Nicole Kidman in Christian Dior Couture

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Nicole Kidman attends “Hemingway & Gellhorn” Photocall during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival in a Christian Dior couture dress.

Christian Dior spring 2012 Couture Collection/Model: Kasia Struss (WOMEN)

 

 

[Photo Credit: Pixplanete/PR Photos, elle.com]

  • BigWhiteGrannyPanties

    does her hair look a little weird here?

    • http://twitter.com/Kathy_Marlow Kathy Marlow

      That is the ONLY thing I don’t like about this!!! it makes her features look really weird

      • http://twitter.com/GaraStJames Gara St. James

         Yeah, that hairstyle isn’t doing her any favors. It’s making her look as if her hair has been pulled so tight, her face is trying to follow suit.

        • http://twitter.com/parrishdav Corey Davis

          That is not Nicole Kidman, it is her alien counterpart

      • siriuslover

        yeah, the hair is weird. And while I really like the dress and she looks great, I like the way the shoulder sit on the model better. You can see how the shoulders have been pushed down on NK.

    • AlexisPayne

      That hair is terrible.

    • http://eclectictsunami.blogspot.com/ Cassie

      That hair, on her face, is going to give me nightmares. Sweet Jesus.

    • lamamu

       And she has one of the greatest heads of hair that ever was…

  • petalfrog

    Okay, her hair stylist MUST be stopped, or she needs to employ one. Her hair for the whole of Cannes has been brutal.

  • jmorino08

    I like the way the model has it sitting a little higher up on her shoulder — more like an exaggerated boat neck — than the way Nic is wearing it. You are Nicole effing Kidman! You don’t have to try that hard!! Also, your hair is atrocious!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=678337501 Carla Axtman

    Not my fav look for Ms. Nicole. The dress doesn’t fit her right..it’s all loosey-goosey where it’s not supposed to be. Also, her hair..for some reason it’s making her forehead and ears look strangely large and out of place.

    • sterlingrose

      Maybe because her forehead and ears are strangely out of place with all the surgery that woman has had. Her face has changed dramatically in the last few years. Too bad, nothing wrong in the first place

  • http://twitter.com/Eruwenfuin Debbie Hazeleger

    The dress and shoes are fine, though the dress does appear to be more wrinkled on her than on the model. Perhaps some tailoring next time? The earrings appear to match her hair, which makes them non-existant, and out. The hair. Oh man the hair. Not good. The make up is also rather low key for this look, I’d personally go for more eye pop, to distract from the forehead a bit. 

  • VicksieDo

    Bangin!

  • Delaney Davis

    She just can’t quite get her hair right, can she? 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/C5T2QPOAWOBDRHFL2MFAV7KQCY Tracy

    A pattern like this is so tricky.  On the model it lays perfectly, but on Nic it’s draping all lumpy and bumpy, making her look like a horse whose blanket doesn’t fit properly.  Pity.  If her mask of demure discomfort wasn’t so frozen, I’m sure she’d whinny in agreement.

    • amf0001

      I couldn’t figure out what was wrong but your horse comment is perfect!  now it makes sense.  And her face is frozen,  isn’t it.  I thought she was going to lay off that crap.

  • http://twitter.com/themeadtree E Storm

    More strange hair… so not working. 

  • charlotte

    Um….no!

  • schadenfreudelicious

    good gawd does her hairstylist hate her??…its aging, unflattering and does not speak favorably to botox usage…make it stop

  • l3icest3r

    I like the dress on the model. Kidman’s looks a tad too big and I’m not a fan of the wider belt. 

    Until she started wearing her hair like this, I never noticed that her hairline is kind of wonky. Her face looks so good, though. Makeup is nice and she’s not shiny. (But she might be powdered to an inch of her life (can’t tell from these photos); if this is the case, ignore the part about her makeup looking nice.)

    • MilaXX

       Is that a wider looks like on the model is wearing to me. I think the bottom is too tight across the hips and that’s causing the problem.

