Fug or Fab: Keira Knightley

Often, my perceptions of Keira Knightley are colored somewhat by how cross or sullen she seems on the red carpet, as if someone once told her that she looks like a drunk clown when she smiles (which she doesn't, but you know, maybe some jackhole said that just to mess with her) and she's since sworn never to look like she's enjoying herself in public.

So, I couldn't tell if my initial negative reaction to this outfit was on its own merits, or because I just wanted her to look less medicated.

I will say that, though maybe I'm just inured to her physique by now, she appears merely naturally thin and no longer as perilously bony as she did at some of the Pirates premieres. And the idea of the bodice is interesting. But it's also incredibly distracting and not tremendously flattering to her boobs -- it's as if that little connective tissue in the middle there is giving the illusion of shoving them apart.

Overall, though, I was prepared to call it an interesting and bold experiment and go along my merry way, until I noticed that stuff snaking over her right shoulder. Fortunately, a responsible photographer asked her to turn around. No cats were killed in the sating of my curiosity, but I can't say the same for my goodwill toward the dress:

Given that she's one of the approximately three British actors never to appear in a Harry Potter film, Keira seems to be getting in on the fun however she can -- in this case, wearing a sartorial ode to Devil's Snare, the plant that reaches out and tries to trap you in its slimy tentacles. So unless she's doing a Beatles-themed ballet for children about an octopus's garden, or somesuch, I'm not sure I need to see this dress ever again in public. What do you think?

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