Unfug It Up: Malin Akerman

I would change it ALL...she looks like she's wearing a nude colored sarong over a baggy old- lady bathing suit. And WTF is with the color of the shoes? Who thought that was a good idea? Her hair is pretty though...and I think a full dress that fit properly in that shade of yellow would look good on her.

Please post Kristin Bell from the same event though...her dress was fabulous.

My first thought? Between the hair and the mismatched outfit that it looked like someone took her picture doing the walk of shame. I hate the skirt, the top is a good color for her but she needs a little support under that thing. Get rid of the pink bathtowel skirt and make that top into a dress. Can't really see the shoes, so whatevs. And do your roots, girl!

So while I was waiting for comments to open, I glanced at the archives, and this young lady seems to like the slouchy, shiny, bedsheet wrinkly clothing. This particular outfit seems to be several shades of pastel crazy--who wears a yellow tube top over a pink ruffle skirt and baby blue heels? Looks strikingly like something my daughter would pull out of her dress-up trunk. Methinks Ms. Akerman breaks like a little girl...

The bottom needs to be changed so its not so similar to the top-- less ruching for sure!
And way better shoes-- that color is drab!
PS- Totally in agreement about the movie; I think it looks bad but I want it to be good for Jason and for Kristin

She either needs a tailored shirt to contrast with the skirt or the shirt needs to be the dress that it wants to be. Instead, she looks like she has injected her midsection with 5 lbs that don't correspond with the rest of her body. From the neck up she looks lovely.

Hmmm... well, for starters, that yellow top has no business being paired with that beige skirt. Both articles of clothing bunch up in odd places -- maybe a sleek top with that skirt or a sleek skirt with that top would be better. Better but not great: The waistband of the skirt is just doomed from the start -- she's a toothpick, but the awkward bunching is just so g'damn unflattering. Maybe I'm biased because I hated the film adaption of "The Watchmen" so much...

This is so utterly confusing. She's gorgeous and clearly has the body to wear anything and yet...it looks like she got dressed in the dark??

Lose the shoes and skirt. I agree the yellow color is great on her, maybe if it was a more structured cocktail dress a la Reese Witherspoon circa when she divorced Ryan Phillipe. She definitely needs some support up top, as well as the waist cinched in.

I actually like the shoes, if the shoes are gray (hard to tell from the pic) - I like a good yellow/gray combo. Ditch the skirt - it's dingy and looks like it's being pulled maliciously in the opposite direction from her top. Hope that a dress bottom, just about the same length, appears below. Add a little structure underneath the dress, subtract one bracelet, change out the purse to a more interesting color (dusky peacock? silvery pkum?) and voila.

Make that skirt less ruffled and put it in black and it might not be so weird.

She is gorgeous in that color yellow - she wore it in 27 Dresses. Get rid of the weird beige skirt part, and make it a dress in the bodice material with a flirty flared skirt. Otherwise, she's good.

Except there is something weird going on with her hair - it's almost too big on top.

To me, it looks like she has the skirt on inside out and we're looking at the lining. Even if that's not the case, I think she should outside-in the skirt. Can't hurt.

if the yellow is a top, a simple dark gray tight skirt would look great. the main problem with this outfit is the skirt; its.. why.

she should also remove one of those bracelets because they look exactly the same. she should also stop having such an annoying face.

I appreciate your incentive to protect jason, if he's in this movie he clearly needs a watchful eye.

The poor girl is colorblind. Ditch the skirt; it doesn't belong. The shoes are BORING.
Then make the top a cocktail dress and we're OK with the perky yellow, even if it's fall and even if it's evening.
Add some killer stilettos and we're done!

if the yellow is a top, a simple dark gray tight skirt would look great. the main problem with this outfit is the skirt; its.. why.

she should also remove one of those bracelets because they look exactly the same. she should also stop having such an annoying face.

I appreciate your incentive to protect jason, if he's in this movie he clearly needs a watchful eye.

if the yellow is a top, a simple dark gray tight skirt would look great. the main problem with this outfit is the skirt; its.. why.

she should also remove one of those bracelets because they look exactly the same. she should also stop having such an annoying face.

I appreciate your incentive to protect jason, if he's in this movie he clearly needs a watchful eye.

