Karen O's characteristic kook

Our panelists on the latest and greatest celebrity looks

Singer Karen O performs at T in the Park festival

Zoe Rocha, producer and writer
Hurrah! Thank the Fashion Gods for the bonkers Queen of Cool that is Karen O, the perfect antidote to the West London Middleton-esque brigade set. The spangly glove, the metallic pope hat, the colossal shades and a scarlet fringed jacket is just an onslaught of colour and Mad Hatter craziness that should make my eyes bleed but yet just oozes eccentric hipness. Doesn't it just makes you want to pack up your bags and run away to join the circus, or at least make it your mission to become Karen's best friend? Just imagine the wardrobe you could raid. I've got first dibs on that hat though...

Laura Silver, staff writer at Never Underdressed
I’d like to say more people should take inspiration from the colour-and-country explosion that is Dolly Parton’s style, but if you’re not as next level fabulous as the woman whose hair is as big as her voice, you might have trouble pulling it off. Luckily for Karen O, she’s got enough amazingness up her sleeve to justify wearing ones covered in a curtain of glitter fringing – and with a holographic pope hat no less! When Karen’s strutting round the stage belting out the latest Yeah Yeah Yeahs hits I’d want to see her dressed as nothing less than a Liberace cowgirl. Maybe not safe for the real world, but then who cares about safe style anyway?

Peter Jensen, designer
Well, I suppose she is a performer, so if that is the point of view in the dress code for what she is wearing, it sort of works. It is not my cup of tea and I think she has looked better in the past. I like the one glove, kind of modern Michael Jackson – and the Boney M hat works (but it could be bigger). Overall I'm not keen, It looks dated too me. Sorry!

(left to right: Zoe Rocha; Laura Silver; Peter Jensen)

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