Fug Madness 2009: The Final Game

It's all come down to this. It's the FINAL COUNTDOWN!!

I don't really have the heart for this final round, not without Solange and Katy Perry, who both epitomize Teh Fug.

WE CAN NOT VALIDATE AUBREY BY GIVING HER THIS WIN DAMN IT! SWINTON FTW!

I think Swinton, like Scott MacIntyre on AI, is getting through on personality when other people should be in that slot. People like Alexis Grace, oops, I meant Solange. So I'm voting Aubrey.

come ON! audrey o'day canNOT be winning. people, fug madness is all about celebrating that love-to-hate feeling. bai is (oh, god, WAS?!) crazy and fun and hilarious...same as swinton. aubrey o'day just seems gross and pathetic. we cannot glorify her!

SWINTON = CONCEPTUAL ART
Aubrey = Conceived artlessly.

I just can't fug SWINTON. She's too cool. Aubrey, on the other hand, looks like she stepped off the scrap pile at the factory where they make competitive Jazzercise costumes.

Only SWINTON has the personal, unscrutable style that deserves to succeed our reigning Queen Bai.

Aubrey is a trashy pet-abuser. She is awful, which is fuggable, but she lacks inspiration.

SWINTON FTW!

Up with elegant fug!
Down with skanky fug!

SWINTON must win this! No one can dress their fug ass off quite like SWINTON.
The Fug Girls were right when they said to "CELEBRATE" her awesome fugliness.

Aubrey, your are a skank of the highest order of fug. Take you little dog and crawl back into you skank hole. Skanky fug must not prevail.

Long live crazy-ass fug.
Long live SWINTON.

I refuse to give O'Day any validity by allowing her to win ANYTHING. Although I dearly love SWINTON and her odd styling choices, I vote for her to win if only so that O'Day fades back into the obscurity she deserves. Come on, people! SWINTON FTW!

SWINTON is a glorious statue of a woman, and we must love and celebrate her for it.

What a delightful head-scratcher the Final has become! Although the yadda-yadda arguments for SWINTON are legitimate, especially the part about the cost in body parts to purchase these fugged-out garments, Miz O'Day is the very epitome of fuggery, right down to her orange skin.

Aubrey O'Day all the way!!!

At least SWINTON has worn some sort-of cool things, or things that are artsy, or that could be pretty... or whatever. Aubrey always looks awful - has she ever gotten a well-played?

For the love of fug, SWINTON has to take this!

This is the classic battle of fug fashion verus fug attention whoring.

It's so imple. SWINTON is not fugly (fucking ugly) and Aubrey is. Aubrey FTW.

Okay, I was really hoping Mischa Barton would end up in the finals. She has that desperate, faux edgy thing going on that I hate. I had to vote for O'Day. She truly has horrid taste. Her hair is too blonde, her make-up looks like it was applied with Homer Simpson's make-up shotgun "set on whore," and her clothes are just stupid. Stupid stupid stupid. SWINTON I love to much to vote for. She loves avante-guard looks and though she looks like an alien most of the time, I just really appreciate that she has an artful aesthetic and sticks to it. Kind of like Posh. Who, again, is totally nuts but it works.

errr...simple.

SWINTON.

I like my fug classy, covering and contemptuous.

Thank you, Heather and Jessica for the year-round Fug and for opening the comments for Fug Madness. It's been a lot of fun being able to hear what your fans think about fug and its various forms.

SWINTON is magnificently SWINTON. Aubrey is disgustingly fug.

I had to go Aubrey here, but to be honest, I was really hoping she'd be knocked out in the first round. I just can't vote Swinton. Love her and want to celebrate her, but need to PUNISH O'day.

It's about celebration. SWINTON all the way!

This post totally redeems today for being a MONDAY.

This all comes down to the fundamental question "What is fug?".

To me fug is not hit and miss. It's not elegant but fail. It's not about cool but clueless.

Fug is tacky, tastless, and shameless. Aubrey FTW.

I have to go with Aubrey. I have too much respect for SWINTON for going against the grain, whereas Aubrey just dresses like a ho.

C'MON GUYS. If Aubrey O'Day wins, I will seriously kill myself. She is trashy and obvious fug while SWINTON is artsy-fartsy and delightfully twisted. I treasure her majesty in highbrow fug art!!! SWINTON RULES, O'DAY (and her tragically dressed to match dog) DROOLS!!!! SWINGTON FTW 4EVER

SWINTON is an elegant other-worldly goddess. SWINTON is timeless. Aubrey O'Day is not. The fact I've only heard of her from GFY makes it an easy vote...

Honestly, looking through the pics of SWINTON vs. Aubrey back to back like that...Aubrey makes SWINTON look like the epitome of stylishness in comparison to her trashy, jaw-dropping hideousness. And that's no small feat, considering that SWINTON generally looks like an alien from outer space dressed up as a woman dressed as a man. With too-short pants. Amazing. Though I adore SWINTON, gotta vote for Aubrey on this one!

SWINTON. I feel a vote for Aubrey is a vote for low classy fug. Let's keep it highbrow, Vote SWINTON!

IMO being voted the fugliest is not a compliment...

Once again my vote goes to the extrodinarily expensive, poorly fitted, color-blind, clueless fugosity of original smug that is SWINTON over the calculated, trashy, trite be-costumed sluttyness of o'day. Anyone can find synthetic crap at Wal-Mart, a cheap plastic surgeon, and throw it all together in a parody of skank. Only SWINTON can fug up couture.

SWINTON should get o'day's doggie as a prize. It would be a lovely prize; her kids could play with it and she could build it a little castle to live in. Much better than a life spent being clutched under o'day's armpit.

The fact that SWINTON is in the final game proves that it's about celebration.
SWINTON FTW!
We cannot reward skanky fame-whoreiness!

Come on SWINTON!- the epitome of haute whackadoodle style fuggery. Down with vulgar skankitudinal fug that is A O'D's MO. It must be SWINTON! for the win!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop making me shout, people.

Oh SWINTON you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey SWINTON, hey SWINTON. Seriously people, this woman is a national treasure. She rocks my world.

I vote because I love.

Whether or not the award is a celebration or a censure, it ought to go to someone you hope to see around in the future. If Bai Ling decided to live out the rest of her life in seclusion at a nunnery, the celebrators and the censurers would probably both be sad.

If Audrey O'Day dropped off the face of the earth this evening, I wouldn't miss her. Not for one second.

So my vote went to SWINTON.

SWINTON forever!
Before this blog, I didn't even know who Aubrey was. I'm still not sure if I could pick her out in a crowd without her dog and her craziness. But SWINTON is a legend. Of crazy.

can't fug the SWINTON, too much intelligence there, too much thinking forward. also, there is the talent factor. and the sandro kopp thing, too. this aubrey person offends me in a way i'm not sure i can describe without being mean so, you know, rise above, rise above.

can't vote... paralyzed... losing speech capacity...