I dunno, the only part of this outfit I like is the double bracelets, I'm into the cuffs this year. (Too weird?) Otherwise, start from scratch!

I too am confused and conflicted. Now, which part do I like least? The yellow top or the beige skirt?

I can't decide!

She is clearly, clearly drunk, or she would not go out looking like that. As she must be intoxicated, I say let's leave her alone because we know she'll have BOTH a hangover and a "omigod" moment in the morning...

Ok, so... There is not much here to work with, but...
1. swap the horrid skirt for skinny jeans
2. untuck the top
3. swap the grey shoes for bright yellow ones

Make that top a dress and burn that fugly skirt. The shoes are ok, but they could be black.

There is no way to fix this. The entire ensemble is made of NO. And she's so pretty, too! Maybe if she just took a breath and started over...

I like her cuff bracelet, though. However, I would like it better if she only had one on. Wearing matching cuff bracelets on both wrists smacks of Wonder Woman to me. Of course, if they can deflect bullets, who am I to argue?

So this is a classic case of, "I coudn't pick between my two favorite colors, so I said FUG IT, and decided to wear both!"

That or she woke up late and grabbed another girls shirt and her skirt as she ran out of Vince Vaughn's room to make it to the red carpet in time?

The top and skirt look as if they'd been applied with a Wilton cake decorating kit. My idea would be to put straps on that top and pair it with a dark skirt, possibly a black pencil skirt. Dark shoes or even red would be better than what she's wearing now.

Who cares? She's a crappy actress and a crappy dresser. Fug her and be done with it.

Untuck the shirt, swap out the skirt with a grey pencil cut, and add a yellow shoe. Also, she needs a necklace, cause there's way too much boring between her head and her neckline.

First off, don't be scared, the movie isn't terrible! Aside from the fact that all the wives but one appear to be child brides, it's actually pretty amusing stuff. Jason B plays an adorable tight ass, type A man, mmmmm.

Okay, replace the skirt with skinny, kind of shiny grey trousers. Also a fun shoe, maybe kelly green or metallic? Then she would be in business.

Is this a new trend? The wearing of tops that look like they should be dresses with bottoms that look to be pulled from a random bargain bin? Hmmm, how to fix this... Well, I have yellow envy because I can't wear it. So, I say make the top a dress. Pretty easy. The matching bracelets are little Wonder Woman for me, so I'd ditch one of those. Then, because she'd be in a sunny strapless dress, go for strappier shoes. Not sure what color though: nude, black, olive green. Ditch the handbag for something with a a little more life and color. Her hair and makeup are cute, here, though.

First, I think the hair color is too light. Should be a slightly darker, richer blonde.

The material of the shirt is pretty, so go all the way. Make it a pretty dress with a little swing in the skirt and tighten up the bodice.

Those shoes are drab, drab, drab. LouBou Dillian pumps!! Those shoes are worth building an outfit around. Just start over and wear those shoes.

I don't think this is salvageable. She's better off naked. Go home, try again.

I agree with everyone who voted to 1) hike up the top a little and make it a dress, 2) burn the skirt, and 3) save the shoes for a different (and perhaps Easter-suited?) outfit. Maybe go with a strappy shoe like dinsdale suggested, only in gray.

The bracelets are okay with me, but I think she'd be better served by a great necklace and only one bracelet.

Hair color from a bottle; could she have more natural look? The "skirt" has no business anywhere, lengthen the top and add some straps and ...it's a mere sundress. Put on some sleeves and tuck it into trousers, add a thin belt and some booties? Meh. In any event both bracelets need to go. Or she could hang them from her ears.

You're right, it does resemble a skirt pulled over a dress.

Making the ruching go the same direction would already be an improvement, as would pulling the skirt up to a higher waistline and tucking the blouse in more smoothly.

I don't really love either half, so two solutions, each keeping one half:

Keep the skirt, fix the shlumpiness in the waist, and put it with a very fitted, smooth, deep sapphire blue silk tank (style of your choosing -- but NOT with a sweet heart neckline, because we don't need a mirror of the skirt hem). That would play off the lighter gray blue of the shoes, work well with the bracelets (which I like), and also set off her hair.

