Cher tops annual worst-dressed list

Tuesday, January 11th 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mr. Blackwell's annual list of fashion frumps includes Cher, Celine Dion, Queen Elizabeth and Martha Stewart, who he dressed down as "dull, dowdy and devastatingly dreary."

Blackwell, a former fashion designer who writes a column for a supermarket tabloid and entertains on ocean cruises, did have
something nice to say. He declared that Gwyneth Paltrow, Sophia Loren, Oprah Winfrey, Camryn Manhein, Barbra Streisand, Halle Berry, Helen Mirren, Nicole Kidman, Sharon Stone and Princess Caroline of Monaco were "fabulous fashion independents."

Mr. Blackwell's 40th annual worst-dressed women list and his comments:
1. Cher: "A million beads and one overexposed derriere."
2. Celine Dion: "In her backward tuxedo there's no way of knowing whether Diva Dion is coming or going -- a profusion of confusion."
3. Queen Elizabeth: "Was she the palace Christmas tree or just a royal clown?"
4. Martha Stewart: "Dresses like the centerfold for the Farmer's Almanac."
5. Fiona Apple: "A kinked and curled Kewpie Doll wrapped in a collection of yesterday's fatal fashion frights."
6. Britney Spears: "This belly-baring songbird is better heard than seen."
7. Sarah Jessica Parker: "From 'Sex and the City' Sarah's fashions are a mix-and-match pity."
8. Jennifer Aniston: "She's a fashion bore and a snore."
9. Cameron Diaz: "On 'Any Given Sunday' Cameron falls prey to a freaky fashion curse -- and as the week continues, she just slips
from bad to worse."
10. The Dixie Chicks: "They look like a trio of truckstop fashion tragedies trapped in a typhoon."