I agree that I would have dearly loved for Mischa to take this - child is seriously misguided, but thinks she's "edgy."

Ack, Tilda Swinton NEEDS to win. Why can't I vote multiple times?

SWINTON is ART. pretty fugly art, but ART.

Aubrey is FUG. trashy, plastic-y, poorly manufactured, probably itchy in private places, likely dangerous-to-animals FUG. She has to win it.

I think I have this all wrong: I see the Fug Award as an honor, not a stigma. Bai knows that she is wacky, and SWINTON has to know she's off the wall, and both of them have a certain je ne sais quoi. But this Aubrey person, whoever the heck she is, is just GROSS.

SWINTON is anti-fashion while still being fashionable. She's got a look and honestly, it works for her in her severe sexy way. At the end of the day, SWINTON has talent and her cougar-licious lover. O'Day... well, let's give her this, at least.

Alexa put her finger on it for me:
"Fug is tacky, tasteless, and shameless."

I adore SWINTON for the crazy, but Aubrey is truly fugly. And would somebody PLEASE rescue that poor dog?

I wouldn't vote for Aubrey O'Day if she were running for dogcatcher. (Imagine the horrible outfits she'd put on those poor animals!)

Go team SWINTON!

SWINTON is really Conan O'Brian, right?

SWINTON is arty fug, but fug nevertheless. Please check the magazine cover!
She's so worthy...

Per the FAQ, "fug" means "fantastically ugly." There is NOTHING fantastic about Aubrey, therefore I must go with SWINTON.

my head is going to explode! Is SWINTON fugly or is she the coolest interplanetary being to ever grace earth? AOD, whose look is DOA and not just for the puppy injustice, is NASTY but is that fugly or just horrible. I'll have to look through all of the pictures again...OH MY EYES!!!

Thanks H & J, another great year!!!

Aubrey O'Day's dress has flowers on her lady parts. Perched on her lady parts. That detail plus the colour of her lipstick in the giant diaper ensemble is worth the whole shebang.

I gotta say that although I don't necessarily like her choices, Swinton has class. Class is the anti-fug. She is interesting, but she is not vulgar.

The pictures of SWINTON make me smile and shake my head affectionately. The pictures of Aubrey on the other hand make me feel unhappy when I look at them. So I must vote for Aubrey. SWINTON has a very non-fugly persona even though her close are whacked out, but Aubrey is just plain fugly with an extra-helping of fug.

Also, I feel bad for the dog!

Holly - LOL - you are right, SWINTON and Conan are long lost twins!!

I miss Bai Ling and solange. Swinton is too cool and this other thing is just dresses like she's drunk.

This is not even a contest. Trashy O'Day for the win.

I think some people are overthinking this! Yes SWINTON has a mind and a creative spirit. Yes we respect SWINTON more (because, how could we not?). Sure Aubrey looks like she slept in a tanning bed and applied her eye makeup with a grease gun... BUT, for me the distinction comes down to this: with SWINTON I look at her and say, "What the f@#k? Oh, SWINTON, you've done it again!" With Ms. O'Day I usually just feel the impulse to wretch, shake my head, and sob a little. For this reason, I VOTE SWINTON. You can be classy and still be fugly. VOTE SWINTON!

Swinton has perfected her style and she can easily carry it off into her 90s. It's weird, but we like it. It works, and winning or losing this game won't affect it.

O'Day is still young and unformed. She could still benefit from an intervention. Her style is weird and we hate it, it's scary and it demeans her as a young woman. Maybe winning this game will prove to be her rock-bottom, last straw, cry for help, and she'll let someone take her to Barney's, J. Crew, or TJ Maxx, and get her some CLOTHING.

I cannot believe that O'Day is winning. Come on people, think of the children! Did you not read the dailymail link??? Swinton reigns supreme.

Had to go for Aubrey. SWINTON will always rule, but her clothing choices are less fugly than they are in a bizarre zone of their own, a la Bjork. Aubrey O'Day is a dog-abusing ball of mindless, thoughtless tacky. This is fuglier any day.

I would, however, support a commemorative award for SWINTON for Fashion Transcendence, or the naming of a bracket after her in future March Madness showdowns.

I think Swinton has real (albeit weird) class and therefore is elevated to a position beyond mere fug. Aubrey is completely UNclassy and for me, that's what the true essence of fug is all about.

I love this match-up so much, I can hardly find words to express it. I want to shout a string of obscenities that would make even Aubrey's cleavage blush.

There are no losers (and no winners) here today, my fine, fugging friends. This is a sartorial disaster of the best kind.

Let's crown a queen, people. They've both earned it.

AO'D accessorizes her dog. FAIL.

Wow, I'm stunned. I thought SWINTON would be yards ahead. The sad thing is, Aubrey will actually be tickled if she wins. Here's hoping The Bai is gearing up for a power-fug year.

This was so hard! In the end, I could not vote for O'day for the same reason I could not vote for Phoebe Price last year. Anybody can be fug for attention. It takes a special being to be fug because it is in their heart. They don't care about the fug, theus they are the fug. Long live SWINTON & BAI LING!

>>>Per the FAQ, "fug" means "fantastically ugly." There is NOTHING fantastic about Aubrey, therefore I must go with SWINTON.<<<

Well, to be fair, our word choice there isn't trying to influence anyone -- we were just being demure and looking for a substitute for the actual F word.

I have to say, I'm in the award-as-punishment category. SWINTON deserves to be put in a museum (she often reminds me of one of those paintings that I feel compelled to contemplate, but would never, ever hang in my own home). Aubrey deserves the fugging, for that diaper-and-non-slip-shower-mat look alone. The fact that her aura of fug is so strong that it sweeps up small domesticated animals in its wake just seals the deal.

Are you there, SWINTON? It's me, Lelo.

I have a confession...I didn't vote for you. I'm so, so, SO sorry but Aubrey is wearing AN IKEA BATH MAT and ABUSES TULLE and IS A TALENTLESS, TACKY, ANIMAL SADIST. That feather vest? Like, 5 endangered birds probably died for that. And don't even get me STARED ON THE DOG.

So, sorry. SORRY!! Please don't be mad at me?

OK, I have to go back to work now.

O come on. We are celebrating fug not skank! Day reigns supreme in her skankitude, but Swinton actually has class she just makes fug choices.

If it were only about clothes, Aubrey may have it. However, Swinton is more in the spot light and should be held to a higher standard and I didn't know clothes that fugly could exist for such A-listers until I laid eyes on her. Swinton truly deserves this title.

