Sack the stylist: The worst of Oscars’ fashion

IT’S Oscars time again but before you take in the red carpet fashions don’t forget to check out the all time worst looks.

Before Cate Blanchett became the style icon she is today, let us not forget her humble beginnings. Back in 2000 Blanchett wore a bum-skimming overembellished Jean Paul Gaultier number featuring hip-level open panels proving she could only improve on her fashion-game ... and boy has she! Picture: Getty

1/23Before Cate Blanchett became the style icon she is today, let us not forget her humble beginnings. Back in 2000 Blanchett wore a bum-skimming overembellished Jean Paul Gaultier number featuring hip-level open panels proving she could only improve on her fashion-game ... and boy has she! Picture: Getty

She may be genetically blessed, a talented actress, married to a super-hunk and have a sexy Spanish accent but unfortunately Elsa Pataky’s ill-fitting and shapeless frock in 2014 left her at the top of many a worst-dressed list. Looking more like a bedazzled truckers’ singlet than high fashion the teal frock by Elie Saab had tongues wagging for the wrong reasons with the late Joan Rivers copping flack for calling her “huge”. Picture: Getty

2/23She may be genetically blessed, a talented actress, married to a super-hunk and have a sexy Spanish accent but unfortunately Elsa Pataky’s ill-fitting and shapeless frock in 2014 left her at the top of many a worst-dressed list. Looking more like a bedazzled truckers’ singlet than high fashion the teal frock by Elie Saab had tongues wagging for the wrong reasons with the late Joan Rivers copping flack for calling her “huge”. Picture: Getty

Aside from Anne Hathaway’s chic tuxedo and heels ensemble everything about this picture is wrong. Along with co-host James Franco the duo proved that perfect looks don’t buy perfect onstage chemistry, the pair famously bombed their 2011 hosting gig with Franco spending more time on Twitter than actually hosting the live event, leaving Hathaway to pick up the pieces. Picture: Getty

3/23Aside from Anne Hathaway’s chic tuxedo and heels ensemble everything about this picture is wrong. Along with co-host James Franco the duo proved that perfect looks don’t buy perfect onstage chemistry, the pair famously bombed their 2011 hosting gig with Franco spending more time on Twitter than actually hosting the live event, leaving Hathaway to pick up the pieces. Picture: Getty

4/23Demi Moore reckons life’s just better in Lycra, attending the 1989 Oscars. Picture: Jim Smeal/WireImage

Is that Kate Hudson or our elderly aunt on her way back from linedancing class. The Hollywood golden girl gave the naysayers something to squark about in her 2001 Stella McCartney disaster. Picture: Steve Granitz Archive 1/WireImage

5/23Is that Kate Hudson or our elderly aunt on her way back from linedancing class. The Hollywood golden girl gave the naysayers something to squark about in her 2001 Stella McCartney disaster. Picture: Steve Granitz Archive 1/WireImage

Nominated for her role in classic filck ‘Thelma And Louise’ Geena Davis is better-remembered for the shocking ‘mullet-shaped’ frock created by costume designers Ruth Meyers and Bill Hargate. Picture: Ron Galella/WireImage

6/23Nominated for her role in classic filck ‘Thelma And Louise’ Geena Davis is better-remembered for the shocking ‘mullet-shaped’ frock created by costume designers Ruth Meyers and Bill Hargate. Picture: Ron Galella/WireImage

Before Angelina Jolie was mother to an ever-growing brood of kids she was into some much darker stuff. As illustrated by the decidedly witchy black ensemble she wore to the 2000 Oscars. Picture: Ke.Mazur/WireImage

7/23Before Angelina Jolie was mother to an ever-growing brood of kids she was into some much darker stuff. As illustrated by the decidedly witchy black ensemble she wore to the 2000 Oscars. Picture: Ke.Mazur/WireImage

Australian costume designer Lizzy Gardiner attracted worldwide notoriety when she wore a dress made out of American Express gold credit cards at the Academy Awards in 1995. Picture: Supplied