OR: magically merge the skirt and top into a single dress, all yellow, hoist up the boobs slightly, make sure the ruching is going the same way (gathering centered at the waist), and of a construction where that asymmetrical skirt panel either doesn't exist or extends into the bodice in a logical and flattering fashion. And swap out the shoes for some that are not so drab when put next to the yellow. Give her a little bit of color in her lips too -- this is too much pale yellow everywhere for me.

Just when Wrink thinks she's fallen off the back of the fashion truck, she sees something like this and her self-esteem improves.

My only suggestion... turn on the LIGHTS when you open the closet door.

Don't you have a photo of Jason Bateman to share instead?

Burn the skirt. Replace with something black and simple. Add boob support to the top. Strappy sandals. Less bedhead. Lose one bracelet. Done.

The whole thing is undeniably tragic. She must've had a lobotomy prior to dressing for this event. It's the only explanation.

It looks like the perplexing Vogue cover with Keira Knightley, only without the Helena-Bonham-Carter-at-the-end-of-Frankenstein hair.

She should change.

Ruching (or, "artful wrinkling" for us normal folks) on top or bottom - not both. How's about a sleek long-sleeved black top to go with the skirt? Or, a sleek black pair of trousers to go with that top? Or, anything black and sleek? Maybe I'm just not a fan of ruching in general. My maxim is, if you've got a hot bod, DO NOT HIDE IT WITH ARTFUL WRINKLING. Use it when you need to: when you're old and the only wrinkling going on is you and there is nothing "artful" about it.

While scrolling down, at one point I could see only Malin's face and the yellow bodice, which I have decided I might like.

So--I vote for making it a whole dress with a floaty, knee length skirt to match the bodice.

Also, lose one of the bracelets. I want to understand her clear struggle with which arm needs something, but it looks like she is wearing shackles and I want to make my third wish setting her free.

I literally don't think this can be saved. Other than the bracelets (and both of them are overkill), there's not a single piece of that outfit that I like -- not from the top of her bad dye-job to the tip of her ugly grey shoes. Everything about it is horrible.

The top isn't necessarily bad. This girl, if anyone, has the body to pull it off, but it doesn't go with the skirt and it is a tube top, therefore, it must go. I don't like the skirt, but I think it could look nice with a different top. I'm partial to black and I like the idea of rose and black. Cap-sleeves tucked in with a nice big belt. Perhaps a deeper shade of rose = maroon.
I don't like the shoes, but if the trendsetters like 80's bridal shoes, she should atleast get them dyed to match.

Hmmmm...You look like you let a blind four year old dress you.

Here is how Malin can fix what she's wearing: take this outfit off, put it in a pile, and set it on fire. Dance gleefully around the flames, and then put on a different, better outfit.

All better.

Sick as hell. This looks like a project that my 1st grader made. Ya know, the one where you dip tissue paper in glue and then wrap it around a soup can. I swear, it turns out just like that.

Choose something that covers your tan lines? And doesn't resemble an un-made bed. That'd do to start with.

START OVER.

Oh, wait....I like the bracelets. But she should be wearing only one of them, not two.

I feel like the top could have been cute with some skinny jeans and maybe a blazer or a cardigan. The shoes would be cute with a different outfit, or maybe just in a different colour. The skirt is just fug. That said, I think that the biggest problem with this outfit is that the skirt and the shirt have the same pattern... gross.

This whole thing is baffling. That skirt is terrible by itself. But with that top? I dressed better in 9th grade, and that's saying something. Maybe she lost a bet.The top is a nice color on her, if a bit summery for October. Is that a tampon case she's carrying? Why doesn't anything match??

Ugh. It can't be fixed. Start over from scratch and add a full-length mirror and a stylist that isn't drunk.

The top is cute . . . with some white shorts on the beach in the middle of summer. But that isn't where or when she is in the photo. The skirt is hideous. A skirt should not be the same color and texture as Joan Collins' inner thigh. She should strip off the skirt and fling it heartily into the nearest open fire. Keep the shoes and the yummy bracelets and pair them (triple them?) with a short, halter-style LBD with a modest decolletage.

Wow - she's a beautiful girl. However, that mess of an outfit gives her a belly screaming for "menstrual bloat relief" Pamprin.

I wholeheartedly agree with Susiepseudonym - an LBD is exactly what this girl needs...

