Richard Blackwell

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Mr. Blackwell or Richard Blackwell (born Richard Selzer or Seltzer on August 29, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York) is a fashion critic, best known for his annual "ten worst-dressed women of the year" awards, which he has given every year since 1960. (He also gives awards for the ten best-dressed women of the year, but that list gets less publicity.)

In the 1950s (after failing as an actor ["I wouldn't say I failed, I just gave up. It was just my time to go."]), he designed dresses for actresses including Jane Russell, Dorothy Lamour, and Jayne Mansfield.

In 1995, he wrote an autobiography, From Rags to Bitches (ISBN 1-881649-57-1).

Contents

[edit] 10 Worst-Dressed Women Lists: Year-By-Year

[edit] 2006

  • 1. Britney Spears and Paris Hilton (tie) ("Two peas in an overexposed pod! Style-free and fashion deprived... ladies and gentlemen, the 'SCREAMGIRLS' have arrived!")
  • 2. Camilla Parker-Bowles ("The Duchess of Dowdy strikes again! In feathered hats that were once the rage, she resembles a parakeet from the Jurassic age. A royal wreck.")
  • 3. Lindsay Lohan ("Tragically trapped in fashion's fast lane…looks like Lindsay's ready to remake “Baby Jane.” From adorable to deplorable.")
  • 4. Christina Aguilera ("La Diva Christina is a dazzling singer, But she puts good taste through the wardrobe wringer! All crass, no class!.")
  • 5. Mariah Carey ("Mariah the fashion pariah has finally found her stylistic niche … let's crown her the Queen of Catastrophic Kitsch".)
  • 6. Paula Abdul ("Wrapped in floral fiascos that grow moldier by the hour . . . She's a lumpy stem on a bumpy flower. A fallen fashion idol.")
  • 7. Sharon Stone ("It's clear Sharon's misplaced her fashion gift - she looks like an over-the-hill Cruella De Ville - after a seismic shift!")
  • 8. Tori Spelling ("All chills and no thrills - guess Tori's “Down and Out in Beverly Hills!” She's definitely under fashion duress - positive proof that More is really Less!")
  • 9. Sandra Oh ("Oh, Sandra! Drowning in beads, bangles and prehistoric bows, she's layered lunacy - from toes to nose!")
  • 10. Meryl Streep ("From Streep you could weep, her beauty of a career cannot be denied, but that beast of a wardrobe is pure mother of the bride.")

[edit] 2005

  • 1. Britney Spears ("When it comes to couture chaos, this tacky terror should take a bow. From the Princess of Pop to the ultimate fashion flop! An over-the-hill Lolita.")
  • 2. Mary-Kate Olsen ("In bag lady rags that look depressingly decayed – forget the 'accessories' and buy some Raid.")
  • 3. Jessica Simpson ("It's time to sack the stylist and divorce the 'designer,' she resembles a cut-rate Rapunzel -- slingin' hash in a Vegas diner!")
  • 4. Eva Longoria ("Gorgeous face, garish taste ... what a waste.")
  • 5. Mariah Carey ("The world applauds your musical emancipation, but please--leave that body to our imagination.")
  • 6. Paris Hilton ("The Burger Queen Sensation may be very rich – but she still looks like yesterday's cheesecake... with a side of kitsch.")
  • 7. Anna Nicole Smith ("Her Supreme Court battle proves every fashion 'dog' has their day - unless she's mistaken for 'Queen Kong.'")
  • 8. Shakira ("Coiffure by Medusa... clothes by the Marquis De Sade.")
  • 9. Lindsay Lohan ("The Teen Scream defines 'Fashion Fright' – looks like she's aged 30 years overnight.")
  • 10. Renée Zellweger ("Runs the gamut from Kewpie doll dreck to Red Carpet wreck, she looks like a painted pumpkin – on a pogo stick.")