Yes it is IMPLE, Swinton must win. Keep voting, Swinton-ites, keep voting!

i really love swinton's craziness. but i think that miss o'day is TRUE fug. like she has no idea how fug she is. swinton is a masterpiece. aubrey is just sad.

I might be in the minority here, but I LOVE Swinton's nude dress and her outfit for the Oscars this year. I thought they were gorgeous!

Therefore, I cannot vote for her.

You know....when I first found Fug, I thought it was awesome to rip celebs apart for their fashion sense. It still is - let's be honest =)

But over the years and posts - I've come to realise that the Fug Girls arent just here to "rip" - they're here to give support, in a tongue in cheek way for the most part....=)

Giving "credit" where it's due and smack downs with love, when it's necessary is what Fugging is all about.

After all - what's a girl to do if her best gal pals don't have the nerve to say "Take that off, honey. You look like a trash bag with legs. Try these instead."

So for me - it's about celebrating the sacred bond of sisterhood where we can say "I love you, you're fabulous" and "That makes you look like a $2 hooker" in the same breath.

SWINTON - I celebrate you, sister! Now please. Less trash bags, dresses the exact same color as your skin tone, pets as hats and hats as pets. And more "I'm Acting goddess - behold my glory! Love me and despair!!!!"

you get the point.

GAH. I can't believe the agita this has caused me! But I want Aubrey to be condemned; if there were a trophy for this thing, someone should clock her in the head with it.

Whereas I want SWINTON to have an emeritus post, or an internship with dear George, where she hangs around having gin and tonics and voting with us next year.

I was all set to vote SWINTON, until I realized I'd physically recoiled from my computer when confronted with every single Aubrey picture. The crazed, vacant eyes in the last one clinched it, like she can hypnotize us into thinking we know who she is and care that she showed up. And that beaded sweetheart neckline follows me when I move.

Yes, SWINTON does look nuts. But you have to appreciate her whimsy. She's unique, and despite the crazy, looks classy; I would very much enjoy having tea with her boyfriend and 60-something ex-lover. Aubrey O'Day is just a trashy skank who is desperate for attention. It's not too unlike Posh v. Bai Ling last year. Bai Ling is way trashier than Posh, so she won. And Aubrey should win based on the same mert.

SWINTON is already a part of our collective vernacular, which makes her a winner already. Aubrey looks like she shops at a second hand store for hookers.

SWINTON wears art that no one else would put on. She's a living avant-garde mannequin who looks like Beeker from the Muppet Show, and yet, she's still quite graceful and icy cool. Aubrey is... not.

OK, I have to put my hands up and confess that I HAVE NO IDEA WHO AUBREY O'DAY IS. That somehow makes her fug even fuglier. Clearly, she dresses like Satan's own Canestan advert to emblazon her existence over the celebriverse, and yet all I know is that she had a tanned underarm, possible colour blindness, and a dog who needs to get himself a better agent or a restraining order.

Swinton, despite her leaning towards the Fashion Shroud school of couture, still registers first in my mind as an actor. And an impressive domestic negotiator second. Her avant garde wardrobe trails in third, since some of the time, she looks astonishing in clothes that only she could ever carry off. There are no clothes that only V-Bec or Solange could carry off. That's the difference between Fug and so-fashion-forward-you-need-binoculars-and-faith.

I vote Aubrey. Although in my heart, it was poor furious Beyonce Knowles who should be clapping her robot hands together tonight.

How could you possibly pit one against the other? Swinton is not FUG, she's AVANT GARDE. Besides, she may not wear the most flattering garb for her figure but hey, there's something to be said for NOT exposing your veiny sideboob cleavage every opportunity you get. Besides, Swinton's glorious androgyny was the only thing worth watching in Constantine. And she does sexy woman quite well too - Benjamin Button anyone? Who the eff is Aubrey Ho Day anyway??

Aubrey makes my eyes burn, get her out of my sight. CELEBRATE SWINTON!!!

It hurts me to reward her, but I have to go Aubrey. SWINTON manages to pull most of those things off with her supreme self-confidence, but Aubrey just looks stupid.

It hurts me to reward her, but I have to go Aubrey. SWINTON manages to pull most of those things off with her supreme self-confidence, but Aubrey just looks stupid.

My voting thought-process has gone down the drain during this competition. It started with my trying to decide which of the competitors was most fugly while trying to be fab, and it's ended with who I think is most likely to hear she's won this title and throw a hissy fit in a magazine.

Definitely Aubrey.

I voted for the person wearing adult diapers as a fashions statement.

P.S. And Aubrey? Just....no. Plus duking it out with SWINTON in Fug Madness is the closest this girl will ever get to an Oscar...

I write in Katy Perry.

Aubrey has to take this! SWINTON looks downright LOVELY in that SWINTON colored sack. O'Day continues to make me puke in my mouth a little.

I was distraught when Aubry beat Solange, but then I decided that these two are the perfect contrast. But I believe in celebrating, not chastising, so SWINTON for the win for me!

I was so set to vote SWINTON until I got to the white dress that bags like a diaper.

Then I just knew.

While I worship SWINTON, Aubrey O'Day's fug is a sin against humanity. SWINTON is a gift while Aubrey is a walking reminder to stay away from anything that looks like what would happen if you melted all of your old my little ponies and turned them into a tutu. I have to vote for the complete fugliness that is Aubrey O'Day. SWINTON you are just too classy.

I can't vote yet! I am going to wait till I've had more caffeine.

Reading the comments, I see many people are perplexed as I am. Are we voting for the BEST fug or the WORST fug? SWINTON is the best obviously, Aubrey is the worst.

Emily, I was with you for the 1st two sentences. SWINTON makes me smile, AOD makes me throw-up a little in my mouth and for that I have to vote for SWINTON. Fugly for the love.

Omicron Persei 8 rules!

I think it's funny that everybody loves SWINTON, and everybody hates Aubrey, but that seemingly translates into very different voting procedures.

SWINTON brings fugging to an art form, whereas Aubrey O'Day just seems to have an aversion to good taste. I agree with the previous posters who say we cannot validate her attention seeking by crowning her the winner. Her fug takes no skill - she just buys ridiculous clothes, whereas SWINTON is a master at making clothes(some of which might be good on someone else) look ridiculous.

I still have to go with Aubrey, if only because I just want to rescue her poor dog and let it be free of clothing and dyes. Also because though she may dress very strangely, SWINTON is totally awesome.

SWINTON looks GOOD. If we can say something redeeming about her: she looks elegant; she is a gorgeous statue; she knows what she's doing; this is a conscious CHOICE, then it is NOT fugly. It's "something else," certainly, but fugly: no.
AUBREY O'DAY FTW.
Plus, if she wins, we get to see her attempts to "class it up" in the coming year.