It's so simple, Malin! Detailed tops need plain (or differently busy, anyway) bottoms. I'd have been very happy if she'd just picked a solid-colored skirt that wasn't detailed the same way as the top, be it pencil, A-line, circle, whatever. Contrast, ladies, contrast!
Also, anything that bags where it should nip is not your friend. Battle the bulge!

None of the accessories match what she's wearing. Did she put on the wrong outfit?

The blouse is okay, not great but okay; but even if you keep it, the accessories are wrong.

I'd scrap the whole thing - literally, ragbag it - and start over. Keep the hair, shoes and jewelry and find a nice short dress in a color that doesn't make me think she's colorblind.

The yellow is a good color on her. First, the tan needs to go down a couple shades.

A vintage styled, off-shoulder dress with a fullish skirt to the knee with a nipped waist would be cute. Add some pointy toed pumps and pearls, voila, dressed.

She also needs to get her hair out of her face.

She has a really cute figure with great cleavage. But you can't see that OR her face so all we look at is the bad outfit.

oh goodness. this mistake is made often enough by the commonfolk, leave it off the red carpet. when you're wearing a high waisted skirt with detailing, you need a simple and fitted top. if she was just wearing a plain fitted blank top i think she would look great! the yellow thing sort of looks like one of those stretchy lycra one size fits all sweaters that were oh so popular back in 4th grade classes in 1999.

Normally, I'm OK with ruching, but this thing is out of control. I tend to agree with the above Gentle Posters who suggested the top with skinny jeans, black or grey shiny pants, etc. That would be nice for going out after work on Friday night. But you're on a red freakin' carpet for goodness' sake! So.............since I also agree with the Gentle Posters who liked the bracelets (and want to keep BOTH), here goes my fix:

1) Decent hairstyle (red carpet - see above!)

2) Don't approve of blonds in yellow (sorry, just my rule) and.........

3) Too much ruching, so......

4) Sleek, strapless or spaghetti strap dress in stylish but modest length, elegant fabric in a nice jewel tone.

5) Upgrade shoes and clutch to go with dress.

6) Bracelets! Can't help it - I love 'em.

Forget it, life is too short, every piece of this outfit is beyond help. She'd be better off with the yellow as body paint.

I agree with the skirt-haters...that thing is going to give me nightmares. The rest of it is fine--either as a full cocktail dress or with a sleek, dark skirt.

Sure, the outfit could be improved upon in the details, but it wouldn't have showed up on here if it weren't for that terrible, horrible, no good, very bad skirt and the decision to pair it with an outfit that makes all its bad features EVEN WORSE. *shudder*

I dunno, y'all ... I really don't think it's that bad! I have almost no idea who she is, so it's not that I have some prejudicial love blinding me, btw. I certainly agree that the ruching on both items has done unflattering things to her waistline, and I wouldn't mind some simplifying on that account. But to the contrary of most of the comments above, I like the color combination (I still like the trend of brights mixed with neutrals), I totally love the shoes (I'm a sucker for gray, especially for footwear), the accessories are fun, and I think that overall it's a risk that comes thisclose to looking great. My other contrarian point is that a lot of the suggestions above (skinny pants, black pencil skirts) are fine, but totally boring. It seems like the idea behind her outfit, misguided though it may seem to you, was to veer away from the safe/classic. So I think that in keeping with the spirit of the thing, the most I would want to suggest is: no ruching in the skirt (but in the same basic shape), and a tighter fight in the top.

Oh good. I was starting to think it was me. ;)

The skirt is horrid. The top needs to have less fabric because it makes her look thick in the middle (which I'm sure she is not). The color of the top is good--she manages to pull that off. I'd turn the shirt into a just-above-the-knee length dress, minimize the fabric a bit (I think the twisting of it is okay--it would probably hug her curves nicely), remove the wrist clankers for something less detailed and in gold and change the shoes for something more colorful that goes with yellow--say, teal strappy sandals.

That skirt is made of "NO" and the wonder woman matching bracelets have to go. The cut of the shirt is awful and it reminds me of when I tried to glue my home ec final project together instead of sewing it.

So what's good? Her hair and make up. The shoes would work if paired with an entirely different outfit and the color of the offending shirt is actually great on her.

Personally, I think she should find a bold of the fabric that shirt was made out of and have someone sew up a charming little dress for her - with NO ROUCHING.

