Usually, you can tell which lady is trying to get in good with Harvey Weinstein when they show up to a major awards show in some hideous Marchesa creation. Marchesa is, for the uninitiated, the line designed by Harvey’s wife, Georgina Chapman. And Chapman is a terrible designer. What’s weird is that there were several women at the Golden Globes who were just wearing Marchesa for the hell of it, I guess because they genuinely liked these dresses. Take Viola Davis… she’s never really been a fashionista, but she could have done better than this Marchesa look. She HAS done better in the past, but maybe she knew she wasn’t going to win, or maybe she just felt like wearing something that wasn’t so body-con. I don’t know. I don’t hate it because I don’t hate anything about Viola, but I still think she could do better.
Sarah Hay is the ballerina-turned-actress from Flesh and Bone. See, I sort of understand why she would want to get in good with Weinstein. And her dress is classic cheap-looking Marchesa. It looks like something found in a discount bin at the mall.
Zendaya’s Marchesa was probably the worst example of Marchesa at the Globes, because from a distance, in wide shots, it looked striking, almost pretty. But up close, you can see the cheapness. And it looks so stiff! I also think that those ruffle-tier skirts are so five seasons ago.
You know what exhausts me? Heidi Klum’s style. She has the worst taste, overall. She consistently on worst-dressed lists. It’s like she has a radar for the cheesiest, most dated showgirl looks ever. I’m so tired of seeing her in feathers and crazy beading and game-show-hostess attire. This is Marchesa, obviously.
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I like Viola’s and Sarah’s dresses. Violas screams that she just wanted to be comfortable and didn’t care if she looked sexy enough and Sarah’s is so pretty.
Sadly don’t care for Zendaya’s style this time but nothing is as bad as Heidi’s. Geez.
Viola’s dress is okay. She usually goes a bit over the top.
Zendaya’s dress is pretty, but her makeup is over the top as always. She looks like a youtube beauty guru. Also, she was sitting at Harvey’s table, so I guess she’ll have an Oscar next year. I’ve never actually seen her act, is she good?
Heidi’s bad taste is sort of endearing by now.
Viola’s dress is nice but it is NOT a good look for her .Yesterday NOTHING was worse than Blanchet/Mara dresses
ITA. I kind of like Viola’s dress. But Heidi? You would think that someone who made her living as a model would have a better sense of what looks good on her.
I think her issue is that when she was younger almost everything did look good on her. Now that she’s older, the harsh makeup and fake boobs are really pronounced which emphasizes the tackiness of her outfits.
Viola is a glittering galaxy of sheer magnificence and nothing anybody can say will convince me otherwise. It looked wonderful in motion with all the light dancing and I just love it.
Hear, hear!
Agree with you! Viola looked perfect.
Agreed about the pattern of the dress. Viola looked good in it, but not great. She could have looked great.
I loved Zendaya’s hair and make-up; dress was tragic.
Klum – the less said the better. Ugh.
All of these dresses are horrible and you’re right – I can’t remember the last time Heidi Klum got it right on a red carpet but with her, I also get the feeling that she’s just having fun with it and it’s kind of her ‘thing’ now lol.
I actually liked Viola’s dress. It’s a bit matronly but it looks comfortable and the colour fits her perfectly. The other dresses are hideous.
I think Viola’s dress is rather pretty too, especially the beading. It would be better without the big sleeves though. Bell sleeves at waist height are hard to pull off unless the wearer is really tall and skinny.
The rest of the outfits suck. Sarah Hay’s looks like something from a haunted mansion.
That’s what I thought–pretty excerpt for the sleeves.
Glad you said it, ischi. I love Viola but this looks like a mother-of-the-bride dress. It also makes he look really huge and hippy.
I hate Viola’s dress, she’s lost in it. The colour is wrong for her, she should wear something saturated and bright. And above all, simple.
every dress in this post is horrible lol. even viola and zendaya who usually look on point, have chosen terrible dresses. the colours are nice actually, especially zendaya’s, but the designs are awful.
has heidi klum ever wore a nice dress on the red carpet?
Oh come on, it’s not THAT bad. It would have looked really gorgeus without the sleeves but whatever.. the others on the other hand…
Not as bad as I imagined. I actually like it. Now let’s talk about Jane Fonda’s dress.
I like Viola’s dress!
Me too, I love Viola and of all Marchesa dresses hers was the best. The rest though… Ugh. Normally Zendaya looks great, the top part was ok but the cupcake bottom ruined it. Heidi is a mess as usual.
I like Zendya’s dress, I would not have guessed it was Marchessa. Maybe it looked worse live but I do no see anything wrong with it in these photos even if is not for everyone.
I feel like people just like to bash Marchese just for the sake to do so. These are nice dresses. I do think the sheer sleeves ruin the dresses. They would have been so much better without them. I don’t like the tiers in Zendaya’s dress but the color is great.
Zendaya ‘s color dress is good looking on her
…this site just plain ol dont like marchesa…they’re all lovely which is admittedly unusual…also props to wiz’s mom who also looked lovely…crying shame he didnt get the award for cuagain…
Unlike every other site aside from People?
I don’t think Viola’s dress is all that flattering because of the sleeves, but I understand that women of a certain age need sleeves, or at least I do. They could have been more narrow. But I think her beauty shines through.
I’d hate to say what these people are paying for these dresses. I think I could go into a David’s Bridal and find something that looks better than most Marchesa designs.
I’m willing to bet that NONE of them are paying for these dresses, and that’s the problem.
Viola’s dress is so meh. Her wardrobe for How to Get Away with Murder is BANGING, though.
I actually liked Viola’s dress when I saw it in different photos. I thought she looked beautiful. The other dresses, not so much.
I like the lower half of Viola’s, but there’s too much going on up top. A rare miss for her, she usually chooses very well.
Don’t care for the rest.
Heidi is irrelevant, why was she there. So yes I’m giving it to Viola as the worst Marchesa because Viola is to pretty for the dress and it’s the first time ever I saw a dress wear Viola instead of Viola wear a dress.
Viola is too stout to wear such a fussy dress, but maybe the dress is making her look stout.
I don’t totally hate Zendaya’s dress
For Marchesa?? vIola is Downright well made and Measured as F*ck… Especially when the other Fuggery is on Display? Are you kidding?!?
Also Heidi is exhausting; I dont see how you can sit there and judge fashion and Have access to turn around and CONSISTENTLY look garish and Terrible
Doesn’t she, tho? I think that if Heidi saw that trash on Project Runway, she would tear the designer apart. Her choices are always so ridiculously ugly.
If you cut the sleeves off of Viola’s dress and removed the sheer chest panel, I think it would have been pretty.
Heidi…ugh..she just looks bad so often. She needs a new stylist. Viola looks like a fairy Godmother.
Viola Davis:
GREAT dress. A bigger hairstyle would have been better. Perhaps some loose beach curls?
I really get the idea for Viola’s Dress: the night-blue sky with stars as a dress. It is great
Zendaya looks gorgeous. I don’t hate Viola’s dress, but it’s not very flattering…too much material and makes her appear bigger than she is. Looks like a style Oprah would wear, but I love the night sky and stars design.
Davis’s dress was just too much of everything. She wasn’t wearing the dress, the dress was wearing her.
I like Viola’s dress.
All these dresses if edited would look nice except for Heidi’s that’s just a really bad dress.
What does Heidi Klum have against wearing a bra?
I thought Viola was one of the best dressed. Not top, but maybe top 10. A lot of really bad dresses last night!
Viola’s dress is beautiful but it’s not flattering on her.