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Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes Do Battle In International Fashion Face-Off
Posted by Molly Friedman at 5:58 AM on February 21, 2008
When you're five months pregnant, sheer fabrics and subtlety don't exactly go together. But Nicole Kidman, seen here promoting The Golden Compass in Japan yesterday, is brazen! She will show you her baby bump and you will like it! On the opposite side of the spectrum is Nicole's replacement, Katie Holmes, who wore a Look Ma, I'm Not Pregnant silk dress to last night's Costume Designer's Guild Awards. How tight was it? So tight that we now possess the knowledge that Tom Cruise prefers his women to wear low-cut cotton undies. But putting their triumphant maternal updates aside, what's with Tom's paramours and their preference for Auntie Mame numbers?
Nicole's lacey Elvira dress had more see-through panels than a peep show, poufy feathers where 80s Power Women used to put shoulder pads, and an underskirt that locked her high-kick thighs together like anchovies. As for Katie, while the dress isn't hideous, it's something Barbara Walters should wear, not a 29 year-old girl who recently announced she is to be called "Katie," not "Kate" as Tommy likes to coo. With all the sequins and feathers on both girls' outfits you could open your own Ricky's outlet and call it a day. Where is Tim Gunn when you need him?
[Photo Credit: The Daily Mail]
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gloria
Posted February 22, 2008 1:27 AM
Nicole has more class than "Katie" or "kate" will ever hope to have. When you got it, flaunt it!! I think Nicole looks cute and Katie looks like she is trying to play grown up in that ugly gray dress. I hate that smirk she has developed lately...what happened to that big grin she used to have all the time?? I guess Tom forbids it!
Daph
Posted February 22, 2008 1:18 PM
Remember when 'Katie' was a good looking fresh faced girl with a big smile and looked happy. She doesn't look anything like that now. She has been made over to look twice her age, the smiling face and eyes are gone and the clothes are usually much more mature that you would expect someone her age to wear. She has been morphed into a person who now looks like the smile is forced, the clothes uncomfortable and she looks sad a lot of the times. If this is what a 'happy' marriage to Tom Cruise does to a person ....get out.
As for Nic she look happy, the dress.....well yeah.....but hey she has a glow and I think the best thing that ever happened to her was getting rid of the little dictator. She found a real man in Keith flaws and all.
SugartitsMcFirecrotch
Posted 8:16 AM 21/2/08
Well, both dresses are snarkworthy . . . Nicole's is, well, let's just say I can't wait to see what the Fug Girls have to say about it.
As for Katie-Bar-the-Door, I'm somewhat relieved that she's keeping her name and not letting herself be "Kated" into her dotage by Thetan Tom - although you wouldn't know it from the gown.
SugartitsMcFirecrotch
La Cieca
Posted 8:16 AM 21/2/08
Or so says the fourth Mrs. Cruise:
La Cieca
Readsforaliving
Posted 8:16 AM 21/2/08
Katie needs a turban and foot-long cigarette holder. Accessories make the outfit.
Readsforaliving
hack-a-rific
Posted 8:16 AM 21/2/08
Who's Ricky? Did he dress Madame?
hack-a-rific
LLH
Posted 8:16 AM 21/2/08
"Tom Cruise prefers his women to wear low-cut cotton undies."
they aren't called "boy shorts" for nothing!
LLH
NoGrumpys
Posted 8:16 AM 21/2/08
Katie looks like Cleopatra threw up all over her - and she's definately in de Nile!!!
Topical and Geographical!!! two points for me!!
NoGrumpys
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley
Posted 8:16 AM 21/2/08
I just want to thank you for the line "so tight we now possess the knowledge that Tom Cruise prefers his women to wear low-cut cotton undies." You've taken a 6 day and made it a 9.5, easily. God bless the snark.
