The queen, the princess... and the little mermaid. Catch my fashion Oscars.
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Whither the swan? And where's Cher, while we're at it? Yeah, she might have recently flogged off half the contents of her wardrobe... but surely she kept one or two Bob Mackie creations that she could have wheeled out for the Oscars. Oh well, maybe she was home watching Prison Break.
Surely there could have been a bit more excitement at the Oscars this year, sartorially speaking, you cry. Enough of this tasteful pastel nonsense - bring back the days of Bjork dressed as an aquatic bird! Heck, even Celine Dion, who once turned up in a handmade backwards tuxedo, was up there on stage, belting out the usual, in a relatively tasteful dress. But such regrets are the pleas of the naive. We now live in the age of the celebrity stylist, those deceptively tyrannical people who manage to take all the fun and personality off of the red carpet and replaced them with aggressively inoffensive chiffon.
Still, personality can never be fully suppressed, despite the best attempts of Rachel Zoe et al. So here's a gallery to salute those who managed to slip through the style focus group, for better or worse.
If you feel the need to wail, you can always comment below.
