PHOTOS: Classic Oscar fashions

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Forget about the movies: At Oscar time, in homes across America, armchair fashion critics give thumbs up or thumbs down to the clothes worn on the red carpet or on stage as presenters and awardees glam it up.<br>
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But for everyone who looked at Bjork (above) in 2001 and thought "taxidermist," someone else thought "avant-garde."

By Julie Neigher

(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Forget about the movies: At Oscar time, in homes across America, armchair fashion critics give thumbs up or thumbs down to the clothes worn on the red carpet or on stage as presenters and awardees glam it up.

But for everyone who looked at Bjork (above) in 2001 and thought "taxidermist," someone else thought "avant-garde."