CENSURE! I love Swinton, and I absolutely LOVE three of the dresses that were shown as examples of her 'fug.' In fact, her Oscar ensemble - severe hair and all - was my absolute favorite of this year's Oscars.

As for O'Day - a total talentless spotlight hog, and I hate to reward her one woman tacky-fest by voting for her. However, Swinton is an etheral goddess, and I don't even understand why she is in this contest. Proof that people don't get fashion as an art form, I guess.

So, O'Day it is. CENSURE.

A vote for this Aubrey, whoever she is, is only giving her what she wants. I won't do it.

SWINTON is a bizarre Fug goddess, a vision in expensive shapeless sacks. If she doesn't win, then I just don't understand anything anymore. SWINTON Forever!

Swinton ISN'T cool! She's ugly, her clothes are ugly...the total package is just fugly ugly. She is anything BUT fashionable. It's like she gets dressed in the dark everyday...

Aubrey is a nobody who wears tacky, cheap clothes. But she's kinda pretty. And at least she wears makeup....unlike SWINTON who looks like the walking dead (in very ugly clothes).

I'm voting for SWINTON.

What if GFY made SWINTON the Patron Saint of FUG? Doesn't SAINT SWINTON really represent what she is about? The fount of individually reckless style,her motivations are pure, no attention whore she! Aubrey may win for a year, but SWINTON is for the ages!

In my opinion "Fug Champion" is a definite censure. I adore SWINTON's wackiness as much as everyone else, and that's why we should spare her this- what if she won, pulled a Bai Ling next year, and started showing up looking relatively sane most of the time? Where's the fun in that? But if we can get AoD to show up ANYWHERE reasonably clothed, that would be a service to humanity.

My hat is thrown firmly in the "censure" pile. SWINTON! is a walking piece of modern art. oh. day. is the Decline of Western Civilization in veiny blow-up-doll form.

Pleas, we cannot have Fugly O'Day as our winner. SWINTON is already the queen of everything!

I am flabbergasted. There are no words. Like someone said above, we vote because we love. That is the same reason Bai Ling is our reigning champ!! How can Aubrey be winning? SWINTON MUST WIN!!!

I can't stand to look at that trashy dog abuser another moment much less vote for her to win resulting in a "One Fugging Moment" montage in her "honor". This is madness, madness I say! VOTE FUG WE LOVE, VOTE SWINTON!

SWINTON FTW!!!

SWINTON ruined her chances for the win with what she wore to the Oscars this year. I'm sorry, but she looks BEAUTIFUL in the elegant black and tan outfit especially with that perfect shade of red lipstick. Aubrey just looks gross in everything. She's so tacky.

Cannot fug the Swinton! Too much in awe of her and her wonderful partner (John Byrne, not the upstart).

Aubrey all the way!!

I agree with everybody and I want there to be world peace.

I can't believe I didn't vote for SWINTON, but she's so - dare I say it - elegant. But Aubrey is just Fug-with-a-capital-F with no elegance to be found within a reasonable radius.

Samantha, thanks to the very first comment I now have images of Gob prancing around on stage in my head. (which isn't a bad thing). :D

As for the vote, I had to go with SWINTON. While there is no excuse whatsoever for Aubrey's "outfits", she's in her 20s, has no talent, and no one knows who she is. That's at least a reason for dressing the way she does. SWINTON, on the other hand, is a talented Oscar winning actress. She knows about the world, she knows good from evil. Yet she continues to dress the way she does. There is no reason in the universe to account for her fashion choices.

I love the debate over whether it's a compliment or not to win. I will point out that Bai Ling won last year for being essentially naked most of the time. So the answer really CAN be different depending on how you feel in a given year.

Fug Madness always knocks us out, but I'm gonna miss it.

On behalf of pitiable little dogs everywhere, vote for Aubrey!

Seriously, guys, think of what SWINTON will do if she wins this! She'll probably commission a designer to turn a "winner of fug madness" plague into a hefty-bag-shaped dress for the next Oscars.

SWINTON! SHE IS OUR GODDESS!!

SWINTON!!!

Apples and oranges, anyone? I vote orange. then. Tilda Swinton is brilliant. (I would however like this Aubrey person to take her trophy and flee to some other planet.)

I had to vote SWINTON, out of fondness. I just adore her.

If this were Whore Madness '09, Aubrey would win hands down.

I dearly love SWINTON and celebrate her every wacky sartorial choice...but AO'D makes me want to roll around in a kiddie pool filled with Purell for half an hour after merely viewing the above pictures.

I think I am going to clear my cookies and vote once for each. It's the only way I can live with myself.

Celebrate SWINTON by voting for AOD. SWINTON is far too great for this. She should never, ever follow Bai Ling, whereas that is O'Day's precise destiny.

Hee. I can't believe I've never noticed SWINTON's resemblance to Conan. But now I will always notice it.

i think the win=censure. thus, my vote goes to aubrey because i wince when i see her clothes.

Hee. I can't believe I've never noticed SWINTON's resemblance to Conan. But now I will always notice it.

I am still upset about Madonna. I thought she was going to win it all. If I can't have Madge then I will take O'Day. SWINTON at least tries to be classy. It seems to me that O'Day love the trashyness of it all. EWWW.

Swinton knows exactly what she is doing. O'Day is out of her depth.

Oh, this is real pain. A vote for one means the opposite for the other. We LOVE SWINTON. We haaaaaaate O'Day. And I feel both of those emotions with equal strength and passion.

I love SWINTON, and hope she never changes. I want Aubrey O'Day and her (as was perfectly described by another poster) low-self-esteem-wear to go the hell away.

In the end, my love is stronger than my hate. SWINTON FTW!

PS> Please, I totally want a SWINTON T-shirt.

Much as I love SWINTON's wacked-out elegance and insanity, I had to vote for Aubrey. It's sad, I hate to see SWINTON go, but really, she brings great elegance and bizarre style to her Fug, while Aubrey brings only Fug. *sigh* Love ya SWINTY, see you next time.

Sorry, SWINTON, I have to vote for Aubrey "LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" O'Day simply so that she will never be the subject of photo montage going forward (in the vain hope that the "winner" of a fug contest might exercise caution the following year).

I simply cannot get behind someone who continually pours libations on the altar of tackiness. Gross. And good work P-Did for excising this tacko-wacko from your empire.

I've been wanting to call shenanigans for so long now. I feel like the people have allowed themselves to be swayed far too much by this all caps SWINTON business! I think it generated false love for her and became a thing of it's own, and now people can't even see that she's really just a boring, pale, makeupless woman in boring and awkward clothes. It's NOT THAT INTERESTING! I don't think Aubrey should have ended up here, either, but I'll vote for her anyway just because I'm so tired of the Swinton nonsense. I think we could have all agreed in the beginning that Solange should win and left it at that.