[edit] 2004

  • 1. Nicollette Sheridan ("In barely-there bombs, she's a taste-free pain. Let's crown her the tacky temptress of Wisteria Lane!")
  • 2. Lindsay Lohan ("Overhyped and underdressed, What's happened to Lindsay? When it comes to fashion, she's in a schizophrenic frenzy!")
  • 3. Ashlee Simpson and Jessica Simpson (tie) ("From gaudy...to grim...to downright frenetic...these two prove that bad taste is positively genetic!")
  • 4. Courtney Love ("Setting the decadent precedent was once her couture code - now she's Medusa stuck in a meltdown mode!")
  • 5. Paris Hilton ("Paris' 'designer' is obviously on vacation -this is one Hilton that should be closed for renovation.")
  • 6. Serena Williams ("Courting disaster with every style-free serve, black leather at the Open takes a lot of nerve! From the queen of tennis to fatal fashion menace — non-stop!")
  • 7. Britney Spears ("What’s left to say about the new Mrs. Federline? A clothes encounter of the catastrophic kind.")
  • 8. Paula Abdul ("Let’s face it: Perky Paula’s a paint-by-numbers fashion foul — she dresses with all the restraint of a revved-up Simon Cowell!")
  • 9. Meryl Streep ("Forget Lemony Snicket — Streep packs the fashion punch of Jiminy Cricket! In dowdy glasses and lumpy tents, Meryl is A Series of Unfortunate Events!")
  • 10. Anna Nicole Smith ("Looks like a rag doll trapped in a wind machine!")

[edit] 2003

  • 1. Paris Hilton ("Grab the blinders, here comes Paris, From cyber disgrace to red-carpet chills -- she's the vapid Venus of Beverly Hills!")
  • 2. Madonna and Britney Spears (tie) ("So many tacky trends, so little time - please, will someone arrest the kissing cousins of couture crime?")
  • 3. Shania Twain ("Buckled bombs and country-fried kitsch. Has Calamity Twain popped a stitch?")
  • 4. Diane Keaton ("In prudish fashion pitfalls that bury her beauty, it could be Queen Victoria on jury duty! Dowdy, dumpy, and frumpy!")
  • 5. Jessica Simpson ("Forget putting her stylist on suspension - just clean out that closet and hire a magician!")
  • 6. Celine Dion ("Half sequined scarecrow, half gaudy acrobat. Is it Abe Lincoln in drag? I'll leave it at that!")
  • 7. Missy Elliot ("Missy's experiencing a bling-bling take-over - time to lower the wattage and get a makeover!")
  • 8. Melanie Griffith ("Melanie defines "fatal fashion folly", a botox'd cockatoo in a painting by Dali!")
  • 9. Courtney Love ("The torrid temptress of fashion - "Rock Pack" is the undisputed queen of tack.")
  • 10. Lara Flynn Boyle ("Sometimes a single fiasco is all it takes - that tutu terror was one of the all-time worst fashion mistakes! A beautiful face... but no taste... what a waste!")

[edit] 2002

  • 1. Anna Nicole Smith ("Anna's fashion follies are the worst of the year. Don't bother with a new designer, just hire a structural engineer.")
  • 2. Kelly Osbourne ("A fright-wigged baby doll, stuck in a Goth prom gown & now we know what happened to Ozzy's hand-me-downs.")
  • 3. Shakira ("Overwrought and underdressed, she always strikes a familiar pose & somebody should tell her those are probably Madonna's old clothes.")
  • 4. Cameron Diaz ("Looks like she was dressed by a color-blind circus clown,& when it comes to fashion, it's chaos when Cameron's back in town.")
  • 5. Princess Anne ("Her Royal Dowager Drag is dreary, drab and dour& wake up, Anne, you're getting worse by the hour.")
  • 6. Anne Rice ("Her musty, dusty mausoleum wear redefines 'Queen of the Batcaves'. Anne looks like a cross between Queen Victoria and the vampire Lestat.")
  • 7. Donatella Versace ("Resembles a flash-fried Venus, stuck in a Miami strip mall.")
  • 8. Meg Ryan ("A total fashion wreck. Looks like a Swap-Meet Fashion Queen in Beverly Hills.")
  • 9. Christina Aguilera ("Her barely-there bimbo bombs wouldn't cover a gnat. Let's just call her the 'Worst Undressed' and leave it at that.")
  • 10. Pink ("Out of the blue, pops Pink, and I'm seeing red. Cartoon-colored proof that any fashion sanity for her is really dead.")

