Christina Ricci in Richard Chai LOVE

Posted on Nov 14, 2012 in Fashion

This is weird:

Christina Ricci attends The Ninth Annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards in New York City in Richard Chai LOVE.

Richard Chai LOVE Spring 2013 Collection/Model: Marique Schimmel

Christina? Your stomach has a mouth.

It’s a shame, because it’s a cute dress otherwise, but that cutout is just plain distracting. And it’s November in NYC. Not the time for belly-baring dresses. Hair and makeup look great, though. If this dress had a more conventional bodice, she’d be looking at a WERQ.

[Photo Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images], style.com]

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http://twitter.com/Lily1129 Lily

I quite like it, actually. I think it looks better on her than on the model. On anyone who isn’t absolutely tiny, it would be ridiculous, but she’s a cutie.
- dharmabum8
  
  I like it too.
Andrew Schroeder

I thought they stopped making bathing suits out of taffeta in the 20′s. Guess not.
- mellorcr
  
  Yeah, first thing I thought was a bathing suit with a matching skirt.
  - Judih1
    
    Or something you would wear to aerobics class! Or maybe to play tennis.
http://gabyrippling.tumblr.com/ Gabriella M

Just because you remake it in autumnal tones doesn’t make it an autumn/winter dress, Ms. Ricci.
- Judih1
  
  You are so right!
miagain

The model’s dress almost looks like a tennis dress…
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jessica-TallGirl-Freeman/1043623567 Jessica TallGirl Freeman

This could be a really great bathing suit! I do like her hair just a touch lighter like it is here. She’s really grown into a gorgeous woman.
- http://twitter.com/foodycatAlicia foodycatAlicia
  
  Shabby Apple do some that aren’t a million miles from this.
ecksor

She is simply too short for it. This dress is not meant to be worn as a gown, the proportions are all wrong. The cutout doesn’t look distracting on a model.
Jessica O’Connell

WHY ARE ALL THE STARLETS SHOWING THEIR STOMACHS RIGHT NOW!??????!?!?!?!?!

Ok, glad I got that out. I hate the cutout.
snarkykitten

perhaps she consulted Lea Michele’s stylist?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_64HSRZWCSJ5RBFGCWDLFQOICYM G

Nice Legs!!
Janet B

Spring clothes should be worn in the Spring (or summer).
guest2visits

It’s a bad dress for Christina, but it’s a horrible dress for the model. The cutout makes a very beautiful Christina appear to have
bad posture. (the belly is arching out – like Miss Gwyneth’s)
http://www.katidom.com/ Kati B

It looks like a sports bra and tennis skirt to me. OUT.
amaranth16

Love the colors – they are super flattering with her hair/complexion – but wish it didn’t look like a sports bra/tennis skirt.
Sobaika

I think she looks hot. Not seasonal, but hot.
Joyce VG

She…It…Uh…Huh. I agree her hair and make up are splendid but the dress is so… yeah… weird.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1401197785 Jennifer Peters-Ahnberg

Hmmmm. No. I do not like that one bit.

HEY! There’s my bitter!
https://twitter.com/Gayer_Than_Thou Gayer Than Thou

Do not love. And also I think the makeup makes her look a little hard.
Annabelle Archer

Is it me, or is the whole resurgence of the bare the midriff look being really poorly executed by nearly everyone? It is so 90s, but I just don’t recall it looking so awkward then.
- MilaXX
  
  Really poorly executed. It’s either hoochie or just plain ugly.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1363731332 Gerry Coleman

Is no one else seeing cheerleader uniform? Give me T! Give me a Lo!
- WittyCism
  
  Wondered “Where are her pompoms?”
  - DeborahJozayt
    
    She has minions to carry those for her.
- Judih1
  
  Give me an LOL
elirt

I can’t believe Futurama was right – the future of fashion is all about cutouts. How depressing. I thought she looked great in the thumbnail that cuts off below the shoulders.
http://twitter.com/PhDKnitter marlie

She looks gorgeous from the neck up. And I’m loving the color of the dress, but the belly cut-out kills it for me.
aeb1986

is it me or does she remind anyone of a younger victoria beckham?
j_anson

What is with the trend of unnecessarily bared stomachs? Is it today’s theme?
http://eclectictsunami.blogspot.com/ Cassie

She’s lovely, but she’s going to get pneumonia going out like that in NEW YORK in NOVEMBER. We just want you to be healthy and happy, dear.
MilaXX

I almost like this, but as you mentioned, it’s freaking November. Also that cutout is too large. However, her hair and makeup look really good.
Imasewsure

Since she is older than 19, she is too fricking old for this “dress.” Maybe Madonna could rock it as a retro thing… the rest of you mortals (with no history) should cover up
jilly_d

don’t care, love it, love her.
kikisayshi

Looks like she went to the gym and forgot she had an event to go to so she threw on a skirt over her workout gear. Hair & makeup look great, though.
Pants_are_a_must

How do you know this is not a 2012 take on Death Becomes Her? Because that would be AWESOME.