Ooh how hard is this decision??!

But ultimately, I have to agree with the argument the this Aubrey person is a vacant fame whore and I can't stand the thought of her getting this much attention.

REMEMBER, IN FAME TERMS, ANY ATTENTION IS GOOD ATTENTION - she doesn't deserve it!

Swinton's ability to wear something with such complete and utter conviction where you actually start re-thinking the nature of fug-dom is no small feat!

Um - fourth SWINTON picture down OWNS me right now. Could she please *be* a little more Ziggy-Stardust-era-Bowie right there?! She's pretty much my power animal.

SWINTON, FTW!

When I see the pictures of SWINTON, I feel as if I am sailing on a serene ocean of Fug on a lofty 2-masted schooner. Aubrey is just a trashy, plastic troll. Vote SWINTON!

I don't get the Swinton love. She thinks she's making some sort of arty fucking statement with her clothing choices. O'Day may be a skank, but I doubt she thinks she's on the cutting edge. They can both go away, as far as I'm concerned -- but the pretension bothers me more than the skank.

I really thought I was gonna have to default to Swinton on this one, but O'Day sems to have made it her personal agenda to inflict trash upon the world.

I've voted for SWINTON every single round so far. And now... I just can't. It's that last outfit of Audrey's in the scroll down. It kills me. It's the most disgusting thing I've seen in all of Fug Madness '09. Oh SWINTON, how I adore you. But I cannot fug you at the final hurdle. Especially when your deliciously sophisticated Oscars outfit falls between Audrey's Obama nightshirt and her floral-centrepiece-for-Barbie's-dinner-table, worn as a dress. ACK ACK ACK! My precious sight! The difference is clear.

HOW IS SWINTON LOSING?!

Seen side by side, the answer becomes quite obvious. And it's not SWINTON.

I don't love to hate SWINTON, I love to love her.
Vote Aubrey!

How is this happening? How is SWINTON getting beat by Barbie on Crack? Total BS, people. At least SWINTON has charm and grace to go with her crazy. Little Miss Herpes didn't deserve to get this far. The contest should be over by now.

I am bereft at the thought that O'Day might take this from SWINTON. Seriously, people, celebrate the moments of our Fug with a little International Maxwell House flavor and a vote for good old Matilda. Saint SWINTON, pray for us.

SWINTON!! Celebrate the insanity!

Oh no, O'Day just looks like she's just been expelled by Summer Hooker Camp, she cannot win! No validation for skanky hos!!!

>>>I think we could have all agreed in the beginning that Solange should win and left it at that.<<<

Aha, but she didn't -- she lost to Aubrey, fair and square, and by a handy margin. So not everyone would have agreed to that!

SWINTON is elegant and inspirational in her zany. Aubrey O'Day is a cheap beeyotch who is famous for quitting a band. Vote for SWINTON!

Darling SWINTON Struck me as Bowie's love child from the Berling days while A O'D would be a reason to bring back the wall.

Who ARE you people????!??!? How can you not vote SWINTON?? Being semi-naked and accessorizing with a sad puppy does not give you the cred to win this contest, oh no! SWINTON eschews makeup! She rejects showing her parchment-like skin! She wears outfits that make me imagine her going out for a Mother's Day jaunt with her entire, artistic, polyamourous household!! She is AN INSPIRATION!!!!11

I am totally voting again.

COME ON AUBREY! You can do it, baby. You deserve to win because there is no saving grace in anything you wear -- a pattern change, different accessories or different wearer entirely could save some of the Divine Tilda Swinton's outfits, but there is no hope for any of your got-dressed-drunk-in-a-school-theater-prop-room ensembles. Plus, only one of you has real talent and it is not you, dear Aubrey.

SWINTON is always a spectacle, but not in a performance-art way.

This O'Day person is a spectacle in a can't-look-away car-crash way. As I understand it, this is the nature of fug.

That said, I do wish that Mischa Barton had made the finals.

There is a HUGE difference between gloriously fugly and insignificantly tacky.

Swinton is glorious. AODay scrapes the bottom of the barrel of tackiness. (Besides, I HATE what she does to that poor little dog.)

Swinton all the way.

DEAR GOD PEOPLE SWINTON CANNOT BE LOSING TO A TRAMP LIKE O'DAY.
sigh. I need a hug.
where's Intern George when you need him?

Um, edit button:

SWINTON is a spectacle in a performance-art way. I don't know where that "not" came from.

Like I've said before, Swinton IS fugly, but in a strangely elegant, awesome way. O'Day is...there is no word for it in the English language. Swinton seems like someone who would be interesting to have a drink with. The thought of drinking with O'Day makes me want to drink right now to rid myself of the pain of that thought. But, just looking at the clothes...yes, Swinton's clothes are often fugly and not anything that ANYONE else (except maybe Cate Blanchett) could wear without looking like a complete lunatic, but O'Day is just sad, pathetic, trying-too-hard, sleazy, and, yes, fugly, fugly, fugly! That is why I vote for O'Day to be the Fug Queen this year! Spare Swinton from the title...for she IS pretty awesome!

I did it. After spending my entire lunch break pondering celebrate vs censure, skank vs style, Bai Ling, and Hollywood culture in general, I had to vote for SWINTON. Partly b/c it sounded like AOD was winning, partly b/c I think AOD's fug is one part cluelessness, one part skankitude, and two parts LOOK AT ME!!!! It's a cheap publicity stunt that I don't want to reward with more attention. She is truly, truly tacky in the worst way. SWINTON is a magnificent creature, an original who while her fashion choices are haute, repeatedly wears things that make my jaw drop and leave me perplexed, bemused, and wanting more. MORE SWINTON! Whatever she wears.

Dude. Aubrey for the win. Because she's trying to look hot and her outfits are still ridiculously unflattering. Bai Ling and Swinton--they're not comparable. It would undermine the nature of the contest.

Aubrey is the epitome of "fucking ugly" while Swinton is just WTF?

Aubrey FTW!

Aubrey O'Day just looks like she SMELLS.

I'm sorry. Swinton? At least I'd sit next to her on the bus.

VIVA LA SWINTON!!!

I had to vote for AOD. And I did it so much based on what is pointed out here - Swinton pays BIG BUCKS for these clothes. AOD is working at her fug herself - it is but her idea alone to dye her puppy to match her clothes. I have to vote against Swinton for the same reasons I voted against Gaga - wearable art, when not in a show, is really just fugly clothing. And Swinton is paying way to much for hers. I never thought I'd say it, but go O'Day.

