This bolero. The second-most-famous pop-culture use “bolero” behind, obviously, Bolero. Jennifer Hudson, plucked from an early American Idol exit and cast in Dreamgirls, was a relative newbie to all this and somewhere along the line her team agreed to let Andre Leon Talley — backed by Vogue — take her under his wing for the Oscars. He pushed hard on this brown Oscar de la Renta and gold jacket; Hudson allegedly didn’t like it, and so her stylist Jessica Paster wisely commissioned a custom Cavalli instead. A squabble ensued, and Hudson ended up wearing this on the red carpet — but changing into the Cavalli the SECOND that Oscar was in her hand. I thought we could take a look at the dress and see if it’s as bad as we remember, and whether we, too, would have discarded it like a wedding ring that has been tainted with poison. (RIP, Passions.)
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