[edit] 2001

[edit] 2000

  • 1. Britney Spears ("Her bra-topped collection of Madonna rejects are pure fashion overkill. Relax, help is on the way!")
  • 2. Angelina Jolie ("Fashion, interrupted. Hit by a Gen-X gothic hex!")
  • 3. Björk ("Looks like a fractured fashion fairy tale. Let's dub her Alice in Blunderland.")
  • 4. Madonna ("From ghetto glam to rhinestone cowgirl to Mrs. Guy Ritchie. Any way you label it, she's still just kitschy, kitschy, kitschy!")
  • 5. Elizabeth Hurley ("Poor Liz: Her barely there fashion bombs have hit a sour note - a word of advice, buy a coat!")
  • 6. Christina Aguilera ("Is she a boring and body-baring bungle--or just auditioning for Sheena, Queen of the Jungle?")
  • 7. Laura Schlessinger ("When it comes down to fashion horror, no one does it better than Dr. Laura. A turtlenecked terror!")
  • 8. Courtney Love ("When push comes to shove, no one's fashion is tackier and wackier then punky, funky Love!")
  • 9. Mariah Carey ("Her X-rated baby doll disasters are laughably low-rent.")
  • 10. Katherine Harris ("The pretty, brassy lassie from Tallahassee needs cosmetic direction - her paint-by-numbers make-up screams out for discretion! A recount please!")

[edit] 1999

  • 1. Cher ("A million beads and ONE over-exposed derriere--when it comes to the ultimate fashion fiasco...ladies and gentlemen, it's Cher!")
  • 2. Celine Dion ("In her backward tuxedo there's no way of knowing whether Diva Dion is coming or going - a profusion of confusion.")
  • 3. Queen Elizabeth II ("Was she the palace Christmas tree or just a royal clown? I've seen a lot of queens, but Queen Elizabeth is the worst!")
  • 4. Martha Stewart ("She dresses like the centerfold for the Farmer's Almanac.")
  • 5. Fiona Apple ("A kinked and curled Kewpie Doll wrapped in a collection of yesterday's fatal fashion frights.")
  • 6. Britney Spears ("This belly-baring songbird is better heard than seen - wearing over the top fashion flops unfit even for a bubblegum queen.")
  • 7. Sarah Jessica Parker ("From Sex and the City Sarah's fashions are a mix-and-match pity.")
  • 8. Jennifer Aniston ("She's a fashion bore and a snore. Here's the fashion buzz: Brad Pitt looks better in a dress than she does!")
  • 9. Cameron Diaz ("On Any Given Sunday Cameron falls prey to a freaky fashion curse - and as the week continues, she just slips from bad to worse.")
  • 10. The Dixie Chicks ("They look like a trio of truckstop fashion tragedies trapped in a typhoon...tacky, tacky, tacky.")

[edit] 1998

  • 1. Linda Tripp ("Linda's bad fashion 'tripp' is beyond debate - a shaggy sheepdog in drag, the 'Starr' of her own Stylegate.")
  • 2. Madonna ("Mama Madonna has become a neo-Gothic fright - a glitzy gargoyle searching for a Ray of Fashion Light.")
  • 3. Kate Winslet ("From gaudy gowns to creepy combat boots, Kate's a fashion panic - in fact, her whole wardrobe should have gone down with the Titanic.")
  • 4. Carmen Electra ("Fashion Viagra in heels.")
  • 5. Courtney Love ("Looks more like cold cuts and Spam than the goddess of glam.")
  • 6. Mariah Carey ("Shrink-wrapped cheesecake.")
  • 7. Marisa Tomei ("The high priestess of fashion pretense.")
  • 8. Sigourney Weaver ("If you are looking for an Alien, call Sigourney.")
  • 9. Sandra Bullock ("A Victorian lampshade on the loose.")
  • 10. Alex Kingston ("She mixed, she matched...she missed.")