Aubrey FTW because she's the queen of tackiness and gross.

thanks again for an awesome fug madness. I love this. I love the comments, I love voting.

I just spit coffee all over my keyboard -- AOD for the win! And it's harder to vote today, with Heide and Lauren eyeing me blankly from the sidebars.

The ultimate apples-and-oranges comparison. AOD **embodies** fug; SWINTON **transcends** it. Therefore, SWINTON has essentially fugged herself beyond this competition, and I must vote for the retina-searing O'Day.

Sorry, O'Day's outfits made me want to put 15-inch needles through my eyes --- and the dog, it just came down to that dog!

Yes... that's right... Aubrey needs to lead this and take it all! This is about being ***EFFING UGLY*** folks, not cracktastically fabulous. It would be fun to go as SWINTON for Halloween, or to a house party... but I'm afraid that if I ever dressed like O'Day I'd get booked for prostitution. AND THAT IS THE WORST.

Also, I'd like to suggest that instead of a trophy, that GFY gives out full-length robes to the loser - er - winners. That would be useful.

Look at it this way, SWINTON will no doubt win Oscars and other high profile awards for acting excellence; but this will likely be the only award the O'Day person ever has listed on her Wikipedia page.

It will stand as a firm but fair lesson for starlets everywhere.

How can Aubrey be winning over SWINTON? We cannot let this fame whore win! Whether it's a celebration or a censure, it has to be SWINTON.

I can't believe she--whos name I cannot even say--is beating the one and only SWINTON!!! This can't be true. SWINTON FTW!!

SWINTON's fug makes me feel happy just to look at her. Aubrey makes me want to look away. I vote for joy.

I feel like the final round should have been between Aubrey and Solange. How could Solange be allowed to fug it up ALL year in the most atrocious ways possible and not be here with Aubrey in the finals? Well I'm going with Aubrey FTW, seriously, the abuse she does to that dog. I will NEVER vote anyone over this fugly idiot!

Celebration or censure? That's an easy answer: SWINTON is a celebration, Aubrey is a censure.
I vote SWINTON, because I adore her.

Definitely SWINTON! Because her outfit choices are positively MAD, whereas Aubrey just wears tasteless and attention-seeking crap.

Thank you Heather & Jessica!
The comments have been absolutely delicious to read. What fun!
O'Day is so fug that she outdid last year's winner! Bai was trashy in a crazy, silly way. O'Day has brought this to a new level completely. Skanky, barfy fug, venereal disease fug! UGH!

This is not about glory, people.
Fugly means fucking ugly, and O'Day has got that in spades.

somebody define fug for me. its apples to bananas in here.

CELEBRATE SWINTON!!!

Trashy vs Avant Garde? Lols. Swinton =/= fug. DIE, AUBREY DIE.

This was very, very hard. Obviously SWINTON rules and AOD sucks. No question.

I went with censure at the last moment, though, because I feel like it's the only fair thing to do. This isn't a competition of the wackiest dressers. Or even the most talented people who have the worst fashion sense.

For me -- at the end of the day -- it's about which of these two women should feel more shame about her Fug Vitae. Aubrey, congrats, I literally voted against my own bracket pick when I punched my ballot for you.

VOTE SWINTON, DEAR FELLOWS! SWINTON! Let the pure, unadulterated fug reign true!

In the words of the Fug Girls, is winning a "celebration or a censure?"

For me, it's a censure. I had to vote for Aubrey. Tilda Swinton is just too talented, too fabulous to have this title. To me, FUG = BAD, and not in the cool Michael Jackson way.

SWINTON!

SWINTON'S fug is on this level that i doubt many others can even understand. and i think its a complement! the trashy/whore-y/seedy-attention seeking ladies will always be there. goooooo SWINTON

Censure. Always. O'Day.

I could hardly bear it, but I had to vote Aubrey. Those ensembles are so eye-searingly bad, so egregious, so the epitome of tacky and awful, that I couldn't do anything else. I, too am concerned about the affirmation this will give AOD, but it's entirely possible that she can't read, and may not know how to sue a computer, so maybe she'll never find out?

Swinton is amazing and awesome. But that other thing...She is like the love child of Phoebe Price and polyester.

I had to go with celebratory this year. SWINTON slayed Beyonce and Katy Perry and for that, she has my eternal gratitude. Maybe I am too mean spirited, but I just can't force myself to give AOD
A-NY-THING.

I didn't think the day would come where bei ling wasn't even in the finals! the world it is changing! :D

People, please. SWINTON is a classic, period. Aubrey is HIDEOUS, period. The winner of this contest is not due a compliment, bear in mind. Christ. How can you not vote O'Day??

O'Day, all the way!

Saz - fugly = fucking ugly. It's that simple!

I had to go with Aubrey. She is just unbelievably fugbelievably fugtacularly fugly. Swinton has brains, talent and class. (And, while she would dandle Posh on her knee and tickle her under the chin, it's the same head hurting dilemma again. Do you vote for the one that dresses crazy and delights you or the one that dresses crazy and hurts your eyes?) Ah....

I couldn't vote for Swinton on the basis that I don't find her style fugly. Unique, yes. Fugly, no. To me, she shouldn't even be here. Now if this competition were based on awesomeness...

Up against another contender, I might have gone with celebration and given Swinton the vote. Because I do love her. But the AO'D monstrosities hit me in such a visceral way, I am compelled to use my vote for censure.

Fug means bad. SWINTON is good, maybe even great! She is a strange and beautiful alien. Aubrey is not only bad, but so offensive that she deserves a crown of ugly. The fug crown. Let us not punish SWINTON for being gloriously different!

Censure vs. Celebration: I thought I was going to vote SWINTON because I want to celebrate her as much as I DON'T WANT TO LOOK AT AOD EVER AGAIN!!

But having read the comments, I'm swayed. I agree: FUG is not a compliment, and AOD is the fugliest.

I'll confess: after all this, I'm still not entirely sure who Aubrey O'Day IS.

I agree with the poster Alexa who said: "This all comes down to the fundamental question 'What is fug?'"

While I can applaud the whole fug as "celebration" mentalility, I don't think that is the purpose or the essence of this site. Fug = "f$%king ugly", not someone whose whacked out (yet avant garde and strangely appealing) fashion sense combined with her unconventional looks/ lifestyle choices makes her a bastion of badassery.

Look at the majority of the people on this site. They are not being celebrated for their whackitude but censured for burning our eyes with their non-fashion fugitude (and sometimes frightening lady bits) a la La Lohan, Paris Hilton and the reprehensible Spedi. Aubrey O'Day fits in this category whereas SWINTON inspires a more Joan Collinseque sort of awe. She should be revered, not fugged.