8/23Australian costume designer Lizzy Gardiner attracted worldwide notoriety when she wore a dress made out of American Express gold credit cards at the Academy Awards in 1995. Picture: Supplied

9/23Hilary Swank looked like she stepped in a hot pink puddle as she attended the 2003 Annual Academy Awards. Picture: Getty

10/23Bjork’s classic swan dress has gone down in history as the quirkiest gown in Oscars’ history. Picture: Mirek Towski/FilmMagic

One of the most beautiful women to ever bless a red carpet this shocking 2004 Christian Lacroux gown had Uma Thurman looking like a pirate crossed with a peasant girl. Picture: Gregg DeGuire/WireImage

11/23One of the most beautiful women to ever bless a red carpet this shocking 2004 Christian Lacroux gown had Uma Thurman looking like a pirate crossed with a peasant girl. Picture: Gregg DeGuire/WireImage

Looking like she stepped right off the set of Dynasty, Charlize Theron was nominated for an Oscar for best actress in a leading role for her work in ‘North Country’, but won the award for most over-the-top gown at the 2005 Oscars. Picture: Getty

12/23Looking like she stepped right off the set of Dynasty, Charlize Theron was nominated for an Oscar for best actress in a leading role for her work in ‘North Country’, but won the award for most over-the-top gown at the 2005 Oscars. Picture: Getty

Winner for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Michael Clayton the wonderfully-kooky Tilda Swinton wore what looked like a velvet garbage bag at the 2008 Oscars. Picture: AFP

13/23Winner for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Michael Clayton the wonderfully-kooky Tilda Swinton wore what looked like a velvet garbage bag at the 2008 Oscars. Picture: AFP

Let’s get straight to the point! Anne Hathaway’s blushing-pink gown gained attention from critics for the wrong reasons in 2013. Funnily enough the actress actually issued a formal apology for the Prada creation, but not for the distractingly-perky nipple area ... rather for changing her mind at the last minute when she discovered someone else was wearing a similar gown to her original Valentino number. Picture: Getty

14/23Let’s get straight to the point! Anne Hathaway’s blushing-pink gown gained attention from critics for the wrong reasons in 2013. Funnily enough the actress actually issued a formal apology for the Prada creation, but not for the distractingly-perky nipple area ... rather for changing her mind at the last minute when she discovered someone else was wearing a similar gown to her original Valentino number. Picture: Getty

... And on the other side of perky ... Gwyneth Paltrow said of her 2002 Alexander McQueen goth number “There were a few issues; I still love the dress itself but I should have worn a bra ...” Fashion critics called the dress everything from “unflattering, figure-flattening goth getup” to a “fashion disaster” to “the worst dress ever.” Ouch! Picture: Getty

15/23... And on the other side of perky ... Gwyneth Paltrow said of her 2002 Alexander McQueen goth number “There were a few issues; I still love the dress itself but I should have worn a bra ...” Fashion critics called the dress everything from “unflattering, figure-flattening goth getup” to a “fashion disaster” to “the worst dress ever.” Ouch! Picture: Getty

There’s a fine line between incredible and terrible ... and singer-turned-actress Cher proves she’s incredible every time. Here she is pictured at the 1986 Oscars. Picture: Supplied / File

16/23There’s a fine line between incredible and terrible ... and singer-turned-actress Cher proves she’s incredible every time. Here she is pictured at the 1986 Oscars. Picture: Supplied / File

17/23... and here she is WINNING AN OSCAR, people. Can you say “life goals”. Picture: Rex Features. Picture: Rex Features

18/23... and this incredible headpiece in 1998 ... because ... Cher. Picture: AP

19/23We don’t know which way to look with this back-to-front tuxedo classic from Celine Dion, which she wore in 1999. Picture: Jim Smeal/WireImage

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Gwyneth Paltrow arrives for the 74th Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Ca., March 24, 2002. 2002ImageDirect CR:Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect

21/23Gwyneth Paltrow arrives for the 74th Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Ca., March 24, 2002. 2002ImageDirect CR:Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect

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23/23Demi Moore (Photo by Jim Smeal/WireImage)

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