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Fashion Faceoff: Marchesa Dress

Fashion Faceoff: Marchesa Dress

Dita Von Teese wore a gorgeous Marchesa ebony silk tulle ball dress with gold hand-embroidered lead appliqué to the Seventh on Sale dinner gala in NYC earlier this month. The burlesque queen made her outfit pop with dark red lipstick.

Penelope Cruz wore the same Marchesa gown in the December 2007 pages of Vogue. The Spanish actress went a little more au naturale makeup-wise.

Who wore it best — DITA VON TEESE or PENELOPE CRUZ?

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155 Comments

# 1

It’s a tie. Beautiful.

# 3
love dita @ 11/23/2007 at 7:17 pm

Dita of course her skin is flawless, Penelope is ugly.

# 4

fourth! penelope!!

# 5

Dita. Jared you gonna do a fashion faceoff for Cate Blanchett and Penelope Cruz? The black and green dress? Seeing as you like Blanchett. :)

# 6
montana mike @ 11/23/2007 at 7:30 pm

man, how could you choose between these two beautiful ladies-
i’ll choose—–uhhh

# 7

Penelope Cruz

# 9

penelope gorgeous. color suits her

Clementines @ 11/23/2007 at 7:37 pm

Tie.. they both are gorgeous.

Penelope totally wins! You guys should have chosen a better picture of her though!

penelope of course

DITA because Penelope wear it during a photoshoot.
Dita has to do her make-up, and her hair all by herself.

Penelope. There’s a wildness to the dress and Penelope is more exotic and natural.

Stunning on both. Silver embroidery would look lovelier on Dita and the gold suits Penelope beautifully.

Christine @ 11/23/2007 at 8:04 pm

i think they both look gorgeous but i prefer it on Dita

definitely penelope! how is this even a question??

Team Dita @ 11/23/2007 at 8:12 pm

Dita! Both ladies look great, but Dita looks astonishing!

Definitely Penelope, the golden leaves go way better with her skin tone than with Vampira’s

their both rough looking,pee wins over pale,and needin a blood transfusion fritos.

Raquel (rachel) @ 11/23/2007 at 8:16 pm

penelope of courseeeee

Dita all the way. She looks like an old-time Hollywood movie star whereas Penelope’s hair and makeup are way too understated for such a glamourous dress.

get a tan @ 11/23/2007 at 8:22 pm

Ditta has no color.
P. has real breasts.So ummmmm P.

This dress would make any woman look beautiful, but Ms. Von Teese looks like a goddess here, so I’m going with Dita!

Dita! She looks so beautiful!

AKBdancer @ 11/23/2007 at 8:25 pm

P looks great but i’m going with Dita!

26 Greta : 11/23/2007 at 8:20 pm She looks like an old-time Hollywood movie star.
“”"”"”"”"”"”"”
This isn’t the ‘old time’. Dita needs to wake up,she looks 50 now, will she be stripping at 60? Her line of work is offensive to intelligent women.
Pene works it 100% better than white chalk does.

^I totally agree. Dita hits it out of the ball park.

i want more postings on zac and vanessa!!!

DITA! She looks like a young Vivien Leigh!

33 gidget : 11/23/2007 at 8:26 pm

Ok, you need glasses if you think Dita looks 50.

Love her vintage Hollywood style!

I love Marchesa. Hard choice but I’m going with Dita too.

Penelopeeeeeeeeeee.
Please don’t ‘INSULT VIVIAN’,she was very pretty.
Dita couldnt shine her shoes. :smile:

penelope of course

Ms. Parker @ 11/23/2007 at 9:17 pm

^It’s ViviEn. I think they’re both beautiful. It’s a nice homage; I could see Ms.Leigh wearing this dress.

Both look gorgeous but I have to go with Pene. And to the poster who said Dita has to do her hair and make up all by herself-I highly doubt that. No way a person could always looked that groomed without the help of professionals. Majority of celebs have a team to help them look good when they go out to events…thats why they always look so polished!

DITAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

Dita wore it best.She really is beautiful.

@Jackie get a life u obssesive freak!

no1 is interested in them in this post!

ditaisperfect @ 11/23/2007 at 9:34 pm

Dita is perfect!!!!

Penelope for sure!!!

yes I agree…more zanessa pleazz..especially zac but anything about them. they are such sweethearts. and as I said before, Penelope looks better. first, personnaly, I don’t like the WHITE skin of dita von teese…but yeah the dress is beautiful anyways…xxxxx

Lillianne @ 11/23/2007 at 9:58 pm

This dress is awesome and both beautiful women wear it well. I would love love love to have a dress like that…and someplace to wear it.

They are equally beuatiful.

Dita all the way.

Ummmmmmmmmmm…I never thought Penelope was pretty. She has ducklips so Dita I choose you!

Both are gorgeous, but I think Dita wore it best.

penelope wins this round.

and there is no way that Dita does her own makeup and hair. she has a team a people who help her look the way she does, as do almost all other celebs.

39 amber : 11/23/2007 at 8:48 pm
Penelopeeeeeeeeeee.
Please don’t ‘INSULT VIVIAN’,she was very pretty.
Dita couldnt shine her shoes.
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41 Ms. Parker : 11/23/2007 at 9:17 pm
^It’s ViviEn. I think they’re both beautiful. It’s a nice homage; I could see Ms.Leigh wearing this dress.

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ITA.,whether it’s ‘Vivian or Vivien’..don’t compare this Dita woman to the wonderful actress. Dita,I google her ,didn’t know her from Adam, is a glammed up burlesque dancer. A stripper basically.
I heard her say it on you tube. Not admirable.

Pene C., dita’s to plain.

I’m so tired of Dita and her recycled image. And why is she famous? For being a stripper!

PENELOPE!!!

she has an amazing natural warmth and aura about her… even with NO MAKE UP! (I’ve seen PC’s pics with no make up)

dita’s cute but she’s always with TONS and TONS of make-up.

(even if there’s a tie, the one with the real talent looks much more prettier to me– always)

Mexican Baby Luv @ 11/24/2007 at 12:05 am

i think dita her skin is lighter and the dress really PoPS! with penelope it looks pretty but it doesnt look as good as it does on dita

Penélope Cruz. No question.

Zanessssssssssssssssssssssaa!

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Im Dieing Over Here!
Baha

nobody can beat Dita

Amber/Nope, we will compare Dita, Penelope, or anyone else for the matter to whoever the hell we want to.

Agreed. She does look like Vivien Leigh in that pic.

umm…..i’m not sure, they both look stunningly gorgeous in that dress!

2 beautiful women and 1 amazing dress….how could you choose?

I believe Dita is wore the dress flawless. Penelope is Pretty but the dress doesn’t suit her as much as Dita.

Both are lovely but my vote goes to Dita. She looks flawless.

SEBASTIAN @ 11/24/2007 at 3:13 am

Tie…I MEAN,NOT MANY WOMEN OUT THERE COULD WEAR THIS TYPE OF DRESS.

matches penelope better but they’re both beautiful women.

The elegant DITA of course, Penelope cruz looks weird.

It is important to take into consideration that the comparison is not really fair for Dita being that Penelope is actually posing for a photoshoot. The lighting is aimed to flatter Penelope and the dress, while Dita just posed for a regular camera. Although Dita is quite beautiful, Penelope definitely rocks that dress! Her look is much more natural, sensual and exotic. While Dita looks like a mannequin (which I mean as a compliment), Penelope looks like a living work of art.

haaaa haaaaa what a joke, the stunning Dita Von Teese of course, and for sure and she said in a interview that she does her own make up and haircut yep.
She surely know how to look glam.

So hard to decide. Probably a tie because Dita Von Teese brings something totally exquisite to the gown whereas Penelope Cruz has the wonderful backdrop to compliment the gown and her look.

