Lily Collins in lacy white Houghton in Canada: dramatic or boring?

These are pictures of Lily Collins at the Canadian premiere of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. I’ve seen the trailer for this movie multiple times but haven’t really grasped the full subject matter because there is so much crap flying towards the screen. Very frenetic stuff, right? But I gather that Lily plays a girl named Clary who is able to fight demons, and this franchise is meant to go the way of very successful young-adult franchises like Twilight and Hunger Games. We’ll see.

Let’s talk about this dress, which is Houghton and doesn’t fit poor Lily at all in the front. I don’t like this dress at all because it’s so boring and shapeless from the front, but it is completely backless, so it’s supposed to be “dramatic.” Blah. I prefered her crazy toga look from last week’s Los Angeles premiere. Also, has anyone else noticed that Lily is toning down her brows? So much for brow pride.

In the meantime, Lily must not be having the easiest time with this press tour since she and her co-star Jamie Campbell Bower split up a few weeks ago after dating for a little over a year. That can’t be fun at all, but dating coworkers can always be awkward anyway — even though it happens in Hollywood all the time. Here’s Lily posing awkwardly beside Jamie (in burgundy), and they are also pictured with Robert Sheehan and Kevin Zegers.

Here’s some photos of Lily looking super cute today in London while continuing on the promotional trail. This dress is so flirty and mod (with a modern twist, of course), and Lily has great street style compared to a lot of her red carpet stuff.

And here’s Lily out at a G-Store Raw event in Los Angeles last week. The pencil skirt is kind of cool, but that top looks like it was made out of toilet paper.

Photos courtesy of WENN