I'm with all of y'all who said to make the top into a dress. I vote for making it about the same length as the current skirt is on her...right leg? (Am I the only one who sees the weird asymmetry there? Is it just the way she's standing?)
And make it a dress that FITS, i.e. fix the lack of support and weird bunching at her waist. I'm not crazy about the hair, but I can't say what exactly is wrong with it. And I actually think the accessories are cute.

I hope that yellow top is really a dress, knee length with a fullish skirt. Because if not, then I'm afraid she's wearing two tops (with one on the bottom) or something is on sideways. Love, love, love the bracelets which also go with the shoes. Makeup and hair are okay since she is seriously cute and can carry it off. But whatever that beige puckered mess is in the middle of her outfit, please make it go away.

Nope. Go home, start over.

I think she should burn both pieces and do some shopping. She has great coloring and a lemon yellow would look lovely on her. She should especially look for feminine items that play off of her ingenue looks.

um, looks like she accidentally went swimming one of those cheapo cotton tie-dye dresses that they sell in Miami Beach or Cancun, then cut off the skirt and twisted the top around her torso, and THEN tucked the top into some lame American Apparel skirt that she she accidentally put on inside-out. Add heavy, silver wrist-cuffs, a 50's pink wallet, and those gross pumps, and the whole look suggests "blindfolded in the thriftstore." Not that I have anything against thriftstores. The solution? Wear a whole dress the color of the top; slightly less ruching; strappy sandals; a completely different clutch.

QUESTION: I have determined that whoever put this ensemble together is color blind. Sooo, how did the clutch and the skirt end up so matchy-matchy?

This cannot be saved. Seriously. She looks like she played dress-up in a bin of clothing collected from garage sales.

The skirt is the first to go, directly into the incinerator. The top becomes a dress with improved pectoral support and a flippy hem for doing the tango. Ditch both bracelets for some peridot set in a very slim silver bangle. Little peridot drop earrings which will be seen when she tosses her happy hair. Pastel olive clutch and pale aqua strappy tango shoes. A fresh, clean faintly spicy scent might be nice.

Who cares if the movie is any good? We're talking Vince Vaughn here.

Okay, go check out the Katie Cassidy GFY post from Sept. 29. These girls MUST have the same stylist! Stylist who should be flipping burgers and not assaulting our eyeballs with this crap.

it's not brilliant no matter what, but it would be better if it were all one color. preferably the yellow as opposed to the nude.

If you look closely at the way the wasitband on that skirt, (and I use the term loosely,) curves around her tummy, you would swear that if she turned sideways, she would have about a 4-month baby bump. Since that probably isn't the case, she really needs to ditch that sleazy-looking skirt THING, get a seamstress to make the midriff of the yellow top fit her smoothly, and then sew a skirt onto it. Skirt could be the same color, maybe even with the gathers from the top extending a bit below her now-defined waist and then gently opening into a swishy, knee-length finish. As many have suggested before me, strappy sandals and one less bracelet, and she's lookin' good.

Ugh. I want Couples Retreat to be Wedding Crashers hilarious and am worried as well. Love to Jason and Kristen, they need to get some better star vehicles. Anyway, I saw this earlier today and couldn't believe that certain {cough} People thought it was 75% "hit." The colors remind me of silly putty and that seam on the skirt just makes it looked like it shifted around her as she was walking (takes one to know one). Just rip off the skirt and reveal the rest of the decent dress that is hiding under there. Then hike up the dress and make the color a deeper autumnal shade, even a deep gold is fine, ditch one of the bracelets and punch up the color of the shoes, too. Grey and yellow can be hot so I'll take that color combo. That was more laborious than I had thought.

It really kind of looks like she went to the bathroom pre-red carpet and accidentally tucked her dress into a slip that had had a particularly tragic run issue. Really really bad.

The crazy ruching makes me seasick - she should just scrap it and wear a simple dress in a single color, because who wants clothes that distract from that hair (the style more than the color)?

And just one bracelet, please. Doesn't matter which one you pick, since they're both the same.

I like the shoes, and the bracelet. Those can stay. But she should replace everything else with pretty much anything else.

That just looks really bad. That's all i can say. Those pieces just don't go together at all.