….okay it’s probably not and it’s just a really stupid dress. A woman can hope, though!
http://TheDoseofReality.com/ The Dose of Reality

She matched her lipstick to the lips of her stomach mouth!
PrunellaV

I want to see little fabric shark teeth all around the opening.
Nonmercisansfacon

It looks like a bad tennis dress to me.
MaryAtRealityTea

Remember those bathing suits in the early 90′s that had closed sides but the open stomach. Yeah, she added a skirt to her’s and left the house.
neofashionista

i think she looks very pretty even if the belly part is silly she at least appears to think she looks fabulous
- l_c_ann
  
  Or she’s a better actress that some give her credit for being.
margaret meyers

Tennis, anyone?
Sarah Thomas

She looks like a reporter from Mass Effect.
quiltrx

SUCH an almost! She looks gorgeous. But this dress needs a bodice makeover. It’s way too workout-wear as it is.
Lisa_Cop

I like the colors of Christina’s dress (navy, gray and maroon) much better than the model’s ( gray and black). That already, plus the fabrication, make it less athletic-wear looking.
amf0001

she has done so much work on herself, that without you naming her I would not have been able to place her… it’s weird how she looks pretty, but totally different to how she used to look.
nannypoo

I like the colors and she looks pretty, but the cutout definitely makes it look like a tennis dress.
poggi

Is she being prepped for abdominal surgery?
Tatiana Luján

I had never seen such good hair and makeup on her. She looks great, compare this to the necklace skirt we saw this morning.
bertkeeter

She looks great..love the hair n makeup…dress is meh! Shoes totally boring!
http://korilian.livejournal.com/ korilian

Don’t like the cut-out, but pretty fab otherwise.
Qitkat

Aren’t we seeing a LOT of belly-baring dresses lately?
merciblahblah

I can overlook the dress, because she is so damned adorable in these photos that I just want to put her in my pocket and carry her around all day.
allaboutthewalterbenjamins

The outfit matches her performance in the last episode of The Good Wife.
decormaven

The kiddies here won’t get it, but the midriff cutout reminds me of Johnny, Senor Wences’ hand puppet. “Deefeecult For You – Easy For Me.”
Christina MacDonnell

this looks like the new era of maternity clothes.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1832126583 Mary Lauer

Even with the belly, I think she looks wonderful. Colors are PERFECT. Tho I do get odd flashes of gymnastics or ice skating attire with the shiny/stretchy. Still love it.
B_C_J

This is a tennis outfit or a bathing suit. This is not evening wear.
alyce1213

Oh please. The dress is awful – it’s just poorly conceived.
She should seek another hair colorist — that is some cheesy highlighting, like what I see on the bus every day. Her hair is over-ironed and too obviously shined up with a slicker product.
Her makeup is too harsh.
I am not liking the way she looks these days. She used to be much more, I don’t know . . . solid-looking or something, more together.
Aurumgirl

This dress and Diane Krueger’s skirt-that’s-really-a-necklace is making me wonder why everyone wants to look like they’re at a Body Glove convention, on a beach somewhere in the mid 1980′s.
Judy_J

What’s with the bare midriff trend? Nice for beachwear, but not on the red carpet, please.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1183772509 Jen Hughes

I still say she always needs bangs of some sort. She has a giant forehead like me. The dress? NO.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Vienna-Marriott/100001636120960 Vienna Marriott

Yoga couture?
librarygrrl64

I agree. the cutout is stupid, but otherwise the style and colors are great on her.
http://twitter.com/Eovaai Eovaai

I have a sports bra that looks like the top of that dress.
Lisa M. (ReVoir) Kramp

It’s a weird little dress, but it really works on her.
ZnSD

…somebody’s feeling her age. “Look at me! I’m still young and gorgeous!” Shit what this town does to women. smh.
kategs

It’s a bit creepy to me that the dress mouth is the same color as her mouth…

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