Do you know who would be voted “Worst-Dressed” in the Hollywood star yearbook?
Celebrities are often the pioneers of the fashion world. From trendsetters to designers, if you’re a musician, actor, or filmmaker you can make waves on the big screen with your talent or on the red carpet with your clothes.
Of course, there’s always that group of special cases where fashion just doesn’t seem to be their forte. Check out these six celebrity fashion disasters and why it might just be working for their image, no matter how horrible they look!
Helena Bonham Carter
We’re not sure if it’s her crazy movie roles or her bizarre domestic partner, director Tim Burton, but something strange is definitely influencing Helena Bonham Carter’s wardrobe. {relatedarticles}
The British actress is famous for playing mentally unstable characters in movies like Fight Club and the Harry Potter series, and some of that insanity may have made its way into her closet. Expect to see HBC in mismatched shoes, dresses falling off her shoulders (and not in the sexy way), and frumpy draped pieces that look like she fell out of the unsorted bin at the local thrift store.
When People magazine asked HBC about her fashion statements in a January 2011 interview, she defended her style choices. “I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world won’t crumble.”
Jersey Shore’s Snooki
Snooki makes headlines in pretty much every part of the entertainment industry. From relationships to product endorsements, this reality star’s photo can’t be missed on the cover of magazines or in the pages of celebrity blogs, and with good reason. Not only is her behavior gossip-worthy, but so is her fashion sense.
Project Runway front man Tim Gunn had some harsh words to describe the Snooki fashion phenomenon, or as he called it the “monkey house at the zoo” theory. “In the case of say a Snooki, she looks at herself for the first time in the mirror in that getup and says, 'Oh my god, can I really go out in this?' And then 20 minutes later she's still looking at herself and she thinks, 'I don't look so bad.'
"At the monkey house it would be, 'Oh, it doesn't smell so bad anymore.' When you first walk in it stinks and after 40 minutes it doesn't smell at all -- that's when Snooki leaves the house."{relatedarticles}
The Jersey Shore star began her career with trucker hats and skin-tight "leopard print anything.” Now, according to the Perez Hilton celebrity gossip blog, she may be turning over a leaf, fashion-wise, at least, after becoming a new mom. The bloggers say she’s adopting a sexy club chic style with more appropriately fitted clothes and flirty hairstyles not obscured by redneck headgear.
Nicki Minaj
Has anyone ever seen Nicki Minaj’s real hair? The songstress hides her jet-black tresses under wig after wig during many of her performances. But unlike other singers, it’s rare to see the natural locks unless you follow her Twitter account.
Nicki Minaj turns heads with frilly Lolita-style dresses and high-teased hair, mismatched color patterns that look like a kindergarten “learn the colors” book, and accessories that range from animal-face headwear to taffeta bows that spill off her head and over her shoulders. And who could forget her rainbow jumpsuit and Elvis-style neon pink bouffant hair during her performance on Lil’ Wayne’s “I Am Still Music” tour?
It’s not just her choice of hair fashion that has her on the bloggers’ gossip radar. In an August 2012 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Minaj revealed that she’s working on launching her own clothing line in 2013. The style is going to be “Harajuku Barbie” to compliment her self-proclaimed fashion alter egos.{relatedarticles}
Whoopi Goldberg
The media’s disapproval of eccentric fashion sense is well-known and accepted, but sometimes a celebrity fires back. That’s just what Whoopi Goldberg did to TV Guide magazine when a 2009 article bashed her fashion choices. Whoopi publically called out the writer, calling her an “anonymous bitch” and saying that people should be more concerned with what she says on her show, The View, and not what she’s wearing.
Whoopi’s problem isn’t that she’s doing too much on the fashion front, it’s that she’s doing too little. Her clothing options have been called oversized, casual apparel and the TV Guide writer in question, Ingela Ratledge, called it “looking like you’re ready to make a run to Costco.
Katy Perry
Outlandish outfits and elaborate hairdos are nothing new for female singers, Madonna led the pack back in the 1980s and kept the trend going ever since. But today’s starlets are taking the concert costumes off the stage and onto the red carpet.
Katy Perry decided that her stage wardrobe also belongs in her home closet and her outrageous costumes can be seen as part of her everyday dress. Don’t be shocked to see her in a half tuxedo, half prom dress getup at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards, or have a pack of playing cards poking out from her headband at a MySpace celebrity bash.
Lady Gaga
Today’s most iconic fashion-disaster singer, Lady Gaga’s crazy stage costumes may be fashion statements or fashion flops depending on your opinion. From meat dresses to an entire jacket (and headpiece) made from Kermit the Frog puppets - Gaga draws no line when it comes to designating clothing for performance and everyday wear.{relatedarticles}
Some of her outfits appear as if she decided the dress for the day would be accomplished by covering herself in spray glue and rolling around in the clearance section of her local craft store. Broken disco balls, giant buttons, wires and mesh are all regular parts of her typical outfits.
There’s no gray area, either - her clothing choices are either so elaborate you wonder how she moves, or so barely there you wonder what’s holding what little fabric covers her lady bits.{relatedarticles}
Fashion or freak show?
Even if you’d never be caught dead in Katy Perry’s closet, or you won’t let Nicki Minaj give you hairstyle tips, you have to admit their fashion rule-breaking does generate the buzz. In Hollywood, that’s all it’s about, so girls, maybe you’re doing this right after all.
