Style Christina Ricci: Best Met Substitute for Victoria Beckham Look at her. Look at her trying her best to fill in for Victoria Beckham who did not attend the Met Gala this year. In her place then, the substitute Christina Ricci, posing as hard as we’ve ever seen her pose. Put it this way - Lea Michele was By Lainey • May 08, 2012 10:23 am
Thinnification Met Gala Thinnification: Ashley Greene She’s wearing white Donna Karan. Basically a wedding dress. You’ve seen it a thousand times. What’s new here, or new-ish, at least since last year’s Met Gala, is Ashley Greene’s thinnification. Ashley Greene was always fit. She had a great body. Slim but strong and By Lainey • May 08, 2012 10:16 am
Met Gala 2012 Met Gala Shrug: Claire Danes There’s nothing objectionable here, no. And I might have liked where J Mendel was going with a white tuxedo dress because I do love the lapels. But maybe on someone else, someone less...shruggy. Maybe Christina Ricci who could have worn it with more theatricality and more interesting footwear. By Lainey • May 08, 2012 10:08 am
Style Best Met Hair: Solange Knowles Sasha message me this morning: “Haven’t seen all the pics yet of Costume Gala. Like I’m dying to sit at my desk and spend hours. But have you seen Solange??? F-ck me YES!” My response: “I’m so over peplum.” Sasha: “Me too! But come on. She looks By Lainey • May 08, 2012 10:03 am
Style Best Met Print: Bee Shaffer by her mother It’s the anniversary of the time Anna Wintour told Lara and me with her eyes that we were beneath her, and would be forever. Click here if you were not reading this site back then. This meant more to us than any other validation in our lives. In the By Lainey • May 08, 2012 10:00 am
Assy Style Met Worst Red: Eva Mendes No idea. NO idea how this happens. And how Eva Mendes ends up in it. Julianna Margulies, since she seems to enjoy ceramic sh-t all over her dress, fine. But how Prada paired this with Eva Mendes, I can’t understand. It’s a terrible combination. And she looks overwhelmed By Lainey • May 08, 2012 09:52 am
Assy Style Jessica Chastain’s messy Met Louis Vuitton Some material just doesn’t travel well. They say this gown was a production. That it required 200 hours of embroidering. But isn’t all that hard work wasted on a dress that appears so wrinkly under the light? You can see a thousand tiny folds and creases all over, By Lainey • May 08, 2012 09:39 am
Assy Style Met Bridesmaid Lilac: Paula Patton Oh. Her again. Behaving the way she did at the Golden Globes - click here for a refresher. And in pretty much the same taffeta gown except this time in bridesmaid lilac instead of bridesmaid yellow. Paula Patton basically wore THIS to the Met Gala. They call it Vera Wang. By Lainey • May 08, 2012 09:33 am
Assy Style Best & Worst Met Peplum: Amy Poehler & Elizabeth Banks There were several peplums represented last night. To me Amy Poehler wore hers best. She looked the most comfortable. And really, really confident. No clunky accessories around her neck, nothing extra about the hair, although, God, I really wish they’d let it die, that skirt feathering from 2006. In By Lainey • May 08, 2012 09:28 am
Met Gala 2012 Best Met Ass: Emily Blunt If we’re comparing bright Calvin Kleins in that seemingly heavy, wrinkle-free material, I’ll take Emma Stone’s orange at the Golden Globes in 2011 - click here to see. There’s something about the tank design here on Emily Blunt’s, and the band across the back, that By Lainey • May 08, 2012 09:14 am
Met Gala 2012 Sofia’s Met silhouette Only Sofia Vergara could have rescued this Marchesa. It’s not the dress, it’s all the wearer. On anyone else this is ghastly. But that’s the Sofia silhouette. It’s kind of the same silhouette she’s been working on every carpet for at least 6 months. Of By Lainey • May 08, 2012 09:06 am
Style Best Met Red: Emma Stone As noted many times, I’m no fan of the red dress. The problem with the red dress on a red carpet is that it bleeds into the carpet. And also every time a designer sends a red dress down a runway it’s always made for the vixen, mega By Lainey • May 08, 2012 09:00 am
Girly Throw Downs Scarjo gets the Met Is that how it works? Because Blake Lively is a regular at this event. And she didn’t show. Oh I’m sure there’s an official reason that works for everyone, a reason that doesn’t involve petty gossip. But still. And yet. Blake considers herself a fashion girl. By Lainey • May 08, 2012 08:51 am
Assy Style Met Gala 2012 Marchesa Victim: Leighton Meester Blake Lively opted not to go and stay in Vancouver with Ryan Reynolds instead. This was Leighton’s time to make her move. And she has proved she can do well at the Met Gala. She was great last year in Louis Vuitton - click here for a refresher - By Lainey • May 08, 2012 08:43 am
Assy Style Met Gala TV Girl: Kristen Bell Sometimes...it’ll just never be your league, you know? And that has nothing to do with what you think I think of her. There were several TV girls present last night. All of them were TV girly by Gwyneth Paltrow’s definition. Dianna Agron, totally. Lea Michele, 100%. But By Lainey • May 08, 2012 08:36 am
Style Met Change: Renee Zellweger Renee Zellweger and Carolina Herrera are like... I mean it’s a longstanding style collaboration. And, frankly, as I’ve noted before, it was getting kinda stale. So this, this is a very pleasant surprise. Here’s Renee with Peter Dundas, artistic director at Emilio Pucci. With Renee, an open By Lainey • May 08, 2012 08:31 am