Simply make the skirt out of the same fabric as the top - it would look like a ruched dress. Then change the shoes completely - brown or navy peep toes perhaps.

You're right, not just about the dress/skirt fiasco, but about everything. The last think I need right now is to see Jason Bateman get slammed for a crappy movie. I almost cried when they made him the creeper in "Juno."

Every time I see a poster for the movie I kind of question why Jason is in it? I mean, he usually has great judgement, doesn’t he? He was awesome in Juno, he’s very cool in interviews, and I’ve managed to wipe the movie Hancock from my memory completely (and put his choice to act in it down to the fact that everyone is entitled to one big mistake in their life, just like the mistake fashion made with slouch socks in the 90’s). And then, looking at the poster again, I turn to my sister Maddie and I’m like “Well if he’s in it, it must be good” and then she arches her eyebrows mockingly and says “Really” and then the topic is taken over by discussions as to whether Kristen Bell has already been in this movie (and the answer is, yes, yes she has) except last time she had a cute yet apparently sex obsessed British comedian co-star. Back to the outfit, let’s break it down – (1) curls are great, and she has looked good with them in the past, but is something is off here? Too much hairspray in the front perhaps? Where is the natural bounce??? (2) I don’t hate the shoes, in fact if she was in a different outfit, with stronger colours, I would be all about the shoes she’s wearing, but the neutral accessories, bland skirt, light yellow top and blond hair are kind of merging into one and I feel slightly sad for the shoes, which really do feel, had so much potential. Colour it up Malin!

halloween costume, the hooker corpse?

I totally thought this was Becky Newton from Ugly Betty.

Ditch the shoes, clutch, both bracelets (although I'd like ONE of them on their own, I don't think they really work here), and the HORRENDOUS skirt.

The yellow top is ok but would be *much* cuter as a dress. Add a wide black belt, killer black heels (with yellow soles? or would that be *too* matchy-matchy?), and a cuter clutch. I don't know why, but I loathe the clutch.

Or, keep the top, and go with a black fitted skirt, if you prefer.

But for GOD'S sake, PROP UP YOUR BOOBS lady! We've all seen them, and they deserve better!

I agree with what Laura said above: let the shirt be the dress it wants to be! I love the yellow shade--it just needs hoisting to support the bust.

Ditch the shoes and skirt.
Extend yellow shirt (is that a shirt, really?)
I'd say extend it to the knees and make it flair at the bottom with a bit of ruffle.
Make shoes yellow.
FIN

the only way to unfug malin is to make her take off the entire outfit (including the awful shoes) and shove it the garbage disposal of shameful fugttire.

I LOVE the top, but...then it gets crazy. If only the top were a dress -- with that bodice, but a floaty skirt -- I would be on board.

She's pretty, though.

The skirt should be part of the dress - I mean, the top of the same beige and without a line between them. The same dove pumps and she would look nice. If only she went back to dark hair...

I have seen this outfit from another angle (on Popsugar I think? One of the sugar sites anyway) and it didn't look sooo bad as this pic. Not bad but not that great either. This pic makes her look attrocious.

Spontaneously I just think about that song, "Unskinny bop".

Unfug it up up up!

not at all ok. and looking away from the bad fit and all the ruffles on everything Light yellow with light pink and a white bag? AND light grey shoes? how more light can one be?!

Just saw the pics for this elsewhere and hurried right over here. I knew you guys wouldn't miss it.

The top definitely looks like a cute little sundress. It's even making that skirt bulge weirdly in the middle, making her look about 3 months along. I'm about 90% convinced that she had some sort of disaster with the original top or bottom and this was an emergency fix. Like, "Oh look, I have this skirt/sundress I can wear instead." Which I guess she can, because she's still adorable.

I don't know about all that rouching, but I'm totally with you concerning Jason Bateman. There is nothing funny about those previews, and I really hope he did this movie as a favor to someone.

Totally agree on the Jason Bateman thing. Every time I see the ad, I die a little inside. And what's with him being paired with Kristen Bell. She seems a bit young for him, though I'm younger than her and I'd still do him.

She reminds me of a ham and cheese omelette.

Still - nice cuff.