SWINTON is SWINTON.

Aubrey is PURE FUG.

The P.Diddy band reject needs to take this crown home.

Sorry, but I cannot validate Aubrey O'Day's celebrity by letting her win this.

SWINTON!!!!!!!

I can't stand behind any woman who takes her fashion cues from That's So Raven (Who, by the way, gets away with MUR-DER! For every disaster O'Day trots out, Raven Symone has done it twice over. FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY! RAYMONE MUST BE STOPPED).

SWINTON FTW...even if she often resembles a drained blister.

God, this is so hard. I think I may have to vote for them both.

I'm sorry, but if Aubrey O'Day loses this competition, then I must believe it is rigged. Swinton is a sophisted, edgy actress that goes astray on her fashion choices - but she appears intelligent enough to understand that that's what happens when you're on the cutting edge. O'Day, on the other hand, is apparently a moron and believes that she actually looks good. I know this is supposed to be objective, but I just cannot imagine "penalizing" Swinton in this way when O'Day is so clearly a numbnuts.

I vote Swinton because she at least has a purpose in life.....AOD can not claim as much.

Had to go with Aubrey...at least SWINTON looks like she showers and she doesn't make me want to get tested for STD's after looking at her.

David Bowie - testosterone = Swinton

Aubrey + hot tub + carrots + potatoes = skank stew for 1,000.

Simple math, people.

I personally prefer to take some delight in my fug champion, like last year's winner Bai Ling. Crazy? Certainly. But in a fun, spritely way, much the same as SWINTON is just awesome in an unconventional sense. I will be depressed if O' Day receives any sort of championship. Maybe if we ignore her she'll go away?? (not likely, but a girl can dream)

SWINTON FTW!!! Let's send O'Day back to the fug hell from whence she came!!!!!!

This is a weird matchup—avant garde fug vs. trash fug. And personally, I feel that SWINTON should not even be here, competing against the Mischas, Katys, Aubreys, Solanges, Bais and what have you. A key basis of fug has always been "they should know better," yet how can you possibly say such a thing about SWINTON? Fugging her is like fugging the spiky crown on the Statue of Liberty. A "win" for Aubrey is NOT really a win at all. Sometimes there is such a thing as bad publicity. Keep the ugly in fugly and keep SWINTON out of it!

I had to stop reading the comments and just decide whose clothes/fashion was fugliest. Aubrey won. At least SWINTON is classy.

I was all set to just continue voting for the magestic statue of craziness that is SWINTON, but the fourth picture of that orange woman (I don't even know who she is, and I'm too indifferent about her even to google) is what clinched my vote for her. Her ROOTS!! Oh my goodness, I actually gasped out loud in horror. I want to close the page and get her away from me, but I Can't. Look. Away.
Crazy orange lady FTW, please.

Yes, SWINTON is too cool for school.
Aubrey on the other hand should be going back to school.

Tilda is of course the Queen of FabFug, but this time my vote goes to O'day. The celebration of conceptual art is over. Time to vote for the people who should have known better and think they're all that. (Instead of being all that.)

Next year SWINTON should just have her own bracket.

I also vote to have the dog released.

Leaving aside personal feelings, the skank/elegant factor, and many other things... There are no redeeming qualities to Aubrey O'Day's clothes. None. We're not talking about things that might look good on someone else, or calculated fashion choices that may fly of fail, but just the pure, unadulterated, desperate, 'look at me (I made the right choice... right..?)' fuggery of someone with no particular reason to be noticed.

celebration, celebration, celebration! Last year it was Bai, this year it must be SWINTON. The rest of the year, the rest of site can be as wickedly censorious as the internet will allow, but dear god, a title like this must surely come solely from celebration. separate the chaff from the ...uh...non-chaff. lift up for all to see the precious jewels of Awesomely Wackadoodle from the Sea of Fug....okay I'm finished now. Back to work...sigh...

Um, hello people,

SWINTON! is a certifiable GODDESS of FUG.

Ms. O'Day is merely BADLY DRESSED.

I can't believe there is a question about who should rule as queen.

SWINTON! FTW!

Internets, let's be clear here: SWINTON!: FTW!

Respectfully submitted,
-Magno

Bunnyman - you made me cry!! Thanks! :-D

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO: Aubrey O'Day CANNOT WIN THIS. She will actually take this as a point of pride. She is flipping the script! You are giving her exactly what she wants! CELEBRATE SWINTON.

Bai Ling brought exuberance and whimsy to her fuggery: just take a look at the bandaids. You get the sense that if it all went away and Bai Ling was barred from LA and NYC, she'd go to the Home Depot in Akron wearing a purple bikini and a live orangutan and go about her day like it ain't no thing.

SWINTON is as talented and unusual as Bjork, Grace Jones, or Cher, whom the Fug Girls have rightly anointed as Unfuggable due to the delightful weirdness that is backed by being all kinds of awesome outside of the realm of fuggery. She'd meet up with Bai at Home Depot dressed in an orange C3PO costume and tell Bai that lemurs would no doubt complement her skin tone better. Then they'd go to Panera or something together and discuss the use of stag beetles vs tree frogs as hair accessories.

Aubrey O'Day is someone whom I have never heard of outside this website. She dresses like someone who really wishes she was Paris Hilton. There is no originality or, for that matter, joy in her fug, just a desperation that makes her tastelessness all the more distasteful.

SWINTON is the only successor to Bai Ling. SWINTON now. SWINTON forever.

Aubrey tries too hard. Swinton is cool and unique - a Fug Godess

SWINTON fwt!
Please...?

Oh, good, O'Day is winning.
SWINTON is amazing, and we need a t-shirt. But in the end, it's mostly about laughing at/shaming the fucking ugly dressers, i.e O'Day!

Tilda just looks too good in too many of those pics.

And if you look at the VOLUME Aurbrey was out there being tacky and skanky as possible far more often than Tilda was out there avant fugging

I'm just too upset to even vote...once solange got knocked out, I lost the will to mock

I had to vote for Aubrey, even though she needs attention like George Hamilton needs a tan.

I thought this decision would be impossibly difficult, but it's surprisingly easy. After all my tooth-gnashing and soul-searching last week, the good vs. bad overall effect turned out to be a pretty large component in what I consider should be labeled "fug."

So whether, semantically, I think what SWINTON wears is fug or not, she looks good in it most of the time. AOD always looks like Hot Mess City. Therefore, AOD is more fug than SWINTON.

What a long, strange madness it's been. Where's my martini?

I agree:

For the love of fug, SWINTON has to take this!

This is the classic battle of fug fashion verus fug attention whoring.

Remember this is only an honor to folks like Phoebe Price and Bai Ling - Swinton looks good sometimes - that Aubrey chiclet? Never.

