Fug Madness 2009 Sweet Sixteen: Charo Bracket

really a tough choice.

OH GOD I CAN'T CHOOSE! THIS IS TOTALLY FUGIE'S CHOICE!

that was like a tennis match between the williams sisters, with every shot a diving hard court slide -- ooh, ahh, yikes! I have the whiplash.

Sasha Fierce is a tough competitor, but she's got nothing on SWINTON.

SWINTON is DIVINE!!!

SWINTON RULES!

Beyonce is fugly, there is no doubt about it, but her fug pales in comparison to the amazingness of SWINTON. SWINTON just rocks, there's nothing else to say about it.

yes SWINTON yes!!!!!

Who to choose, who to choose...That sparkling, zip-up tuxedo with platforms gets me every time. SWINTON it is.

Swinton can't continue! She is too damn cool to be fug! Her choices are eclectic and funky. Beyonce is wackadoo!!

VOTE BEYONCE! SAVE SWINTON FROM THE FUG!

swinton! FTW

okay, this is just evil! i really wanted them to be in the final four together! it's not fair to have to take one out this early!

that said, i have to vote for swinton on the principle of the russian hat ensemble thing.
http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2009/02/fugton.html

I feel like my head is going to implode. However, SWINTON will always reign supreme for me. It brings a smile to my face knowing that she's is dedicated to making the world a fuglier, and more magical place.

I WANT to see more Beyonce, but Swinton is just so.....WHY does she always wear large lumpy shoes? Is she not tall enough already? And does she have something against tidy shoes? You could hammer the devil into hell with those clod-hoppers!

In SWINTON we trust.

SWINTON is amazing. Beyonce "Fierce" is just plain tacky.

SWINTON... although Beyonce/Sasha was valiant in her defeat.

I'm going to be real honest-like here and say that I think Beyonce is the fugliest. It's like, she THINKS she is being all "stylish" (House of Dereon, hello?) but it's actually FUGLY.

SWINTON, on the other hand, is LEGEND.

I decided I'm voting for who thinks they're actually dressing in good taste (yes, you, Sasha Fierce), versus SWINTON, who, IMHO, knows she is lookin' crazy.

This was a tough choice.
Beyonce is the more fug of the two. She is tacky fug. SWINTON is DIVINE FUG, damnit, DIVINE FUG I SAY. I had to vote for SWINTON although I think in a purely fug sense that Beyonce is clearly the winner. But I want SWINTON's elegant fugness to be known across the seas as well as the internets.
Oh, SWINTON, how I love thee.
Beyonce, you fashions are FUG, but SWINTON is a FUG GODDESS of the highest order.
I'm sorry. It's not you're year B. You are no longer in the running for America's Top Fuggiest.

I had to go Beyonce. (Or as my 7 year old sister calls her "Bouncy") Mostly b/c I think Swinton KNOWS she looks crazy, while B actually thinks she looks good.

SWINTON is in control of her wackadoodle outfits. She is wearing them, even if they are choosing her in some bizarro wardrobe language. Beyonce, on the other hand, is dressed by her mother, in a style which suggests Momma Knowles coats her daughter in glue and rolls her around a Bargain Basement Fabric outlet, before spraying her liberally with Pam and shoving her out onto the red carpet.

there is avant garde, and there is fug. SWINTON is an artiste des vetements moderne. Beyonce is FUG.

Beyonce wins on the strength of her Oscars effort. SWINTON always has a cool edge no matter how whack-a-doo her clothes. There is nothing cool about that tacky black and gold mermaid monstrosity.

As hard as it is, I have to go with Beyonce on this one. SWINTON at least has taste, albiet a warped, freaky sense of taste. Beyonce just looks like trash and her moms 'line' of clothes stink.

Gah, this was tough! SWINTON is, of course, completely magnificent, but beyond insane. Beyonce is just insane. I only voted Beyonce because I feel that if SWINTON takes the title, she deserves some kind of massive awards ceremony complete with ice sculptures of SWINTON herself wearing a macrame turban and some kind of be-jeweled mumu with gladiator boots, and I'm just not sure that's what the geniuses at GFY Headquarters had in mind...

I would wear most of SWINTON's stuff and none of Beyoncé's, so what is the real issue here? real FUG or real ART (well, a whacky one)?
I want the sister duel, PLEASE

Swinton has a unique sense of style, very sculpturesque and theatrical... far away from glamorous, like Beyonce has. it hardly can be compared...

The thing I don't understand is that Swinton is not all that bad looking, she just needs to do something with her hair and for gods sakes stay away from the "nude lipstick" it does nothing for her and her legs are not half bad. Clinton and Stacy should intervene.

SWINTON is the Queen of Fug Awesomeness, the Empress of Quirk, the Duchess of Sartorial Splendor, and the Archbishop of Avant-Garde, AND if that weren't enough, she played the frickin' White Witch so scarily that you really could believe she had Antarctic ice flowing through her veins!!! Seriously, after seeing that movie, I wouldn't even LOOK at a piece of Turkish Delight if 90's Brad Pitt was holding a tray of them wearing a sign that said "Yes, I do come with the candy."

Beyonce wears tight dresses.

There is no choice. There is only SWINTON.

No! I need a Knowles match-up for the finals!

"Top Fugliest". Oh, this contest is getting to me.

Beyonce is FUGLY, Swinton is FABULOUS.

WOW, that was really hard! Had to go with SWINTON, though.

I love SWINTON. I adore SWINTON. But ... I sometimes wonder if I don't love the idea of SWINTON more than SWINTON herself. It may sound like heresy. But check the archives, and see how many times we and the Fug Girls have said, "It's wacky, but not the level of wackitude I crave from SWINTON," or "this is tame for her," or words to that effect. Beyonce, on the other hand, Single White Femaled Etta James and crooned her own song to her. HATE. Also: Jelly-shoe coat. Planet Spaceball lounge singer (above). And ROBOT HAND.

This may get me thrown off GFY forever -- and I may be about to permanently lose the Fug Girls' respect -- but I like SWINTON's style. It's not what every woman could (or should) wear, but on SWINTON's David-Bowie-esque, unsunned, otherworldly, loooong, ungendered body, her outfits are kind of great. SWINTON's style isn't a lapse of taste, but rather her recognition that she's not conventionally pretty or feminine. I applaud her decision to go ahead abd be herself.

It seems that most people are voting for SWINTON because the Fug Girls are gunning for her. Beyonce is the clear winner here, though I know she will lose.

My admiration for Swinton could not be higher: as an actress and as a woman whose enigmatic choice of ensembles has no match. But I also feel that she pulls off wacky looks no one else would dare to wear, because of her height, her confidence, and her otherworldly essence. Is that fug? If Queen of Fug is a punishment, do you want SWINTON to wear that crown? Beyonce, on the other hand, deserves the mantle (not to mention the thrill of going up against her sister). She has poured herself into more egregiously unforgiving fabrics than Elton John and made more bad fashion changes during any one awards show than Diana Ross. Her fug reigns supreme.

I covet the shoes SWINTON is wearing with the mustard-colored suit. Must have those shoes!

This is a very, very tough decision. Beyonce is tacky FUG while SWINTON is couture FUG. Again, I am torn about which way to go.

For anyone who is wondering, I went with Lady GaGa after reading all the comments. It was the argument that "pants are required" that made the decision for me.

So, what about now? Tacky vs. Couture. What shall it be?

i went with beyonce just because SWINTON is so freaking awesome that she makes all that crazy stuff look fab! b on the other hand....PUT IT AWAY GIRL, WE GET IT, YOU'RE FIT AND CURVY!!

I voted Beyonce (and voted again and again and again) because Swinton kind of transcends, while Beyonce often looks like she can't walk. I go comfort over tight dresses and hotpants every day. (How does B keep the inner thigh from chafing?!)

Also, I like to fight the hive-mind. :D SWINTON deserves to BE a bracket, not be in one.

(Vote early, vote often, it's the Chicago way.)

Remember, WINNING ISN'T A COMPLIMENT. SAVE SWINTON. She is awesome. Beyonce is batsh*t crazy.

Think about it.

Oh, also: most of the competitors here couldn't out-SWINTON SWINTON on their SWINTONest day if they had an electric-SWINTON-machine.

SWINTON is always trying to look Interesting, sort of like conceptual art. It may not always be beautiful, but it IS thought-provoking. Beyonce, on the other hand, is trying to look glamourous - and failing miserably. And Solange seems to be some kind of odd hybrid of the 2!

Yes, Hester at 11:10, MAIS OUI!

Fug Girls, I am confused. I thought 'fug' was short for 'freakishly/ f'in ugly', which means bad dresser. In this round, people are voting for Swinton, yet saying they love her.

If we love her, and her wacky style, shouldn't we vote for Beyonce?

I had to pick SWINTON, as the deliciously fuggiest, but was almost tempted to slam Beyonce for just plain fug. Deliciously fug won.

Call me crazy, but I LOVE all the outfits SWINTON wears here. Maybe my eyes are ruined from all of Restalyne Rinna's thigh cleavage, but I just have three words: HOUSE OF DEREON. Seriously, she and her mother think they create "couture." It's an insult to everything couture represents and therefore, she is the epitome of fug. Sasha not-so-fierce ftw.

How delightful would it be if the next James Bond movie starred SWINTON and Beyonce instead of Daniel Craig and (fill in the Eurotrash villain of the week)? Can you imagine the fighting, the sexual tension, the OUTFITS? I'm going to go film that in my head right now.

You know, with the exception of that yellow wonder, I don't think Beyonce is all that fug-tastic. If I understand correctly, Beyonce was mistakenly entered into this competition for the faults of Sasha Fierce. I NEED CLARIFICATION. Are we including Sasha Fierce within Beyonce's "team," if you will?

I was scrolling down the photos, feeling uncharacteristically like a swing voter, but that last SWINTON photo utterly convinced me that she should get my vote. And something about the way she poses reminds me of a vaguely stunned robin in the midst of a snowstorm, wondering why on earth they migrated so early.

Beyonce is trying to adhere to some image of Hollywood/Pop star beauty.

