‘Tis the season when pop-culture pundits start compiling best and worst lists in every conceivable category, and we here at EW.com certainly aren’t immune. Right now, we’re working on a list of the Worst Style Moments of 2007, and because we want to leave early today and start our holiday shopping value your opinions, we’d like you to help us brainstorm a list of nominees.
As someone whose personal ‘07 style nadir involved a lamb osso buco splatter on a light-blue dress shirt (right before I went to a fancy party!), I’m probably a dubious choice to start the discussion, but I’m gonna go ahead and nominate those metallic wings slapped on Jennifer Hudson’s brown Oscar gown, and Britney Spears’ much-dissected costume from this year’s VMAs. The former seemed to me like a sad case of a well-liked young starlet foolishly following the advice of a kooky guardian angel (Andre Leon Talley), and winding up as a fashion victim on Hollywood’s biggest night. And as for Britney’s bedazzled underpants and busted weave (second ugliest of the year, right behind the frayed, yellow-white yarn forced on Top Model’s Jenah by Ken Paves), the whole thing reeked of desperation (and perhaps a hint of Fantasy).
Are you with me on that duo, PopWatchers? And what other unspeakable looks belong on the list of the worst style moments of 2007?
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Imogen Heap and Brooke Hogan at the 2007 Grammy’s!
Also Ellen Pompeo’s hair style at the Emmy’s! Yikes!
Sorry, Slezak, but Vanessa L. (yeah) Williams at the Golden Globes. The ‘fro didn’t work for X-Tina, and it didn’t work here.
Britney Spears was a walking fashion disaster for all of 2007… from the bald head to the bad weaves to the crazy ugly outfits.. she definately had the worst style of 2007!
Meryl Streep at the Oscars. The beads, the dress…she is no fashionista!
I want to say Tyra Bank’s outfits she wears to judging on ANTM, but I can’t think of on in particular that was the worst. Can we just make her an all around “don’t”?
J.Hud had a beautiful dress for the Oscars. The gray color highlighted her curves but the bolero jacket? Patti LaBelle is one of the best R&B singers of all time, but if Hudson wanted to pay tribute to her, she should have waited until Halloween. I say a “Kitchy, glitchy, uh-uh, no, no”.
Brit’s V’Ger Star Trek bald look was bad, and was it Nicole Kidman who wore the giant Christmas Bow dress to the Oscars? Ho, ho, woah!
These aren’t the worst, but they were bad:
Jessica Simpson in the red white and blue bikini and open jeans photo for the new Private Benjamin movie she’s in.
Courtney Love in France, sometime in october, wearing a plunging dress and
a t-shirt underneath
John Mayer for wearing Jessica Simpson (and leading her on for so long -shame on him-she’s too stupid to know how pretentious he is)
Britney – just about anywhere, anytime in ‘07
Tom Cruise’s lastest haircut (middle age fitting a little too tightly, Tom?)
Ashton Kutcher and the Irish caps – wtf?
Jada Pinkett Smith at the 2007 Oscars — was she trying to look like an actual Oscar? Apparently she didn’t have much faith that her man would win and she wanted to make sure that he took home some kind of “statuette”. Ugh!
I don’t even know what this is called, but can we call for an official end to helmet bangs? JLH on Ghost Whisperer, Alyson Hannigan on “HIMYM”, Tyra Banks… why did this ugly blunt cut become so prominent over the past year? It always looks ridiculous. Always.
Jessica Simpson in those baby blue high waisted (with pleats! and big white buttons!) demin pants and her white shirt with ‘no support’ bra. Even soccer moms wouldn’t be caught in those ‘mom jeans’!
whoops, that should have said Jessica’s DENIM pants. sorry!
Britney anytime, anywhere… From partially picked and tortured nails with nailcolor off in bits and pieces, to bad weaves, to wearing tops as dresses, to no underwear, to showing off her cellulite, to…wait the list goes on too long to list!
Nicole Richie and Lindsey Lohan anytime they tie one of those dang knitted things around their head. It’s like biker chic meets home-ec project.
Sorry but I think Britney was smokin’ hot in that outfit, not fat as some have said. A little baby weight isn’t a bad thing. love Ya Britney!
I don’t know her name, and I’ve only seen the show once, but that horrible least-popular-kid-in-fourth-grade-in-1982 bowl cut they put on that one girl on Top Model deserves a spot in some kind of hall of shame.
Most of the Spice Girls at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Fist, Emma and Gerri were wearing outfits that Britney had worn in her hay-day (could they not find anything made this year with their millions of dollars? Fire your stylist!) and Posh’s pink sheet-over-silver-underwear-thing. We know it’s Victoria’s Secret, but that doesn’t mean you HAVE to show your underwear.
List for Britney cont’d: Those awful hats, stupid glasses, puffed up lips, nasty makeup, bras for tops, you are right, it does go on and on
Oh, just looking at that pic of Brit-Brit at the VMAs –it looks like a damn dime is stuck in her navel.
The Olsen Twins need to be up in hurr on this list. You get double the fugly for the price of a single cup of a latte.
Paula Abdul. Her outfits are just as bad as her fake chi-chis.
Saleshia “Tootie” Top Model. Good Lawd! The mushroom wasn’t cute when Field’s was on skate and it damn ain’t cute when you trying to strike a pose — skate your azz on outta hurr.
Beyonce! Mmmm-hmmm. All those Momma Knowles Spicy Creole Creations are just as fugged up as her 50 feet of weave. She gets no snaps from the kids 3x.
I loved Stephanie T’s write up of the fashion challenged and agree with Stephen that the Afro puffs look made the usually stunning Vanessa Williams look skanky.
IMHO, the worst of the year goes to Amy Winehouse. I’ve seen her look so cute, but recently she seems to look anorexic and her beehive looks raggedy. Such a shame becuase that woman fixes up really nicely.
No Britney is a dime! EW should have put her as entertainer of the year for her awesome stories in the tabloids to that cd that is a JAM! Dont judge the cd until you listen to it.
Does the “girls gone commando” trend count as a fashion disaster? At least the Spice Girls *wore* underwear at the VS show
Hopefully everyone will do a “panty check” before walking out of the house in ‘08…
i loved jennifer’s Oscar dress, even with the jet pack.
Anything that Eva Green wore on the red carpet this year (with the exception of the dress she wore to the Golden Compass premiere) and anything that Britney wore, period. Yikes!
I agree with the no underwear look, can that be the fashion DON’T of the year? Red carpets aside can we please say no a cup of Starbucks as a fashion accessory or Uggs with a short denim skirt, those little celebutards wore that OUT!!
oops meant no to a cup of Starbucks!
And can any discussion of underwear-free bad fashion be complete without mention of Sharon Stone’s TMI jumpsuit?
PAULAS outfits are always very nice! stop bashing her and her clothes, its getting old. and at least she’s an original, and doesnt care about what anyone else is wearing. BRITNEY had the worst style, as usual.
Worst style – Britney, Lindsay, and Amy Winehouse. The Druggie Look is never “In”.
Paula Abdul definitely should be high on the list. Everything she puts on is two sizes too small and designed for a pre-teen. And all that silly jewelry. The concept of elegance or class is completely foreign to her.
And I thought I was the only one who thought that chick off Top Model had a terrible haircut. It reminds me of a haircut one of the guys from the old Fat Albert cartoon had. She’s a pretty girl, but I can’t get past that haircut.
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