She looks like an old-time Hollywood movie star

I hate it when people say that. It’s called the Golden Age, not ‘old-time Hollywood movie star’.

gossip girl @ 11/24/2007 at 6:48 am

Dita she’s so gorgeous I just love her style.

I see no problem with the term old-time Hollywood. Plenty use it including the SF Gate.

I can’t decide. I think they both look great.

sweet pea @ 11/24/2007 at 7:27 am

dita. she is like a porcelain goddess.

Dita wears the dress in public. Penelope at the photoshooting. Two different representations.
I give the point to Dita, ’cause I don’t think, this dress suits Penelope also well in public.

its a tie, definitely! They both look good!

Penelope. The dress suits her style much better.

There’s no clear-cut winner here. They both look pretty.

P has real breasts but they are little, doesn’t matter wheter they’re fake or not as long as they are pretty.
P is wearing this inside a vogue magazine, thus all photoshoped, Dita’s pic is from an event, probaly not photoshoped and still a lot better.

84 aNYA
I just saw what you wrote, my point exactly.
but they both look great.

Penelope Cruz for sure!

Penelope cos the gold leaves match her skintone much better and she looks so much more exotic. Dita looks great too, but her looking old hollywood is down to her hair and make-up not the dress, which because it’s so dramatic and dark, together with her PALE skintone, make her look a a bit gothic and vampire-like.

Gorgeous dress on both but I just prefer Penelpe’s natural-yet smouldering look. Also the dress looks quite Spanish too.

they both look great. but Dita is made for this kind of dresses. stunning!

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NUNYA IS DELUSIONAL @ 11/24/2007 at 10:41 am

66 Nunya : 11/24/2007 at 1:37 am
Amber/Nope, we will compare Dita, Penelope, or anyone else for the matter to whoever the hell we want to.
Agreed. She does look like Vivien Leigh in that pic.
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STF NUNYA you brainless fat@ss twit.Dita is nada but a nasty hoe.

They are both very beautiful, but I think Dita looks better in that dress!

Dita Wins!!
Penelope looks like a 12 year old boy,, and has some fug problem with lips and nose area,, and the beady eyes bug me too,,,

Dita is beautiful!!

She really looks cute and sexy. I love her! Her profile was found on millionaire dating site Wealthy Romance .com last week. Is she single now? Just curious.

Penelope will win against anyone, with Dita it’s just no contest. Dita tries to look like Old Hollywood but she just can’t compete with the natural beauties from way back when: Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, etc Penelope is a natural beauty like them and Dita …well she was married to Marilyn Manson.

pee pee winnssssssssssssssss, dita is skankier.
their both fuggggggggggggg.

Dita looks better without the dress.
Ms Cruz looks better in the dress.

Ms. Cruz looks like she has on the real thing,
while Dita looks like she is wearing the imitation dress.

Both are wonderful.
Ms. Cruz is better. (IMO)

I think they both look nice but I think Penelope wears it better

Moviemadness @ 11/24/2007 at 12:14 pm

wow…is it the same people that keep posting b/c Dita looks freaking weird and there is no way she would be getting all of those votes. Pene looks ten times better

thanks dita @ 11/24/2007 at 12:35 pm

Dita over penelope, Dita is simply beautiful and Penelope looks like a stuffed turkey. So what Marylin Manson looks good for a dead vampire *ha*.

Penelope, *******!!!!!!!! I’m so over Dita…Pene is much more interesting and actually has a talent…what is Dita famous for? Oh, yeah taking her clothes off, ripping off fashion trends from 50 years ago and suddenly she’s a fashion genious and a failed marriage with a loser wannabe shock rocker. And also Penelope just plain wears it better…very dramatic picture, I love it.

Penelope, Dita looks really fake. . .

