Weekly Fashion Round Up - Gwyneth Paltrow, Kristen Bell, Christina Ricci & Olivia Wilde

Clearly someone is giving me early Christmas gifts by jam packing December with so much fashion and so many parties that I can barely keep up.

Some are good, some are bad, let's take a look...

Kristen Bell:

As a rule, this girl struggles to dress herself. She's petite and she clearly has challenges with it. Often wearing things that swallow her alive..

This doesn't do that, but it's not exactly, well, nice. I loathe that collar/necklace detail. I can already tell that it's probably the most irritating thing on earth. Imagine how often it probably goes to one side, and then the other, and then it gets tangled, and the it slips off again, and then it falls forward. FORGET IT.

The dress is blech, that kind of gathering is only flattering on someone as tiny as her, so I give her points for that. I guess.

Olivia Wilde:

This girl is well known as a sex symbol, especially in the blogosphere. In said blogosphere, the horny guys who write the nudie pages did NOT like this dress. I'm assuming it was too much coverage.

But from a sophisticated (ahem, try not to laugh) person who is not concerned with the amount of T&A, I LOVE it. Ok, also someone who deeply loves anything disco. And if allover gold lamé/sequins is not disco, then what is?? I LOVE it.

I also love her hair. That kind of side-swept bang is not easy to pull off. You can look bald on one side, but she' got it.

I think she looks elegant and sophisticated. Nice play Olivia.

Christina Ricci:

Uh, since when does she look like this? She looks AMAZING. That hair color is great, the bangs, while they used to be a bit strong, look fantastic and that dress! Oh that dress. I LOVE it. The ombre, the color blocking, the layering and the cuts. It's quite fantastic.

And I love that she paired it with a black pump, not a nude one. It makes it so much better, and someone with inferior taste would have jumped on the nude pump boat and put on a pair. This is much more seasonally appropriate.

And last, but DEFINITELY not least...this:
Gwyneth Paltrow:

Wow. Just wow. It's not that she's not pulling it off. Because she is. She really, really is. But oh my heavens is it hideous. So tacky. I honestly don't understand how someone like her would wear something like that.

She's normally so elegant and quite classy, but this is awful. This looks like something an escort would wear to a formal evening at the gentleman's club. Tacky, tacky, tacky.