Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Mandy Moore, apparently starring in a Darren Aronofsky follow-up film entitled, Requiem for a Prom:
[Photo courtesyof Daily Celeb]
I believe this dress is, as captured above, in the act of making a citizen's arrest of Mandy Moore for ever putting it on in the first place. It looks to be clamping down on her.
Unless she intended to come dressed as a big black garter, in which case she'd better watch out, or one of the many women who showed up to the Oscar parties in white gowns will pick her up and hurl her at some tuxedo-clad gentlemen.
Sweet Fancy Moses...coming up tonight on FOX, "When Origami Attacks"
Agreed, but the shoes are killer!
She looks like a napkin that's been stuffed into a festive napkin ring, ala midnite buffet on a cruise ship..
Wow. That photo is like one of those optical illusions. Is it a girl in a fugly black dress or is it a jigsaw puzzle of a naked girl that is missing some pieces? How odd.
I kind of like this dress. The unfortunate pose makes her arms look a bit… disembodied, and the shoes are straight outta the Frederick’s of Hollywood catalogue, but pictures from other angles aren’t quite this bad.
Mmm. I used to have the biggest crush on Ms. Moore, but just...Why? I mean, I'm at least glad she's given up blonde, but...she's better then that! And also, she practically ALWAYS wears black. She broke free of it once to wear a lovely orange Grecian dress a year or two ago, and was complimented for it, but now just drab, unshapely black numbers. Sigh. Too bad, so sad.
...Maybe if we just cut off the terrible ruffle part of it. It could be salvaged. And the shoes do nearly redeem it all. Sigh.
This looks like she's one of Wednesday Addams's bridesmaids.
An unfortunate misstep for one who generally knocks it out of the park.
Grant, I hardly ever like to criticize fellow fugsciples' comments but WTF?!? "...the shoes do nearly redeem it all?" NO. NO. Clear plastic shoes are never correct. Never. Not even for the annual "Miss Old Age Pensioner" beauty pageant.
I don't completely hate the dress, but I think if it were a lot shorter, it wouldn't look so matronly and awful. Perhaps another color might be better as well. OK, so I guess I don't like it so much after all, but it would be great if it were completely different. The shoes are fab, though!
actually, i am diggin the shoes too.
Oh my, my - a dress from the Godiva Chocolate valentines clearance sale. It looks like a crushed valentine's box. The shoes are a 50/50 proposition - like the essence of them, but can't forgive the plastic part...
"look how mature i am! i am so totally over andy roddick that i don't even use the word "totally" anymore! i am fucking over fucking andy rodDICK! i mean he's such a child, and i'm so mature that i don't even show my knees anymore, much less cleavage in my wendy pepper original! unlike the whores rodDICK dates. fucker."
I don't think oragami chic is going to catch on anytime soon.
Mandy is boring. Her music is boring. Her movies are boring. Honestly the girl could have worn a beekeeper outfit and I would still say, SO WHAT! No amount of avangaurd couture will make me feel otherwise. When wearing a piece like this one must be interesting, provocative, have somthing else going on. There must be a reason to the maddness. She has no reason the dress is wearing her and it is crap! I don't care what she does, I hope she gets married, has a hundred babies and disappears.
this is almost eyebalm after the sartorial fuglear bombs in the previous pictures.
It's not Mandy Moore. They made clones of her in sixpacks and just peel one off at a time for parties and appearances. This time they slipped and left the plastic ring on. (It's okay, they're recyclable.)
For a change, this one doesn't look too bad to me. Not sure about the arm things tho - if she were to lift her ams and big bat wings came out and she flew away, I might have a different opinion.
this looks like EVERY dowdy unflattering dress she wears to every event. the girl dresses like she's 45. there's a happy medium between paris hilton and old lady. cicelyfairfield, you're so right on with the wendy pepper comment -- she would totally wear pep's farty designs.
Couture straightjacket.
At least she never does something embarrassing or harmful to her career!
Her career is taking off isn't it?
Like she can act or sing or entertain?
Do I have to write her name on my hand so I will remember?
Like, showing up at Parties wouldn't like be a career would it?
Doh! forgot about the Hiltons!Doh!
I'd be cool with the dress if it didn't have that crap at the top.
Y'know, this dress reminds me of the one my friend wore at 8th grade graduation (1986)... it was pale blue and floor length and had almost the same top!
If you can't extend your arms perpendicular from your body at a 90 degree angle without your dress top slipping up over your head, it's NOT a good dress.
Hate the shoes. The squished pinky toe always freaks me out. Stare at it for a while, you will understand.
