Fashion & Beauty

Angelina and Lupita are best dressed, while Tyra’s a hot mess

The Met Ball may have dominated this week’s red carpet coverage, but there were plenty of happenings that brought the good, the bad and the fugly.

Here is the best and worst of what we saw once the Sandra Lee smoke settled.

The hits:

Angelina Jolie

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The leading lady got into character at a London private reception for “Maleficent” bathed in black Swarovski crystals. The custom-made Atelier Versace gown, languid and slightly sinister, was simply the perfect choice. Très Jolie.

Elle Fanning

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At that same reception, in London for “Maleficent,” Jolie’s co-star Elle Fanning flaunted the flip side of darkness in a strapless daffodil-colored gown by Georges Hobeika.

The young actress, who plays Sleeping Beauty in the film, topped it off with a crown of flowers that tied into ribbons down her back. Très belle.

Karolina Kurkova

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“Well she’s a model, she can wear anything” definitely applies here, but we’re not mad about it. The supermodel showed up to a Salvatore Ferragamo dinner party in NYC sporting a pinstriped suit by the brand.

The cleverly sliced double-breasted blazer added a sexy, subversive element to classic menswear fare.

Kiernan Shipka

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For the Hollywood premiere of Disney’s “Million Dollar Arm,” Shipka slipped into a two-piece Peter Pilotto ensemble of cropped top and structured skirt. Simple, spring-y, age-appropriate yet fashion-forward, it’s another win for the style prodigy.

Lupita Nyong’o

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Before suffering her first documented fashion fail at the Met Gala, Nyong’o wowed at a Washington, DC, brunch wearing this flouncy Giambattista Valli silk floral dress.

The actress paired it with Christian Louboutin heels, a Judith Leiber clutch and barely there Fred Leighton jewelry.

The misses:

Claire Danes

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Danes is usually on the mark, but this Lanvin frock on her is pure frump. The dress’s floral-effect cloqué is lost in the camera flash (some people never learn!), making it look like a boxy, tattered black sack.

Better luck next time.

Debra Messing

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Dear Debra Messing, we will continue to flag your fashion errors for as long as it’s necessary.

We hear you’ve lost weight? That’s great, but there has to be a better way to work a slimmed-down shape than in black flared office slacks and a leopard-print blouse on loan from Blanche Devereaux.

Miranda Lambert

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In all fairness, Lambert wore this to the Kentucky Derby, where extravagant hats and fascinators are not the exception but the rule. Whatever. She looks like she’s been attacked by silk-eating locusts, and that hat needs to be slapped from her pageant-girl head.

Taylor Schilling

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For the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Schilling obviously took the black-tie memo too seriously. Sure, it’s a formal affair — don’t wear a cropped top. But don’t betray your stylish sensibilities, either.

On a scale of one to conservative we give this a Nancy Reagan.

Tyra Banks

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Somewhere in the plunging neckline of Banks’ garish gown there is a Golden Globes joke to be made. If she were an actress, that is. (Zing!)

Just take it down about ten notches, Tyra, and stop matching your clothes to your wigs.

The flip-flop star of the week: AnnaSophia Robb

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Robb is a rising star — emphasis on “rising” — so missteps are to be expected.

Like Schilling, at the White House dinner Robb took the formal dress code to heart and ended up in Never Never Wear That Land. Pamella Roland’s silk-satin-and-mesh mash-up thing is too dowdy for such a young girl.

On the other hand, this tropical-print Rebecca Minkoff keyhole dress she wore the day before is, like, totally cute and age-appropriate.