ERMAHGERD. Just… ermahgerd. When one of us here at Celebitchy wants to “claim” a story, we often save a temp title to let the others know what we’ll be working on. This post’s temp title was all #KANYECAPS: “DUCHESS KATE BANGS TRAUMA”. Just FYI. Now, we had a hint of Kate’s new bangs a few days ago, when Kate and William stepped out for a rugby game in Wales. At the time, I didn’t think Kate had overdone the “bangs” (I actually consider these “front layers”). She looked like she had just added a few layered strands to frame her face, and I thought it was more notable that she had left her hair straight instead of sausage-curling it to death. But now… OMG. Kate has full-on Farrah Hair. It’s being said that her standard hair guy, Richard Ward, did this new style, and that her hair is darker too.
These pics are of Kate at the opening of the Natural History Museum’s Treasure exhibition, which apparently featured some “rare first editions of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.” Her dress is a £1,400 Mulberry creation… while I like a good jewel tone (always!), and I do like when Kate goes for a bolder color, there’s something about this that looks cheap to me. The material looks synthetic and very, very dated, and the design is totally 1980s. Not Madonna ‘80s either. This is Dolly Parton or Jane Fonda in 9 To 5 (God, I love that movie). The Mulberry is a repeat too –she wore it last year.
Allegedly, Kate made a speech too! The Mail quotes Kate as saying:
‘The Natural History Museum has a very special place in the heart of this nation. William and I are just two of millions of people who have passed through these doors, and marvelled at the spectacular wonders of the natural world, housed in this beautiful gallery. I care passionately about what this museum stands for. Being here tonight, seeing some of nature’s finest treasures, reminds me just how precious and awe inspiring the natural world is. That is why the opening of Treasures is so incredibly exciting. If it were ever needed, there is now even more reason to visit this wonderful museum.’
Kate sounds like Bridget Jones is her speechwriter. Is Helen Fielding moonlighting as a royal speechwriter nowadays?
Anyway, does anyone else think that “new hair” = baby? She actually looks like she might have put on a pound or two. Or maybe that’s just the Farrah style adding weight to her face?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
no, not a good look..
Agreed. Her face and neck look thicker.
Agree… unless her goal was to cover her face even more, and have more hair flying around in her face that needs constant corralling.
Her new hair style looks cute. She looks happy too.
First two pix are super unflattering – seems to make her face look really round – but it looks better towards the end. She’s got such great hair.
A lot of the wrongness of it is the doo-doo curling iron rolls.
Absolutely. All the turd curls hanging in her face. Dress super fug and she seems so terribly uncomfortable in her own skin. No confidence whatsoever
EXACTLY, gg. Such a dated style of curling. She would look better with it blow-dried with a round brush or even curled with a small barrel and then separated into loose waves. Her hairstylist should be fired. And that dress is terrible-great color on her but such an awful cut.
Took the words right outta my hands.
Anyway, I hope the rumors are true that she’s pregnant.
Still wayyyy too much hair and you can see that a good deal of it is “add-on”. She just looks tough and cheap to me, even when she’s trying hard.
+1
I’ve had my TV on the 24hr BBC news channel all morning (for work, just to clarify 🙂 ) and they covered their visit to Cambridge – her hair was all over the place and swamped her head.
Seriously girl, either tie it back or STOP PLAYING WITH IT EVERY 20 SECONDS.
She’s been a royal for 18 months and the sausage curls are still a major attraction for her. I don’t think she will ever learn.
+1,000,000
Before Kate Middleton I never knew that a grown woman fiddling with her hair like a nervous teenager every three seconds could send me into a murderous rage.
There are so many women in the public eye who know how to wear long hair elegantly and without such fuss. Surely the Palace has access to freakin’ Google!! Cate Blanchett has never had a bad hair day, just sayin’.
The quasi-bangs or whatever they are look awful. Nothing like a haircut that makes your cheeks and jaw look like your storing nuts for winter.
I must confess to messing with my hair a lot. For the first time in my life, I have no bangs. The other day, probably Thanksgiving, I was noshing away, looked down, and saw a bunch of cheese in my hair. It’s a bit below chin length and I ate my hair with the cheese dip.
@Bluhare, OK, yes, but you are not representing all of Wales and the UK (unless there’s something we don’t know about you, lol).
I got whipped cream in my hair on Thanksgiving. I was cutting and dishing out pie for everyone and finally sat down to have a bite myself when my sister pointed it out. Which means I probably got some in someone’s pie. Eek.
Omg – hahaha @Miffy and her ab fab comment : ~
“Before Kate Middleton I never knew that a grown woman fiddling with her hair like a nervous teenager every three seconds could send me into a murderous rage.”
