to be a much bigger deal. They used to get more Young Hollywood people at the gala than the Golden Globes the following day. These days, not so much. This year’s gala was a tribute to Neil Gaiman and it was sparsely attended. Christina Hendricks was one of the biggest-name “fashion girls” there and her corseted look was… yikes. It looks like a bad costume – the shades of red don’t match and her hair & makeup are appalling.
Heidi Klum walked the carpet with her daughter Leni, who is very cute. I’m getting a Cindy Crawford-Kaia Gerber vibe, as in Heidi is trying to nepotize her daughter into the modeling industry.
Joseph Gordon Levitt barely shows up on any red carpets these days, but look! He looks great.
Patricia Arquette looks like she raided a ‘70s thrift shop.
Here’s Kumail Nanjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon. He’s maintained his chiseled look!
And finally, here’s Joe Manganiello with his new girlfriend Caitlyn O’Connor. They began dating several months after he split with Sofia Vergara. I bet they get married.
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- LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 6: Joseph Gordon-Levitt at The Art of ElysiumĂ•s 2024 Heaven Gala at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, California on January 6, 2024. Copyright: xFayexSadoux,Image: 834892289, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/Faye Sadou / Avalon
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- LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 6: Heidi Klum and Leni Olumi Klum at The Art of ElysiumĂ•s 2024 Heaven Gala at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, California on January 6, 2024. Copyright: xFayexSadoux,Image: 834892300, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/Faye Sadou / Avalon
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- LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 6: Christina Hendricks at The Art of ElysiumŐs 2024 Heaven Gala at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, California on January 6, 2024. Copyright: xFayexSadoux,Image: 834892327, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/Faye Sadou / Avalon
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- LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 6: Christina Hendricks at The Art of ElysiumŐs 2024 Heaven Gala at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, California on January 6, 2024. Copyright: xFayexSadoux,Image: 834892330, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/Faye Sadou / Avalon
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Has she got some kind of jewelry sitting on top of the girls?
Super long earrings?
I see what you mean. To me, it looks like extremely long earrings?
This woman is SO beautiful and sexy and talented! She has never worn a look that flatters her (outside of her roles).
I used to think her event looks suffered from a combination of designers failing to design for non-stick figure women and bad stylists.
But decades into it, it seems more and more like she just has bad taste, or has a way she likes to appear that I am not the right audience for. It’s disappointing to me, because I’m a redhead with big boobs and always hoped she’d show up wearing a look I could modify, make work for me.
Everything about this is bad – the dress: color, cut, tailoring/dressing (why can we see the zipper on her belly?!?), those stupid shoulder poofs creating distracting busyness at her top half, running into her jewelry, hair, (which is overwhelming her earrings, which are too long I think for what she’s going for) face, taking away the impact of her bosom, cleavage and neck (which the rest of her ensemble seems to be trying to emphasize), the awful makeup tone, the awful make up application and all … and she showed up like that.
It’s like someone gave her a style choice a day, in a vacuum, with no knowledge of any of the prior choices, and she consistently picked the most overdone extra not really complimentary to her one of the bunch. And this is the first time they were brought together.
Also, was red required of all the groups of women attending? And some strange reds at that?
She needs to get anew stylist and makeup artist. Bad look all around.
In Germany Heidi Klum and her daughter are advertising for umderwear together. I personally find the campaign with mother and daughter jumping around in matching lacy underwear slightly icky.
Extremely icky.
I agreed. Icky
Honestly it looks like a little bum sitting on her chest
looks like a nearly full grown person’s ass is fighting its way out of the front of her dress. gawd
LMAO – yes. And also, it’s probably a bad idea to have earrings that come to rest on your boobs like that?
Woah, Christina Hendricks outfit is awful, and her hair and makeup are really bad .
How can such a beautiful woman look so terrible?
Some of these nepo babies, like the Hadids, would probably have had a career in the industry anyway (although probably not as big). But SO many of them wouldn’t be working at all. They’re just too short and can’t walk! And they can be so entitled. I read an article with Kate Moss’s half sister or something, this tiny little girl, who was so resentful that Kate never helped her. And yet, what would be the point? (I guess Kate saved that energy to help her own daughter, who is also far too short for the industry).
I noticed that even EmRata is too short to be much of a runway model. And it’s so obvious when you see these women on the actual runway. You see these African or South American girls who have to be so tall to have a career, and then these 5’3”-5’7” or 5’8” women just stomping down the runway because they were in a movie or had famous parents. I get the resentment, man.
Modeling is not exactly an industry that you’re called to because of some deeply innate talent. Like go to art school or something. Or just get an identity. (Speaking to all these wealthy celebrity offspring who could do anything but, without fail, are drawn to the glitz and glamour as opposed to, idk, an education or a skill or a trade).
Yes!
At least Cindy had the decency to have children with someone who is also incredibly tall and good-looking, putting the chances at her children having a successful modeling career pretty high. Leni’s father, while tall, is just not photogenic and Leni ends up looking average next to her mother. It just feels like poor planning because Heidi could have been pushing her to do anything else…actress, professional musician, doctor, lawyer, accountant, art dealer…I don’t know…anything besides model. Leni’s pretty enough to marry well, so I suppose Heidi is just trying to find her a lucrative hobby until that happens.
Cindy’s son is soooooooo good looking, it like hurts my eyes
@lemons I really hope your comment is sarcastic?! I feel a good dose of sexism in your comment on several levels.
I live for the day when some glamourpuss proudly introduces, on some red carpet, “My lovely daughter, the plumber.” Not kidding.
