CB put me on high alert about an hour ago that Angelina Jolie was at the Berlin premiere of Salt, and that she was wearing, in CB’s words, “a black tube sack”. We’ve both studied the photos, and I can say with pleasure that La Jolie is not, in fact, wearing yet another black strapless “tube sack”. It’s a black halter sack, and it is not all that great. It reminds me a lot of the white Marc Bouwer Angelina wore to the Oscars in 2004 (I know, I know – I have an encyclopedic memory for crap like this) – only the Bouwer dress was cut on a bias around the hips, so it gave what was, in fact, a “sack dress” an illusion of structure. This dress has no such illusion. It’s just a shiny sack.

I can’t even start with La Jolie. She wore a nice jewel tone and everything just a few hours ago! She hasn’t worn black at all for her European tour, and now she’s fallen back into her comfort zone. As others have pointed out, and I agree, Angelina is not now and never was some kind of fashionista. Her red carpet looks have always been… let’s just call them “hit or miss”. I much prefer her style when she’s doing UNCHR stuff in NYC or Washington – nice suits, great coats and sweaters and pencil skirts. She should bring some of that to the red carpet, in my opinion. It’s not against the law to wear separates on the red carpet. Because La Jolie is in a major “evening/cocktail” rut.

And the stringy hair – don’t even get me started. Although, just to defend: CB says it was pouring in Berlin a few hours ago, so maybe she got caught in the rain?

By the way, what’s that one dude doing? He looks like he’s contemplating tying Angie to some train tracks.

Angelina Jolie in Berlin on August 18, 2010. Credit: WENN.