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# Oscars Runway vs Reality: Lily Collins
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/oscars-runway-vs-reality-lily-collins-02-2012/
- Published: 2012-02-28T22:00:49.000Z
- Updated: 2015-02-26T01:03:14.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Awards & Galas, High Fugshion, 2012 Oscars, Runway/Reality, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 07:30, Lily Collins

This almost never happens: One of the dresses we flagged from Fashion Week as red-carpet bait did indeed already pop up on the big stage. In this case, it's a Monique Lhuillier; [the runway version was in red, with different detailing, a changed neck, and more tulle](https://gofugyourself.com/high-fugshion-potential-awards-season-preview-02-2012/monique-lhuillier-runway-fall-2012-mercedes-benz-fashion-week-2?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). Lily Collins opted for this variation:

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2012/02/140040932.jpg "Lily Collins")](https://gofugyourself.com/oscars-runway-vs-reality-lily-collins-02-2012/2012-vanity-fair-oscar-party-hosted-by-graydon-carter-arrivals-17?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

There is a really hacky joke here about *Mirror, Mirror*, and which one is the fairest of them all. But I think Billy Crystal is already mentally writing it back there. Me, I think she looks like a Ming vase. And suddenly I'm craving a slice of blueberry pie. Eaten at a vineyard. In the cold. I'm not even sure there actually IS more detail here than on the runway version; it's as if it's the exact same amount, but just pulled down and stretched thin to cover everything, like[ high-fashion caul fat](https://butchersapprentice.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/gayettes-de-campagne.jpg?w=640&h=480&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). So the tulle is less distracting, but trade is that the rest of it is a Rorschach splatter.

\[Photo: Getty\]