  • marilyn

    The perfect runway goddess just slipped off of her pedestal.  The neck on that dress does not look right on her.  It just looks sloppy and poorly designed.  I know the designer was going for a certain asymmetric look on the neck, but missed.  As usual, she looks gorgeous, but here, the dress stinks.

  • dramamajor

    Love the dress, hate the hair

  • crash1212

    Love the dress and love it on her. Not crazy about the shoes…not sure why, guess I prefer peep rather than overly exposed toes. The hair however, is quite odd and off putting. What is going on there? Gives her head too much volume – or something. Also, I wish it was a darker color….c’mon Nicole – back to the luscious red. I know this is better than the godawful blonde, but still…could be SO much better. This hair and subtle make-up is washing her out. Great dress though!

  • Amy Ellinger

    beautiful, beautiful shoes.  A few little quibbles with the hair and fit, but overall, she looks lovely.

  • Sara__B

    I want to yank the shoulders up a few inches, and give her a different ‘do, but she still looks appropriately “movie star at Cannes”.

  • Judy_J

    I quite like the neckline on this dress.  Kind of a different twist on the off-the-shoulder look.

  • nannypoo

    It doesn’t fit and it makes her butt look huge.

  • ghopping

    Does she look really old her to anyone else?

  • MilaXX

    Ooh Nic gurl you done made TLo happy because this entire look is an epic fail. I’m not sure what cockeyed seamstress fitted this dress for you, but the neckline looks too big and the skirt looks too tight across your hips and is making the belt look weird. Also? What ever gays told you to explore your new found love of your forehead  needs to be taken out back and shot. That hair is not the business.

  • http://twitter.com/MandySCG MandyJane

    Love the dress, hate the hair. 

  • MrsKirkwood

    Ill fitting and her hair is offensive.

  • http://twitter.com/unefeeverte Anna Steiner

    She couldn’t have gotten it fitted…? Also, the hair is All Wrong.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P2ANLRZ6YAVGONA36I2AQJYGI VicD

    All I can see is FOREHEAD

  • http://twitter.com/PhDKnitter marlie

    Hate the hair. She had been on such a roll. 

  • MzzPants

    She’s on a winning streak with dresses this week.  Something about the hair and makeup looks severe.

  • Lina_bee

    Ack, Nic. It’s made to SKIM the shoulders, not bare them. Hoist those sleeves back up where they belong! Beyond that, the hair is still irksome — especially when it fights with a dress’s neckline like this.  I’m not thrilled with the shoes, either.  Overall, sloppy (for her).

  • http://twitter.com/delysia_lafosse Delysia LaFosse

    She’s been having a great run, but I’m not buying this look. Hair is awful, the dress is giving her FUPA, shoes, jewelry, and belt are boring, and she’s wearing the shoulders way too low, and it’s screwing up the sleeves.

  • סופ עמיחי

    Is it me or has she been sporting some Grace kelly hair do’s lately- and it’s just not working for her?

  • Lisa Dugan

    The dress looks too heavy for Cannes. 

  • SpcilK

    Dress Good, Hair Bad!

  • Carla_Charlton

    A poor fit ruined what could have been a good look.

  • judith traherne

    *At* the shoulders honey,  not *off* them.

    It’s bright out there and yet, when you squint, your forehead doesn’t move. Looks painful.

  • guest2visits

    Sorry Nicole. You had a long winning streak of truly beautiful dresses, but not this one. This is a strange dress, it only fits the
    model slightly better. Although I like the black and white plaid fabric; it seems the least compatible with this kind of off the
    shoulder design. The fit is odd.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1355527007 Rain Jezek

    I like the dress, I like the fit, I like a lot about this but without a pop of color anywhere the only color is her pale face and pale hair, and it just makes her look washed out.

  • quiltrx

    So cute!  Love love love the dress.  I wish something was different about her hair, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

    • sherrietee

       She needs to cut it.  It’s too long and as is common with women of a certain age, it’s thinning.  So, she needs to cut it.  At least to shoulder length if not more.