Okay...where to begin. I would have her strip and start all over again. The yellow is a good color, but it's twisted and her boobies are saggy. The skirt, WTF? and I really don;t understand her accessories...grey shoes? what? Okay so lets go with a nice little cocktail dress the same yellow color that holds up her tatas and some simple gold sandle type shoes with gold accessories. Let's sweep up the hair too...looks like she just got out of bed and grabbed the closest sheet she could find.

great, another horrible movie i have to see because jason bateman is in it.
and i have no idea what to do with this outfit. she should just go back home and try something else.

I love, love, love her in yellow. The whole thing should be yellow, so ditch the skirt and lengthen the top to make it a dress. Or change the color of the skirt to match the top.

But then there's the fit. It looks a bit lumpy. I'm almost wondering if I imagined those other times when I saw her and thought, "I'd kill for that smokin' body." It should be more fitted in the top at least. The skirt would be pretty if it was more flared, I think. The boobs look a little lopsided, but I think that's just how she's standing.

Otherwise, love the bracelets and the tan line is forgiveable because (1) we've all been there, no? and (2) she's just so darn pretty, who cares if you see the outline of what she wore to the beach?

Her hair and makeup looks AMAZING. She gets a 10 on the radiant scale. Love the idea of a flirty, simple, strapless, yellow deal but looks like it got lost somewhere in translation. Just like a lot of you said, remove the muted skirt she pulled overtop the dress (and apparently put on sideways) and replace with a) the actual bottom of the original dress or b) an entirely new strapless, sweet, yellow deal that accomplishes the original idea. Clothing aside...she looks BEAUTIFUL!

Make the yellow part the entire dress. This color combination reminds me of a pair of multi-color pastel shoes my mother bought me to wear for Easter when I was 10 years old.

Kick it with a dark pencil skirt

I love the yellow top on her and I like her hair in tnis pic...it beats the flat limp look that I've been seeing in the tabs.

The skirt is the biggest problem. maybe some formal shorts would be better?? KIDDING. A basic black skirt would satisfy me.

I can barely see the shoes so I'll give her the benfit of the doubt and say they are OK.

Love all the accessories. The bracelets are fantastic. This is def. a case where she needs to choose either the skirt or shirt. Due the rest of her accessories, I think she would look really demure if she kept the skirt, and went with some sort of black long sleeve top. Of the plain variety. And maybe did an updo.

Oh, eek. I agree with everyone who says ditch the skirt and make the top into a dress, say just below the knee with lots of swirl.

Mostly I wanted to say that I too have been in love with Jason Bateman since Silver Spoons. *Le sigh*

Beautiful girl. But oh. The ruching.

If that top were a cute little dress with a full skirt--kind of like a little 50's summer dress, she would look adorable. I like the accessories, and the neutral grey shoes with the bright yellow top. Just no heinous nude sweat-skirt. Blech.

#1 - Jason Bateman ROCKED on Silver Spoons!!!! I liked Derrick sooooo much better than 'Rick' Schroder.

#2 - This outfit is making my eyes bleed. I am in severe physical pain.

Start from scratch. It looks like she accidentally washed her skirt with a red sock. And for some reason it makes me think of diapers. Or a loincloth. And that top is atrocious! Pull it up girlfriend. I do like her makeup though finger combing the hair or brushing it might help.

Wow, I think the most constructive thing to do is to burn the entire outfit, fire her stylist, fire her hairstylist, go back to bed, and hope for one of those Groundhog Day type occurrences where she gets to relive the day, but change things just a little bit. Starting with the clothes.
Prodigious toe cleavage,ugly color combo, ruching gone wild, suicide blond hair with visible rootage... just NO.

Yellow top to yellow dress. And I know it's fall but this is screaming turquoise accessories to me (bag and shoes). Gray/yellow is too too risky, and too often it goes the wrong way, especially in pictures. :)

I agree with finger-combing the hair too, but otherwise I like it.

She looks like an upside-down slice of lemon meringue pie; and not in a good way.

I loooooooooooved it!

BAAAH. Change it ALL! None of it goes together, and nothing is remarkable enough to keep. Fail.

The skirt looks like a fifth grade sewing disaster and the blouse gives her a tummy pouch. Both are heinous.

I don't mind the shoes, but they don't go with this hopeless outfit.

