Stars feel wrath of Mr. Blackwell

Mr. Blackwell, L.A.’s octogenarian style arbiter, released his 43rd Worst Dressed List on Tuesday. Included in the crop of “couture casualties,” as he calls them, are Donatella Versace, Christina Aguilera, Cameron Diaz, Meg Ryan and Shakira.

As famous for his rhyming couplets as for his acid tongue, Blackwell said of Versace, “Time to toss the peroxide once and for all / She resembles a flash-fried Venus stuck in a Miami strip mall.” Aguilera didn’t escape his rapier wit, either. “Her barelythere bimbo bombs wouldn’t cover a gnat / Let’s call her the worst undressed and leave it at that.”

The Teen People crowd might balk at Blackwell’s take on pop fashion plate Pink (“Out of the blue pops Pink and I’m seeing red / Cartoon-colored proof that fashion sanity for her really is dead”), and at his assessment of Kelly Osbourne (“A fright-wigged Baby Doll, stuck in a goth prom gown / Now we know what happened to Ozzy’s hand-me-downs”).

But it’s hard to take issue with naming Anna Nicole Smith 2002’s most “thread-challenged terror.” Blackwell says, “Anna’s fashion follies are the worst of the year / Don’t bother with a new designer Anna, just hire a structural engineer.”

Booth Moore