Couture Fashion Week is supposed to be about elegance and grace—Giambattista Valli's cotton candy wonderland, Valentino's embroidery heaven, and so on and so on. But invite the wrong people, and you end up with egregious cleavage (we're looking at you, Kim Kardashian!) and see-through pants. Or, worse yet, you end up with Kristen Stewart.
Yes, we get it—Stewart has Karl Lagerfeld's heart under her little foot, with a bond beyond our human understanding. This, we assume, is why Stewart attended Chanel's dreamy show yesterday. But nothing can explain her tacky tank top, the return of shorts-or-pants, her ill-styled heavy necklace, and that emblem of tastelessness—the female truck driver haircut. K-Stew's gorgeous auburn locks—which carried us through the horror of her sneakers-clad Cannes appearances earlier this year—are now gone.
While Stewart manages to stun in recent previews of Chanel's fall/winter 2014 campaign, her real-life fashion continues to be inspired by fashion blogger Leandra Medine's "men repeller" style. According to Medine's bubbly website, the man reppeler is "she who outfits herself in a sartorially offensive mode that may result in repelling members of the opposite sex. Such garments include but are not limited to harem pants, boyfriend jeans, overalls, shoulder pads, full length jumpsuits, jewelry that resembles violent weaponry and clogs." Substitute Converse for clogs, and you pretty much have the full Stewart wardrobe of late. Oh, and if we may, "the opposite sex" is not the only sex offended.
And here's another thing—the media likes to portray Stewart as a "risk taker," but it's time to set the record straight: Deliberately going for strange, irrational combos and not caring how you look is NOT risky. Chloe Sevigny is a risk-taker. Lupita Nayong'o is a risk-taker. Stewart is just a talented actress who's oddly loved by the fashion world while displaying no love for fashion whatsoever. This doesn't make her a bad person, and hey, to each their own. But why does it make her a fashion-world darling?
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