Who do you think practices posing more Mandy or Paris? Look at photos of Mandy - she is like a paper doll. She always has the same posture, and for the most part, the same expression.
Well, I guess when she picked out this dress, she understood her limitations for the night..."Mandy, i'm sorry but you can't raise the roof in this dress, is that ok with you?"
Oh no, Mandy, why?! I like her, and I like how she dresses usually but this is all wrong. :(
It looks like folded-up men's dress shirts stapled around the top of the dress. You know the kind where there are all sorts of hidden straight pins just waiting to stab your boyfriend in the neck and then he blames you for not taking all the pins out?
the poor woman can't move her arms. has she been trapped between sandwich boards and if so, what is she advertising? starch?
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she generally looks great.
I give her props though, she's generally not dressed super-slutty or just plain skanky like most of her generation.
Plastic shoes are never ok. Never never never.
your feet may sweat but at least you're not wearing dead animal. stella mccartney's mantra and her shoes look good.
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ugh. i hate shoes that have clear plastic bits. you can almost see the condensation forming...
MY goodness, she's standing at such an angle it looks like she's being beamed up by aliens or something.
Maybe it's for the Saved! sequel, where Hilary Faye becomes Amish and Macauly Culkin becomes a professional wheelchair jouster.
Sorry, I like the idea of wheelchair jousting.
I also like Dr. Pepper.
It's nice to know all I have to do is go to the thrift store on half-price Mondays to look like a Hollywood star, or star-wanna-be. And I won't have to do any tailoring , because frumpy is IN!
I think it's wonderful that Mandy is paying homage to the ancient art that is origami. But why isn't her dress folded into a crane, or praying mantis?
In her next attempt to shed her sweet little "missing you like candy" image, she will insist she be called Amanda Moore.
Her "I'm PROUD to be at the Oscars!" stance makes the dress look stiffer than it probably is (at least she's not slouching). And I don't know why the pic makes her look more orange than a Ukrainian political rally. But otherwise, I like the dress. It flatters her much more than the earlier linked dress does, it's not boring, and the shoes, while revealing the Tortured Pinky Toe, are a good shape.
I'm hoping at some point our High Priestesses of Fug will comment on the Slate slideshow on "boring Oscar fashion," since it seems to contain a direct, if impersonal, rebuke -- ie, "The stars would wear interesting clothes again if all those snipy fugshion watchers would just hush."
From what I've read, this IS actually a vintage dress that she bought herself. I give her props for that; it's better than the borrowed-gown and styled-within-an-inch-of-life fraud so many of these stars perpetrate. There were also some other pictures where she didn't look quite so frumpy and... constrained. I think here the dress has just slipped down lower than it's meant to ride, and she's standing so stiffly to keep it in place. Which may mean she needed to have it tailored, but I don't think she *meant* to look like this, at least. I second the comment about her not dressing like a skank, too; I'd rather see this than Nicky Hilton's stripper gown anyday.
Vegan, non-leather shoes are fine. Clear plastic shoes that look like something you'd buy in the drugstore for a little girl are NEVER okay!!!!!!!!
And I do agree that, frumpy and unflattering though this and the other Moore dress recently fugged are, she isn't even a ***competitor**** in the Fug Olympics.
Methinks Ms. Moore is a victim of bi polar fashion.On top, are the flattened crane napkins she herself folded and sewed onto her dress project at the community college "Depressed after breakup with cute tennis star" arts'n'crafts/home economics therapy class. On the bottom are the clear heeled stripper shoes she had partially rit dyed prior to realizing that Mr Garden State likes his chicks a little sluttish (ala Princess Amidala in "Closer".) Mandy's wan brave little smile just cries out-"black hole sun won't you come and wash away the rain"?
It's a Manny Mu-Mu!
or Mannish Moo-Moo from Miss Man-Moo
dude, who cares about andy roddick when she's got zack braff?
"I also like Dr. Pepper."
dr.pepper is fab! diet dr. pepper? even better! wendy pepper? not so much.
"In her next attempt to shed her sweet little "missing you like candy" image, she will insist she be called Amanda Moore."
- or portia di moore.
I showed my boyfriend the pic and his exact words were: She looks like a Push-Pop.
Holy shit. I wore *this dress*, only without the bows, to my high school prom in 1990. And my shoes were probably Dyeables.
Stop picking on poor Mandy, yeah I wouldn't exactly wear a dress like that myself because it'd look crap on me but she looks fine in it, she's just posing in a bad way.
Really not too bad but she does look like Third Flute for the L.A. Phil.
Love the Gucci shoes!
The dress is boring but her "tan" is very worrying. It looks like her liver is failing. When is this desire to look like an Oompa Loompa fade?