Doesn’t suit her but I guess she just wants to hide as much as possible behind her hair. If she could, she’d probably cut a “high fashion bangs” that go over her eyes down to her nose, so that nobody could “see” her.
That’s my impression too. She definitely hides behind her hair and this “style” makes it easier for her to do so.
She and Jepson should swap hairstyles.
Sorry but love the hair, hate the dress. You just know she does hairography when she’s alone – probably to Single Ladies…
“All one’s single ladies, all one’s single ladies…put one’s hands up…”
Omg lol
HA! I hate the hair (makes her face look fat) but that “All One’s Single Ladies” bit was too good!
The rounder face is indicative of pregnancy. Take it from one who knows. And the frumpy dress is most likely designed to disguise that beginning pregnancy bloat. The hair to cover her now more jowly look. Congrats Kate and Will!
Michael K. nailed it “Tootsie wants her dress back”.
This is the first time she looks awful.
You described her dress exactly along with the puffy shoulder sleeves that I remember from that movie, circa 1980’s.
Completely true – it’s an ’80’s dress! And not a very good one either. However I like most of the stuff she wears, so I’m willing to let it slide 🙂
The strange thing is she wore this Mulberry dress around this time last year and it looked better. (She wore it unbuttoned).
My mother (who is currently 77) owned that dress about 30 years ago. She might still have it…
As for the hair: ugh! She needs an updated and more sophisticated look ASAP
By and large, most of what Kate wears is age appropriate for the Queen.
Farrah? She wishes. Farrah did not have her hair in her eyes or falling on her face.
Unfortunately she reminds me more of post psychotic break Margot Kidder.
** This. I couldn’t place it until I read your comment.
It’s not a Farrah AT ALL.
It’s straight out of my high school year book, where all the girls were doing poor men’s imitations of Farrah.
Farrah had gorgeous hair – and at the time – it was a unique, groundbreaking style as well.
New hair and arms firmly in front of her THE WHOLE night, do we think she’s trying to divert attention upwards and hide something?
Not good.
this whole look; hair and clothing, reminds me alot of Diana when she was pregnant..probably because this look would have been trendier then, Kate just looks old, matronly (pregnant?) and dowdy.
Hey, maybe it’s one of Diana’s old dresses. The era is right.
Yes to everything you said.
She just has no natural instinct for style, everything is a bit off and this look is par for the course for me. Funny, she could be a trendsetter but she is just…not.
Agree to everything above.
This look is not good.
She needs to ditch the 2nd grade banana curls.
She is young and in a position to be a trendsetter…why can’t she?
I’ve seen her in an occasional perfect look…maybe twice…
But she continues to fall back on old fashioned, no style BORE.
Agree – the one where she is looking at the camera struck me as very Diana – eerie.
After yesterday’s high-waisted horror from Pippa and now this granny dress, I’m convinced the Middletons have an account at Frumps R Us. As for the hair…
Her face looks pregnant. Is the new hairdo an attempt to shift the focus?
That’s exactly what I thought although I started staring at her face to see if she’s done fillers or botox!!
That dress is terrible. What is up with the peace signs on the dress?
Oh, good. More hair in her face. Bangs and sausage curls. Make it stop.
Seriously. Someone called it “pageant hair.” That’s about right.
OMG a job for Suzannah and Trinny.
She really needs a visit from them stat.
On the other hand, when you compare previous outing in this dress, you realise that she’s not so orange anymore. Perhaps she is listening to someone afterall. Her make up is professional, and softer. The eyeliner not such an assault to the eyes. She looks so much better and pretty. It’s not just the weight gain.
Clothes style….still a major problem. Ditto the hair.
I am tickled that video of the speech wasn’t immediately released as has happened before. She can’t be improving if they have to keep her completely silent.
I don’t dislike the dress as much as I dislike the hair. It’s absolutely awful. Whoever told her it would suit has their head up an orifice it should not be in. She looks different!
I usually love her style but this dress is dated, awful and cheap looking. I’ve said for a long time that she should cut her hair or at least switch it up a bit, and the straight look was so cute, but this looks awful. Her hair looks so pageant and too heavy with the sausage curls. IMHO it would have looked so much better straight or half pulled up or something.
Dated, awful and cheap is a great description of her dress.
I think the bangs are too heavy and are dragging down her face. And she needs more layers to blend the bangs and the bottom of her hair – right now they look too chunky and are just sort of sitting there all alone.
What is funny about the speech is that she said she feels so passionately about what it stands for and about she and William visiting it and after making this speech she told one of the people she met there that she never visited the museum since her school days reported by the mirror. I don’t wonder anymore why rf forbid her to say anything original in public, despite her education she is a bimbo who say so stupid things for a grown woman with collage education or in general.
Yeah, I said that the other day that it seems more and more that she has no depth whatsoever. Diana wasn’t a rocket scientist either but she found causes that she was truly passionate about and brought much needed attention to them. Kate seems to have no real passion for anything so far. Except her hair.
That museum is a stone’s throw from KP, so it’s not difficult for her to visit.
The speech reads like she’s improved with regards speech writing but I bet that she lifted the wording straight from the museum website, like she did with her previous speeches.
last time I saw a dress like this it was on Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie 😉
http://www.lassothemovies.com/tootsie-1982-not-just-a-cross-dressing-movie-afi-100-days-100-movies/
LMAO. This dress is sooooo Tootsie! Except Dustin Hoffman’s wig looked better than Kate’s, err…hair. 😉
She looks like a green coated sheepdog.
Ha! I can totally see that!
Girl, please cut your hair into a midlenghth bob. It is a trauma, my eyes are traumatized by the bad fashion and now this
Plus her hair so so dated! She should lose the sausage curls and layer it a bit. She can still have long hair, just take it out of the 80s!
Princess Frumpy with too much hair, still.
80’s flashback
You mean 70s flashback. We had waaay cuter hair than that in the 80s: http://www.liketotally80s.com/80s-new-wave-hairstyles.html
Oh dear, her head looks like it has been swallowed by her hair. And the dress is awful too. First time I have ever seen her look terrible.
I don’t like her new hair style, it doesn’t suit her face, only adds more hair where there’s a plenty already.
why is she always wearing palace curtains? jeez….
Kate, Ma Middleton, Pippa have the same hair style, dress identical, wear similar shoes, same awful eyeliner…WTH?
From the Middletons’ photos at one of Pippa’s book launch events, it seems all 3 Middleton women are now getting botox. Carole and Pippa’s foreheads are so smooth and tight lately. Kate’s forehead hasn’t moved since the Olympics.
You gotta wonder if Kate also buys clothes with her Mum in mind.
She and Ma Middleton are known for sharing clothes and wearing each other’s outfits, so it’s not hard to imagine that Kate sometimes buys clothing that would also be suitable for her 50-something mother.
This dress is too matronly on Kate, but it might suit Carole.
The awfulness of that hair is only offset but the more extreme awfulness of that dress. I can practically smell the polyester.
And it’s probably a lovely silk too.
Believe it or not it’s a $2,000 silk dress. I would have guessed polyester as well. I think the peace sign design on the material makes it look cheap as well. Or maybe it just doesn’t photograph well?
Her face looks really full. Not sure if it’s the haircut or if she’s pregnant.
Ugh, that hair is awful ! Not a good look.
It does add pounds to her face, very unfortunate. She looks like a busted Jennifer Lawrence.
Having my hair hanging in my face like that would drive me crazy.
She doesn’t need layers, but everyone needs a change now and then….
The hairdressers of Britain will be thanking her, no doubt….
That speech is awful. Empty words from an empty woman. She cares ‘passionately about what this museum stands for.’ Oh really?! I bet she would never visit the museum again, just like how she has never revisited any of her charities.
We’re on the same page, I said something similar upthread. She is starting to really bug me with her emptiness. She seems to be making zero effort to contribute to the world in any meaningful way.
Good point! We have lots of pix of Waity shopping, but nary a pic of Waity hitting the museums or art galleries, for all of her much vaunted ‘artistic’ pretensions. Some art guru.
Somebody went to SUPERCUTS! (No offense to Supercuts).
Haha, I love the scene so much when Bridget makes the speech to introduce Mr. Fitzherbert! Cracking me up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcIaT5D4Iwc
This is the first time I’ve thought– “yep, that girl is pregnant.”
And she is obviously not going to be a cute pregnant woman, if this is the first glimpse.
The hair looks more like Jennifer Lawrence (curling around the forehead) than Farrah, whose bangs are a bit more choppy…I don’t like this hair on JLaw (I think it adds puffiness to her already baby-cheeked face) and don’t really like it on Kate.
OMG. Now her hair is even more in her face.
The hairstyle was a nice change but she’s back to hiding behind her hair and took it a step further this time. Now you can barely see her eyes which IMO is really important when you’re meeting people and trying to connect with others. Hair covering your eyes and constantly playing with your hair to move it out of your face while someone is talking to you just look so rude and ill-mannered.
Cut it or put it up, Kate! Now she looks even more juvenile than when she just had the curls.