That red dress is hideous and who has dressed this woman in a flattering way? I don’t think I’ve seen flattering clothing on her outside of period clothing on Mad Men.
You are correct. We have been having this conversation about her body type and how nobody knows what to do with her outside of MM for over a decade.
Back when she exploded out MM, she was pretty much one of a couple celebrities who was not rail-thin. But today… curvy, thick women like Sarah Sbook, Niecy Nash, Anna Waddigham, Lily Gladstone, Melanie Lynskey and others are consistently showing up at events looking put together and glamorous. It’s doable for non mega A-listers, even more when most average > size-12 women looking elegant at every day life do their own HMU and buy off-the-rack for a fraction of what couture costs. Her curves are no longer an excuse for looking like she was extricated from a carriage wreck. She just has poor taste or an specific, sad message to convey through her styling.
Did christian siriano never make her look good? I thought maybe he did at some point
I wish a good stylist would figure out what to do with Christina, she is so gorgeous. The style of the Mad Men era suited her so well.
I would love to raid a 70s thrift shop…probably find some awesome pieces mixed in with a lot of crap!
I would not have recognized Joseph.
Joe’s girlfriend looks exactly like I pictured the next woman he would date would.
Christina’s make up reminds me of X-tina (Aguilara) during the Lady Marmalade video. In fact, Christina’s whole upper body looks like she could have been a character in the Lady Marmalade video. Her skirt looks like she just didn’t have a plan for her lower half.
I agree she’s stunning and I wish a great stylist and team would do her proper justice on the red carpet.
Agree – her entire glam team needs to go: stylist, hairdresser, make-up artist. She’s a gorgeous woman who could look 10 times better than what we’re seeing here.
CH looks awful. Her makeup is bad, that dress is bad. Maybe she should get a stylist who could try an updated version of her MM look?
The breasts must be implants, the obvs hard line of the top. Looks just painful.
Yes Christina Hendricks has breast implants. They’re so ridiculously huge, they look painful.
Really? I thought it had to be natural because no one in their right mind would sign up for something so out of proportion ( and all the back pain as well as the limited fashion options) , wow.
Yeah, if you google her from her pre acting days, there’s pictures of her almost completely flat chested in a bikini. I absolutely love watching her and think she’s gorgeous, but I have never understood how she got such big implants on such a thin frame.
I don’t get the science!
And why can no one dress this woman. She’s drop dead gorgeous.
I came here to say the same thing about the dramatic increase in her bust size. The before/ater photos are really startling. It’s a choice some women make and it seems to make it difficult to be well-dressed, particularly if otherwise you have a petite frame. She’s so lovely, it’s painful to see the distortion.
A lot of these people look like they ar dressed for a tribute to Neil Gaiman, if I’m remembering how all the girlies totally into Sandman dressed back in the day.
Honestly, I think a lot of the modeling nepo babies are just being given a cover for living off their trust funds.
CH looks like an Edward Gorey drawing and anime character cross – and not in a good way.
Christina is beautiful and talented but why do the boobs have to be the focal point of everything she wears? It’s really not that attractive.
Presley Gerber looked better before the facial tattoo. Maybe he’ll go full Travis Barker?
Kate Moss’s daughter didn’t get mom’s knockout good looks.
Jerry Hall & Jade Jagger?
Anyone know who Heidi’s face person is? I need to see them!
For CH, I sense a money issue…? A professional glam and style team could fix this, easy. She’s a redhead Marilyn/siren. That’s not hard to style, although vintage can look costume-y and doesn’t help people envision you in a variety of roles.
She got divorced and I wonder how challenging that was $-wise. Then she had a situation she shared on instagram where she got badly ripped off by a contractor on a remodel. I think she did her own hair and makeup and wardrobe for this, possibly a $ issue? Also she’s known in the alt hair world as wearing toppers, which I see here, and it looks unkempt, although that’s one way to keep your piece from clocking. It just all says $ issues to me.
I hope she gets an amazing fresh start because I want her to win. She’s so talented and seductive. Pull through CH!
Every day, millions of women of low/average income attend events. Most of them style themselves below Hollywood standards: They don’t employ a stylist and do their own HMU. They buy clothes off the rack or on ebay, to dress what industries sell as an overweight or curvy body, most likely both. Most of them manage to at least not look ridiculous, and many of them splash pictures of their elegant, gorgeous selves on social media. When in doubt and strapped for $, rent a pretty gown, wear an lbd or a suit and pearls. Or just don’t attend awards show at all, unless you plan to earn attention by looking positively sloppy.
Christina’s dress is a Vivienne Westwood and she did have professional hair and makeup. I doubt it has to do with money. She’s been into this aesthetic for a while and loves Westwood.
That is a truly unflattering outfit on Christina Hendricks. Her bust is practically shoved up to her chin. Her makeup is disturbing, like it’s covering up bruises or something.
I agree, I clearly see a dark line on the outer edge of her right eye socket (left eye in the photo) which isn’t quite covered up by her makeup and which reminded me of the discoloration you might see if someone had been hit in the face. Hoping that it’s just smudged makeup or there’s a benign explanation for it.
Would someone find a designer or tailor who knows old fashioned design techniques for women with hourglass shapes? The sweater girls of the 1950’s and screen sirens like Marilyn Monroe never had these problems.
Christina seems to like the Vegas off strip show girl or old western saloon girl look a lot with her fashion. It doesn’t do her any favors. She loves her corsets.
I came in here specifically to see what Christine was wearing because I love her tv looks. This is terrible. I can’t believe it. She should save this for a emo movie.