[edit] 1997

[edit] 1996

[edit] 1995

[edit] 1994

[edit] 1993

[edit] 1992

[edit] 1991

[edit] 1990

[edit] 1989

[edit] 1988

[edit] 1987

[edit] 1986

  • 1. Meryl Streep ("A gypsy abandoned by a caravan!")
  • 2. Vanna White ("Fashion's booby prize of the year!")
  • 3. Sarah, Duchess of York ("Looks like the queen of last year's English county fair!")
  • 4. Bea Arthur ("Wears all leftovers from a marked-down garage sale!")
  • 5. Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless (tie) ("Fashion frumps of the year!")
  • 6. Barbra Streisand ("A shoddy Second-Hand Rose looking for a tour guide in Brooklyn!")
  • 7. Kathleen Turner ("Some people paint by numbers; Kathleen must dress by numbers, but obviously lost count!")
  • 8. Cher ("Popular Mechanics Playmate of the month. Someone must have thrown a monkey wrench into her fashion taste!")
  • 9. Whoopi Goldberg ("Whoops! Running for the leader of the bag ladies from ash-can alley!")
  • 10. Jean Kasem ("Looks like a wrinkled toothpaste tube exploding!")

[edit] 1985

  • 1. Princess Stéphanie of Monaco ("Her royal unisex wardrobe entitles her to use either bathroom!")
  • 2. Joan Collins ("One more pushup and she'll have three chins!")
  • 3. Madonna ("Skid row's nomination for a poverty-party centerpiece contest!")
  • 4. Tina Turner ("Some women dress for men...some dress for women...some dress for laughs.")
  • 5. Michele Lee ("Looks like King Kong's mother-in-law. Thank heaven spring has sprung; now she can wear a lighter shade of black!")
  • 6. Whoopi Goldberg ("A cover girl for Sharecropper's Monthly!")
  • 7. Cybill Shepherd ("Fashion's number one embarrassment - sneaky sneakers and a plunging neckline. Looks like a turkey on its way to slaughter!")
  • 8. Lisa Hartman ("A reject from the shah's harem. Now he can remake Scheherazade! Hair by Spikey.")
  • 9. Apollonia Kotero ("Living proof that every prince needs his jester. Big Bird bites the dust!")
  • 10. Heather Thomas ("An exploding overstuffed cabbage!")

[edit] 1984

[edit] 1983

[edit] 1982

[edit] 1981

[edit] 1980

[edit] 1979

[edit] 1978

[edit] 1977

[edit] 1976

[edit] 1975

  • 1. Caroline Kennedy ("A shaggy dog in pants!")
  • 2. Helen Reddy ("She spent the year proving I was right. Should have saved her costumes for the bicentennial explosion!")
  • 3. Nancy Kissinger ("A traveling fashion stew!")
  • 4. Bette Midler ("'Betsy Bloomer' - didn't pantaloons go out with the hoopskirt?")
  • 5. Sally Struthers ("Certainly not in the 'fashion family!")
  • 6. Princess Anne ("A royal auto mechanic!")
  • 7. Tammy Wynette and Donna Fargo (tie) ("Tied for the yearly double: country magic dressed in a circus tent!")
  • 8. Tatum O'Neal ("Twelve going on forty!")
  • 9. Sonia Rykiel ("She put the 'fanny wrap' back in and out of fashion!")
  • 10. Elton John ("Would be the campiest spectacle in the Rose Parade!")

[edit] 1974

[edit] 1973

[edit] 1972

  • 1. Raquel Welch ("But, how do you dress a Sherman tank?")
  • 2. Julie Andrews ("She dresses like the kind of woman every man wants for his...maiden uncle!")
  • 3. Mia Farrow ("Around the world in eighty mistakes!")
  • 4. Princess Margaret ("The kind of styles that make Londoners grateful for their fog".)
  • 5. Ali MacGraw ("Packs the glamour of an old worn-out sneaker!")
  • 6. Lauren Bacall ("The epitome of drab. If you want her, just yawn".)
  • 7. Yoko Ono ("A disaster area in stero. Oh no, Yoko!")
  • 8. Cloris Leachman ("Whether in sportswear or dresses she always seems to lack one simple accessory - a thrift-mart shopping bag!")
  • 9. Alexis Smith ("Her clothes have all the sex appeal of Henry Kissinger in an unemployment line!")
  • 10. Totie Fields ("The bad-year blimp covered in sequins - looks like a Fourth of July technicolor explosion!")

