WomenStyles: PHOTOS: MET GALA 2014...Fashion Hits And Misses

Met Gala fashion 2014: Best and worst dressed — Kimye were delighted to be there – honest (Picture: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

The Costume Institute’s Met Gala is the Oscars red carpet without the three hour awards show.....
It’s an excuse for Hollywood and fashion’s finest to get their glad rags on and pose on an unfeasibly long and glamorous staircase.
And with a dress code of ‘White Tie and Decorations’ for this year’s ball, in honour of the Met’s newest exhibition, ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion’, we were looking forward to some top high society frocks and tails.
Here’s our pick of the best and worst dressed...

Best dressed

Suki Waterhouse is best dressed in Burberry (Picture: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

Suki Waterhouse, date of ball co-chair Bradley Cooper (who wore Tom Ford), looked every inch the high society debutante in blush pink and cappuccino tulle frills by Burberry. The red lip was the perfect 50s flourish too.

Zoe Saldana is sophisticated yet still brings the glamour in Michael Kors (Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Zoe Saldana looked sleek and glamorous in monochrome Michael Kors, with a low V-neckline and gorgeous tiered puffball skirt.

It was all about the colour and florals for Emmy Rossum in her Carolina Herrera dress(Picture: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Just fabulous colour and floral print from actress Emmy in this Carolina Herrera gown.

Kendall Jenner looks great at her first ever Met Ball in bespoke Topshop and back-combing (Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Kendall Jenner was the model ingenue in a very pale pink corseted fishtail bespoke dress by Topshop, no less. The back-combed hair gives this a subversive spin a la 90s film Heathers.

Benedict Cumberbatch is dashing in white tie (Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Benedict in a Ralph Lauren Purple label black tux tailcoat. How white tie should look. That is all.

Blake Lively is the glamorous Gucci girl with hubby Ryan Reynolds (Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Blake always does old-school glamour well and this pink sequinned Gucci dress worn with a 40s wave didn’t disappoint.

The power couples

Keep David but ditch the dark eye makeup Victoria (Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

It was a case of classy and understated from Victoria, in her own cream design, and Becks in Ralph Lauren. We can’t help wishing Victoria would drop the dark eye makeup though.

A glowing Kim with her dashing fiancé (Picture: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

Kim looked very pretty in her teal Lanvin dress which suited her colouring and Kanye rather suits tails too. It wouldn’t set the world alight but nice to see them prove their doubters wrong.

Beyonce and Jay-Z were stylish but safe (Picture: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

Queen Bey played it safe in this rather predictable sheer sequinned black Givenchy wrap dress that was more Grammys than Met Gala. We do like the face net though – and Jay-Z’s white tux.

Worst dressed

What was Katie Holmes thinking? (Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Sorry Katie but this is a bit of a disaster, from the custard yellow shade of the Marchesa dress, to the unattractive creasing and general pirate wench styling.

Lea Michele looks a little Alexis Carrington in her gold frock (Picture: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Wearing Joseph Altuzarra, Lea looked a little Dynasty-gone-wrong in her glitzy gold dress with high split and that ageing up-do. Wrong dress, wrong event.

SJP’s dress was better from behind (Picture: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Sarah Jessica Parker was a bit of a disappointment in Oscar de la Renta. Although we loved the train autographed by Oscar himself (SJP, your label’s showing), and the gloves, the dress was underwhelming from the front. And what was happening on her head? The croissant shaped do and floral headpiece were too fussy and made us think of Bette Midler for some reason.

Rita Ora looks as though she went crazy in the Disney Store (Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Rita looked a little like a drowned mermaid in her gold Donna Karan Atelier design. The wet look hair, strange strapping round the arm and blinged up bodice didn’t quite work. And don’t even get us started on the shoes.

Lupita Nyong’o has a rare fashion fail in this Prada dress (Picture: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

We really wanted to love Lupita’s chain mail Prada dress with nude bodysuit, but just couldn’t do it. Perhaps without the jewelled headband and matchy-matchy accessories this could have worked. But, proof that even the best can get it wrong.

We like Kristen’s Chanel dress for her but perhaps not for this dress code (Picture: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

Kristen’s Chanel dress with sequin top and layered feather and sheer tulle is perfect for her but doesn’t quite fit the dress code. It would have worked better for last year’s punk theme. There’s no denying the exquisite detail though.

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Tuesday 6 May 2014

PHOTOS: MET GALA 2014...Fashion Hits And Misses

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