Swinton adheres to only the images in her own head.

No comparison! Go for the original!

This hurts me; truly. SWINTON is the queen of all that is bad-a**. It hurts my heart to vote against her. If not mostly b/c I secretly think she is the AWESOMEST ever, like a cracked Cate Blanchett who can make anything look if not GOOD, then at least not like "OMG! THAT IS AWFUL!". She is more like, "OMG! THAT IS AWE-FUL!" if only b/c on anyone else, it WOULD be "awful" -- and her attitude can pull off anything - "yeah, I have 2 men at home waiting for me, together. So WHAT puny human? I will EAT you with my contemptuous EYES!"

I had to look up the true definition of "fug" to make my determination. Fug was classified as 'on a scale of 1-10, a zero'. SWINTON will always be a 10! Beyonce on the other hand, needs to learn how to pose without acting like she's in a girdle commercial.

I can't decide...this is painful. Asking me to decide between Beyonce and SWINTON is like asking me which of my children I love more.

Swinton has forethought and an avant garde cool. When B tried the edgy, like that grey Gareth Pugh dress in the first picture, see seems staged and gasping. We all may love Swinton, but I think for that reason, she should not advance farther in the competition.

I had to vote for Beyonce here, looking at all the evidence. Sure SWINTON is remarkably oddly dressed, but I have to agree with several of the commenters who feel this is art - not fug. She is, in a way, beyond fug.

Beyonce, on the other hand, frequently exhibits a level of tastelessness that can only be described as fug.

Therefore, while I believe SWINTON should win something for her wardrobe choices, it is not the Golden Fug. Perhaps she belongs in a category all her own.

Beyonce. She is impeccably FUG. Swinton is in her own orbit, and while her orbit seems to have oddball clothing choices, it is her freakin' orbit. Beyonce, on the other hand, is just stupidly fug and does not have the creds of Swinton. Besides, Beyonce pissed Etta James off with her fugly rude self. Swinton would NEVER do that.

BEYONCE!

SWINTON!!!!!!!!!!!! It MUST be SWINTON! I DEMAND IT! Ok, demanding things is a little harsh.. PLEASE VOTE SWINTON?

Have to go with Beyonce here... Swinton at least looks classy in a wacky, avant-garde way, and the materials and shapes are interesting. Beyonce doesn't, and never will. She also needs to stop wearing dresses made of leotard material. Seriously. Stop it.

I always vote for the trashy fugs, since they embody true fugliness, inside and out.

I'm so sad SWINTON is winning (losing?) over Beyonce! SWINTON at least KNOWS she's being weird (I hope). Poor Beyonce thinks she's being stylish.

Swinton is doing haute couture -- Beyonce is doing House of Dereon or something else. Swinton is more fun to watch, but Beyonce should advance. I know she won't, but I think she's got the fug goin' on.

It is settled. Only SWINTON is responsible for the new adjective SWINTONIAN - Beyonce hasn't inpsired the creation of new words.

This is my first Fug Madness and I've run into so many philosophical difficulties voting! I wish I'd thought some things through before the whole thing started. I even found myself abstaining from the Katy Price/Lady Gaga vote because a) I never heard of either of them before and b) they both seem too calculated to be truly Fug. Shaking off the distaste of that bracket, I just had to vote my heart here and that's SWINTON. Fug or genius or both. Others have said it, and I agree--what she does truly transcends. Define it as you will, I will vote for her over anyone else.

Swinton! She is the Posh of Swintons! Now, I like me some Sasha Fierce. When I'm in yoga class and I have to do some crazyass thing like a standing bird of paradise, I hug those muscles to the bone and inwardly declare'I am Sasha Fierce!' and up the body rises! And I felt bad that everyone ragged on Beyonce's mom's design for the Oscars, it was okay. It didn't deserve the hate it got. It wasn't Jessica Biel's fugly dress. Now that was ugly.

I need to get out more. I was giddy for this one, g to the mofoing iddy.

Seriously, who is this SWINTON lady and she cant really exist in real life right? She's like a figment of my deepest darkest fuggest imagination. SWINTON is taking it this year.

Oh God, I had hoped Beyonce would have triumphed. Like someone else said, SWINTON is an artist, and her choices crazy but spectacular - her wardrobe is performance art. Beyonce thinks she's "all that", her mommy dresses her, and she is the queen fugger for that Oscar dress alone. I was hoping Fate would hand me a Knowles sisters showdown, but it is not to be...
Beyonce's style has a smell to it, and that, my friends, is the stink of fug.

SWINTON...it is what it is. Why should we ask her to change? She is perfectly and wonderfully idiosyncratic as is. Let her be her Swintonian self; it's why we like her.

On the other hand, Beyonce is the one who needs to be called out. Girl's gone too far and too many times in too many ways.

Without shame, I vote for Beyonce.

Beyonce KNOWS she's wearing stupid/ugly/ridiculous outfits; that's why she created an alter ego to take the blame.

But SWINTON actually means to present herself like this in public just so we will take her artistic talent (or lack thereof) seriously.

Seriously, people, SWINTON is fugged up beyond Beyonce. She's in denial!

Seriously, people. Beyonce' is a moment away from ASS CUT-OUTS in that yellow dress!!!

ASS CUT-OUTS.

ASS.

CUT-OUTS.

Come on!

That was a tougher decision than the one I just faced at the shoe store: weather to buy bubblegum pink satin flats or the derbies. In the end I had to vote Swinton. Beyonce's a recording artist. She's supposed to fug up now and again.

I love SWINTON!!! Yes, her Oscar outfit was well, Fugtactular but at least she takes bold risks. A little quirkiness is a good thing. Beyonce just seems to like tacky and hideous clothes. That yellow dress sold me and what she wore to the Oscars BLEAHH

Dear Beyonce,

We get it. You have curves. That is no reason to adorn them in what looks like my 6th Grade project of the Sydney Opera House, made from tinfoil and popsicle sticks and a dress with Reverse Plumber's Cleavage.

Humbly,
My eyes.

Wow...that was a difficult choice. I wish Beyonce would go away but I hope that SWINTON is around forever.

I had to go with SWINTON, whom I adore. People debate about whether a Fug win is good or bad. To those, I say this: when something is so bad it's good, it's come full circle. And that is what SWINTON does with great majesty. No one in their right mind would wear the things she wears, because it is living, walking art. And how can that be seen as an "insult"?

B, for what it's worth, sometimes wears some crazy things, but I can see women trying to wear some of the dresses she wears (the yellow, back dimple-exposing one in particular). She is nowhere NEAR her sister, even, let alone SWINTON.

I agree that SWINTON is just too cool to be ruled more FUG than BEYONCE!!! Remember the Oscar's dress people! SWINTON wouldn't be caught dead in that thing!

this contest is just so hard!! I constantly find myself torn between voting for someone who is fug and I love it, or whose fug is just terrible. And here is my worst nightmare in one matchup - Beyonce who is just tacky and tasteless and ugly and all things bad, against SWINTON who is wacktacular and wonderful in her fugness. I would never want her to change one hair on her crazy head. Beyonce is just dressing badly because... um, attention? because everyone has been saying she is so brilliant fashionwise (Um no) for so long that she thinks she can wear anything and people will think its great? Honestly I don't know. All I know is that I hate her fug and I love Swinton's - but which fug is more fug? I can't decide who to vote for - AAAAGHHH!

No Contest- SWINTON, hands down.

Beyonce wears some whacked out stuff, but if you squint enough, it's not too bad. On the other hand, Swinton just plain wears REALLY UGLY S**T. And looking at her makes me want to kill myself.

It's kinda funny to me--in a vacuum, Beyonce is probably the greater offender, but SWINTON has become this cult of personality who fugs often, without remorse or hesitation.

Love me the SWINTON. I can't not vote for her. I hope she takes it all home this year.

Switon! Seriously couldnt' go with anyone else. Even her hair is doing all sorts of weird things.

I can't decide if a vote "for" Swinton is good or bad, as winning the round is kind of loosing isn't it? Regardless I love Swinton too much to say anything mean about her so I am going Beyonce/Sasha Fierce all the way.

Last year we were swayed by Bai Ling's endearing looniness; this year let's follow our hearts to the Purity of Weird that is SWINTON! Everyone knows we're not disdaining her style nor recoiling in horror but bowing to her Awesomeness.

SWINTONISTAS UNITE!

i'm sorry, but it is so very clear to me that beyonce is way the hell out there when it comes to fug. SWINTON carries herself with such royal brilliance and she's wonderful. beyonce just stands there, smiling and pretending she looks fab when she actually looks horrendous.

BEYONCE IS MORE FUGLY THAN SWINTON!!
swinton is marvelous!

Oh come ON, people. SWINTON is SWINTON. She has her STYLE, offbeat as it may be. But Beyonce just bumbles from style hit to style miss. Bumblers are fug.

I voted already, but I just gotta share this with anyone who hasn't:

http://www.hellomagazine.com/film/2009/03/26/swinton-china-film/

Ugh, Beyonce!!! Her fugliness makes me angry!!
Swinton's fugliness, on the other hand, makes me very happy. She takes fug to that wacky and wonderful place.

Beyonce just makes me want to punch somebody. Namely "Sasha".

SWINTON dresses like a color-blind (or possibly blind-blind) cosplayer. SWINTON ALL THE WAY!

this is totally fugalicious.

I'm putting it out there - NEITHER of these two ladies is fug. Can I get an extra vote for Katie "Jordan" instead?

What encapsulates Swinton's complete irreverance to me is when she won the Oscar and went off on George Clooney's nipples. This woman does not give a fuck what you think. I think she would agree that her ensembles are fabulously atrocious. She has the balls to look unattractive on purpose. So to me, it's totally appropriate to commemorate her FUG GRANDEUR. I think she might rather take first place here than appear on a Star Magazine best dressed list.

People, we all agree that SWINTON is amazing! Why does she have so many votes? Remember, this is for FUGLY, not AMAZING! Do we really want SWINTON in the same category as Bai Ling? Nooo! Get out the vote for Beyonce! Her choices are truly fugly, not just weirdly eccentric.

