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Kiera Knightley's minuscule waist

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alexheartbeauty · 05/03/2014 19:11

Does anyone think that KK looks good in this outfit?www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/10678020/Keira-Knightleys-waist-sensation-lets-not-be-waspish.html
I realise a slight optical illusion is at play with the silhouette but it just makes me feel squirmy and think of her organs and bones. I also don't like the idea that impressionable girls might think that having a nothing waist is desirable.

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FluffyDucky · 05/03/2014 19:22

That just looks, horrible!

LaurieFairyCake · 05/03/2014 19:24

I saw it yesterday and I think it's a horrible fashion.

Really awful dress.

emsyj · 05/03/2014 19:28

She looks like one of the Skittles off Noddy. Weird. I can't stand KK - that bloody constant fake dreadful pout she puts on. Urgh.

OneStepCloser · 05/03/2014 19:34

I saw it, I'm afraid I don't like it, it looks wrong.

OneStepCloser · 05/03/2014 19:35

Yy emsyj couldn't think what it reminded me of, but that's it.

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ThonHoor · 05/03/2014 19:47

That is hideous.

She needs a pie. And some acting lessons.

ToffeePenny · 05/03/2014 19:48

Not for me but I like the gold shoes

Clavicle · 05/03/2014 19:54

Her waist isn't necessary uber thin, it's just that the outfit is like two cardboard boxes.

alexheartbeauty · 05/03/2014 20:03

Of course the mindless fashion press think it's 'witty and playful'.You can imagine her advisers etc. fawning over her before the photo op telling her how fantastic she looks. It's just wrong on so many levels.

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Clavicle · 05/03/2014 20:03

I totally agree!

WildThong · 05/03/2014 20:05

Yuk.

Kiera Knightley's minuscule waist

santamarianovella · 05/03/2014 20:08

Her face looks weird,like a very bad Botox,

dannydyerismydad · 05/03/2014 20:09

She has the face of a preying mantis, she may as well go the whole hog and get the body of one.

Mintyy · 05/03/2014 20:12

I think it is a truly hideous outfit and I just can't think of anything else to say. She always comes across (to me) as not terribly smart and so I'm not surprised she has misjudged so badly in this way.

OnlyLovers · 05/03/2014 20:17

Slightly off topic, but does she look as if she's had facial plastic surgery to anyone else?

And the dress thing looks bizarre.

AcaciaBeez · 05/03/2014 20:22

It looks really horrible to me

msrisotto · 05/03/2014 20:26

It just looks like it doesn't fit her! At all! Very strange outfit.

TheWomanWithTheMysteriousLump · 05/03/2014 20:28

Lay off Keira, she's lovely. A wise MNer once said "KK is not the most beautiful film star in the world. And she is not the best actress in the world. But she does get all the best roles. Which suggests that people really really want to work with her. It says good things about her personality."

Of course it looks bizarre - it's an intentionally extreme high fashion trompe l'oeil look. Fashion doesn't have to be conventionally pretty and flattering all the time - one of the fun things about being a staggeringly beautiful millionaire film actor is that you get to wear the mad arty stuff sometimes instead of what Trinny and Susannah would recommend - it's what I like about Emma Watson and Tilda Swinton.

I'd totally wear that outfit to a party where I'd be amongst friends who appreciated an effort, though not perhaps in Keira's size.

AcaciaBeez · 05/03/2014 20:31

I'm not personally having a go at KK I just don't like that dress!

TheWomanWithTheMysteriousLump · 05/03/2014 20:32

Wasn't having a go at you specifically Acacia

alexheartbeauty · 05/03/2014 20:34

I agree that fashion doesn't have to be conventional and I like quirky. But I don't think this outfit falls into that category and I do think it's supposed to be seen as flattering.
I also think it's promoting an unrealistic and unhealthy aesthetic.

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msrisotto · 05/03/2014 20:40

To be fair, I can't think of any ways KK could dress that would not seem to be promoting unrealistic/unhealthy aesthetics. She is what size she is whatever she wears and no one expects her to cover herself up so that's what you get I guess.

AcaciaBeez · 05/03/2014 20:51

Oh no I wasn't taking offence I just meant that I personally wasn't having a go at her. I personally agree and think people shouldn't judge people on what they don't know - you can judge their clothes as you are wearing that in public and putting it out there but to be mean about someone's face or something they can't change isn't nice

emsyj · 05/03/2014 20:51

The more I look at the outfit, the more I like it actually - although it does look odd, that's not necessarily a bad thing...

I still think KK is hugely irritating though. I just cannot bear the pouting thing.

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