[edit] 1971

[edit] 1970

[edit] 1969

  • 1. Queen Elizabeth II ("Everything that is out of fashion is in with the Queen - Hail, Victoria!")
  • 2. Barbra Streisand ("Yesterday's see-through...chemise, schlemeil, and 23 skidoo, and what happened to you?")
  • 3. Raquel Welch ("From Welch - you could belch!")
  • 4. Jacqueline Susann ("Tillie the Toiler gone bad in the Valley of the Falls - hair, that is!")
  • 5. Goldie Hawn ("A peeled grape on the end of a pipe cleaner! Has the fickle finger of fashion passed her by?")
  • 6. Carol Burnett ("Looks like the last float in last year's Rose Parade. Or, a Grandma Moses' painting of a petunia patch. Tacky, tacky, tacky, tacky!")
  • 7. Doris Day ("Doing your own thing in blushing pink...but for thirty years?")
  • 8. Shirley Temple ("The dimpled darling of the 'Good Ship Lollipop' wearing 'Disjointed Notions.'")
  • 9. Mae West ("High camp exploding in a bon-bon factory.")
  • 10. Ann-Margret ("Moisten lips...hair in flips...boots and sequins...what a miss?")

[edit] 1968

  • 1. Julie Andrews ("A Little Bo-Peep illustration for True Love magazine.")
  • 2. Carol Burnett ("Looks like a tornado hit the bargain basement and Carol collected it all.")
  • 3. The Lennon Sisters ("Should be called the 'Lemon Sisters', because their wardrobe hits a sour note. Someone should tell these young matrons that they aren't vintage 1945 June Allysons.")
  • 4. Kaye Ballard ("Prince Valiant in a panty girdle.")
  • 5. Vanessa Redgrave ("The rocket to stardom that launched Vanessa to success missed its target when she got dressed.")
  • 6. Doris Day ("Has she stayed too long at the fair?")
  • 7. Raquel Welch ("She may have a heavenly body but her clothes look like they were designed by the man in the moon - a real luna-tic.")
  • 8. Cass Elliot ("Little Orphan Annie in gowns by Oscar Meyer.")
  • 9. Brigitte Bardot ("Needs an architect instead of a designer. Brigitte's a real space odyssey - or is it a space oddity? We wish she would just go on her own Milky Way.")
  • 10. Jane Fonda ("A real grown up Barbie doll. Aspirin, please.")

[edit] 1967

[edit] 1966

[edit] 1965

[edit] 1964

  • 1. Barbra Streisand ("A tree grew in Brooklyn - dressed in tablecloth and furs. Claims she has furs for every occasion, but must be getting her occasions mixed. Her high black stockings and shoulder chain purse make one think of an unsuccessful hitchhiker.")
  • 2. Jayne Mansfield ("After appearing like a stuffed sausage for many years, Jayne has resorted to the baby pink look - between baby doll shorties and darling pink bows for her multicolored hair, groomed not unlike the sweeping end of a broom. Has she in confusion borrowed her young daughter's wardrobe? Watch out, Mother Mansfield.")
  • 3. Debbie Reynolds ("A caricature of Zsa Zsa Gabor who is a caricature of...well, I really don't know. Plug her in and there's your Christmas tree.")
  • 4. Phyllis Diller ("Looks like a scarecrow hung on a clothesline after a heavy windstorm. Designers' mistakes and overturned trash cans have been coordinated to make her the most ridiculously worst-dressed woman.")
  • 5. Cara Williams ("TV's most beautiful face! Looks as though she borrowed Salvation Army discards. Total loss of femininity. Should be playing the title role of Hello Charlie.")
  • 6. Pamela Mason ("Self-admittedly Los Angeles's greatest man hater: bouffant hair, years outdated, bangled sweaters - a look reserved for hand-me-downs, plunging necklines revealing a comically sensuous bustline and too many yards of flesh poured into too few inches of fabric. In a sum, a totally confused matron.")
  • 7. Jayne Meadows ("May I have an aspirin?")
  • 8. Carol Channing ("Painted lips, mascaraed eyes, wearing that bird of paradise. When Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is revived, her clothes will be in style again.")
  • 9. Tuesday Weld ("Looks as if she just got out of bed and grabbed the top sheet for a gown, but that's Tuesday. Maybe we should see her on Wednesday.")
  • 10. Carroll Baker ("It isn't what she does with clothes, it's what she does without them. She's a sexy girl if you like Huckleberry Finn.")

