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    Oh dear Leighton! Gossip Girl's double style shocker

    Fashion crime alert - Leighton Meester scores not one, but two shocking style misses

    By Marie Claire
    Published 18 November 2009 In News

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    Fashion crime alert - Leighton Meester scores not one, but two shocking style misses

    Oh, how the style mighty have fallen! While for months we have been cooing over Leighton Meester's sartorial hit after hit, she undid all that good work last night with not one, but two fashion clangers.

    Prompting gasps across the MC desk, the starlet raided the Eighties dressing up box for an appearance at a New York store opening, and got it oh-so-wrong.

    Perhaps in an attempt to distance herself from her preened-and-proper Gossip Girl alter-ego, Meester chose printed leggings, a bandeau bra, open waistcoat and studded boots to perform her new single live at the event, and wore her hair piled high into a oversized bun.

    And although she then made a swift costume change, things didn't improve. Maintaining the flesh-flashing antics, she opted for a thigh-skimming peek-a-boo leather dress and cage peep-toe heels.

    As if the fashion alone wasn't bad enough, her make-up continued to offend. More akin to Robert Pattinson's Twilight demeanour, Meester looked ghostly, with a pale white complexion, blood red lips and smudged smokey eyes.

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