Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
This is exactly the kind of dress you want to see at a fashion show: giant, bright, dramatic. I would love for someone to wear this to an awards show, just... to DO it.
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
Man, even Marchesa got in on the coats. This is obviously not a real person's coat, but it's still pretty and neatly cut.
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
I can't decide if that's overworked, or underworked. Know what I mean?
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
Somehow this just really does not work on this model.
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
No.
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
NO.
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
This dress's Twitter handle is @no. (Although, imagine for a second that it didn't have the weird see-through shirt overlay thingamy... there is a germ of a nice dress here, so of course, forty thousand other things had to be done to it. Sigh.)
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
Good grief. Well, I expect a Lily Collins will turn up wearing this -- you know, just young enough for the tulle fishtail, and just unfamous enough to need the attention.
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
This, to me, is the Marchesa version of Jessica Chastain's fabulous McQueen Oscar gown. It's pretty, but it's never going to be as wow as that one was.
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
What is HAPPENING on this bodice?
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
That's actually not so bad, although you will never see anyone -- save for MAYBE Elle Fanning, if they can get her -- wearing it with those boots.
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
It's fine, I guess? It's not the worst, and by default might end up one of the best.
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
I actually don't mind the filmy sleeves on this one. It feels delicate, like an Old Hollywood gown.
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
Did some murder happen to this dress?
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
A cape always softens me up. I know, I know, Edna Mode says no capes, but whatever. I'm NEVER flying around near a jet engine so my chances of my cape getting sucked into one are slim.
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
Can we just take the fabric and start over?
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
I am terrified that Michelle Williams would wear this. Except, thank God, we live in a world where Michelle Williams wears fancy foreign designers, so she probably never WILL wear this.
Marchesa - Runway - Fall 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
I am ending this slideshow with a bang, as in the noise my head just made when I smacked it against my keyboard in WTFery.