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Extra props if they featured a tulle overlay

2008: Marion Cotillard for "La Vie en Rose" Marion Cotillard looked like an art deco mermaid in the unbelievable Jean Paul Gaultier gown she wore to the 2008 Oscars

In the versatile colour of black, it is so easily to style this dress with anything and everything in your wardrobe

Sometimes, it's just not worth it to buy a less-expensive salad dressing if you're just going to have to enhance it or, worse yet, throw it out in the end

I am not at all against changing vintage dress to make them work in a modern context, as long as its done sympathetically and the dress looks better for it