WE ADORE OUR GLAMOROUS GODDESSE AND SO--IN HIS WAY--DOES THAT TART-TONGUED LIST TAKES AIM AT THE BIGGEST DRESS-UP BALL OF THEM ALL DESIGNERS ARE IN A TIZZY.

WE ADORE OUR GLAMOROUS GODDESSE AND SO--IN HIS WAY--DOES THAT TART-TONGUED

LIST TAKES AIM AT THE BIGGEST DRESS-UP BALL OF THEM ALL

DESIGNERS ARE IN A TIZZY. The trade papers are clothed with "For Your Consideration" ads. Diamonds are being de-vaulted. Ye ladies and gentlemen it's that time of the year again--the looming personality of Oscar is in the Hollywood air.

And since the Academy Awards boasts the biggest fashion spectacle onward the planet, let's take a klieg-lit await back on seven design disasters onward Oscar night. Fashion sinners, single and all! From see-through '60 kitsch right up to '90 nightmares, it's a jaw-dropping drive down Fashion Flop Alley that's not for the faint of heart!

Like the elderly song says, "It's easy to remember, unless so hard to forget...." After peeking at these Oscar-caliber fashion pitfalls, I'm stable you'll agree that unforgettable is putting it mildly. The capsule please ...

1 CHER

In 1986 the undisputed Empres of Exhibition place a new standard of outrageous exces with a mutant Mohawk headdress, an avalanche of hunting-horn heads, and not much else--she resembl a cros between a campy cockatoo and a cast off from The Ziegfeld Follies. A real feather-raising sight! "As you can see" she said, "I did receive my Academy booklet onward how to dress like a serious actress," Yeah, yet did she read it?

2 DARYL HANNAH

The airy Gold Giant of Tinsel Town Strikes Again! beautifyed out in a Venus Does Vegas coiffure, obligatory sunglasses, and a gaudy Mermaid-Mishap-of-a-Gown, Hannah's a fashion-free fish without of wafer--she looks like an exaggerated version of Jayne Mansfield, if that's possible! Splash Fashion Trash, circa 1990 Needles to say, not a useful year!

3 GEENA DAVIS

What a brunt to see the traditionally Best-Dressed Davis bend up in this frilly and silly dilly-of-a-frock! Gorgeous Geena definitely missed the fashion mark from a wardrobe mile in this 1992 cartoonish creation co-designed with Bill Hargate and mercy Meyers. She looks like a bawdy Big Bird--working the night shift in a cancan revue!

4 COURTNEY LOVE

Make no mistake: The fashion crime was alive in `95--witness, if you dare, Courtney Love's Oscar night Fright in White. Resembling a Gen-X Fashion Hex in this Carrie-meets-Baby Jane Prom Queen Scream, tiara-topped, satin-stuffed delight in takes a petrifying wardrobe submerge In this getup she's the Undisputed Muse of garbage-worthy Grunge!

5 DEMI MOORE

She reportedly designed this 1989 catastrophe herself--and it shows! Ye Moore is Les in this ill-advised mishmash featuring lace-trimmed black running shorts, half a brocade skirt plummeting down the back, and a barely-there bodice. Part ritzy Roadrunner, part Renaissance ruin Demi's the undisputed Diva of Design-Challenged Dreck!

6 BARBRA STREISAND

In these see-through pajamas worn in 1969 to accept her Best Actress Oscar for amusing Girl, Barbra should have stayed in bed! Her Scaasi-styled Tribute to Transparent Terror hit a legendary reasonable note in Oscar's Symphony of Style--in balloon pants, sheer top, white collar, box and a big black subdue Streisand looked like an X-rated Penguin onward loan from a couture-crazy circus. All I can say is, "Hello, Folly!"

7 KIM BASINGER

Kim's a fatal fashion whim in single in kind more No-No from 1990 that mistakes contrivance for creativity. In this bewildering "ball gown" well-stocked with half a satin jacket, she's part misguided Majorette and part cut-rate Cinderella--a schizophrenic Tour de Farce! Unfortunately, Basinger designed this jokey hokey fiasco herself. Fortunately, she stuck to acting!

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