[edit] 1963

  • 1. Zsa Zsa Gabor ("Heading the list for the third year, Zsa Zsa Gabor is awarded lifetime membership in the Worst Dressed club. I have your Golden Needle Award, Zsa Zsa, if you care to pick it up.")
  • 2. Elizabeth Taylor ("Plunging neckline, deeper than should be legal; with plump bosoms, rounded hips, makes one think of the rebirth of the zeppelin.")
  • 3. Shirley MacLaine ("Basically basic - feathers and furs on her look like costumes borrowed from the Ziegfeld Follies.")
  • 4. Sandra Dee ("Words fail me!")
  • 5. Lena Horne ("Sings great, for Lena - shows bony shoulders and reminds me of a plucked chicken. You can't always look good, Lena, but you could look better.")
  • 6. Barbra Streisand ("All stars have gimmicks, okay! But the tablecloth bit just isn't for stars. Greenwich Village is still a sideshow. Barbra, why reject your obligations to your audience? It's a good thing you didn't set a trend.")
  • 7. Ginger Rogers ("When the Castle Walk is revived, she'll be back in style.")
  • 8. Jill St. John ("Jill is a beauty, accessories by Woolworths, clothes by Bad Taste.")
  • 9. Jayne Meadows ("Looks like all the stores in town had a sale - and she bought it all; what's worse, she wore it.")
  • 10. Bette Davis ("The great lady of the cinema looks like a dowager queen from Delancey Street.")

[edit] 1962

  • 1. Zsa Zsa Gabor ("Queen of the international set, she reminds me of the elephant in Jumbo with all its glittering trappings. Her outlandish entrances are a real farce.")
  • 2. Rosalind Russell ("She's still Auntie Mame, and someone should remind her it was a comedy...slacks, bangles, headbands and beads. Oh, please!")
  • 3. Brigitte Bardot ("A buxom milkmaid reminiscent of a cow wearing a girdle, and both have the same amount of acting talent.")
  • 4. Dinah Shore ("She has tried every fashion at least once and still can't make up her mind. She's always Nashville's Little Miss Muffet, tossing kisses at a grade school pageant.")
  • 5. Judy Garland ("Poor thing - apparently left all her fashionable clothes in that trunk she's always talking about.")
  • 6. Ingrid Bergman ("If she had a brother Joe, he must have loaned her the clothes.")
  • 7. Bette Davis ("Baby Jane's costumes aren't much different from the clothes I've seen her wearing around town.")
  • 8. Lucille Ball ("Despite her great comedy flair, offstage she is a clown caricaturing an actress who borrowed her wardrobe from the studio costume department.")
  • 9. Patricia Kennedy Lawford ("She has absolutely no fashion image, and is drab and colorless, like a poor relative.")
  • 10. Laura Goldman ("Neiman-Marcus gown buyer: from head to toe, her Tobacco Road ensembles (regardless of price) make her the number one nominee for my 'I can't believe it!' list."

[edit] 1961

  • 1. Debbie Reynolds ("If you're going to be a girl, go ahead and be one, but be one mentally. Debbie simply can't project the style she tries for in her clothes. They make her look silly.")
  • 2. Sophia Loren ("Sophia Loren, off the screen, is still the Italian shop girl she portrays in the movies. Someone should tell her that simplicity is not drabness.")
  • 3. Marilyn Monroe ("In private life, Marilyn Monroe is a road-show version of herself. She should get off the stage.")
  • 4. Jayne Mansfield ("Her plunging neckline has become a bare midriff problem.")
  • 5. Lucille Ball ("If you can wear it, carry it. Lucy buys her clothes without any planning, then lugs around most everything else she owns. Her appearance is absolute confusion.")
  • 6. Zsa Zsa Gabor ("Her arrogant independence in dressing makes her look like a clown.")
  • 7. Diana Dors ("Nothing stylewise can be saved from this girl. Why bother?")
  • 8. Kathleen Nolan ("She dresses for the same role, in The Real McCoys, off camera too. I can't understand it.")
  • 9. Connie Stevens ("She wears anything she can get her hands on and it shows.")
  • 10. Shirley MacLaine ("Looks like everyone she knows has donated something to her wardrobe and she wears it all at the same time. In addition to this, she's a tomboy. She romps and rolls on the floor.")