+++++ love @ 11/24/2007 at 1:13 pm

I love Dita she always looks stunning, and her show are just wonderful, Penelope is ugly I mean really ugly, she even date Tom “the dwarf” Cruise.
Cruz+Cruise= fug and fugglier.

Dita is a ho who takes her clothes off for a living. That’s her claim to fame,

Penelope is classically Spanish in her looks and her exotic face matched the exotic dress.

I’d say the Spaniard Penelope.

Dita is too white.

Dita’s face has more layers of makeup than layers under that dress.

Dita of coure it’s an easy one, nobody can beat Penelope even Miss Piggy wearing clothes from gap.

what what @ 11/24/2007 at 2:49 pm

Penelope is classically Spanish in her looks and her exotic face matched the exotic dress ???????? What does it mean?
I would say that Penelope is classically ugy. That dress and Spain deserve more than her.

No comparison. Penelope looks ok while Dita looks gorgeous and like a classic movie star.

Definitely Dita! Penelope is washed out in that photo.

# 98 You’re the one who’s delusional. Show some CLASS and stop attacking people for their opinions and calling women hos.

Vote: I’m deadlocked. I think the DRESS wins. :-)

Penelope wears it a lot better. She is a great actress too, and a cool person.

two women @ 11/24/2007 at 3:31 pm

2 beautiful women. can’t decide so the gown wins!

i go for DITA, tho i found her kinda creepy

PENELOPE IS PERFECT!!

Original shar @ 11/24/2007 at 3:47 pm

Their both beautiful woman, and both looking stunning in that dress, but Penelope owns it.

PENELOPE CRUZ

Who wore it best? I vote, PENELOPE CRUZ

Dita and Penelope look fantastic in her dress. but Dita look so elegant…

for all those weird comments, maybe we DO find Dita better looking than Pene, maybe some people think that Pene looks better.. It’s just a matter of opinion. I myself find Pen just ok, Dita Gorgeous and Manson a very ugly but inteligent guy. He’s been with gorgeous and interesting women, he must have something interesting there.
BTW Rose Mcgowen, also HOOOTTT!

DITA DITA AND DITA!!!! OF COURSE!!!

DITA DITA AND DITA!!!! OF COURSE!!!

DITA! OF COURSE!

DITA! OF COURSE!

haha, i agree with comment number 23

Totally Dita!

dita!!! she is amazing!she is unique!

Penelope…She is really sexy in this dress!

;)

Yep…me too agree with 23th commentary

hahaha

“Dita has to do her make-up, and her hair all by herself.” lol
Come on! And I still believe in Santa.. hahaha
Rich people do nothing by theirselves

i forgot one thing.. penelope is way better!!!

Beautiful Dita!

I love this dress–one of the most classic I have seen besides some wedding dresses.

Yeahh! of course PeNeLoPE!! =)

Miss Von Teese cause she looks like a princess. :-)

DITA VON TEESE because she’s a living doll.

laskjdflkj @ 11/26/2007 at 12:23 pm

penelope. i don’t get this pinup ****.

I pick DITA. Pene looks pretty but Dita is BREATHTAKING!

ditto to dita

Dita obviously!

BOTH ARE SO GORGEOUS! I

DITA wears the dress better cause it doesn’t overshadow her. She lets the dress complements her glamourous hair/makeup. The dress is too dramatic for Penelope - you focus more on the dress, less on Pene.

PENELOPE hands down. She’s gorgeous and the dress suit her.
Dita looks horrid and the dress is just tooo beautiful for her

I’m spanish but I prefer DITA. Penelope is very ugly! Have you seen her nouse?Lol. Moreover, Dita’s skin is perfect. Pretty. ***

Dita. Pale skin is the most beautiful skin. Penelope looks like she needs a good meal anyway.

hmmm…didn’t leighton meester wear this dress to blair’s prom on gossip girl as well?

dita von teese is so perfect i cant believe you’re even comparing her to penelope cruz. Not that shes ulgy but they’re not on the same level AT ALL

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