  • Gorengirl

    Dress looks great on her, hair not so much!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/toodleskitty79?feature=guide AWS

    Stepford wife-ish but I will let that go…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Josefina-Madariaga-Suárez/100002964685796 Josefina Madariaga Suárez

    Dress is pretty, hair looks weird… but what’s going on with her eyes? She looks a little bit pissed off, or maybe she’s just tired, but it distracts me.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/J2VE4NE2FY2BP4QD2XOYKJGLPI Laura

    Like the dress, hate the hair

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ENBX3563Q4ZNCVRGSJVFIB7OAA Thom

    Girl, That’s Not Your Dress. This thing is horribly fitted to her body, and only meant for stalk-still posture. Her arms are drowning in those sleeves, and every bump in the fit of the dress is picked out by the check fabric. Plus, she’s so fair and flaxen-haired that the graphic check of the dress visually overwhelms her. Nicole, set this free so it can land in some raven-haired woman’s backyard (or maybe even Viola Davis…? If they adjust it to her size, I hope!).

    • 3boysful

       You nailed this one.  I want to like it, but you can see there’s a lot more fabric bunching around her than the model.  And I agree–there are certain colors that look better on darker-haired women (and vice versa).  It’s like the dark plaid needs a “punctuation mark” at her head, and instead, the look just drifts up into space . . . .

  • RzYoung

    Strangely ageing somehow

  • Judy_S

    Disappointing, given her stellar looks at Cannes up to now. She seems to be squinting, which doesn’t help.

  • Jessica O’Connell

     Not a fan – the dress makes her look wider than she is, which is never what you want.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jessica-TallGirl-Freeman/1043623567 Jessica TallGirl Freeman

    And she finally did it.  She’s off her game.  The dress looks quite nice on the model, but the fit on Nicole’s upper half is atrocious.  

  • lilibetp

    Something seems off about the fit at the top.

  • Lilithcat

    Gorgeous dress, lousy fit.

  • http://www.facebook.com/WendyLKaufman Wendy Kaufman

    LOVE the dress. Still wondering why she insists on such a severe hairstyle. The woman needs something softer.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PKI5RTEEJ5TZIZII6VEN2G3D7A Caitlin

    Makes her look bigger than she is. But she is a queen, and thus we must bow down.

  • Scarlet39

    That hair is horrible.  She looked lovely in that Lanvin gown she wore just a few days ago.  Is it possible she got back on the Botox?  

  • belfebe

    The silhouette is very nice on her, and she is gorgeous.  But that neckline doesn’t flatter anyone.

  • jw_ny

    Forcing the collar down past her shoulders just makes this look way to strained.  Had she worn it like it was supposed to be worn just at her shoulder, it’d been so much better.  She looks uncomfortable..especially noticeable in her eyes. 

  • Charles Barthelme

    LOVE the dress. It’s great, and she looks great in it. That hair, though, confuses me. 

  • http://twitter.com/jennsaysmeow Fifi LaRoux

    I feel like I need to pull the sleeves up slightly. They look like they’re sagging slightly on her shoulders.

  • SusiePamudji

    The top part is too loose on her so it’s sitting weird. I like the idea of this dress very much though.

  • http://theadventuresofmissparadox.tumblr.com/ Miss Jen K

    This was one of those looks that I liked until I saw it up-close…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1267225625 Susan Wheeler

    she needs to fire whomever is doing her hair.  It’s been mostly off the whole Cannes Festival.

  • TieDye64

    Um, no. The hair gives her a fivehead (which I have as well) and she’s not quite young enough to pull it off. The dress, if it fit better, almost works.

  • Hermione_Granger

    I want this dress!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XZTPYIF64TK3QDEMWUAS3KULFI Ted

    that hairstyle is just screaming desperate housewife.

  • http://twitter.com/nonchalantanna Anna

    Nicole, I do not think this outfit is doing you justice. The neckline is off center and distracting, the pattern doesn’t seem to suit your personal style and that hair style is not working for this outfit. A soft, but clean up do would have made this much more palatable.