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sequined
12/24/08

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I love how Amber Valetta's shows off the perfect combination of the dress and her amazing figure. It's like a mythical segue between sparkle and her. If my body looked anything like that, I would wear that dress every day. In a variety of colors.
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Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka
12/24/08

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None of these were my favorite from past GBU, except Natalie's.
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ritualtheory
12/24/08

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I don't know who Kseniya Rappoport and Noemie Lenoir are, but I have crushes on both of them now (and on their names).

Contrary to popular opinion here, I salute these choices!
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kate!
12/24/08

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love marion cotillard! and loved her entire look.

the rest of this list is meh. pictures 10, 9, and 1 especially. just nothing particularly special about the dresses so i can't figure out why they're on a best list. shouldn't this list feature dresses/looks that were actually stand out and special?
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brendastarlet is on it
12/24/08

@kate!: I was about to say, "where was Marion Cotillard?" when she appeared. I agree with Cynthia Nixon, and Anna Wintour, but I wouldn't call Natalie Portman a bestie. The dress overwhelms her.
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Eeva
12/24/08

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Sutton Foster is wearing a boring, ill-fitting blah of a dress. Props to her for the lack of wrinkles and all, but no.

The rest are good, but at least three of them - Marion Cotillard, Erin O'Connor, and Noemie Lenoir - are dependent on being worn by exactly those women and no one else. On anyone else those dress would look by turns bizarre, deranged or schlumpy.
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hatepaperdoll
12/24/08

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When I was little, I thought I'd be wearing a version of Amber Valetta's dress every night when I grew up, and that I'd be a professional cheerleader/doctor/home wrecking beauty queen.
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ellaesther
12/24/08

@hatepaperdoll: Wait. We're not going to get to do that?
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llamalash★
12/24/08

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Kseniya Rappoport is clearly not a pet owner.
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ellaesther
12/24/08

@llamalash: ... said a woman who clearly keeps a masking-tape roller/pet-hair remover by the front door... "Down, Rex!"

Or, hey, maybe her pet is a loverly, deep-royal blue hue?

(In a side note, this is very nearly my favorite dress here. If I can't have it, can I just hug Kseniya all night?)
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theysaidwhat
12/24/08

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Have to add this one. She had just had her mastectomies and turned out this dress like no one could!

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Mkp-hearts-NYC
12/24/08

@theysaidwhat: Seconded.
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aubonpam
12/24/08

@theysaidwhat: I love the gold and pale blue with the dark lipstick, it's really eye catching.
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Green Goth Brit Chick - AlternatEve
12/25/08

@theysaidwhat: She looks beautiful.
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Mkp-hearts-NYC
12/24/08

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Wait...was this a do or a don't list? Because aside from Anna Wintour and Amy Adams...there's not a dress on this list that I'd call a ravishing success...
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theysaidwhat
12/24/08

@Mkp-hearts-NYC: Agreed on several of them.

But I do think that Cynthia Nixon looked fantastic in that dress. It was a combination of the dress, her coloring, her hair and the accessories. Hard to say it was 'the dress' although the complete package was beautiful.
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sportz.star
12/24/08

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Anna, that was one of your best choices all year. You look nothing like someone who is currently running a fashion magazine into the ground by keeping it boring and making it tabloid.
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Cookie Dough Monster
12/24/08

@sportz.star: Agreed.

And yeah, I want that dress... and a reason to wear it. Oh well, I'd look a little ridiculous wearing it to my super-casual Christmas Eve and Christmas festivities.
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brendastarlet is on it
12/24/08

@Cookie Dough Monster: no more Vogue for me in the New Year. I'll be reading it at the hair salon. The succession of PhotoShopped B-list celebs on the cover is what did it for me. I want Vogue to lead, not acquiese.
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lalaland13
12/24/08

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Only one I disagree with is number two. Although that did seem like the polarizing dress of the year.
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sportz.star
12/24/08

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Noemie's dress isn't even particularly interesting, but she looks so amazing, it doesn't matter.
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haguenite
12/24/08

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Personally, I enjoyed this one.

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Mkp-hearts-NYC
12/24/08

@haguenite: Vavavoooom! Loves me some Joanie.
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ellaesther
12/24/08

@haguenite: Yowza! Man, oh man is she the bomb or fucking what?
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ellaesther
12/24/08

@haguenite: Also, this makes me think of the older version of the Columbia Pictures lady, back when she was curvy, before they sent her to aerobics and cut off her carbs.

[www.reelclassics.com]
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aubonpam
12/24/08

@haguenite: I'm so happy she exists. Amy Adams is no slouch either. 2008 was the year of beautiful redheads wearing green and looking like anything BUT leprechauns!
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haguenite
12/24/08

@haguenite: More where that came from:

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ellaesther
12/24/08

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Oh how I hope the day will come on which I will have need and opportunity to rock the place in an ensemble like that so thoroughly rocked here by Erin O'Connor. Just once?
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Penny
12/24/08

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A bit of a random list, but I appreciate not seeing run-of-the-mill starlets.

Natalie, I will take that dress, please. Highlights the skinny legs while allowing full access to the bread basket at dinner. Ideal!
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