The yellow backless dress B is wearing is the most horrifying thing I have ever seen. Simply for that crime she needs to go sit in the corner and think about what she has done to my poor eyes and innocent sensibilities. SWINTON FTW!

Love the comment about Beyonce thinking she's being stylish, but Swinton knowing she's out there. ITA. I love Swinton, but feel like I've got to go with Beyonce.

I see a future SWINTON bracket. She deserves to be up there with the Cher, Charo and Bjork's of the world.

I'm depressed. I really thought Sasha Fierce had a chance to take this. People, we have to put Mama Knowles and her House of Dereon in their place! I know everyone loves SWINTON, but I really think Bey is more deserving. She actually thinks she is making good choices! SWINTON is just crazy and consistent in her weirdness to the point where it's just not fug anymore . . . it's just SWINTON!
Plus I wanted a Knowles final, with Solange finally beating out Bey at something, however dubious an honor it might be.

More than any other, this is the matchup where I have to decide for myself just what these folks are competing for. Is it an unqualified insult to be the last standing, or could it possibly be an Viva la Difference award? If it's the first, then my vote goes to Beyonce. If the second is possible, then SWINTON! SWINTON! SWINTON!

In the end, I've decided it's an insult, so as much as it pains me to ever vote against the Goddess of Clothing-as-Performance-Art, I vote Beyonce.

I LOVE YOU, SWINTON!!!!

I voted SWINTON. Because she should win.

But now I actually think she is more supercallifragalisticexpirallidocious than fug...

Oh well...

I'm in the camp that says that the Fug Madness title is one of love and admiration for one who is so out there, they break all the rules. I believe Eddie Izzard said it best, when he said that there is a fine line between looking cool and looking like a dickhead. SWINTON takes that line and says "screw you, line! I'm going to be FABULOUS." TEAM SWINTON 09!

There are really 2 very different definitions of fugly: "f*ckin' ugly", where it's just hideous and needs to be put away, and "fabulously ugly", where it is so out there that it becomes awesome and fantastic. SWINTON is obviously of the "fabulous" variety, whereas Beyonce.....is just bad. And it's so hard to choose sometimes between f*ckin' ugly and fantastically ugly (see "vagrant spice" vs. "posh spice").

But on this one, I voted Beyonce, just because I would love to see her and Solange duke it out in the finals. Sorry, SWINTON - you are fab, and it hurt so much to vote against you.

SWINTON.

By the way, I am still demanding that t-shirt be made should SWINTON take the whole shebang.

I was SO on the SWINTON band wagon...until I saw Beyonce's robot mini-skirt dress thingy. And remembered...the robotic hand. (!!!)

Sorry, SWINTON. You are awesome, but Beyonce out-fugs you.

This matchup really distills the philosophy of Fug Madness, doesn't it? Do you vote for Fug as Art? Fug on a higher plane? Intentional Fug?

Or do you vote for "That's just d^&* ugly?"

I choose to believe this contest is on a higher level, not just base fugliness but fug to the higher power. Above the fug, if you will. The fug as it stars in its own Oscar Caliber film, and not just fug in its own reality series.

Swinton. Swinton is the fug. The Fug is Swinton.

Do I age myself when I say that this song keeps running thru my head during all this Madness?

XTC versus Adam Ant
Content versus form
Fighting for their place in rock and roll
There is no right or wrong

Just when you think it's finished
With XTC on top
Ant music, like a phoenix
Flies back up the charts

XTC versus Adam Ant
Only one will survive
Beatle-based pop versus new romantic
History will decide

XTC versus Adam Ant
I can't tell you why
Even the singer from Bow Wow Wow
Can't make up her mind

XTC versus Adam Ant
Time is marching on
XTC versus Adam Ant
There is no right or wrong

(With SWINTON of course filling in for XTC, and Beyonce for Adam Ant. They even have an eye makeup thing in common.)

I had to go with SWINTON, whom I adore. People debate about whether a Fug win is good or bad. To those, I say this: when something is so bad it's good, it's come full circle. And that is what SWINTON does with great majesty. No one in their right mind would wear the things she wears, because it is living, walking art. And how can that be seen as an "insult"?

^^thank you, AMAZINGAL, that's the perfect way to describe the way I vote!!! When faced with "so bad" vs. "so bad it's awesome," (Beyonce vs. SWINTON) I choose door #2. "So bad" vs. "So bad" (Aubrey O'Day vs. Lisa Rinna) gets the one I hate more. "so bad it's awesome" vs. "so bad it's awesome" (my dream of a Mickey Rourke vs. SWINTON smackdown) would be the person I adore more. That is the only way I can do this, and the reason I can never vote for someone as uninteresting to me as Beyonce, when matched up with an intergalactic overlady like SWINTON.

I now feel obligated to name my firstborn child SWINTON.

In other news, I am incredibly impressed that Beyonce managed to wriggle into a dress that is clearly constructed out of that aluminum piping that they use to make storm drains or cheap junk yard shacks.

This was the hardest one yet... But I had to remember that fug= Fantastically ugly, and SWINTON is fantastic. Beyonce is just bizarre at times.

Hmmm. If fugly is bad, Beyonce. She usually looks weird and like she's trying too hard. If it's good bad, Swinton. I totally love the way she presents herself with confidence in some really wild stuff, but it's never tasteless.

I can't wait until SWINTON takes on the other Knowles sister in that inevitable final match-up.

TEAM SWINTON.

Fug though Beyonce is (and she is very, very fug indeed), Tilda Swinton is more stunningly original in her fug. Beyonce's fug makes me cringe. SWINTON's fug makes me cringe in awe. She is a fug goddess.

>>This may get me thrown off GFY forever -- and I may be about to permanently lose the Fug Girls' respect -- but I like SWINTON's style.<<

It's all good, Victoria! I totally see your point. I often like what she's GOING FOR, just not how she gets there, if that makes sense. But we're always cool with people disagreeing with us. We're not The Law!

Also, for anyone who thinks we're "gunning" for SWINTON: We're not. We love her. We just think that because the chances she takes are greater, her WTF moments are therefore substantially greater.

SWINTON. you are my hero. I second Stephanie's thought of naming my firstborn in Her honor. Viva La SWINTON!

Oh it has to be SWINTON because I just want to see the Fug Girls continue to type SWINTON as much as possible.

SWINTON!

I just love her, though.

You are welcome, JerkyGirl. BTW, your posts are awesome....

Fug Madness comments are probably the most polite on the internets....

I just feel that there is one thing not being touched on in this battle: Most of Beyonce's weird clothes come from her OWN LINE. Swinton might wear some kooky stuff but at least she cannot be held responsible for creating it!

Beyonce is but a mere child compared to the innate genius of SWINTON. SWINTON needs no introduction, she will take this competition DOWN. Hell yes.

It's hard to see Beyonce go, but SWINTON must FORGE ONWARDS.

I cannot vote for SWINTON. She is too marvelous to be fugged.

In other news, I totally saw a woman trying to get into a cab, otherwise normally dressed, wearing a circus headdress --you know, the kind of headband thingy with a giant plume on the front? She had to tilt sideways to get into the cab. A thing of fuggy delight!

Yes, Heather and Jessica, please tell us: If we vote for someone, are we indicating that we love or hate the offender? If we all agree that SWINTON is deliciously, brilliantly bizarre, and that Beyonce is just a puffed-up, smug, narcissistic, nitwit with no taste, do we vote for SWINTON because she's so clever? Or do we vote for Beyonce because she's so annoying?

I had this question last year in the Bai Ling v. Sharon Stone standoff: Bai is often smiling in her photos, and seems to have a tongue-in-cheek, flirtatious love of provoking the photogs, whereas Sharon Stone seemed to take herself seriously and to think that she was genuinely sexy -- making her infinitely more loathesome than Bai Ling, IMHO, even though Bai's taste was obviously worse.

So, I voted for Stone last year and Beyonce just now -- for the same reason: they both annoy me, whereas SWINTON and Bai are both kind of charming.

But now I gather that a lot of people think that we vote for the contestant we love & want to celebrate, & so I voted exaclty wrong.

I feel cheated, as though I just discovered that some hanging chad sent my vote to McCain not Obama.

Anybody who lives with her two husbands and their child is the queen of all in my book.

I (heart) SWINTON!

the thing is that Beyonce wears stuff that is inappropriate and too tight - maybe cause her moms makes it and she feels obligated? She has a fabulous body but showcases it in the wrong things.

SWINTON on the other hand, is a medley of fantastical creations which because she is eleventy feet tall - inspire even more awe.

SWINTON! We fug her because we love her.

With Beyonce - it's just a lot of crazy ugly. With SWINTON there's a whole world of it's-so-bizarre-that-it's-fabulous.

And another thing about SWINTON, if she wins she might actually show up at Fug HQ to collect her award. She's that kind of awesome *and* she's a friend of Intern George's.

For me, it's a matter of tacky versus fug. Sashyonce is tacky with a capital ACK, but she really thinks she's the height of fashion. The genious of SWINTON's particular brand of fug, however, is that it is carefully thought out, well-crafted, intentional fug. For no other reason than because she wants to and she can. Fug for the sake of fug, if you will. "I fug, for I am SWINTON, and I am just that fabulous, so I CAN." You just can't argue with that.

SWINTON FTW!!!

I had to vote for the sublime SWINTON because her FUG is of her own making; she chooses the fug of her own free will. Her ensembles appear to be the result of careful planning and much thought; the synthesis of many different fug parts such that the fug whole is so much greater than its individual fugly pieces.

On the other hand, I suspect Beyonce/Sasha/I Robot doesn't pick out the fug--her mother is the culpable party in her case. In addition, there is a much more haphazard quality to Robot Girl's fug as opposed to the meticulously reasoned and pre-meditated FUG adopted by SWINTON.

Free Will Fug FTW!!

I'm clapping for my neighborhood librarian. Nice analogy!

