Britney tops 'worst-dressed' list

Singer Britney Spears headed Mr Blackwell’s 46th annual “Worst Dressed” list for wearing clothes that he said made her look like an “over-the-hill Lolita”.

The pop star beat bohemian teen tycoon Mary-Kate Olsen.

Blackwell called Olsen’s clothes “bag lady rags” and “depressingly decayed”.

Other offenders on Blackwell’s list of fashion flops included Eva Langoria, Jessica Simpson, Mariah Carey, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Renee Zellweger.

Blackwell, US fashion critic and former designer, said Hilton “still looks like yesterday’s cheesecake ... with a side of kitsch”.

Lohan is “drowning in grown-up groaners”, he said, while Zellweger looks like “a painted pumpkin on a pogo stick”.

He called singer Simpson “a cut-rate Rapunzel – slingin’ hash in a Vegas diner”.

“2005 turned out to be a particularly bad year for couture chaos, wardrobe wrecks and stylistic sleaze,” Blackwell said.