Why why why? You can have any dress in the world, and you chose this?

Four outfits from the Met Ball that perplex me...  I understand it's meant to be theatrical and an evening when fashion splashes out, but still...  

First, why is Blake Lively 'all that?'  I've never seen the show and her choices are very hit and miss.  This is a costume - mermaid comes adrift, wraps herself in a sail, tries to find the prince, and realizes she has no voice...  yawn...

Second, why would Beyonce reveal weird top cleavage and then choose a pattern that draws all eyes to her crotch, culminating in a poufy mermaid tale?  This makes no sense.  She's the villain in Blake Lively's movie, above...

'Stellaaaah!'  This is not flattering.  At all.  It makes you look short and awkward and lumpy.  Why would you do this to yourself? 

Ginnifer.  The hair is cute.  The shoes are weird.  And this green dress makes you look fat - bizarrely - because, clearly, you're not.  It's not daring.  It's just weird. 

Oh, and Andre Leon Talley showed up in another massive colored parachute caftan - this time it was blue. That's really all you need to know...