AARGH!! God this is hard. While they both make awesome arguments, I am afraid that pure genetics wins it. Beyonce is beautiful, stunning, amazing and yet she looks like the poster child for Vaseline in her sweaty drag queen numbers that barely cover her ass. All double stick taped there by her MOM!! Gross...

However, fugly tho she is in her hideous rayon nightmares, she is at least balanced out by her sweet face and amazing curves.

SWINTON on the other hand always looks like she has been shopping in the petite section of the local church's amateur dramatics costume bin in the dark. He get ups are terribly ill fitting and often creased, she wears either no makeup or awesome wackadoodle doo makeup that covers her face- girlfriend, word to ya- when the self tanner bottle says "apply liberally" to doesn't mean the whole bottle and it doesn't mean JUST you your face...

Take their names out of the question- stood next to each other in a room, if you were asked to pick the fugliest, it would be SWINTON every time... I am so sorry Sasha... Maybe you can find a bionic tissue to go with that hand so you can dry your tears of defeat...

Beyonce's good, but it's SWINTON's year. It's her time down here. And I won't ride up Troy's bucket for anything. But I AM hoping for a Revenge of the Knowles finale showdown between SWINTON and Solange, the more potent fug sister, in my opinion. Let's make it happen, people! Change you can believe in!

The problem here is that SWINTON, who I love, actually wears high fashion, loves fashion, lives fashion and looks weird - like a model.

Beyonce is just tacky fug.

Tacky fug loses out to high fashion. No question.

I can't believe so many people are voting SWINTON. In the spirit of Bai Ling, shouldn't Beyonce win hands down?!?!?

Oh man, I cannot believe SWINTON is winning! Yes she's got a....special....style, but there's something vaguely couture about it (okay the black sparkly suit is grandma couture, but dammit, they have formal nights at the rest home too!). Beyonce on the other hand has clearly just lost her mind. I think SWINTON is going to sweep the series, but by sheer popularity and website owner affection. Dammit, this could have been O'Day's year!

SWINTON is amazing and avant-garde; she is playing in a completely different LEAGUE than people like Beyonce or Lindsay Lohan.

In my opinion, the word "fug" is best-applied to red-carpet paparazzi-bait like Beyonce-- the ones who prance around like they're all fabulous and fashiony when they're actually kind of scary and sad and trashy.

This 100% applies to Beyonce, and isn't even close to SWINTON.

I am going to be honest- I don't get the Swinton thing. Can someone explain?

>> Yes, Heather and Jessica, please tell us: If we vote for someone, are we indicating that we love or hate the offender? If we all agree that SWINTON is deliciously, brilliantly bizarre, and that Beyonce is just a puffed-up, smug, narcissistic, nitwit with no taste, do we vote for SWINTON because she's so clever? Or do we vote for Beyonce because she's so annoying?<<

Tough call -- and it's hard to mandate, because again, everyone has different celebrities for whom they'll forgive anything, versus thinking they look awful. So we've never really made a rule on that one, preferring to leave it up to y'all's discretion. In a perfect world it'd just be clothes vs clothes on their own merits, but with some people it's impossible to separate distaste for the person (or love of the person) from your impression of the clothes. Take SWINTON: I love her, but I have to admit, I think she picks a lot of ugly stuff. Its sheer wackitude makes it delightful to me, as opposed to tiresome to write about (like, say, Katy Perry's dumb antics), but objectively I have to admit that my feelings that she's majestic stem from being in awe of how consistently weird and bad her choices are.

The other thing is, say you think Beyonce is a puffed-up nitwit with no taste -- is that based on how you feel about her in her LIFETIME, or based on how you think her outfits were this YEAR? Because for me, this wasn't her worst year by far, which is why we seeded her lower, even though GENERALLY I agree she looks wack.

So it's just sort of a cocktail of taking into consideration the outfits on their own merits, how they work on that person, whether you're voting based on the person's reputation or their actual eligible body of work, and then of course factor in your personal feelings about the person if you want to. But whether you're "supposed" to vote for a person if you hate THEM, I think the actual merits of the outfits should probably weigh in more than the fug of SPIRIT. That's why Speidi gets seeded so low; they're really just sort of gross people but their clothes are very meh.

Did any of that make sense? It's a long way of saying, there isn't a hard and fast rule, and that we just hope people are voting based on the person's Year In Fug and not just on reputation or personality.

SWINTON never looks cheap, or tacky. SWINTON should be spoken of in whispered tones. SWINTON belongs in the FUG HALL of FAME and should never be challenged again because no one can live up to her Complete and Total Awesome Fugness. SWINTON is a work of FUGENIUS. If Audrey Hepburn designed a Creature of FUG, she would be SWINTON.

SWINTON FTW! That Bouncey woman's tacky clothes are "jes uglier 'en homemade sin," as my best friend's meemaw would put it.

Gotta love SWINTON for this. She owns her FUG!

tilda swinton has avant garde style that while it fugs to the maxx could also easily be featured in the pages of vogue. beyonce looks like the high school prom coordinator got her hands on some fabric, neoprene and tulle and tried to make herself look like a cake topping for every single era and style. that is true fug.

SWINTON reigns supreme. Beyonce has no idea what couture is. Plus ... she sucks.

I actually burst out laughing and got glared at by my (un-fun) co-workers at that last pic of SWINTON, even though I've seen it many times. It's just so...so...I have no words. SWINTON is regal fug and I absolutely agree that the recent magazine cover she did should be the Fug Madness statuette. My vote went to SWINTON.

Not that Beyonce isn't fiercely fug. In fact, I cannot stand her and her mermaid dresses of fugocity. And yet, SWINTON.

I thought I'd read the comments to be swayed one way or the other--I too could not choose between the fug that things it's not and the fug for fug's sake--but now I'm even more confused. I'm thinking Beyonce because she thinks she looks good, while SWINTON doesn't give a hoot. Plus, the fug honor would mean something to B (like maybe some changes), but SWINTON would just stay fabulously fug. Aaaaaahhhh! I just don't know!

I must admit that I am rooting for Swinton to take this whole thing not necessarily because I think her fashion choices are fugly, but because I find her to be one of the more fascinating and mysterious stars that just grabs your attention on the red carpet. It is clear that she is the kind of woman who couldn't give a crap about what people think and I love her for it. In terms of her fashion, there isn't a single person on Earth that could compete with her avant garde choices. Looking at some of the stuff in her archives reminds me of those crazy and over the top couture shows in Paris.

Hester is right, Swinton is an avant garde artist, I actually really truly love every ensemble on this page! She is damn cool. So I voted for her because I want to honor her greatness.

I had to go with SWINTON for the same reason I voted against Janet Jackson earlier - it's not really fair to put stage costumes in the same pool as "street" clothing.

Besides, isn't it Tina Knowles we need to be fugging, not Beyonce and Solange? She's the wack-a-doo who designs most of their fug!

It was thougher than I expceted- I am a Swinton fan - she is awesome and should reign supreme - but Beyonce is so.....That detail in the back of the yellow gown - the triangular piece coming up sort of like a tong - what delicious trash. It is not an honor to win, but when there is such awesome, yet misguided "avant gard" style in Swinton, it deserves a special recognition -to inspire.

I thought of something else tricky, too -- it does feel sometimes like tacky fug and high-fashion fug are like comparing apples to oranges, but everyone's going to have different feelings about which is worse so it's hard to deliver a ruling on which one is DEFINITIVELY to be considered inferior. Obviously, tacky fug is awful, but it's also the kind of fug that -- in some cases -- you could argue people are doing on purpose, to get attention. Which is gross and all, but the high-fashion fug could just be people who are so blinded by labels that they are unable to tell what's genuinely ugly -- or ugly on THEM -- and what's cool. So maybe THAT'S worse because you're TRYING to be all upmarket and classy and whatnot and it's still not working because you're too starry-eyed by couture to make level-headed decisions.

That may not add to the debate. But, it's my two cents. My very indecisive two cents. I tend to treat 'em all case-by-case.

Voted Buh-yonce to keep it interesting. Also because my robotic hand just clicked the mouse before I even had a chance to think about it.

It has to be said though, SWINTON wears taupe and yellow, despite the fact that, wait oh, what was it again? .... she IS taupe and yellow! Props girl, you got this in the heinous bag you carry your boyfriend in.

they both don't know how to dress themselves. but at least SWINTON is a qualified actress. i HATE beyonce with every fiber in my being ... so I HAVE TO VOTE FOR HER. ughhhhh. this was probably my hardest match up.

Like several others have said, FUGLY to me means "freakin ugly." SWINTON is not fug! A little boring, or sometimes kooky, but not fugly (at least not all-out.)

Beyonce on the other hand, has worn some crazy crap this last year. Robot hands, a$$ cutouts, whatever that rubbermade-looking contraption is there...not to mention that House of Dereleon or whatever, now includes a childrens' line. They are now fugging poor innocent kids! WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!

I honestly think this is the toughest match-up of the entire tournament. Harder even than the finals. The decision is clear, but it kills my soul to let Queen B down.

>>>I had to go with SWINTON for the same reason I voted against Janet Jackson earlier - it's not really fair to put stage costumes in the same pool as "street" clothing.

Besides, isn't it Tina Knowles we need to be fugging, not Beyonce and Solange? She's the wack-a-doo who designs most of their fug!<<<

Yeah, but in both cases, my response is: You can ALWAYS say no. It's why we're not fugging Armani or BCBG or Club Monaco or Chanel. Ultimately, the celeb wearing the garment has the power to say, "Hmm, let's try something else." Whether you're on-stage or not. I mean, not EVERY stage performer decides it's an awesome idea to look completely crazy while they're singing.

Swinton is just Swinton no more no less. Beyonce has fugged out this year. Hug turn for the fug means I vote Sasha Fug!

Had to go with Beyonce on this one. There's an apparent appreciation for the art of fashion and the avant-garde with SWINTON...whereas Beyonce is desperately trying to make people think she's fashion forward. You either have it or you don't, and House of Dereon is not art.

Oh my no. That yellow dress of Beyonce ALMOST pushed me over to her side. But Then SWINTON's fresh face brought me back from the brinl

Beyonce wins, hands down. She is friggin tacky and thinks it's "high fashion".

I adore Beyonce. I don't know Sasha all that well, but Beyonce is so close to being the favorite student I never had ("why YES! You CAN go on tour with an all-female backup band, dear. A gold star for you"), it's hard for me to see her with any objectivity at all.

And yes, Sasha goes out there a little with the outfits. I don't know what Rubbermaid receptacle she mugged for the shot up top, or what's holding up that strip of yellow gown in the back on the red carpet photos below it. But otherwise ... that body, those eyes, that hair? She can pull it all off.

SWINTON is in another category entirely. She is merely visiting here, and wishes we all knew it. I think this is why she repurposes a beige slipcover, throws an orange Gentile Star on it, and calls it a day. Or why she gets this crazy idea in the Easter aisle at the Rite Aid and walks out with a boatload of candy affixed to the collar of her yellow suit and strappy shoes ("It just, it needed something, and one gets hungry ahfter oll"). Or why she forgets to change out of the take-me-to-your-leader black glitter suit. With the elevator shoes.

I bow to thee, SWINTON. Here: a roll of quarters. For your journey! All hail, Queen of the Cosmos! And the Fug!

NOTHING but the fact that I will die inside if SWINTON does not win this contest could have prevented me from voting for the um, wearer of that horrible robot/corrugated tin shack dress.

I don't know, you guys. After much consideration, I had to go with Beyonce. See, SWINTON may be a loon, but she is a CONFIDENT loon, and seems to be well aware of her loon status. Beyonce, on the other hand, actually thinks she looks good in those getups.

I voted for the Sash Fierce/Beyonce tragedy. SWINTON is fug, but it is, "I don't care what I look like." fug. Beyounce's fug is, "I look SO FREAKIN' HOT!" fug.

Seriously? Both of their fug is in a league of its own. The problem here, for me at least, is that I ADORE SWINTON, batty clothes and all. She just wouldn't be SWINTON without the fug. So Tilda, baby, she got my vote. Beyonce could never pull of fug as magically as my girl Tilda does.

OH. MY. GOD.

For the first time this week I LEFT THE COMPUTER to get, um...oh yeah, make kids something to eat, and of course, this one gets posted while I was gone. Never again will I miss out though. The bowls of cereal I put out all over the floor should hold them till the finals.

It was with a trembling hand that I scrolled down, with trepidation that I clicked on the results, and YES! YES! YES!

Thhhaaaaattttt's right, Beyonce! Comfort yourself with your robot hand and crawl back under the eaves of your own DRESS. You CAN NOT HOLD A CANDLE TO SWINTON.

To whom to I give my PayPal info for my SWINTON shirt and doll? I would like them rush ordered, please, I need to wear them for the fug-offs.

SWINTON. You gorgeous quasi-Scottish LOON. I LOVE you. I honestly LOVE you. If you asked me to bring you a chalice of bat's blood and the arm of a righteous man, I would do so with GLEE, for YOU are the reason my children are starving and my boyfriend is probably sleeping with the neighbor. AND IT'S WORTH IT.

Beyonce is in costume sometimes; that does not count as much in my scoring. But none can withstand the awesome power that is SWINTON

SWINTON inspired Viktor&Rolf to such a degree they dedicated an entire collection to her.
Beyonce just seems to get inspired by mermaids!

Praise the heavens!

SWINTON FTW!

This almost makes me forget that Jordan (I refuse to use her real name until she looks like a real person...) is losing to Lady Gagme.

Oh wait. no it doesn't.

GO VOTE FOR JORDAN!

Okay this is so very hard, but seriously, I hate to say it, I think I am going with Beyond-Crap for this one. that yellow dress she is wearing is the WORST. Is that a backless strapless halter with a BUTT chain??? SERIOUSLY? Who would even think to make that thing? FUG. For sure.

Sure Swinton is weird, Swinton is out there, but Swinton is COUTURE out there, Beyonce is cheap ugly fug, just bizarre.

All hail SWINTON Queen of Fug! She's going all the way people. Her fug is just so DIVINE.
Just must stay til the bitter end.

Even though SWINTON is perfect, Sasha can be every bit as Fierce...god I'm good, but alas she must bow before the awesomeness that is the princess? of adrogyny. No even comes close except Bowie in his Alladin Sane days and how I adored Sir David...Swinton! Swinton!

It's all going to come down to a face off between the reigning queen of fug Bai Ling and Her Majesty of Everything Awesome in the World SWINTON, and SWINTON will prevail!

SWINTON makes my heart sing, and inspires haiku. We should have a SWINTON haiku contest.

Tilda is only even still in this competition because the authors of this website keep promoting her for it. The first two pics of her up there are actually really pretty, that Oscars outfit is gorgeous and age appropriate for a 47-year-old mother, and that one from the Met costume ball is a lovely Prada dress that she carries off very well. THERE IS NOTHING FUG ABOUT THEM!

Beyonce on the other had wears tacky crap her mom makes for her in a hobby corner in ho town

I recommend 2 contests next year. One for Artistry in Fug, and one for Just Plain Old Stupid, Tacky (Possibly Ho-Bag) Fug.

Artists: Swinton, Bai, Rapid Beaver

Tacky-Ho: Xtina, Beyonce, The Peldons

I think this idea has merit.

It'd sure make it easier to vote.

Had to go with Beyonce/Sasha on this one...
SWINTON is eccentric, and wears it well.

Beyonce/Sasha's looks are just ill-advised and whacked-out. Plus, who in their right mind would wear a dress that is a fitted as black saran-wrap???

I am voting for my Queen of the Fug Madame SWINTON and using Fug as a high honor.

Which is, of course, changing it from what it was when it was CAST UPON THE STARVING CARCAS THAT IS LINDSAY 'LEGGINGS' LOHAN. For her it was more of an insult.

Do not question the fug! The fug chooses who it shall keep and who it shall cast aside!

The major difference between these two: Beyonce has an awesome figure and does everything in her power to show it off (though that rubber grey thing is atrocious); SWINTON probably has a decent figure on that statuesque frame, but does everything in her power to hide it. SWINTON rules!

This was a close one. The fact that Beyonce's mom actually makes a lot of her clothes should edge her into the lead, but it also means that she isn't the guilty fugger, it's her fuglier mother! SWINTON, on the other hand, takes it hands downs. She at least dresses herself. I don't care what anyone says. SWINTON FTW!!

The fug of SWINTON will go down in history. She is a muse of fug, a goddess of fug, a legend for the ages. Beyonce - ehhhhh. Generic red-carpet drapery given an extra swizzle of fug by the distinctly amateur vibe of it all. Like her dresses, B is destined to be a bridesmaid, never a bride, of all that is truly fug. Don't get me wrong, I agree with all who bow down before SWINTON's avant-garde, gender-bending, haute-couture madcappery. She is ALL THAT, and several galaxies more. But look again, people. Tell me from the depths of your heart that SWINTON's sequined cape/zip-up hybrid with bonus saddle-bag flaps - is she hiding the contents of a liquor cabinet in those, so she doesn't have to line up at the bar? Smart woman! - is not ferociously, blindingly fug. It's so fug I want to sing its hideous praises from the rooftops. SWINTON FTW!!!

Beyonce is just ridiculous. I LOVE Swinton. LOVE her. How can I vote for Swinton in a Fugness championship? Isn't it the same as trashing her? Especially when competing with Beyonce who looked lovely at the inauguration and frankly scary at the Oscars?

I vote Beyonce because she THINKS she's fashion and she's FUG. Swinton, on the other hand is doing her thing intentionally and that just brings her fug to a different level.

I LIKED Beyonce's Grammy dress

I swear, I have no clue why so many of you worship at the Altar of Swinton. She's ugly, she wears ugly clothes, and she looks awful doing it. Even if there is some sort of awesomeness about her badness, it's still are very bad and very ugly. BLEH!

Swinton is so far beyond fug that she is approaching fab. She has no peers and is untouchable. She is leagues above this competition.

Beyonce is the epitomy of FUG. She has got it all: face, figure, fame, money, connections. She can and should look fantastic every day. Yet somehow she manages to mess it all up. She considers herself a fashion icon, we need to give her a reality check. Girl needs it in a bad way.

Last year's Fug winner and others of her ilk, those who have no talent but want attention by exposing their bits and nethers like sluts/hos/tramps/tarts/etc, do not deserve to win (nor do they deserve any more of our attention). If we don't give them any more attention, maybe they will go away, which should be the goal of all sane people.

This is a tough one, I had to go SWINTON out of sheer love. Beyonce is just misguided, but SWINTON IS AWE-INSPIRINGLY WACKED OUT. Ok no more caps lock now. Go team S!

Oh my goodness, this is the match-up, isn't it. I only wish that THIS could be the final championship face-off, but alas...

Swinton should be unstoppable, but this was the year of Sasha Fierce...and look at how far multiple personalities got Bai Ling. This is going to take some thought.

So I'm noticing that when someone becomes befuggled by the choice placed before them as to which of 2 fug-bearing celebs should take the category and finds themselves simply unable to choose, we inevitably find ourselves mired in the argument of Which One Actually Thinks She Looks Good vs Which One Is Only Dressing Like That To Attract Attention. Chicas, is it not the same? Or are we suggesting there is an unconscious mechanism at work here? Personally I have not yet found that idiots like Price and GaGa dress any better when they are actually just going out to dinner. It is not their act, it is who they are. So both the likes of the MK Olson and Lady GagGag are fugs. It is not unconcious fug vs conscious fug. It all fug. If you allow your body to wear effin ugly stuff it is fug. Whether you are unaware of your fug, ala Paltrow, or muy aware, ala Bai, you are still fug. You have allowed yourself out of the house looking fugly therefore you are fug. We must base our choices on how fug the fug is.

SWINTON is amazing, artistic, and austerely beautiful (in an alien way). There's no way she qualifies as fug. Beyonce, on the other hand, spends most of her time waltzing around like a lampshade my grandmother from New Jersey would buy for her "powder room"

In casting my vote, I had to ask myself who could best be an ambassador to, well, whatever the winner of fug madness is an ambassador to. Are there entrants in this contest who are fuglier than SWINTON? Sure. Are there people who dress far, far worse? Definitely. But any question that involves the words "reign supreme" can have only one answer. SWINTON!

