Feathers are still flying over Bjork's Oscar dress! Was it the worst?
Poor Bjork. Six years after her infamous flight down Oscar's red carpet, the best-song nominee for "Dancer in the Dark" is still being accused of having feathers for brains for donning that clever, metaphorical outfit. Clever, I say, because isn't it the dream of every girl who considers herself to be an ugly duckling (and isn't that every girl?) to be transformed into a swan for this grandest of occasions? Well, when it happened to Bjork, it turned into an unshakable nightmare.
A reporter just bugged Bjork about it again recently and she replied: "What surprises me is that they thought I was trying to fit in, but got it wrong, that I expected everyone to be wearing peacock dresses and gorilla outfits!
"What they don't mention is that I had bought six ostrich eggs and I was dropping them carefully on the red carpet," she added. "But other people's bodyguards kept picking them up and saying in their thick American accents, 'Scuse me, mam, you dropped this.'"
Well, I'm now asking our forum posters: did Bjork really lay a fashion egg back then? Or is she being pelted with same by fools who don't think it's appropriate for a pop-music performer to put on a wild show at the Superbowl of Showbiz?
After all, that's what Cher did when she donned that hairdo that Phil Spector now claims to have invented. (No doubt she's still getting hate mail from the poor studio exex who got stuck sitting behind her in the audience.)
I'm conducting a poll in our Oscar message board to ask: which modern diva pulled off the worst fashion fiasco? Bjork, Cher or Angelina Jolie back in 2000 when she won an Oscar for "Girl, Interrupted," but looked like she'd been cast as Morticia Addams opposite her brother as a fey Lurch in "The Addams Family"?
Or perhaps Geena Davis back in 1992 when looked like she was auditioning for "Moulin Rouge!" or else had just rushed to the Oscars from her night job at Rent-a-Fantasy-Nanny-for-Cheap?
Or perhaps Jennifer Hudson in that Oscar-de-la-Renta-Gets-Lost-in-Space monstrosity that should've gotten "fashion advisor" Andre Leon Talley fired from Vogue and banned from ever again appearing within a 12-block radius of Hollywood & Highland?
Which of these five outrageous Oscar outfits is truly the worst? See what our forum posters think and vote for yourself — CLICK HERE! (You may need to register first. It's easy and free. Just click on the "Login/ Join" link in the upper right part of the page.) I'm limiting this quiz to "modern divas" because I don't think it's fair of us to blame yesterday's Hollywood dolls for being dressed like French poodles by alcoholic studio psychos.





The problem with JHud's dress was too much brown on brown...and the jacket just had to go...it was not the color for her...should have went with a color that contrasted...a nice peach, cream, soft yellow color would have done her justice....Bjork is by far the most outlandish and yet worst of all but it suits her rebellious, noncomformist ways....Cher is...just being Cher...great Halloween costume though...
Posted by: Frankie R. | May 08, 2007 at 02:42 PM
I think CHER looks like a goddess. Love her, great actress and singer
Posted by: henry j penta | May 07, 2007 at 08:47 PM
Cher looks like she belongs on a Bally's kick line. Geena Davis looks like she was kicked off one.
Bjork's was strange, but at least fit her persona of being a bit out there. (And it was funny thanks to Steve Martin's line about swan being "so last year.")
Angelina's sibling make out was more disgusting than the dress.
Hudson looked fine, spare the breast/shoulder coat.
Why no criticism of horrendous tuxedos? Robin Williams pastor-chic in 1997 when he won comes to mind, as did Kevin Spacey's white disaster in 1995. In fact, when he wore that, it was the only time I thought he might be hetero.
Posted by: Mack | May 07, 2007 at 07:43 AM
Jennifer Hudson? The only thing bad about her ensemble was the silver travesty around her shoulder--which was NOT her choice for obvious reasons. The dress itself was great and great for her. She shouldn't even be categorized with Bjork, Cher, Geena Davis and Angelina Jolie!!!! There are MANY MANY MANY other fiascos to choose from! Gwyneth Paltrow pretty much every year comes to mind.
Posted by: Terrence | May 06, 2007 at 06:55 PM