OlderMon, 04 May 2009 at 11:58 pm
Rachel Weisz - MET Costume Institute Gala 2009
Rachel Weisz tempers her confection of a dress with dark lipstick at the “Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion” Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Monday (May 4).
The 39-year-old British actress was outfitted by Vera Wang in a strapless, blush hand-painted tulle-draped gown.
“I feel like a punky princess,” Rachel said.
10+ pictures inside of Rachel Weisz at the 2009 MET Costume Institute Gala…
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Rachel proves that less is more while most of the others look like they came from a freak show.
Lovely dress, lovely woman.
Beautiful, just beautiful. Love everything she has ever done, a truly amazing actress.
She looks gorgeous. Hands down the best dressed of the night
@#1 Bell, Rachel DOES look like a freak show. The corpse makeup, and pale skin makes her look like she’s auditioning for an Addams Family movie remake.
The yellow in the bottom is a bit much but regardless, Rachel looks fantastic
She looks ghostly. Doesnt look like her at all. Dont like the color of the dress either.
Super Wow, she’s BEAUTIFUL
She looks pretty good
Of the entire ball, Rachel is the one who looks the best.
Rachel really knocks it out of the park fashion wise, with out a doubt, the best of the entire gala
I love what Rachel’s wearing, great get up. Its much better than most of the dresses that were worn tonight.
Perhaps, this party is not Halloween?? My Good are all that are looking,dress for Halloween party.
I like it, simply yet elegant. The lipstick is a bit much but she really pulls it off.
Now that’s sassy, best dressed of the night.
Where to begin? It looks like she stepped into a giant wad of cotton candy. But dress aside, the lipstick is bad, a pale peach wold have been better with her hair in an updo with lots of soft curls cascading down around her shoulders.
It’s the best dress i have seen tonight. As usual, Rachel nails it. Bravo.
The dress is ok but it has a been there, seen that before vibe to it. She is very beautiful, but the lipstick is too severe to be flattering.
She looks like a corpse! WTF?! was she thinking.
She looks great, i loved the whole look she has.
Her makeup is terrible, she’s so gorgeous what was she thinking!
Great dress and a beautiful woman. I agree with everyone, Rachel’s the Best dress of the night.
Thank God for Rachel, she saved the night. She looks fantastic.
Classy goth all the way. Rachel looks brilliant and oh so beautiful.
Just adore her, great actress and a amazingly beautiful woman as well. I dig the dress she’s wearing and have to hand it to her for making the night for me. If it was not for her, the whole night would have been a huge miss.
Rachel looks gorgeous.
Love it, love it, love it. Rachel truly redeems the evening.
Rachel just kicks butt with that dress. Its not only original but has flair and style, something sadly missing from most of the other celebrities who attended tonight.
i love the dress, minus the yellow organza underlayer…and i love rachel…hair looks like it’s gonna flop down in the heat, and she’s doing the lip plum berry tint…i think she wins for the night then. i’m not a fan of the make up but the dress is stellar. congrats to vera waaaanngg!
i think she’s wins hands down in the elegant department and yes, Rachel is the best dress of the night.
Jesus Christ, what a ghoul.
Rachel looks amazing. She saves the night with probably the simplest of accessories. Hats off to her, she saved this event.
Love the dress and everything in between. Rachel is the belle of the ball.
Much respect for Rachel Weisz and Vera Wang. They proved that at least someone has some taste. Congagulations to the both of them for bringing class to an otherwise classless Costume Institute Gala.
The whole Gala was a trainwreck but Rachel Weisz and a few others save it from falling off the cliff. Rachel looks spectacular.
Rachel looks so beautiful and her dress really takes my breath away. She really steals the night and saves it as well from becoming a celebrity fashion disaster.
With out a doubt, Rachel is the best dressed of the night
@Preachy:
I agree, Rachel brought class to an event that was did not deserve it. She brought down the house and puts the other tacky celebrities to shame.
Now that’s how a real woman should look. Rachel should be commended for her brillance.
She used to be so pretty, shame she’s getting old. The colors on her face are too harsh for her and the color of the dress is too young for her.
Rachel looks stunning, what a beautiful woman. She’s the highlight of the entire night.
She’s so beautiful, years ago I was in New Orleans visiting family and she was shooting a movie there with Dustin Hoffman and we all gathered around to watch them shooting a scene and afterwards, she came over to sign autographs. She’s pretty nice and Dustin was very nice as well. As for tonight, she proves once again to be a fashion force to be reckoned with.
Very classy yet edgy as well. Rachel looks beautiful and she takes the award for best dress of the night with ease.
I do not like this dress at all, personally, but that’s a matter of taste. The color is wrong for Rachel; it completely washes her out by almost blending in with her skin tone. A better choice, in my opinion, would have been seafoam green or midnight blue, with the under skirt and lining in a silver-gray or metallic silver color.
I just don’t like the color palette and combination of this gown. It’s very tricky to wear. A woman with dark skin color (i.e. African American or East Indian) could have pulled this off successfully. A pale skinned caucasian woman cannot.
I may be in the minority with my opinion, but that’s okay. Seafoam green or midnight blue would have been better choices for this evening gown in terms of a flattering color on Rachel. Just my opinion.
I do respect Vera Wang as a designer. As with Dolce & Gabbana, her name will forever be bigger than mine, and I doubt I’ll have her bank account anytime in the near future. However, as a costumer who has studied fashion design at FIDM and holds an AA degree in it, I do reserve the right to have my own opinions.