Come on. Beyonce is wins because she THINKS she's high fashion. Swinton just marchs to her own drum.

Had to go with Beyonce because she's held up as some kind of standard in fashion and should know better. SWINTON on the other hand looks like she's trying not be be too bizarre unless I'm just getting so used to her wacko style that it barely registers anymore.

SWINTON...it was fug at first sight

SWINTON reign supreme!!

Folks, don't confuse the issue! We're voting on FUGLIEST, not "regining supreme"! Because we all know that SWINTON reigns supreme. Nobody's questioning that. But fugly? No. She's doing exactly what she wants to, and carries it off with poise, grace, and awesomely humbling awesomeness.

Beyonce is a tool, a fool, and too clueless to realize that every outfit she dons is a MISTAKE. A fug, fug mistake.

Search your souls. Even though you know SWINTON deserves to win *some* kind of prize, you HAVE to vote Beyonce for Fugliest!

SWINTON. SWINTON is the fug, and the fug IS SWINTON...

I don't get why everyone keeps saying "Swinton is divine/I love SWINTON/SWINTON RULES!" and votes for her. I can't see why someone would WANT someone they love to win the fugliest clothes year award.

Sorry but I had to vote for Beyonce. Swinton at least has a sense of style, even if it is whack style. Beyonce is just a style-free mess: pure fugliness.

Did anyone see the shout-out on Mental_floss today? They mentioned that Tilda Swinton had a third nipple and then they said, SWINTON for all you fuggers!

i almost had to choose beyonce for the robotic arms that accompany her wherever there is a camera. almost.

OMG it's so hard to choose!!! And in that first picture, I totally thought Beyonce was Janet Jackson. But, I love SWINTON and her wackiness! And Sasha Fierce's robot hand is so much fugly fun!

avant-garde intellectual fug? or trashy, I'm so sexy, conventional fug. I still can't decide.

I had to go with Swinton on this but for the life of me, I can't understand why Beyonce's dress is made out of dryer vent hoses.

Oh, Beyonce, without a doubt. FTW. Beyonce stands like a cyborg at a fancy dress party. And her clothes are fugly. SWINTON, on the other hand, wears her swintoness with aplomb. All hail SWINTON!

Cannot choose.
Beyonce = money run amok.
SWINTON = empress' new clothes.
Cannot choose.
:(

Swinton is too fab to be fug.

B looks like she was forced to construct an outfit from the contents of an air-conditioner duct supply store.

I wish we could have seen a Sasha Fierce/Beyonce match up. I wonder if that would have been like, when you travel back in time and your past self sees your future self and thinks it's an imposter alien pretenting to be you, and so past you and future you fight and then you just IMPLODE.

And then we'd only have one Knowles sister fugging this world instead of, kind of, three. Though I would admit to missing the robotic hand.

But all this aside, YES, SWINTON, YES.

What is with Beyonce and the bent arm/hand on hip pose? So plastic, phony, contrived, and not particularly attractive. Which is how I have always felt about Beyonce, no matter what personality she's showing.

Then there's Swinton........the creativity! The colors, or lack thereof! The variety of styles/time periods/galaxies she chooses.

Usually I would just automatically vote against Beyonce, but this time it's a firm "oh yeah" for Swinton.

no no no no no. Swinton is adventurous and weird and wacky and wonderful. She tries things mere mortals would pass up, and she gives exposure to off- the beaten path designers. Beyonce just has bad taste. She's tacky. She's not interesting. And that, my friends, is FUG.

For those confused about what they are voting on, the question is the same in every Fug Madness poll: "Whose fug reigns supreme?" In other words, who is more fug?

For that reason I had to vote Beyonce. Based on the comments SWINTON is winning the popularity contest vote.

Hester wrote:

"SWINTON is in control of her wackadoodle outfits. She is wearing them, even if they are choosing her in some bizarro wardrobe language. Beyonce, on the other hand, is dressed by her mother, in a style which suggests Momma Knowles coats her daughter in glue and rolls her around a Bargain Basement Fabric outlet, before spraying her liberally with Pam and shoving her out onto the red carpet.

there is avant garde, and there is fug. SWINTON is an artiste des vetements moderne. Beyonce is FUG."

I am snorting chocolate all over my keyboard. Hester has spoken my mind more cogently than I ever could have. Beyonce it is.

I think SWINTON should take this one just so she can be immortalized in her own bracket next year.

Honestly, I'm a huge SWINTON fan and love to watch her expressionless face and wilted body wear everything but I'm not sure that she's...FUG.

I know it's all been said. Beyonce's a hot mess and I think that's important to reward with a win in Fug Madness.

I have to say, everytime Beyonce steps out in public I wince just a little bit. I want to yell "You're not a little girl anymore! Stop letting your mother dress you! She has TERRIBLE taste!" Maybe she just needs a good therapist, but Tilda Swinton is truly a fug icon. I think she has decided that the worst dressed lists were made for her and she embraces it with all she has. I think she may very well be from a distant alien planet, but at least her fugly just seems to be who she is. Beyonce...well, she really just has craptastic taste in clothing. Swinton hands down!

I ... no. I just can't believe Beyonce is losing this match up by almost 2:1. Tilda Swinton is a tour de force of cosmic swirls that got hyperpixelated after hopping into a wormhole so as to not be too late, so she come across a little pointy and elongated. Beyonce is a wannabe barbie puffball whose mama still dresses her funny.

I have to go with Beyonce because, like other girls have mentioned, Swinton looks crazy on purpose. She is the classic eclectic artist. Beyonce, however, is not. She thinks she is fashionable and trendsetting. Her ignorance bothers me while Swinton's awareness makes me happy.

Pale giant scowling
Serene empress of fug
I am not worthy.

"Swintonian" is my new favorite word.

I like my alien women to appear to have nice child-bearing hips.

Fugger's paradise! Tough choice

You guys can't get behind a House of Derrière matchup?

C'mon. We need a fug-off between Beyoncé and Solangé (who has secretly added an accent to her name whilst waiting for her fight). Do it for fashion.

I know, it was hard for me. SWINTON is a glorious performance artist and really should have a bracket named after her. Or a round. Next year, this HAS to be the SWINTON Sixteen.

Two totally different kinds of fug... SWINTON is awesomely fug-tastic, Beyonce is just straight up fug. (I swear, every time I see/read/say SWINTON I smile... she gets points for that.)

Oh good grief....the outfit that SWINTON wore that was all matchy matchy with her hair is SO much fuglier than Beyoncé's upholstery fabric mermaid dress. Can anyone say couture my *ss?

I've just never seen Beyonce not look slutty. SWINTON, on the other hand, has buckets of class. Easy choice.

SWINTON is a QUEEN. No contest!

I had to go with SWINTON.

SWINTON dresses like she means it. I think she looks like a nutjob, but she looks like she is relaxed and comfortable and dressing this way on purpose because she likes the clothes.

Beyonce is a media whore who looks like she dresses for attention. I vote we stop giving her attention and maybe she'll just go away. And take Sasha with her.

I just can't do it. I love SWINTON too much to continue voting for her. Although her look certainly often meets my definition of "fug," it, and she, also meet my definition of transcendently awesome. B, on the other hand, is strictly fug. I don't think the fug girls ridicule her when they highlight her here, but I don't want her to become queen of fugliness, because really, she should be queen of the world.

This is hard. Very hard. But keep this fact in mind: Beyonce owns a "FASHION HOUSE." So not only does she think that she dresses incredibly well, she (and her guilty mother--let's not even talk about her mother right now) want others to actually pay to dress like her. That is enough to tip the scales to vote Beyonce.

And wouldn't it be fitting to have a Beyonce/Solange cage match at the end?

Oh such choices!! I missed Fug Madness last year because I was doing the actual March Madness, and now that I've experienced it I don't know how I lived a fulfilling life without it.

Beyonce is definitely the fugliest of them all, but I just could not bring myself to push the button. I wish that she and her smug I'm-all-that-and-then-some-so-I-can-have-a-"fierce" (lame)-alterego-ness and her weird red carpet beach ball arms would JUST. GO. AWAY.

Beyonce is young, filthy rich, in the fashion business and knows the freaking president! She should know better by now than to wear those dang threads.

Swinton is a crazy actor lady and therefore is permitted to wear dresses of a length that my Gran prefers.

Beyonce must be punished for spreading the fug to the next generation......

This is where it becomes difficult. My mind thought Beyonce, my heart felt SWINTON. I am starting to worry that SWINTON's arsenal is running low. Is her Chapka pic going to be recycled until the final round? I don't know, I'm beginning to have second thoughts. Oh Beyonce...why do you dress like a little girl who's playing with some grownup's clothes...circa 1980? Half of it looks like it was thrown together with scraps from a sportswear factory in Malaysia. I know your body is bootylicious: that's no excuse.

SWINTON!! all the way!!

Her fug is so intriguing!!

How magical would it be if SWINTON wore Beyonce's dress from the first photo? You know, the one that looks like what the 'Starship Troopers' make their administrative assistants wear?

It would be made of WIN!

I heart SWINTON, I wish I were her. She is she who cannot be knocked out - she's the pulsating heartbeat of this competition.

Swinton is original to me, like a fashionable anorexic scarecrow.
I love the skinny lady.

STOP THE PRESSES

Okay. So SWINTON's going on to the Elite Eight. But. BUT.

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/33531736.html

THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS VISION.

Any Edmonton fuggers going to her concert? I NEED PICTURES.

Thank godtopus Beyonce vanishes into the dark night she haunts at this point. Far too many pixels and column-inches have been wasted on her for someone who is possibly the least talented and most overhyped singer of her generation.

And now, I have wasted column inches. Oh, the humanity. Save us all SWINTON!

I have to admit--part of what keeps me voting for SWINTON is that I feel like you girls will be really, really sad if/when she loses a match. On the other hand, part of the reason that I care about you and your feelings is that you bring me wonderful things like SWINTON, who is a wonder to behold.

I feel like I've seen SWINTON's coat in that last one on a cartoon grasshopper. I mean, with all the flaps and whatnot, doesn't it look like she could be hiding extra legs?

You know, I wanted to vote SWINTON, but Beyonce is fuglier. Go figure.

This really is a tough one. Beyoncé just has really bad taste. SWINTON is clearly trying to make a statement with her clothes, and I don't really think of that as fug, so I don't want to vote for her. I think of winning this contest as a dubious honor, and I want to praise SWINTON for her daring, not condemn her.
Also, I stood behind her in the line at a ladies' room at the Berlin Film Festival, and she was beautifully dressed in a luscious bronze-colored velvet jacket that fit her perfectly. Not fugly at all.

This is truly an epic battle between two ladies I enjoy, whose fugs I love, but I'm giving it to SWINTON if only that it gave us the word "swintonian". I hope Jay-Z doesn't come after me.

It was a tough call, but I had to vote for Beyonce. SWINTON is avant garde, but Beyonce is downright fug. I bet SWINTON's mother doesn't dress her ...

I don't get it. Swinton looks great in all her ensembles except for the last one, which is just bad in so many ways (cut, color, fabric, fit, zippers, etc.). I think that Tilda's Oscar's get-up is gorgeous; luxurious and austere at the same time. Beyoncé looks pathetically vulgar and cheap in all of the proffered photos. And that yellow dress is THE definition of fug, although her other outfits run a close second.

As for the philosophical conversation here, which I have followed with much interest, I think that the definition of "fugly" is clear: a bad outfit coupled with the inability to make said outfit work for the wearer due to lack of style on the part of the wearer. So it is definitely a matter of personality AND clothes. For example, Paris Hilton is always completely outrée, but she manages to carry it off most of the time, which is her only claim to fame. Linsey Lohan on the other hand lacks style, and typically wears clothes that do not favor her at all.

I am really disappointed in the GFY Swinton bandwagon, especially considering that you gals are usually spot on in your assessments.

Swinton is usually incredibly stylish. Bey is never. Therefore Beyoncé must win this bracket.

Lord YES! I WANT TO SWINTON MYSELF!!!!!

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I truly believe Swinton outfugs Beyonce here. I think Bey dresses nice half the time and the other half is usually just a waste of her beauty. Save for the stage outfits and the Oscar Dress, I've never been completely repulsed by anything she's worn since the Destiny's Child days.

SWINTON for the win, because her fug is incredibly fascinating and it doesn't try to woo you. Bey's fug is just part of her famewhoring... I mean, come on - that ugly sparkling neutral hippy thing looks hippy because she has a 19" waist? How many ribs did she remove (and subsequently eat) to make that happen?!?

Long live SWINTON!!!

SWINTON is a work of art. Kind of like the Sistine Chapel of Fug. I think with any other person, winning Fug Madness could be a mark of shame. But not for SWINTON, oh no. For her, it is merely a sign that she has powers of fug that we mere mortals can never understand.

If Glarkware made a SWINTON t-shirt I'd totally buy it. I don't think I've ever loved Fug as much as I've loved your SWINTON updates.

Yes, Mssrah, I want a SWINTON t-shirt as well! That's such a great idea.

I voted for SWINTON but I'm kinda worried she's going to win for her own amazingness, not for her fugness.

This can't be a serious matchup...

Btw, I like this format where I don't have to click on links. Easier to just scroll. Yes, your readers are LAZY! :P

I'll be DAMNED if Beyonce is going to unhorse the glory that is SWINTON! Gods, I love that woman.

And I totally second Sanne. I want a SWINTON shirt from Glarkware. Summertime fashion, that.

How can Swinton only have a third of the vote? Is that even possible? She makes fug fab! And I want a Swinton shirt. My birthday's in May, for all you out there.

Tough choice, but I think SWINTON's sparkly zippered tux jacket thing and clown pants just barely squeaks by the body armour dress.

Here's the problem: SWINTON looks kind of awesome in her own unbalanced way. Beyonce looks like a mental patient. I would say Beyonce's fug is the winner, because everything she wears is unredeemable in any way.

My coworker Bill just walked past as I was laughing my head off scrolling through the pictures. I asked him if he knew what fug was. He said sure. Then we scrolled through the pics together. He favoured Ms. Fierce so I voted for Swinton for the fugly vote. SWINTON TO WIN IN 09!!!

Bow down to the SWINTON!!!

Have you ever noticed how Beyonce always poses so her arms look like Barbie?

I am soooo hoping that SWINTON takes it all...

Swinton would be so gorgeous if she just put on a little makeup! Not a lot, but enough to bring out those eyes, you know. It might take some of the sting out of those outfits.

I think we need to understand how this award is "awarded" (Heather, Jessica, Intern George...anybody got the answer). Is winning "FUG MADNESS" a bad thing? Is being considered this years ultimate "fugger" a diss? SWINTON is a goddess. I don't care if it looks bad (not actually that often)I don't care if it's whackadoodie (It so gloriously is),I don't care. I adore her and all she wears and all she does. I think Beyonce looks (in her mother's dresses) like a dress me up Barbie. Barbie (the doll is great)is not a fashion plate (Unless she's dressed by Byron Lars...wait can Byron Lars dress Beyonce, if so then she'd be awesome like Treasures of Africa and SWINTON...I digress). As I was saying. If I vote for SWINTON then I'm voting because I love her and her style and the whole thing. It's homage. If I vote for Beyonce it's because I hate her and all she does and her Barbie/Mama House of Deréon crud and it's terribleness. It's a dismisal of her and all she is. Am I supposed to vote from a place of love or of hate? Help me here.

P. S.

http://www.i-dressup.com/fashion/chic/House_of_Dereon.php

Just, you know, to spread the hate around.

Wow. I was really REALLY worried with that first photo of Robo-yoncé that my (irresistible) vote for SWINTON was going to be forced and somewhat untrue.

BUT THEN I SAW ALL THE OTHER SWINTON PHOTOS and remembered just how totally freakin' whacked out she is. The brocade! The Robocop eyeshadow! The chainmail/jiffy-bag jacket! The stumpifying everything! SWINTON DESERVES my vote, and to win this damn thing outright!

I voted SWINTON but only as an ode to her fugbulousness. Of these two, the real FUG however, is best embodied by Beyonce.

I like Beyonce, and she seems so committed to the zany things she wears. But, oh! SWINTON is just...so fabulous in her fug. Delectable. Her persona is appealing, and her clothes, while clearly not anything I could ever wear, are just so over the top and yet so RIGHT for who she is! I don't care what any of her competitors are wearing. Most of them look pathetic or gross or revolting or just SWEET LORD DON'T THEY KNOW BETTER BY NOW?! But SWINTON brings class to the fug. She is the total package, and may God pity anyone who votes her out.

Beyonce's alter-ego thing is just...lame, but I like her music and her sense of style is very entertaining. Unfortunately, she's up against SWINTON, and NO ONE can compete with SWINTON.

Hmm. The only thing keeping me from voting for Beyonce is that I have completely bought into the whole SWINTON thing. I mean, stupid metal glove vs. Hollywood's answer to arty fashion? Maybe next time make Beyonce and Sasha Fierce separate contenders? (Holy Cow, now there's a FInal Four for 2010: Beyonce, Sasha Fierce, SWINTON of course and Solange).

I am so struck by that first Beyonce picture I had to go with her. It's ... It's something special.

swin...TON!!

Ummm. ROBOT HAND, anyone?

Any person that naturally beautiful with a figure like B's should be excommunicated for wearing the things she does. Mother as designer or no.

Beyonce - only for the fact that she picks every outfit to deflatter her body. She is beautiful - but looks like one hot mess - on purpose. Tilda picks unique ensembles that are at the very least flattering to her figure.

SWINTON!

I feel like SWINTON and Cate Blanchett come from the same lovely, talented and insane planet where Cate is a princess and SWINTON is High Empress. Swinton is not fug, she is divine. She is above this.

I think I covet almost all of SWINTON's clothing (those green satin pumps worn with that lace dress--are gorgeous, come on) but I know they all work on her because she's the definition of undefinable beauty. She's got "something" that makes her look great in what she wears, and actually points out how great the clothes are, too. No one else could look good in them.

I'm in that group who believe SWINTON should not be crowned the Fug Queen--she's not Fugly in the kind of slovenly, "I put this on cause my stylist/mommy/boyfriend/investors want me to put this on" way.

And that second group unfortunately includes Beyonce, doesn't it?

Destiny's Child my a** - Tilda puts the WIN in SWINTON !!

And I am totally with the SWINTON t-shirt campaign.

can i just say two things?

one: the use of "SWINTON" (oh how i enjoyed hitting Caps Lock on that one) as a verb (as in "swintons herself in swintonian things") is just brilliant. combined with your wit, fug girls, your writing is beyond delish!

two: someone mentioned t-shirts yesterday with SWINTON (ahhh... caps again!) in like a really simple font, on a white tee. i'd seriously buy that if you put it in your gofugyourself store. please? pretty please? with a cherry and stuff?

aaaahhh. march is bliss with you, ladies.

SWINTON frightens me. It just occurred to me that the outfit she wore in Constantine towards the end of the movie in the pool scene was probably from her own closet. Anyone remember it? It was off white and it reminded me (don't ask why) of Madonna and Dolce and Gabbana circa 1990 with wings. The movie totally sucked -SWINTON was the only bright spot. SWINTON will crush her opponents.

Here's why I voted for Sasha and not SWINTON. Sasha thinks she's hot and that's why she gets attention. I don't think that SWINTON thinks she's hot, I think she's just trying to get attention. Nothing is fuglier than a fugger who thinks she's hot when she's really fug. Even SWITNON.

How is SWINTON still in it? She's too fab to be fug! VOTE BEYONCE!

Is it wrong that I'm now rooting for certain stars to be nominated for awards just based on the level of fug they'd bring to the ceremony??

