We’re starting to think that there are no rules anymore for awards-track actresses and their style expectations. When we started out in this gig, any actress getting awards buzz at this time of year was expected to immediately start wearing Couture and princess gowns, but having checked out the choices of frontrunners Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchett and Viola Davis at the Palm Springs Film Festival Awards this week, we’re forced to conclude that this rule no longer holds true. Why are we telling you this now? Because other frontrunner Michelle Williams also stepped out onto the PSFF Awards red carpet in a dress that does not say awards-track at all to us.
Anarchy reigns! All bets are off! You can now hit the awards circuit dressed like your basic cable drama is about to premiere! Personally, we couldn’t care less about questions of formality or hem length here. It’s fine by us if she wants to wear cute little party dresses to awards shows. The problem as we see it is… this isn’t a very cute party dress. It’s kind of plain and a little awkwardly shaped. We don’t like how the straps and the bust marry and the hemming on the skirt looks a little dicey to us. It’s a just-okay sort of look, but at this stage in the campaigning game, she really needs to be shooting for more than just okay. In other words, the problem here isn’t that the look isn’t formal enough, it’s that it’s not dramatic enough.
Style Credits:
Prada Dress with Lace Detailing
Styled by Kate Young
[Photo Credit: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Society, Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Society, Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Society, Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Society]
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