The Anti-Fashion: Ellie Goulding's X Factor fashion fail Ellie Goulding scored a major fashion fail dressed as a giant sparkling bikini line on last night's X Factor. Oh dear, there's no nice way of saying this so I'm going to have to just come out with it... Ellie Goulding performed on last night's X Factor dressed as a Brazilian wax. Okay, this was primetime weekend TV, so poor Ellie did at least make sure it was a "vajazzled" Brazilian, but there's just no getting away from the fact that the Starry Eyed singer made an extremely poor judgement call here. Her Julien Macdonald dress may just about have passed muster on the catwalk draped about a boyishly bony model with no underwear on. It perhaps even looked fairly tempting on the hanger - all those twinkly bits winking at the pop star, messing with her common sense. But it's at this point that you would most definitely expect a stylist/friend/totally random passing stranger to stage an intervention, not smile and say "oh Ellie, it's perfect!" before slipping her a flesh-coloured leotard and some silver wedge-soled trainers to properly hammer the final nail in the coffin (containing her fashion sense). What also didn't help matters was Goulding's decision to customise the already rather slutty gown by slashing it up to her thighs - although this did allow for some added comedic value courtesy of some Freddie Mercury-esque power lunges and some Jennifer Beals-ish back-arching, so at least we can give praise for that. Plus, Ellie's "landing strip" look also achieved the previously impossible by making her exhibitionist sextegenerean co-stars, Cher and Sharon Osbourne, look positively demure and understated. And that right there's a skill that cannot ever be overestimated.