I was sad that this match-up came so early in the contest. Beyonce is a mistress of fug, squashing her lovely body into weirdly corset-like outfits that make her bulge in odd places, and, well, Robo-Hand....and the yellow drop-flap backless critter is just surpassingly hideous. But SWINTON? an incredibly beautiful woman who's made an art out of choosing colors, shapes, and lengths that are just heinous on her. Can you say "TAUPE MAKEUP"? The random applications of orange to everything? The shoes--oh lordy, the shoes...

SWINTON everlasting.

SWINTON will reign. Over all our dreams too, just watch people.

While I was getting ready this morning I handed-off the pc to my husband who had instructions to keep clicking SWINTON until I got back. :D

Hate Beyonce and how she dresses and her confidence doing that while I regard SWINTON as a queen. In my opinion, even Bai Ling, whose fug seemed rather dim this year, won't be a match for SWINTON. Wish we had a Bai Ling vs Beyonce in the quarter finals in which surely Beyonce would sail through without a scratch. And i think that describes the level of Fug Beyonce is in.

SWINTON all the way, for putting the eccentricity, interest and class into beyondFUG.

At least SWINTON is interesting, and you get the impression she's secretly laughing at herself and everyone else. Beyonce is just boring-bad, and every outfit, facial expression, and Barbie-like placement of her arms and hands just screams "I AM A BRAND, NOT A PERSON. AND I PLANNED IT THIS WAY."

GOD SAVE THE SWINTON!

Long may she reign!

Respectfully submitted,
-Magno

I voted SWINTON, but only as a compliment to her style. I think it's amazing!

Vote Beyonce! FUG means tacky and cheap.

SWINTON is not fug! She deserves an award, but not the fug award. Beyonce is fuglier.

Daphne - THANK YOU so much for the SWINTON in a kilt photo. Am I crazy, or does she not have excellent legs? And, as one of the paler members of the species, I appreciate that someone else is rockin' the pale. There is no amount of sun that will turn my white skin anything other than red.

Laura M- I think I may speak for many when I say - thank you for telling me you've starved your kids. I left my computer for a second to walk the dog, and cursed my poor boy the entire afternoon for missing a comment. This is THAT important, and I thank you for being right there with me.

Finally - I just have to say look up the Viktor and Rolf 2003 show. An ARMY of SWINTON clones. It was the best thing I have ever seen - ever, in my whole life. I want the tee shirt, I want the doll, I want the action figure.

You know, I've read all one million of the comments and still cannot decide. SWINTON, whom I love, along with her fabulous Viktor + Rolf garb, David Bowie makeup and translucent skin... I actually find her inspiring. Beyonce, on the other hand, is queen of fierce tack. Her crazy robot hand, glittering strapless gowns, and hot pants are fantastically hideous.

So I guess the answer would theoretically be clear: it's all about ug, and nothing's more ug than Beyonce/Sasha/Tina Knowles putting a ring on it, right?

Wrong. I have loved this site for so long that being crowned queen of it almost seems like an honour. I had no answer until I remembered someone's comment regarding the jelly-shoe coat.

Beyonce is trying to be SWINTON. She is not. Trying to be the queen is surely the fuggiest move of all.

I wish people were nicer to Beyonce:(

I propose another vote. Next year, the brackets need to be broken down even further. There's the Swintonian, Swintonese, Swintonista (call it what you will) column, where clothing choices are truly inspired, and the FUG column, where costume choices are manufactured. It's the biggest problem with the FUG Awards - all too often having to choose between the eclectic (which, granted, is often awful, but always highly personal)and the downright fugly (which is, more often than not, the direct result of an attention seeking wannabe with no discernible talent).

Or maybe it's just me.

oh my god. i am so upset. beyonce is fuggier than fug and swinton is a wealthy avant garde genius. i can't believe that miss always too tight mermaid dress metal fingers is going to lose.

Oooh man. This is the toughest one of all so far! (I guess it makes sense that the decisions would get harder as the brackets get smaller...) In the end, I had to go with SWINTON, because I'm pretty sure a lot of her fashion comes from another planet or dimension.

SWINTON wears ugly clothes, for sure, but there always seems to be some sort of bizarre purpose. Beyonce on the other hand, thinks she's DIVINE and that's why I think she's the number one Fugger. SWINTON has avant garde choices but Beyonce is a FUGLY pop star!

There is no comparison. Swinton is fab in her own glorious way...
Beyonce is Fug in a not so glorious way. FUG FUG FUG..... so much money and still letting Mother dress her....

No contest. Beyonce gives it the ol' school try, but SWINTON is sublime!

I love SWINTON. She deserves to win.

I genuinely think SWINTON pulls off her bizarre outfit choices. Plus I'm basically in love with her. So I voted Beyonce.

Besides, SWINTON inspired an entire collection by Viktor and Rolf! All of the models dressed as her as they walked down the runway:

http://fat-berry.com/blogs/media/blogs/a/viktor_and_rolf_dolls_01.jpg

She IS fashion. She is ART.

VIVA LA SWINTON!

Compared to SWINTON, Beyonce's outfits are a snooze fest. SWINTON is just so unpredictable, she's a clear favorite.

I love SWINTON so... someone said it up above - she's beyond fug, she's performance art. I just can't fug her.

Beyonce, however... all I can say is if the House of Dereon is made of the same corrugated tin as that dress, it oughtta be condemned.

I almost had to come back to this one...it's too tough a choice. But then SWINTON is a sentimental fave (LOVED Orlando, babe!), so that's how I went.

The back of Beyonce's yellow dress ALMOST made me vote for her (UGH), but COME ON, ya gotta give it to SWINTON.

But ladies, the white-rat eye makeup! SWINTON to win.

I had to go with Beyonce. SWINTON's outfits are more hideous, but the difference is that she's *trying* to be weird. Beyonce, on the other hand, has her own clothing line, and presumably is trying to look good and is failig miserably at it.

Beyonce thinks she looks hot -- Swinton thinks she's unique/quirky. BIG DIFFERENCE!

Was SWINTON attacked by an eyeliner pencil at the tender age of 4? Is that why she never emphasizes her eyes, so she'll remain washed out? Perhaps she is just waiting for a the chance to be photographed in front of an almost-white backdrop; she'll become camouflagued so that the photographers will have to guess where she is standing! All she'll give them is cackles of glee! "Am I here? Or am I over here! Hahaha! What is this mascara you speak of?"

This one actually was not difficult for me. While Swinton does have a very fugnique fashion sense, she could not care less about what people think about her (you go, girl). Beyonce on the other hand thinks she's a style icon. Not only are her clothes visually offensive, they're also two sizes too small!!

SWINTON is from another plane of existence. She cannot be held to the same standards as mere mortals. If only our eyes could discern the full spectrum, if only our minds could perceive the ineffable plan....

So, regretfully, Beyonce for the win.

I adore Swinton! She is beyond FUG she is ART!
I voted for Beyonce because most of the times her outfits are just attention getting mental.
Swinton dresses for Swinton and I like her style!

Although Swinton may seem like the winner at first; I think that I have to give it to Beyonce.
I don't find that Swinton pretends to know anything about fashion, and therefore I'm never surprised by her outfits.
Beyonce, on the other hand, acts as if she's some sort of all-knowing fashionista, allowing us to view haute couture ideas from the future.
I just wish that ontop of someone helping her with her clothing, somebody would also teach her how to quit posing like some sort of stiff barbie doll.

I had to vote for SWINTON, because I love her too much. But if Beyonce would have been up against anyone else, she would have taken it, because she's gone so totally fug this year. I mean, really...what's with that stupid robot outfit with the hips? Is she nuts??

I'm dismayed to see that SWINTON has a serious lead. I can't help thinking you guys are missing the point. As someone else said: Fug is bad! Fug is not something to aspire to! Fug is misguided, even embarrassing to a sensitive onlooker. SWINTON is, in her mad way, a sartorial genius. Beyonce--who could look smashing, if she had a decent stylist, or a smidgeon of taste--is a disaster. She RADIATES fug. Curvy, sexy fug, sure. But fug is fug is fug.

Come on, people. BEYONCE needs to be put in her place. SWINTON is an icon and should be revered as such. Beyonce Beyonce Beyonce - her stupid name and alter ego deserve the Fug Madness Title. Not to even mention her dumbass robotic arm.

I had to go Beyonce. She actually thinks she looks good. I don't think SWINTON cares that she looks bad. Tough choice. Too tough.

These are getting too hard for me!! I need stricter criteria!! I need an outline! a study guide! It's just all so FUG!!

Had to go for SWINTON as she's managed to turn Fug into an art form, where i can't wait to see what she's going to turn up in next!

SWINTON FOR THE WIN!! BAI LING IS SO 2008.

That was so difficult. I finally chose Swinton because she scares me, she could kick Sasha Fierce's trash.

My mama made me wear this and I my taste is just as crappy v. aristocratic fug worn in a totally unironic manner. No brainer. SWINTON gets my vote.

I had to vote Beyonce, only for the fact that I'm dying to see a sister catfight with Solange in the finals.

That, and Beyonce and family DESIGN this crap. They don't buy or borrow it. That is the most craptastic of all!!

SWINTON is actually quite fab in these photos. Beyonce is teetering towards hot mess. Or stuffed sausage. FUG!

What's with all the hating on Beyonce? She screws up now and then, but overall, I kinda like her brash, in-your-face, if-you-got-it-flaunt-it look. What's so offensive about showing off curves? I don't dress like her or Swinton, but if I was forced to wear clothes from the wardrobe of one or the other for one week, I'd go with B. They both rock their own style ... that being said, I voted for Swinton because truly, to me, she's just more fug.

I think Swinton looks great in every picture. If she were a character in a screenplay, there would be no choice but to cast her as herself. Beyonce, on the other hand, while also kind of great, could be played by half a dozen other girls and no one would mind much.

Swinton can't continue! She is too damn cool to be fug! Her choices are eclectic and funky. Beyonce is wackadoo!!

VOTE BEYONCE! SAVE SWINTON FROM THE FUG!

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