With the exception of Madonna and maybe Elizabeth Taylor (only because i can’t recall any of her clothes) I’d have to say I agree with Mr. Blackwell’s list of worst dressed! RIP Mr. Blackwell. With any luck you won’t be residing next to any of the people you “dressed down” for eternity…

Shame! Dolly and Sophia are untouchable. And Cher as well, who is surprisingly NOT on this list but that is a good thing…

And get off the Queen’s back………….

I always thought that “Mr.” Blackwell was less than a gentleman, and often wrong, plain wrong. Women like Sophia Loren and Dollie Parton, who have Venus-like bodies, are always going to wear clothes completely differently than the young people on this list (4, as I remember) and 3 of whose bodies look anorexic. The dress Mary Kate is wearing is quite nice; we are just “put-off” by her too thin body. I am sure his mean comments didn’t help a trying-to-recover anorexic. Victoria Beckham is just a fashionista, all body and trying to find a brain, it seems to me, in the few times I’ve seen her or read about her. Maybe she’ll mature. Most women are in the middle as far as body-type, and then “taste” is more apparent at a first-glance. Over the decades, I remember Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren as being quite well dressed. Madonna, in real life, seems to be quite sane, but her career wardrobe may have blinded Blackwell; it certainly went beyond the pale. Dollie Parton’s clothes were never what attracted me; her smile, glowing skin and sparkling eyes were SO alive, that I never paid attention to how hard it was to fit her. It was so hard to dress her; her body attracted attention, but she seemed to have decent taste and expressed it the best she could with the body she has. Camilla Parker-Bowles never showed any fashion sense, and many normal-size women feel the same way; she’s just practical and not particularly pleasing in any way, so she tends to downplay it all. Maybe that’s wise. On the other hand, dress and appearance were playing second best, as she must have some interesting vibes of her own to have nabbed a future king. For Queen Elizabeth, she demands so much respect. She could be wearing anything, doing nothing, living a worthless life of privilege. She’s never been that way! Instead, she mirrors the women of her country, in being simply dressed most of the time, and in as comfortable clothes as she can find for being in the limelight, decade after decade; it can’t be fun. She got a woman’s body after delivering a few of her 4 children, and didn’t do the slavish fad thing of “working out”. Instead, she accepted her mother-body, and didn’t let the oggling men like Blackwell, chart her course. She wears sensible shoes, walks and stands for long hours and continues on, at about age 84, with a workday that most people 1/4 her age couldn’t tolerate. Yet, she’s chipper and happy and positive about life. She makes a tremendous difference in raising people’s consciousness about the plight of others, and she is very compassionate. So, Blackwell, your life of negativity is “over”. I for one, won’t miss you, and many of the women you scorned, especially Elizabeth Regina, have done, and will do, more for the world than you could ever imagine.

Most of the time I agreed with him. There is such a difference between the words fashion, style and taste, and he usually nailed it. Of course, Dolly knows her taste isn’t always fashion, but she has her own style and laughingly says that it costs a lot of money to look like she does. I still think that Sophia Loren is always put together beautifully, and I hope I’m so lucky when I’m in my mid-70’s…

My late husband always said that her hands were the most beautifully groomed he ever saw. She was on Charlie Rose years ago, and he was talking more about the hands than the face. And, he was correct. I believe she is the epitome of understated elegance. Just enough jewelry, never too much. And, she still has that magnificent complexion…

you know… it occurred to me reading the posts that I have no idea WHO Mr. Blackwell was??? where did he come from and how exactly did he get famous being “thee” mr. blackwell? I bet that’s something Liz knows!!

Me to! Who would be on your list? I would include Chloe Sevigny, Mischa Barton, Paris Hilton… these are the young ones. Older ones I don’t have time to think about right now cuz i’m late for school!