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley
heidiho
Posted 8:16 AM 21/2/08
A Ricky's reference? What is this, Gawker?
heidiho
Friedneckbones
Posted 8:16 AM 21/2/08
While I would smack both of them on the ass and call them Sally, this is fashion that even Barbara Walters wouldn't be caught dead in.
Friedneckbones
Sloan
Posted 8:16 AM 21/2/08
Is, people. Is.
Sloan
Sloan
Posted 8:16 AM 21/2/08
Oh, make no mistake. KatIE'S dress the very definition of hideous.
Sloan
kenoma
Posted 9:36 AM 21/2/08
Katie Holmes looks like Tom Cruise in a wig in that picture. Nicole looks like she's auditioning for a spot in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Both of them just look ridiculous.
I have a friend who loves how Kate/ie dresses these days. I think it ages her. I used to love that girl.
kenoma
Ack
Posted 9:36 AM 21/2/08
Am I the only one who thinks Katie looked MUCH better pre-Tom? This girl is a year younger than me and looks ten years older. Also, the hair does nothing for her, yuck.
Ack
Leiakat
Posted 9:36 AM 21/2/08
@Sloan: The awkward hip jut isn't doing her any favors either. She looks like a kid playing in grandmom's clothing.
Leiakat
TaySolana
Posted 9:36 AM 21/2/08
(and now Kirsten Dunst)
TaySolana
TaySolana
Posted 9:36 AM 21/2/08
"Katie" or "The artist formerly known as Kate formerly known as Katie" looks like she raided Kirsten Dunst's closet. It's becoming increasingly obvious that she's having trouble finding her own style. She always reminds me of Posh, Hilary Swank or Jennifer Garner with her style choices.
TaySolana
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley
Posted 10:37 AM 21/2/08
@saralegal21: sing it, sister!
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley
Posted 10:37 AM 21/2/08
@Ack: So true! What is the crack with them bangs- Honey, ya got a beautiful forehead, stop hiding it with that awful fringe.
Sigh, I miss the gal from the wrong side of the creek. And whatever happened to the actor that played the twink who was always tagging along w/ the widow Ledger? He was cuteness (& is in need of a comeback).
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley
saralegal21
Posted 10:37 AM 21/2/08
THAT'S a baby bump? My stomach sticks out more than that after Chinese food.
saralegal21
Miss d
Posted 12:41 PM 21/2/08
Nicole is going to have a surprise when the child she's expecting turns into a Korean orphan...
Miss d
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 12:41 PM 21/2/08
Nicole's dress looks like stapled together lingerie scraps and Muppet pelts. Katie looks like Jane Wyman.
Sweet Panda Love
slinkimalinki
Posted 1:40 PM 21/2/08
frankly, katie has more of a bump than nichole does (not to any stray jezzies: i'm not saying katie is fat, just that dress is hideously unflattering. also, nichole skinny.) also that picture appears to indicate that tom prefers his women with low-slung cotton boobs.
slinkimalinki
NotReadyForPrimeTime
Posted 1:40 PM 21/2/08
I do believe that Katie is channeling Norma Desmond.
NotReadyForPrimeTime
bitchybitch
Posted 1:40 PM 21/2/08
I'd like Katie's dress more if it didn't make her look like she has no breasts. It just looks bizarre to me.
I can't wait until her five year contract is up and we get to see the real Katie again.
bitchybitch
brechtgirl
Posted 4:41 PM 21/2/08
so tom cruise likes ice queens, how does that explain penelope cruz?
brechtgirl
mr.Man
Posted 5:40 PM 21/2/08
P.S. LOVE that she publicly-checked Mr. Mapother on that "Kate" bullshit.
mr.Man
mr.Man
Posted 5:40 PM 21/2/08
@brechtgirl: I prefer Northern Italian cuisine but will grab Mickey D's in a pinch....like when I need to publicly reinforce my sexual orientation immediately after a divorce.
mr.Man
jwick25
Posted 11:40 PM 21/2/08
Katie's dress appears to be a little too long. Is this to cover the shackle?
jwick25