That dress is ugly. Probably would have looked more youthful with shorter sleeves. It looks like something a schoolmarm would wear.
Seriously my granny who is in her 80’s would consider herself too young to wear that dress! She is only 30 why does she insist on wearing outfits like this?
I like the style, but not on her.
And I wouldn’t be shocked if it did turn out she was pregnant. I don’t normally even comment on that topic but it does look like her face has gotten a little more full lately.
Seriously, what kind of image is this woman trying to achieve? The hair is bad, but that dress… Yep, she borrowed from Tootsie.
For heavans sake, you are a DUCHESS Kate. not a prom queen. This look is all kind of no!
Her face looks full because of the hair. She’s not pregnant. Can anyone else see the peace signs on her dress?
I think she is pregnant. The first place I gained when I got pregnant was in my face too.
Or I guess it could just be holiday eating!
I don’t get the top button being buttoned- but, I STILL like this look better than that pink and black flowered dress she was wearing at the Olympic (?) cocktain party.
Not a fan of this look…too dated for my tastes.
Plus this new look seems to overwhelm her. Hair in the face, poor posture – being slumped over.
Surprised that she wore this, she doesn’t seem to deviate much fashion or hair style wise.
Defo preggers, look at the fullness of her face. Hate the bangs though.
re: full in face, totally agree. also noticed she’s literally gained weight all around – you can notice it especially in her legs. they have been little spindles for a while and have filled out. if she is preggers, good for her and Wills. BUT… the woman needs help with her hair pronto like 😉
Pregnant. Or perhaps some hormone therapy to get that way. Maybe they have been trying this whole time.
If she’s preggers, she must be in the very early stages. No sign of a baby in there at all, though I suppose the pleats on her (ugly) dress might conceal a tiny bump.
Geez louise. She looks like a sheep dog. Curls are ombréd sausages, looks like she dipped them in ink; it’s very distracting.
As for the dress, the styling is drab and the colour is harsh and does not suit her. Good ol’ Waity and her inferior taste and sensibilities. No panache. At least she’s consistent.
Well, it’s bad but at least, she’s TRYING something new. It’s a hit and miss; maybe now she’ll try something else.
Kelly, thank you. That just smacked me out of being so negative.
Yeah, I’m with you. Sometimes I just need change, even if it is not quite as good.
Awful. Just awful. Between the hair & dress, she looks like she’s going to a 1970s themed costume party.
That dress would be a million times better unbelted.
That’s the haircut making her look puffy. It’s right at her cheeks. Terrible cut!
I give her credit for trying something new. It is a loose fitting dress compared to her usual figure clinging dresses. So…baby maybe??
She looks like a hot royal mess as opposed to a hot ghetto mess or hot trailer park mess.Hair circa 1974 dress circa 1982 based on pics from my mom’s photo album.
It’s all bad. The hair. The dress. It all looks so dated, not retro, completely dated. The bangs are bad. But the straight hair is better than the huge curls. I do wish she’d do something with her hair rather than let it hang in her face all the time.
Straight up fug; she should return the dress and demand a refund.
too pretty for bangs, usually girls with big far heads have bangs
It’s meh.
It ages her. I don’t think she’s going to age well at all.
Pregnant or not, there is just no excuse for this horrific hairdo.
Wonder what Kate waity would have done if the wind had knocked her hair extensions out of place and as for supposedly looking like Diana with a fringe, NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS. She doesn’t have any of Diana’s qualities and she should also learn to stand elegantly instead of having her legs apart all the time – very unladylike, she probably thinks she looks good as in the past staggering out of nightclubs pissed out of her head and falling in cabs showing it all with her legs wide open !! – those were the days Kate, bet she’s missing them big time, has to be on her best behaviour now, she’s gotta be jealous of Harry having all the fun !!!
I think Kate is far more beautiful than Diana ever was. However I realise many people idolised Diana ( personally never understood why) . It must be hard to walk in the footsteps of an ‘icon’. Think Kate’s look here is fug but to be fair I think she gets it right more often than wrong
Also– another thought after seeing these pics again. Whenever my hair gets long enough to hang on my forehead, cheeks, chin, I end up getting acne there. So looking at these pictures with her hair all over her face just makes me cringe.
The dress could have been cute on the right person in a retro sort of way but the way she wears it with that frumpy hair and no confidence makes it look dated. I do love the color of the dress.
Yes, that’s exactly right. It’s not the dress, it’s her. Someone with an innate, natural style could pull it off in an effortless way. She always looks contrived and try hard.
We’ve made the comparison here before but I always think of Kate as the anti-Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, our version of a young royal. She was a real style icon. Kate is just not.
