The Best Gowns: Collage of some of my favorite gowns from the Miss Universe 2015 Evening Gown Portraits
Photos courtesy of MissUniverse.com
The Finals of the Miss Universe 2015 beauty pageant are not until this upcoming Sunday December 20th in Las Vegas Nevada, but this past weekend, the "Official Evening Gown Portraits" were released on the MissUniverse.com site. Any pageant fan--and pageant gown aficionado (and critic)--yours truly included--always looks forward to the Miss Universe Evening Gown Portraits. It's a chance to see the taste level of the contestants and see the variety of gowns--some Good and some "Oh Dear!".
Miss Argentina Claudia Barrionuevo: I thought this was a wonderful choice of a gown for Claudia. The style is very Zuhair Murad/Elie Saab but it obviously isn't (those go for $80,000-$100,000 and to borrow them, you'd have to really be in the "In" crowd with their PR departments!). I love the style, color and red carpet grandness of it . I also think it was style-smart of her to keep her accessories at a minimum; very modern, especially with such a big gown.