School of frock
Thanks to the offerings from marquee events like the MTV Video Music Awards and film festivals in Venice and Deauville, we're officially back in the business of judging real fashion
EVA HERZIGOVA
Nocturnal Animals premiere at the Venice Film Festival in Venice
Gown: Alberta Ferretti
Finally, a wow moment after the couture dry spell. Herzigova is a goddess who absolutely slays in this enchanting diaphanous floral embroidered gown. I don't even care about the visible white bodysuit.
Ratings: A+
DIANE KRUGER
Deauville American Film Festival opening ceremony in Deauville, France
Gown: Elie Saab
Clutch: Charlotte Olympia
Whimsy and dark glamour come together flawlessly. It's apt there are jewelled hearts all over because I'd call it love at first sight.
Ratings: A
NICKI MINAJ
MTV Video Music Awards in New York City
Gown: Bao Tranchi
And Minaj's "makeunder" is officially complete. She's at her most stunning and smouldering, turning up the heat, yet providing ample coverage of those killer curves in a sultry cobalt blue cut-out, sheer-panelled mermaid number.
Ratings: A-
BEYONCE
MTV Video Music Awards in New York City
Gown: Yolan Cris
How does one go from being the night's biggest winner to a big loser in the style department? This is from an actual bridal collection, and it is evidently a marriage made in hell. Oh, and my mother called - she wants her wedding gown back.
Ratings: D
RITA ORA
MTV Video Music Awards in New York City
Jacket, dress and shoes: Marc Jacobs
A furry-shouldered moto jacket. A messily constructed cobwebby cover-up sporting a patch of red feathers. Lady Gaga's platform rejects. For delivering the most random and exhausting mash-up of the week, Ora sinks straight to the bottom of the barrel.
Ratings: F
MOST IMPROVED
CHLOE GRACE MORETZ
Girl, this is not your dress. Someone willowy like Elle Fanning could probably make such a fussy floral maxi bloom, but Moretz is obviously wilting under all those ruffles. The keyhole cut-out is also a failed attempt to add a sliver of sex appeal. The next day, she wisely switches directions in a knitted frill-trim belted black mini that projects a youthful sass befitting its 19-year-old wearer.
Deauville American Film Festival opening ceremony in Deauville, France, Sept 2
Gown: Erdem
Deauville American Film Festival photocall in Deauville, France, Sept 3
Dress: Alexander McQueen
Before people were looking at the things that we were doing, we were so much more, like, method with fashion. We really went all the way. We went the extra mile on everything because there was no one looking at us.
— US actor Jaden Smith on how he and his sister Willow were “much cooler” before they were famous
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