It’s a new cut so they havent figured out how to style it yet. It’ll get better. Her makeup looks less heavy handed so that’s a plus. I do like her with darker hair tho.
Wow – I love that this bland new hairstyle is by far the most interesting thing about her nowadays. What a life 🙂
No no no no no. Hair is awful, dress is worse. Everyone is right, it’s like reliving the 80’s and I’d rather not.
WAY TOO MUCH HAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She’s up the duff and she’s trying to cover her chubby preggers cheeks YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!
My God … that dress is hideous. What is wrong with this woman? If I wore a $1,500 frock, I’d look 1000 times better than this friggin hag. She’s like 30 going on 60 …
Generally when a celebrity makes a lot of noise with a change of hair it’s to distract from something else, like a pregnancy, or getting work done (haha, Kate, “getting work done”)… or maybe she just had some breakouts to hide, brought on by a pregnancy! Alright enough picking on Kate.
my favourite picture:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/11/28/article-2239406-163D75E6000005DC-347_634x968.jpg
YIKES – that the haircut and hate the darker color.
That dress has peace signs on it. PEACE SIGNS.
I like to imagine that one day, she thought she’d be all cleaver and domestic for her dear husband and tried to do a flambe and singed the front, since she forever fails to pull that hair back.
That, or she’s trying to use a hand mixer and got the front ends caught up in it.
Just some of the fun scenarios I have running through my mind as to why she’d have this unflattering style as her end result.
I hate it all because I lived through the original period when all of this, the hair, the dress, the shoes, would have been in style for reals.
I cannot express how much I hate the dress.
I think her dress sense has been going downhill – when she was dating William she often looked cute and chic, and in her early married days things were fine. Not exciting, but fine. But since the Olympics all holy frumpdon has taken over.
Dear god someone please help this woman. Some hairdresser from heaven come and help her settle into a good working duchess hairdo. And I bet there are stylists all over who would help her with her clothes for free.
The whole look screams 1985. I think the new cut will look good with softer waves or when straight like usual. Oh my, I just noticed the peace signs on that dress. Yikes.
Baaad look…. there is vintage and then there I’d this….
Julia Sugerbaker just called, she needs her dress back.
She didn’t go far enough with the layers; her hair just hangs there still. The dress is awful.
She’s either early pregnant or soon to be. She probably darkened her hair so she won’t have to dye to hide roots while she’s pregnant.
At least she doesn’t look anorexic like she did at St Paul’s in that awful dress.
I was shocked by the quote from today’s visit to Cambridge. It’s from Michael Middleton’s first cousin Dr. Penny Barton who attended the event. She said, ‘The family is terribly thrilled and very very proud because we think she does a good job and it’s not easy walking about talking to lots of people and being genuinely interested in who she meets.’ You can find the quote on the Daily Mail website. The article title is long. The title starts ” ‘I’ll keep that’: the Duke of Cambridge sets tongues wagging by accepting a babygro gift…”
The she referred to in the quote from Dr. Barton is Kate.
How hard can it be to be genuinely interested in other people, especially people who’ve achieved a lot in life like Olympic athletes or who are suffering from serious illnesses or who are helping the poor? I would be very interested in them.
You also can see the quote in the Daily Mail article whose title starts “I’m not sure about it: Kate loses control of her new hairdo as she visits her namesake city…”
Ugh! What’s up w/ that 3rd pic??? She looks high as a kite with a side psychopathy!
Hair cut is not flattering and it looks like she’s hiding something. 😉
I continue to be utterly baffled by the fascination that some people have with this woman. She underwhelms me to no end. Notwithstanding the demeanor she is required by royal standards to uphold, I don’t get the appeal of someone so lacking in charm, grace, charisma, intelligence, ambition, interest, and, seemingly, PERSONALITY as Duchess Catherine. Talk about an empty barrel.
Her hair would be less awful if she didn’t murder it with a curling iron all the time. And her dress would be less awful if she never wore it out. Like, ever. Why the hell does it have peace signs all over it, for goodness’ sake?!
Oh, and I’d bet money she isn’t pregnant. Not yet.
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
Ah, this useless waste of space that is KM.
What can I say? Ugly hair, Ugly dress. Is this a dress that belongs to her granny or something. It’s terribly awful and matronly. And bangs don’t suit her. It just makes her look so unprofessional and messy (as if she wasn’t already prior to this) and looks like she’s hiding behind all of that.
and that poor posture doesnt help as well. She lacks so much of confidence and looks so out of place at the event. Weird. You’d think after 18 months there would be SOME improvement =/