It’s time for a WENN Photo Battle, friends and neighbors — this one, appropriately, on the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of The Wrestler on Tuesday night.

First up in our three-way fight for the Louis Braille Memorial Styling Crown is the star of the film, comeback kid Mickey Rourke, shown to the right here.  Rourke is working the de rigueur Hollywood-tough-guy sunglasses indoors and greezy hair, but has paired that with the unfortunate Edwardian-fop-meets-the-Goodwill-bin sartorial choices we saw when last we posted about the Diner star.  The ill-fitting, ugly vest with the shirt poking out the bottom; the brocade jacket straight out of the wardrobe chest at the Evelyn Waugh Dinner Theater and BBQ Trough; the super-shiny shirt-tie combination that doesn’t exactly clash, but doesn’t exactly match, either; and of course the shiny pleather pants and the kajillion rings.

The sad thing about the ensemble, too, is that it isn’t completely irredeemable; there’s just far too much going on at once.  Keep the shirt and tie; put them with a dark jacket and matching pants, or jeans; take a few rings off; it’s fine.  It’s not great, but it’s fine.  As is, it’s a hot mess.

But it’s room temp compared to the scorching mess you’ll see after the jump.

Oh, Evan Rachel Wood…what happened?  Didn’t you break up with Marilyn Manson?  So why are you still dressing like a TJ Maxx Goth?  That dress cannot have cost more than $18, and it looks it.

She’s re-lightened her hair back to closer to its natural color after splitting with Manson, who had her styling herself like a Dita-von-Teese-alike, but she’s wearing so much makeup in this next shot, she looks like a corpse.  An overweight corpse, too, which is weird, because the rest of her seems fit enough.

It’s just a ghastly amount of makeup and it isn’t matched to her natural coloring at all; the darker hair actually looked better than the new strawberry color, which we suspect Wood of having done at home.  She’s 21; she looks late thirties here.

Our last entrant: Jared Leto, who has two conflicting styles happening on the same head.  From the hairline up, he’s an androgynous Ralph Lauren print model, all shiny doll hair combed to the side like a girl; from the hairline down, he’s a mountain man, untamed brows, pubey beard, the lot.

Leto is still a good-looking man, but that beard is appalling.

So who’s rocking the worst look?  Well, Leto’s is pretty terrible, and weird (seriously, what is with the hair?), but we can’t see the rest of him and that jacket does look kind of cool, so we’ll remove him from contention.  Rourke’s outfit is a disaster, but it always is; Rourke himself is a disaster, basically, and we should count ourselves lucky he can bring himself to leave the house without a Chihuahua as a pocket square.  Wood doesn’t look quite as bad, but she looks so much worse than she should that we think she “wins” this photo battle.

Advantage: Wood, who needs to find her own style instead of letting a much older boyfriend dictate it, and who needs to get some cold cream and a spatula and take off at least an inch of that fugly makeup.

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Categories: Fashion / Film / Hairdon'ts / Henh? / Red Carpet
Tags: Dita von Teese / Evan Rachel Wood / fashion fox pass / incorrect facial hair / Jared Leto / Marilyn Manson / Mickey Rourke / WENN Photo Battle
Author: Sarah Bunting