Angelina Jolie turns her designer dress back to front... to show off her tattoos

Angelina Jolie has always sought to be different. And now it seems she's prepared to go even further by customising her designer wardrobe for her red carpet appearances.
The Oscar nominated actress wore her $798 cornflower blue Max Azria dress to the Screen Actors Guild awards in Los Angeles back to front rather than exposing her chest in the plunging gown. 
And it seems her reason for doing so, was to show off her array of tattoos.  

Angelina's choice: Changeling actress Miss Jolie chose to wear her $798 Max Axria gown back to front

 

Leading from the front: Angelina decided not to wear the plunging neckline gown the right way round her stylist said 'to make it more blouson'

Angelina Jolie arriving at The 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at The Shrine Auditorium In Los Angeles California

While some commentators dubbed it a fashion faux pas, clearly the mother of six children, who gave birth to twins Knox and Vivienne last year, was not keen to bare quite so much flesh.
Her stylist Jen Rade told Usmagazine.com Angelina purposefully turned around the dress to make it 'more blouson.'

 

Another theory was that it enabled the actress to show off her tattoos more.

Celine Dion's back to front outfit at the 1999 Oscars did not go down well

Although the v-shaped neckline actually covered up half of the artworks.

Angelina made no mention of the fact that the stunning blue gown was on backwards during an interview with E! magazine on the red carpet, and said: 'I just like to be comfortable, I see what comfortable options are out there.'
Los Angeles Times critic Booth Moore wrote: 'Angelina Jolie is one of the few celebrities who has developed a signature red carpet look: drapey, goddess-like dresses that show off her tattooed shoulders, natural hair, minimal make-up and jewellery.
'Some have criticised the look as dowdy, but I would call it self-aware'.
However, Angelina might want to be careful, as the last person , Angelina appears to be following a long held show-business tradition for wearing clothing backwards.
At the 1999 Oscars, Celine Dion famously wore a white Dior tuxedo, backwards.
Her outfit came in for harsh criticism , and was described by keen red carpet watchers as 'bizarre' and 'unflattering'.
Angelina and partner Brad Pitt are currently in Japan promoting their respective films The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Changeling.
And fittingly for the showbiz world's most famous couple, they have both been nominated for Oscars.

But down to earth Pitt said of the double honours: 'Man, we're too busy dealing with Kleenexes and diapers and getting everyone fed to really celebrate.

'We'll do that next year.'

Angelina and partner Brad Pitt arriving at the Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards which was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles