Fashion Faceoff: Courtney Love vs. Gwyneth Paltrow

Last night, Coldplay and the Killers played a small charity concert in West London for 2000 adoring fans, including Chris Martin’s wife, Gwyneth Paltrow and new London denizen Courtney Love, to raise money for War Child, an organization that assists children of wartorn countries.

We were so proud of Courtney for about three seconds…and then we saw what was going on around her ankles.

Did she grab a ball of yarn and wrap it around her feet until she made something resembling shoes? Martha Stewart should whomp her ass for that DIY disaster.

We were willing to let the black ensem/brown purse thing slide, but add in her lavender shoes of doom which aren’t just ugly, they make her feet look as wide as tanks, and we can’t help but wonder, does she even own a mirror anymore?

Not that Gwyneth Paltrow was doing much better. Her mixture of high class (Chanel jacket) and low brow (ho-y liquid latex leggings) has us scratching our heads too. Wasn’t she once fashion’s muse?

So what’s worse?

Courtney, who we expect to be a trainwreck, pulling together only half of a decent outfit?

Or Gwyneth, who’s a red carpet princess, making a total style blunder?

—Sasha Perl-Raver