This particular pastiche makes me feel a bit seasick and the overall fit is terrible.
The lady needs some foundational support under that top and it wouldn't hurt if she wore it in a smaller size OVER an a-line or pencil skirt. About the skirt: don't care for the whole curved seam running up the front craze that's taken the malls by storm.
The shoes look to be suede which would probably look much better if she'd worn hose. The cuffs are a bit "Warrior Princess" for the breezy colors and fabrics.

I love that yellow colour, and because yellow is a difficult colour to pull off I feel like it's kind of your civic duty to do so if you can. That's all I like about it though. I really think this is one of those cases where the only thing you can do is go back home and start over.

Also, thanks to Charlene for reminding me what the skirt looks like. It reminded me of something, but I couldn't figure out what, and then I read Charlene's comment and remembered: of course! That time I had a fight with the tension wheel on the sewing machine while making a mock up skirt out of old bedsheet.

Get rid of the pink and put a proper skirt on it. She'd look fab in the yellow.

Sometimes it is best just to ditch the clothes and go back to one's closet and start all over, picking a fresh new wardrobe. This outfit is a lost cause, both color and tailor wise.

I cannot understand why these beautiful Hollywood women insist on going to important career events looking like they just woke up in Compton and had to pull an outfit together from the "free" boxes folks left at the curb.

My theory is that:

#1- they all grew up when the "casual friday" look was already mainstream and they never had to develop any fashion sense.
#2- they are all so used to being so "fabulous" they never feel they ever have to try very hard to look great.
#3- they are all on drugs and don't realize how foolish they look.
#4- their stylist is on drugs and is playing a very dirty trick on them.

Just take the top and make it into a dress the same length as the skirt. Done!

That's a skirtful of NO right there. That skirt is a chewed wad of bubblegum.

But... the bodice... maybe could be saved? Untuck the poor bodice and tighten it up at the waist to lose the tummy bulge and give her an actual *waist*. (What is it with skinny famous ladies denying the waists God gave them?)

Maybe turn the refitted bodice into a *dress* (like many before me have suggested) with a floaty skirt? That color yellow could be cute in a dress. Presto, a Little Miss Sunshine!

The accessories don't wow me now, particularly the handcuffs, but I can't give them proper appreciation over the very loud NO issuing from the gumwad skirt.

Seriously? That skirt looks like a pair of shorts that are twisted in the most painful way possible...she's even beginning to buckle at the knees!

I say lose the skirt and add a vintage Yves Saint Laurent smoking. I think that is the only thing that could possibly breathe some chic into that odd-little-top-to-be-seen-in-public-in. Black heels and much higher. The hair and jewels are good.

Wear a sleek upper half or bottom half or just one piece which is ruched/draped. This looks somehow lazy and twisted. I'd prefer yellow shoes to the meh grey ones, but that's splitting hairs. Stand up straight and order that pap to squat down a bit so he's not squashing you up for stumpy legs.

Get rid of that yellow... thing, add something that has straps or sleeves so that your lousy posture isn't so obvious (or better yet: stand upright!) and change the colour of your shoes. Better.

Having just seen a whole lot of pix of this outfit on WWTDD my advice is to ditch everything but the shoes and just get a stylist! And a hairdresser. And maybe some tips on posing on a red carpet...

BTW, I the skirt in itself. But it is the sort of garment that only looks good on more edgy fashion types and requires very different styling.

she has paired the top with a towell wrapped around her waist, right?
on second thought, it's an 80's one-piece swimsuit with a towell wrapped around her waist, RIGHT?

she should also remove one of those bracelets because they look exactly the same. she should also stop having such an annoying face.The accessories don't wow me now, particularly the handcuffs, but I can't give them proper appreciation over the very loud NO issuing from the gumwad skirt.

Sarong

she should also remove one of those bracelets because they look exactly the same. she should also stop having such an annoying face.The accessories don't wow me now, particularly the handcuffs, but I can't give them proper appreciation over the very loud NO issuing from the gumwad skirt.

Sarong

If the top were stretched into a dress and ironed, I think it would look much, much better.

I am totally biased--I just saw the "Entourage" episode she was on last night and I think I have a bit of a girlcrush on Malin.

Dumb DUMB outfit but she does remind me of Sharon Newman with a bit more sparkle or something. I am kind of looking forward to the movie...

it's about as wrong as a banana in a fish taco

I think she looks like an Easter egg on LSD that got stuck in a juicer.