Barbara Dex Award 2016: Croatia’s Nina Kraljic tops Eurovision’s Worst Dressed list

She was the frontrunner all along so it isn’t really a surprise. It might be artistic but that doesn’t make it any good. Even artistic outfits can be good, and this wasn’t. Either the dress was to big, or Nina was to small..
A for the top 5 no surprise there either. Don’t think there are arguments there. Germany might fit personality and song but it’s still ugly. Rykka wore a plastic bag over her, really? B&H don’t get scores for looking like Game Of Thrones characters.

Why not a best dressed award ?
For me the best dressed men were Netherlands ( douwe bob) and France (Amir)
and the best dressed women were Austria (Princess Zoé) and Belgium ( laura tesoro , perfectly dressed for her specific song).

… of course pop music represents different forms of art, mainstream, underground culture, street culture etc… how could it be anything else?
Jamie Lee: she’s got an insight into popular street art culture, ironic as Grayson Perry’s art, it’s a great error to consider this bad taste.
http://sites.psu.edu/contemporarywomenartists/2015/09/20/grayson-perry/
Nina has a more extravagant outfit, putting one in mind of a glamour fairy >>> details are carefully orchestrated to create a fashion masterpiece!

Poor Nina. 🙁 She did not deserve this over the German girl!

@Charles,

I think we agree, Eurovision is not meant to be art… It really is entertainment and much closer to Britney Spears in Las Vegas than Marina Abramovic in New York!

I wasn’t entertained by Nina… The interview where she states that ‘Barbara Dex will probably be mine’ has a distinct sadness. I feel sorry for her (and I didn’t vote for her, either). But the Barbara Dex award is all good fun. There’s no mocking intended, I’m sure. Barbara Dex herself has never been insulted by the award that made her immortal in Eurovision land.

@Stan: You are comparing Eurovision to Britney Spears Las Vegas show if you really believe that the contest is pure entertainment … nobody feels entertained by bad taste, unless you ene up drinking a bit more than usual. Eurovision is not meant to be ART much less a load of circus-rubbish-easy-to-be-mocked-losing-any-credibility.

Nina’s costume definitely looks elaborate but in a wrong way, at least for this very song and this very occasion. When I first saw it, I thought someone was playing deliberately against her, which is also my general perception of Nina’s this year’s participation. As for te rest, as I said in a previous post, if this award was to be handed out to the most bland and boring outfit of the contest (which B Dex’s outfit was back in 1993), it should definitely go to Frans (Sweden) this year. His clothes looked liked the ones you find in a… Read more »

No one voted for Norway. No wonder, Agnete looked great.

‘The Croatian beauty — who is one of our favourite personalities and singers of Eurovision 2016 — nailed her performance vocally.’

I seriously hope this is a joke. Nina’s vocal performance in the final was terrible and hard to listen to.

@Red
Well, I remember a video after the 1st Semi where they addressed Freddie as “the entry they don’t like”, or something like that, also predicting him to not qualify, so don’t be surprised…

Well, I think the Barbara Dex Award is more of a good-humored bit of fun. It’s not about mocking people, or at least I would hope.

I think she looked stunning! And this is a perfect example why this show is so generic. Nina is too good and too different for Eurovision. :/

I second everything Robyn said. I believe her dress was different and that’s why people voted for it, at least people remembered it. There were others with far worse outfits.

@ Jesper

Thanks for pointing that out. I’m sorry if I didn’t make it clear/wrote something wrong. I was referring to the video uploaded on Youtube where they discussed their 5 worst. The fact that readers ranked him 24th shows many people agreed that there wasn’t anything wrong with his outfit. I just wanted to highlight my problem with the editors viewpoint that ‘simple’ isn’t good enough. I won’t repeat myself again, but my critique remains the same as written below.

Sorry, I forgot to add something. I just wanted to state that regarding Freddie’s critique, it is these sorts of attitudes that give Eurovision a bad name. It’s looked down upon for being ‘camp’ and ‘kitsch and tasteless’. I would completely disagree with the contests since 2009; I mean look at Ukraine and Australia this year. The very fact they did well indicates this contest is once again about quality music and performers. We don’t need over-the-top costumes that would never be worn in the real world, so I don’t see the point in critiquing artists like Freddie or Kaliopi… Read more »

This award portion is a bit disappointing for me as how this year’s contest is disappointing for lots of people. Nina’s costume fits to her performance and it’s very serious in an acceptable way for plenty of fans. If you compare it among the previous Barbara Dex Awards winner, Nina’s victory is meh. It’s campy as it’s overdressed, true, but it’s not that very extreme and disastrous as the last ones. God, what is with the 2016 contest?

@Cai

I don’t understand why but Norway was not included at all.

I thought Macedonia’s singer was far worse dressed than Croatia’s Nina. At least Nina’s was a bold statement. Kaliopi robbed again 😛

Probably the most deserved Barbara Dex award ever!

That dress was horrible! And for me, ruined what would otherwise have been a flawless performance. She turned her classy song into a novelty act just because of that dress. If she had a more normal, eye-pleasing outfit, she probably would have got a higher result.

so Norway is the only one not to get any votes ? does that make her best dressed haha personally I’m shocked Azerbaijan is so high and Australia’s dress was amazing !

Finally, Serbia isn’t in top 2 for Barbara Dex 🙂

We’re proud! Such an honor!
At least we won something <3