More women are wearing extremely expensive dresses that do not cover much — if anything — at all, according to anecdotal data analyzed with my own eyeballs.
From Gwyneth to Kristen Stewart, that other random actress, and several of Jennifer Lawrence’s “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” premiere dresses, the latest trend in red carpet couture appears to be for women to put on an extremely complicated piece of clothing that don’t cover much at all. (This is just a small sample size, but there are MANY more red carpet nobodies who have been wearing next-to-nothing in public.) (RELATED: Jennifer Lawrence flashes sideboob)
This trend has been going on for about a year now, and it simply will not die. We have Marchesa to blame for starting this trend, and many, many more fashion houses for perpetrating it. These dresses are worth thousands and thousands of dollars, yet they use less fabric than one of your grandma’s Thanksgiving doilies.
Surely, most people are not complaining, but wouldn’t it be simpler to just wear — say — a bikini?
Here is what Jennifer Lawrence (in Dior) and her “Catching Fire” costar Jena Malone (wearing Marchesa) wore to the movie’s Los Angeles premiere Monday night:
These dresses look like a shower curtain and barbed wire, respectively. Lawrence currently has a contract with Dior, so she is legally required to wear their clothes to her detriment, but Malone here really has no excuse (that we are aware of).
Look how much simpler — and hotter — Lawrence looks in Calvin Klein after the Academy Awards this year, and at the ceremony in 2011. No sheer cutouts, no frills, no nothing except Jennifer Lawrence.
There is always nostalgia for eras past, but I long for the simpler, better times of yesteryear, as in, 18 months ago when women actually wore dresses on the red carpet, not fabric stapled together to form fancy loin cloths.