Maria Shriver Channels Madonna In Black Lace And Crucifix: Love It Or Lose It? (PHOTOS, POLL)

California's First Lady Maria Shriver attended the Glamour Magazine 2009 Women of the Year Awards on Monday night wearing a Madonna-inspired look: a sleeveless dress with black lace overlay, and a sizable crucifix.

See photos of pregnant Padma Lakshmi's sheer belly-hugging sheath or Rihanna's mermaid dress, both at the same event.

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Comments

[Teri]

she is CATHOLIC. she has recently had not one but two deaths in her family and she is wearing black. there is nothing wrong with what she is wearing. she looks beautiful, elegant and dignified.

[katieandtom]

i agree.

[Truby]

You can channel the living?

[Retrofuturistic]

It's in very poor taste to wear a big honking cross, to smear your religion in other people's faces. It's an indication of the wearer's self-perceived righteousness.

[mmonarch]

Madonna wore big honking crosses all of the time. Now, perhaps she was smearing religion in general by doing something kind of blasphemous like being half naked and then wearing a cross with it. Your thinking on this one is flawed.

[Retrofuturistic]

Wearing a cross is no different from wearing a burka or a head covering. In both cases, you are sucking up to religious people, it's a form of offensive proselytizing, and you are declaring that you consider yourself holier than other people.

[Bluebell1]

She looks great. It's not like the goth look exploded all over her like Madonna. Maria takes fashion chances and they work on her.

[corsair1917]

What does this have to do with Madonna??? it is a lace dress and she is devout Catholic who wears crosses or rosaries a lot. Please. Pathetic comparison.

I think she looks nice.

[PRINCECHARMED]

scary !!!

[NOLA2]

Maria looks terrific...you go, girl!

[BikeFreak]

That may have worked...27 years ago!

[Marina56]

Oh, for crying out loud - Madonnna didn't invent, nor does she own, the large crucifix "look." If you look at portraits of upper class women from the 15th century on, you'll see it regularly.

[rbryanh]

She looks like she bites the heads off her mates.

[tangelan]

Beautiful dress. I think she looks great.

[gsteinum]

and that is to claim that madonna has a lock on black lace - noone else is allowed to wear it. ridiculous.

[StylesBitchly]

That close-up was uncalled for.

[katieandtom]

i think maria shriver is gorgeous. she is fit, healthy and has had a huge loss this past year with the death of her mother. give her a break.

from a repub.

[johnnygoodwud]

maria no offense, but if you put your hand over her hair in the pic. she looks kind of masculine to me.

[katieandtom]

its that square kennedy jawline. i like it.