Red Carpet Rewind: The ‘OMG!’ fashion felonies of the year
By Elizabeth Snead
Wiped out
Even the usually super-stylish Anne Hathaway wiped out in 2008, wrapped in what appears to be a loose roll of toilet paper. So not Charmin. (Alexandra Wyman / WireImage.com)
Caliente... Not!
Eva Longoria-Parker wore, like, 12 gowns to host the ALMA awards in 2008. So it’s no shock that one shredded fuschia chiffon dress was a dud. All that’s missing is a fruit salad hat and Eva could star in “The Life and Times of Carmen Miranda.” Ay, caramba! (John Shearer / WireImage)
We don’t need no stinkin’ stylists
And then there was the time when Lindsay Lohan’s stylist took the night off ... an evening that will live in fashion infamy. (Jeff Vespa / WireImage)
Class-action suit
The big question about the normally elegant Gwyneth Paltrow’s sheer black lace insert dress (which very clearly shows her white undies) is “Why?” (Tony Barson / WireImage)
Blow out
Who knew they make blow-up robot dolls? Too bad they over-inflated the suit on this Janet Jackson model. Stand back, folks. This puppy could blow any second! (John Medina / WireImage)
Waisting away
We can forgive Jennifer Love Hewitt for dieting down after saying how mean the press was for calling her fat and how happy she was with her “real woman” weight. We don’t even mind that magazine story on her diet tips and workout plan. But this outfit we cannot forgive. Who wears dark washed skinny jeans under a stiff empire-waist cotton sundress? No one, that’s who. (Steve Granitz / WireImage.com)
For whom the bell tolls
A designer has to work pretty hard to make a babe like Jessica Alba look bad. Congrats, Donatella Versace, you managed to make one of the hottest women on the planet look like the Liberty Bell. No mean feat. (Stefania D’Alessandro / WireImage)
Great expectations
Now this is how these pregnancy Web rumors get started. Let Kate Hudson’s pup tent fashion misstep be a lesson to all young Hollywood starlets. Cap sleeves can be cute -- when you’re 12. (Charley Gallay / WireImage)
Kiss of death
Katy Perry may have kissed a girl (and liked it), but she should kiss this thrift shop Betty Boop ensemble -- beige satin tap pants and a white satin halter -- goodbye. And those metallic purple pumps are simply unforgivable. (Jeffrey Mayer / WireImage.com)
Cruising for a bruising
Not to pick on Katie Holmes, but we are so glad she’s finally stopped wearing Tom Cruise’s baggy jeans. You already appropriated his haircut. Leave the poor guy something of his own, Katie. (James Devaney / WireImage.com)
Turf wars
Madonna looks like Sheena, Queen of the Jungle Gym, in her Louis Vuitton artificial-turf minidress, worn with gladiator heels, fishnet tights and a gold cinch belt, because, yeah, that’s just what this sodding mess really needed, a gold cinch belt. (Theo Wargo / WireImage.com)
Landslide!
It’s finally happened. Mischa Barton is turning into the new generation’s Stevie Nicks.... (Jordan Strauss / WireImage.com)
Sometimes you feel like a nut ... or vegetable plate
Sarah Jessica Parker looked like a fashion nut case wearing an acorn hat and flowers sprouting out of her head at the premiere of “Sex and the City: The Movie” in London. Only the British could appreciate this chapeau foolery. She would have been laughed out of the Big Apple for this vegetative state. (Eamonn McCormack / WireImage.com)
Fashion fairy tale
Moldie oldie
Why is Cher wearing a red Dynel wig and moth-eaten gothic living room curtains? We may never know, but the crypt keeper would be proud. Please tell me that’s not mildew hanging from her shoulders? (Steve Granitz / WireImage.com)
Cut to the chase
It’s gotta be hard to live in your big successful superstar sister’s fashion shadow. But Solange Knowles should stop trying to out-gown Sasha Fierce. This shredded funny papers frock looks as if it could give passersby severe paper cuts! (Kevin Mazur / WireImage.com)
