Anna Kendrick

The weird thing is, this actually looks BETTER in still photographs than it did on TV. It looked so, so bad on TV. In our New York magazine piece, Heather compared the skirt to bangs you cut yourself in a drunken, post-break-up fugue state and in fact it looks like someone DESIGNED it in a drunken post-break-up fugue state.

Anna Kendrick

It looks great from this angle, though. It has SO MUCH PROMISE! And then she turns around and it's totally Sad Trombone.

At the Independent Spirit Awards

This is Aggressively Fine, but it also feels like a tragic knock-off of this WAY better Marion Cotillard dress, and doesn't Anna Kendrick deserve better than a knock-off? The answer is yes. Yes, she does.

Oscars Fug Carpet: Anna Kendrick in J Mendel (and Independent Spirit Awards Fine Carpet)

I hate to say it, because I like her, but this is just awful and there's no way around it. Someone on Twitter, with whom I am now in love, misheard the name of the designer and tweeted us to ask if this was designed by the guy who used to be on America's Next Top Model. And I was sorry to have to tell her that it's by J. Mendel and not Jay Manuel, because that would have been AMAZING and also kind of better for J Mendel. Actually, it probably would have been better for both of them. For all of us! [Photos: Getty]