Our panelists on the latest and greatest celebrity looks

Carrie Tyler, editor of Never Underdressed
Don’t like it. She being Rooney Mara, it being Balenciaga, I tried to like this ensemble but I can’t. The cape part and peaking décolletage is great but it gets too complicated below that. It was going for strict lines and purity, then came the fancy skirt bit, then an added layer of complication wrapped on top. If she lived that night purely in cropped-from-the-waist form, I’d be raving about it.

Karen Dacre, fashion editor at the Evening Standard
I’m on board with 50 % of this look. The crisp white ‘capelet’ (made up fashion word for shoulder covering thingy) is both elegant and edgy while the sharp bustier underlay lends Mara’s look a grown-up, architectural sort of appeal. The trouble lies with the lower half of this Balenciaga gown: sheer and alarming uneven, the effect is more Christmas party frock than luxury brand. The shoes are nice though…

Harriet Walker, news editor at Never Underdressed
The component parts of this outfit tick all the boxes: sheer layering, a sculptural rounded shoulder, appliqué florals, white... It's spring 2014 summed up. Trouble is, wearing all the trends all the time is a bit like binging on Hooch and never being able to drink the stuff again. Instead of wearing everything at once, why not eke out the trends one by one throughout the season? I appreciate the rush to be 'next season now' as celebs vie to be the first to wear almost everything, but it pays to slow down a bit. This look would have been so much improved, in terms of both chic and sci-fi cool, if the under-layer had been plain. And perhaps a little longer. That said, it isn't like Rooney could ever look anything less than wonderful. So it's a minor quibble of mine.