The Oscars unfolded pretty much as everyone expected (okay, maybe not in the best foreign language film category), which leaves everyone to talk about the fashion. E! will be airings its Fashion Police show tonight at 10 p.m., but if you wanted a preview of the snark, Joan Rivers was tweeting things like "The red carpet arrivals have begun. Watch Mariah Carey!!! OMG!! She spent 75.00 for a Brazilian wax and dying to show it off!" "Tina Fey looks like she's going to a Hadassah fundraiser" and "Miley Cyrus and her mother offend white trash."
The NY Times' Ruth La Ferla seemed upset about Ryan Seacrest, who "was either too reverent or too proud to ask the usual leading question: 'Who are you wearing?' Viewers had to turn to the TV Guide Channel to find out that Mo’Nique’s dress was by Tom and Linda Platt, her couturiers for at least a decade."
La Ferla also liked Meryl Streep's white dress (though Gawker called it a bathrobe), but wondered, "Who made it? Maybe Mr. Seacrest will ask next year." We can tell you—it was Project Runway contestant Chris March! Style.com's Meenal Mistry thought, "Zoe Saldana's frothy-hemmed Givenchy gown didn't fully translate its runway sizzle" and, like many others, called the swirls of fabric over Charlize Theron's breasts on her Christian Dior gown "head-scratchingly distracting."
The Post's Raakhee Mirchandani gave praise to the actresses "working spring’s watercolor trend"—"Rachel McAdams stunned in strapless Elie Saab in strokes of blue and gray while Maggie Gyllenhaal wowed in picture perfect Dries van Noten." The Fug Girls were upset at Sarah Jessica Parker, "OH MY GOD YOU GUYS SJP. She looks...not...good....at all. We don't even have the words for it right now" and loved Gabourey Sidibe, "She looks fantastic in a dark blue/purple gown with silver, and she both fist-bumped Keanu and then stopped to meet Woody Harrelson. She is having the best time ever and I love her so much. 'GET IT. ALL OF THIS,' she commands them. 'Let me tell you something about this dress. If fashion was porn, this dress is the money shot, and you KNOW IT.'"