The Golden Globes are typically outrageous (must be the free-flowing beverages), and this year was no surprise–particularly in the outfit selections made by some of Hollywood’s usually sartorially smart stars. We take look at the good, the bad and the ugly.
From the “What were they thinking?” files
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the evening wasn’t who won or lost awards, but Lara Flynn Boyle‘s pink tutu by David Cardona. (Quipped Vanessa Redgrave on the red carpet, “is she going to dance for us?”)
“It’s a party, so I wore a party dress,” Boyle shrugged. “If they love it or they hate it, at least it’s fun.”
Maybe Boyle wore it to get the attention, since some say any publicity is good publicity; certainly someone must have told the typically stylish actress she looked like a 12-year-old ballerina (with the body to match) before she left home for the show in a pink tulle dress, pink hair bow and pink pumps with satin ribbon ties crisscrossing up her skinny gams.
Sharon Stone did her best Stevie Nicks impression pairing a feathery, flowy black Versace number with black stiletto boots and wild bed-head hair (but her wacky outfit was no match for her wacky behavior during the show). Debra Messing looked about to fly off the red carpet in a white Vera Wang gown with a plunging–and we mean plunging–v-neck lined with fluffy, feathery fabric.
Speaking of plunging necklines, anyone get a load of Goldie Hawn‘s Boho Christian Dior gown? Loosely laced bodice, frills, chiffon and more topped by a headful of long bangs. Honey, here’s news–you may’ve played a ’60s groupie in The Banger Sisters, but it’s high time you allow daughter Kate to carry the hippie chic torch.
Then there was Richard Gere‘s Tibetan bracelet, the significance of which, he claimed, would be “too hard to explain.”
Nicole Kidman may be Hollywood’s darling, but she can’t pull everything off perfectly. She looked awkward and uncomfortable tottering on and off the stage in her lilac YSL dress with the short front and long, ruffled train and high heels.
A virtually unrecognizable Jennifer Connelly, with her heavily kohl-rimmed eyes, washed-out complexion and black dress, looked straight out of a Munsters episode in which Helena Bonham Carter–in an unflattering, gothy dress–might have co-starred. Eddie called–he wants his mom back.
Apparently makeup artists were nowhere to be found on this Golden Globes evening. Cate Blanchett, usually so elegant, looked almost drag queen-esque with a clowny makeup job so bright her face outshone the stage lights. Cameron Diaz‘s makeup job was similarly terrible–what’s with the blue eye shadow, gals? We wouldn’t hazard a guess as to what made Parker Posey wear a hideous pinky-purple lipstick with her canary-yellow Gucci gown. And what, pray tell, was with Jennifer Aniston‘s ‘do? Her ponytail was pulled so tight it looked painful.
Razzle Dazzle
Continuing the trend of wearing the flashiest, most expensive jewelry known to man, a number of stars hit up Harry Winston’s, et al, for some bodacious baubles, not the least of which was Halle Berry. She showed up in a Winston suite of blue and white diamonds totaling a cool $5 mil (the pear-shaped pendant was 30 carats, her ring was 26). The blue ice, of course, matched her ice-blue Reem Acra gown beautifully.
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Nia Vardalos wore a 30-carat ring and some other jewelry lent to her by Lorraine Schwartz.
Queen Latifah dressed up her cheerful aqua Escada pantsuit thing (which looked more suitable for a garden party than an awards show, but that’s just us) with 8-carat earrings and a 73-carat necklace–you heard that right–by Chopard.
Wait, did someone just flip on a floodlamp? No, it’s just the sun hitting the enormous diamond on Catherine Zeta-Jones‘s choker.
Mulholland Drive beauty Laura Elena Harring went all Gladiator on our a** in a 22-carat gold, ruby and emerald tiered necklace that one might have thought she’d swiped from Tut’s tomb–with dangling earrings to match.
When they’re good, they’re very, very good
Red, brown, purple…forget it. Black is the only black, as a number of classy women showed. Diane Lane may not have won in the best dramatic actress category, but she was a fashion winner in an elegantly simple, strapless black Donna Karan gown with no flashy diamonds, pink, blue, yellow or otherwise.
Marisa Tomei went vintage-y chic in a black John Anthony halter gown. And black was anything but basic on both Renee Zellweger in vintage Valentino and Jennifer Garner in black silk crepe by Ralph Lauren, which she topped with a classy multi-strand pearl choker.
This is not to say, however, that red didn’t pack a punch. Salma Hayek was hot, hot, hot in her crimson Narciso Rodriguez gown, as was Kim Cattrall in her revealing Valentino number. Whoever said redheads shouldn’t wear red didn’t see Susan Sarandon in her fabulous low-cut red gown with flattering gathers at her trim waistline. You go, girl!
Golden-locked, golden-skinned Kate Hudson charmed in a long, multicolored strapless Valentino gown, and the marvelous, genuine smile she wore made a better accessory than any gaudy trinket.
