Stylists stupidly mess with perfection at Oscars

Thanks to the boys at Project Rungay, we truly got to see some dumbass decisions that were made at the Oscars this year when it came to altering the runway versions of gowns. Marion Cotillard's Dior dress looked bleh to me (especially compared to the perfection that she wore last year), and then I saw the runway version:

What was kind of a wierd, tulle mess becomes instant avant-guard action. Why couldn't they have just left it in the original, awesome form? This a great example of ruining a great dress by trying to play it safe.
No this Marchesa is way too Pretty, I need to add a horrible mermail tail to it so that I can make it like EVERYONE else's dress. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Again, I think Reese's camp wanted this Rodarte to be more mainstream looking (and wanted to cover up her boobies) so they decided to add some sequins? It looks dumb. Everyone could tell she was wearing some nude-bra-weird-thing, so you might as well have kept it the way it was so that the nude-bra-weird-thing was part of the design. Plus the colors on the original version are way more watercolor fun -- Reese's dress just looks dreary. And as I mentioned before, her hair looked like shit.

This modification was the ultimate F-you to Marchesa. (And BTW, why was Vanessa Hudgens and Miley Cyrus even there? Charlize, Cate, and Uma sit at home and this is what you fill the seats with?) They take a gorgeous dramatic cocktail dress and instead of just modifying it by simply making it longer, they put on yet another horrific fishtail. Ridiculous. And to make matters worse they mess with the gorgeous flowers and again do the "we want to make it safe" alterations and what you get is a fugly dress. Of all of them this is the one that makes me the most angry.

All images via Project Rungay.