[Venice, September 7. Image via Getty]

VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 07: A woman with a painted face in the crowd attends the '36 Vues Du Pic Saint Loup' premiere at the Sala Grande during the 66th Venice Film Festival on September 7, 2009 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

[Venice, September 3. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

Maria Grazia Cucinotta is really wearing one of the breast best colors for a gown. Yes, the color is the most striking thing about her ensemble.


Eva Mendes pulls off this profusion of leopard. A bit confused by the rock headpiece.


One thing I love about Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani (with Alain Elkann) - besides her mermaid hair - is that she's always smiling.


Does actress Nicole Grimaudo pull off Studio 54 Schoolgirl?


Svetlana Hodchenkova looks like a (wicked) fairy princess. And it dips in the back. Gorgeous!


Carla Fendi seems to have dressed around her Fendi. This is, as a rule, a very tricky
proposition.


Afef Jnifen's gown suffers from "beaded caterpillar syndrome." It also suffers from Rami syndrome, in which you can tell how much work went into something, but still don't like it.


I'd comment on Patrizia Pellegrino's Vegas costume, but I'm too busy keeping my eyes fixed on her face. Where does "cleavage" end and just..."breasts" start?


I get what Laura Chiatti's doing here - but also, that it's objectively unflattering.


Sandrine Bonnaire has also been attacked: by a sequin snake!


Margareth Made has the right idea: get in as much white as possible before Monday! And she does look bridal-perfect...

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[Venice, September 1. Image via Getty]

VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 01: A woman makes Venitian masks during the 66th Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2009 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The Good:
I'm a sucker for 60's Grecian. Also for Barbie wedding gowns. Model Eva Riccobono does both beautifully.
If I had to rank my favorite things in the world, it would be Butter, People wearing glasses with evening gowns like Evelina Khromtchenko. No, I don't get the jewelry.
Actress Valentina Cervi: Depressingly elegant.
My hatred of purple warring with my love of 60s Grecian! Olympic fencing gold medalist Valentina Vezzali, why do you torment me so?
See, of its kind, Tatiana Voronova's look is absolute perfection. Would you want to wear it? Probably not. And yet...there's something so inescapably right about this magical confluence of sequins, cleavage and Barbie-like perfection!!!


The Less Good:
See, I'd like Diane Krueger's so much more if she'd left the skirt boringly straight-forward and just done Betty Draper in New Look.
Actress Eliana Miglio. Overall, the effect is still kinda pretty, but the small bits of fugly flair on the bodice are a deal-breaker.
I'm on the fence about awkward lengths. At the end of the day, though, there can't be any ambiguity as to whether it's intentional and I'm just not sure about actress Huang Yi.



Okay, Bad:
Well, at least this (un-ID'd) guest matches.

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The Good:
Just enough glitz to make Afef Tronchetti Provera look awesomely Italian, awesomely awesome.
Elsa Martinelli: Just what I'd wear were I an Italian actress of a certain age. A jeweled red caftan?! Fabulous!
Alice Braga: Jane Austen-era bride or contempo vision in white?
Ksenia Rappoport: Jane Austen-era widow or contempo vision in ink?



The Bad:
You know when sometimes in the summer you see a gal in a bikini top under her clothes and you have an unworthy moment of thinking, "Hm, that's not really any sub for a bra,"? Yes. Roberta Rossi.
Claudia Schiffer's been doing a lot of bizarre experimentation lately — the latest being this Scarlett-works-with Jonathan Adler's drapes.
Okay, Valeria Golino almost pulls this off — and really, no shame in failing at an impossible task.



The Ugly:
Isabella Orsini seems to be sporting - and I use the term loosely - PVC.
Yes.

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