Fabric_Princess
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAuCs1sCa_4
wow that make up
and the pale ness
Rachel looks great, not only the best dressed of the entire night but the most classy as well.
Elegant, sophisticated and soulful. Rachel delivers the goods and single handedly redeems an otherwise sucky night in fashion.
A+ all the way.
God, could the same person stop posting this b*tch compliments?
i love it, Rachel just makes this dress look magnificent. My gratitude goes to Rachel Weisz and Vera Wang for showing the world how you should dress for something like this.
While it’s not the best dress Rachel has had on at a event, it’s the best dress worn tonight by anybody.
the **** is that?
I Love it, the perfect balance between innocence and Victorian Gothic. A great combination and Rachel pulls it off.
agreed, she looks like a haggard witch!
Could do with out the dark lipstick but outside of that, Rachel looks fine.
maybe in person the dress looked good, but in these pics teh color does nothing for her, let alone the lipstick.
Rachel looks great. Ten times better than most at this party.
With every horrible thing i have seen tonight, Rachel is the best dressed.
She looks like a hard rock Cinderella. Gorgeous from head to toe.
This is refreshing, a pretty dress with a beautiful woman in it. Yes, Rachel looks very beautiful in it and owns the entire evening. A far cry from the monstrosity of what Madonna was wearing earlier.
i love rachel and i think she’s beautiful. but i really dont like what she’s wearing here. i think the dress looks great on her white skin but the hair and lipstick and accessories dont look that great. still beautiful though!
Its the best dress of the night hands down and Rachel really works Im. not happy with the yellow undresses but it still looks good on her.
Rachel looks great, the black lipstick has some charm and the whole outfit really sets her apart from the pack.
Rachel rules, she’s definitely the best dressed of the whole bunch of stars who came out last night..
Hands down and with out a doubt, the best dressed of the whole Met’s Gala Ball. Rachel is simply stunning in her Vera Wang dress that mixes style and bravado all at once. I wish most of the people who were there with her were as good as she was,which unfortunately was not the case at all.
Rachel looks absolutely stunning. that dress is gorgeous!
Last night’s Costume Institute Gala was pretty dismal in the fashion department but Rachel Weisz did managed to dress like a real star. She’s the only winner that came out of last night.
Calling Rachel beautiful does not do her justice and her dress is just as beautiful.
OMG!!What’s happening to her??She looked terrible on her lipstick!
Rachel looks fab. best dresssed for sure.
Love her whole look, Rachel does wonders with it and just looks beautiful.
She looks absolute great. Love the lipstick and the goth style and its the only good thing i have seen thought out the entire night at this party.
yikes……that lipstick color is so outdated and also is not the right color for her. Looks like she used blood instead of lipstick.
I agree wit the majority here, Rachel is the best dressed here.
Rachel looks smoking hot, one of the few people at this gala that looks good.
who did her makeup it is horrible!
I just love her look. She looks fabulous. Love her dress and make up as well.
I LOVE her dress. She looks like a confection! Only thing that spoils ‘the look’ for me is that garish red lipstick. Doesn’t go. But really, such a beautiful woman.
Rachel works everything well enough for it to be bold and fashionable. I love the whole get up from top to bottom, lipstick to dress.
I like her dress a lot. Its a cut above most of what i saw that were at this gala ball last night. She ’s the most colorful and sophisticated of the night.
Rachel looks fierce, love it.
Rachel looks ravishing and the dress is great.
Hmm, I’m not a fan of any of this to be honest. I preferred Heidi Klum, Rihanna, Leighton Meester, Jessica Biel. Though it’s not quite a flop on par with jessica alba, Madonna or Blake Lively.
I really don’t get the Rachel Weisz fanclub either - I’m guessing it’s kind of the appeal that Jennifer Connelly has? Except that I much prefer Jennifer Connelly.
I think the dress is very elegant and Rachel just pulls it off masterfully. Bar none, its the best dress Ive seen for last night.
A marvellous actress, talented, beautiful, and more very clever !!!
yup. after seeing this again today i say she makes best dressed. the dress is fabulous even if the colour is really light. i don’t like pink but i think pale colour was in. i love the whole thing and the look, (the strong makeup (don’t really like the lip berry tint but it is in season) totally balances the yellow organza (that i don’t like) at the bottom. it grounds the outfit. i think like rihanna and lake bell and some others tonight oh the valentino cutour dress on schiffer, and rachel in wang did a good job last night.
@lise: I don’t think what you care about is really relevant at all in fact. Sounds like a personal problem to me.
I think Rachel pulled the whole thing off perfectly, she looks seriously cool. Love her as an actress as well, she’s one of the best.
nice concept, decent execution
Rachel Weisz looks beautiful, the dress is killer and i love everything about it. She’s a great fashion maven and a incredible actress.
she’s beautiful, but maybe the lipstick …
@Stan:
What I care about is as relevant as what everyone else cares about. I haven’t strayed any more from the topic at hand than any of the other posters (comparing her dress to the other dresses of the evening, and comparing her professional qualities to those of her contemporaries), I just carry a different opinion than most it seems.
To decide that I have a personal problem for sharing nothing but a difference of opinion on the same topics at hand is the only inappropriate remark. Stan ftl
Nude Lip!!!!! Less is more people.
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