[edit] 1960

  • 1. Anna Magnani ("The female counterpart of Emmett Kelly. One of the most distinguished actresses of our generation, who suggests Eleanora Duse playing in a Shakespearean tragedy wearing tramp clothes.")
  • 2. Brigitte Bardot ("An unruly child who has acquired the bad habit of taking off her nightie before the bathroom door has been closed.")
  • 3. Yvonne De Carlo ("A gypsy who stole a wine-red portiere from a window and draped it over her body in combination with a Kelly green couch cover.")
  • 4. Lucille Ball ("One of our most gifted comediennes, she seems to bend over backwards to look ridiculous, and her greatest asset in this department in her clothes. Her preferences in fashion can best be described as a sense of turmoil, because nothing blends or complements.")
  • 5. Anita Ekberg ("If a woman who wears a shoe two sizes too small is apt to suffer from bunions, I wonder what is the fate of one with a 39-inch bust who wears a size 16 dress? Miss Ekberg, in either street or formal wear, provokes the idea that she dresses with a shoehorn.")
  • 6. Shelley Winters ("The only description for Miss Winters dressed for a party is a rag doll brought to the circus and covered with pink cotton candy.")
  • 7. Carolyn Jones ("There is so little material between Miss Jones' bust line and the hem of her garment one wonders which will get where first.")
  • 8. Kim Novak ("Lavender, like old lace, belongs in a bureau drawer, not on a torso with too great a frequency to offset it. She has adopted lavender as her trademark and is guilty of fabric redundancy.")
  • 9. Anne Baxter ("She wears a sweater as if she were headed for the showers instead of the moonlight sail with a handsome escort. In formal attire her hair looks as if someone ran a brush through it and then said, 'Oh, the hell with it.'")

[edit] Best Dressed (Fabulous Fashion Independents) of the last 10 Years

[edit] 1997

Courtney Love, Jada Pinkett, Demi Moore, Nicole Kidman, Salma Hayek, Anne Heche (Ellen DeGeneres’ ex), Roma Downey (from “Touch by an Angel”), Toni Braxton, Lisa McCree (former "Good Morning America" anchor) , and Viscountess Serena Linley.

[edit] 1998

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Minnie Driver, Kim Basinger, Gloria Stuart, Roma Downey, Julia Roberts, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Oprah Winfrey.

[edit] 1999

Gwyneth Paltrow, Sophia Loren, Oprah Winfrey, Camryn Manheim, Barbra Streisand, Halle Berry, Helen Mirren, Nicole Kidman, Sharon Stone, and Princess Caroline of Monaco

[edit] 2000

Juliette Binoche, Halle Berry, Charlize Theron, Faith Hill, Liz Smith, Gweneth Paltrow, Heather Locklear, Queen Rania of Jordan, Ashley Judd, Winona Ryder

[edit] 2001

Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, Diane Sawyer, Renee Fleming, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joan Allen, Penélope Cruz, Renée Zellweger and Katie Couric.

[edit] 2002

Reese Witherspoon, Debra Messing, Halle Berry, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Princess Firyal of Jordan, Renée Zellweger, Kate Winslett, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Aniston.

[edit] 2003

Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Garner, Diane Lane, Salma Hayek, Oprah Winfrey, Katie Holmes, Tippi Hedren, Beyoncé, Faith Hill, Sarah Jessica Parker, the Countess of Wessex: Sophie Rhys-Jones

[edit] 2004

Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Barbara Walters, Kate Winslet, Annette Bening, Oprah Winfrey, Scarlett Johansson, Gwen Stefani, Jennifer Garner and Teri Hatcher

[edit] 2005

Reese Witherspoon, Kirsten Dunst, Kathy Hilton, Dionne Warwick, Ginny Mancini, Nicole Kidman, Carolina Herrera, Scarlett Johansson, Kate Moss and Natalie Portman.

[edit] 2006

Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie, Helen Mirren, Barbra Streisand, Beyoncé, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Charlotte Casiraghi, Heidi Klum, Katie Holmes, and Marcia Cross.

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