It's my understanding of this that any mindless blonde with money can be misguided enough to do what Aubery does. SWINTON takes fug to another level, she transcends fug. SWINTON takes it for me.

While I respect SWINTON and no one is wackier than her...Aubrey O'Day is the true definition of Fugly. I was torn but I had to vote for A.B.

Oh my god, DECISIONS! This is such a difficult decision, as everyone has already stated. To celebrate or condemn. But I think one commenter encapsulated my ultimate choice perfectly: who else could carry on the line of Ling than SWINTON? Bai Ling's win was done out of love for a person who embraced their crazy, and in SWINTON the fug is proclaimed in a similar love. Aubrey is of the Hilton school of attention-seeking, annoying fug. Ultimately, I can't allow that sort of fuggery to take the crown from Bai, so SWINTON FTW!

Oh, for the love of all that is holy on this planet and the one she originated from- please coronate SWINTON as reigning queen of fug. She truly puts the "class" back into "classification of species unknown".

Also, if we don't vote for her, the mothership is coming back to reclaim her and vaporize all of us...

EDIT: A.O'd., not A.B.

I am sort of in love with the tacky hot mess Aubrey is. She is so random and inappropriate. It's mezmerizing, like a trainwreck.
Fug Girls, just so you know, I am dragging French followers towards the awesomeness that your oeuvre is. They are loving it.

I haven't voted yet. I know I will get sucked in the fug vortex and forget that I wanted to some predictions for Fug 2009-2010. I feel strongly that Leelee Sobieski will (hopefully get some work and need to attend functions) be in the Fug Finals next year. Also, two words: the girls-Aretha's girls. Aretha Franklin's fuggery lately has left me paralyzed with fear. She will not cover them. No one is above reproach. Lastly, let's all say a prayer that Anne Heche get some work, cuz she will give the Fug Allstars a run for the money. I'm going to go vote.

Such a tough choice, but in the end, SWINTON's crazy fashions are more avant-garde, while Aubrey O'Day is just plain fug.

EGADS PEOPLE!!!??

In the name of all that is holy and fug, why in the hell is SWINTON lagging behind?? J. H. Christ, she should be beating that mincing tulle-abusing, toilet-paper-wearing plebe into the ground with her own abused matchy matchy little dog!!!

This discussion has evolved into a quasi-deconstructionist theorhetical debate on the true meaning of fug. To me, the winner must subscribe to the "fantatically fug" asthetic.

One can find trashy tramps with horrible taste anywhere. They are a dime a dozen.

SWINTON on the other hand is FUG ROYALTY. Please cast your votes accordingly so we can genuflect before our rightful queen. If O'Day wins, I may have to commit seppuku, because that would be a SERIOUS OFFENSE

I don't know how this got turned into the Bai Ling Memorial Trophy, in which somehow the winner has to 'continue on' in Bai's half-naked footsteps, but even if that's your voting strategy, Bai is far closer to dressing like AOD than she is to dressing like Swinton.

OMFG!
(oh my Fugging God!)

I just can't embrace the "FUG as CELEBRATION" view. I can't.

SWINTON somehow, inexplicably exudes grace and class EVEN when swaddled by her most horrendously hideous creations. Most of her pieces are individually gorgeous or interesting, I ONLY seem to wonder at her pairings of said items.

This Aubrey-veiny-titty-thingy? even with all of her fuggings, i STILL have no idea WHO she is. or WHY she is. OR WHY I SHOULD CARE.

But who or why -ever she is, no question that her fug is Perfectly, tackily intact and should even OFFEND BAI LING!!!!

I actually would love to just photoshop her tacky little oufits ONTO SWINTON!!!! let the veiny-titty-thingy see how smug fug can be turned into ART. Admittedly, even SWINTON would have trouble with the diaper dress, but i really believe that SWINTON could take that Fug and turn it at least into a "hmm...".

AT LEAST.

in Conclusion-

VEINY TITS: Give your tits back to the manufacturer, accept the humiliation of the FUG madness Trophy, and understand that just because it is a trophy doesn't mean you've won anything. please be sure to see it as an indictment. you are worthy of no descriptive but FUG. and then please stay inside forever. Really. (also-set the damn dog free!)

SWINTON: Congrats on creating such a controversy within the Fugosphere. You have certainly kept us entertained. Please continue to appear with your strange and otherworldy design choices, but please- i beg of you- do not EVER make the mistake of starting YOUR OWN LINE.

The inescapable fug that your
intergalactic materials will surely unleash would cause world-ending fug in the hands of us lesser, terrestrial beings.

i am so saddened by the high number of votes for aubrey....
dont buy in to her fake fugness!!! this is exactly what she wants...
shes a fame grasping peacock to tilda's creative and artisitic pigeon...
if you only consider the talent that's required to look like a bowl of $25,000 oatmeal, then you'd know who to vote for....

Can you please get that Glark person to make "Team SWINTON" t-shirts. A purchase of basically worthless, definitely overpriced clothing will be the only thing to make up for O'Day's seemingly inevitable win.

Team SWINTON forever.

Ms O'Day for the win. She continually looks like cheap, cheezy, (sometimes dirty) fug while probably spending a fortune to do so. SWINTON on the other hand looks marvelous in a way that is somewhere beyond mere fug, a plane of existance that only few can even dream about.

I will vote SWINTON this year, because she cannot lose to whomever this Girls Gone Wild Reject is opposing her....but, I would suggest that next year, SWINTON is not eligible for the tourny. Not on the grounds of past wins, but more because we should just declare her the Queen, or Galactic Overlord, or Divine Mistress, or whatever title she prefers. She is her own category and she rules us all.

I can't believe I missed last week!!! My mom was in town, and the resulting cabernet bender left me unable to focus on the middle computer long enough to play on here for any length of time.

AND NOW SWINTON IS BEHIND AOD?

So up is now down? Right is now wrong? What's next? Day is night? Arson is socially acceptable? I'm allowed to shoot at the God People knocking at my door?

All I know is that I now have carpal tunnel syndrome from erasing my cookies and voting for the past half hour over and over for my girl SWINTON. But it's a losing battle. For every cookie I clear, 20 other misguided voters outdo my work.

Therefore, since the world will shortly experience Armageddon due to the GFY site ALONE, I will also assume that 11 a.m. is now 5 p.m., and act accordingly.

Come on, my little homemade SWINTON doll, let's go drown our sorrows together. Maybe you could bring your pet boy and he and I will dress you up, yes? YES.

Next year. I swear, next year, SWINTON. YOU HAVE NOT LOST, WE WILL SOMEDAY RULE.

SWINTON transcends the Fug. O'Day, on the other hand, always makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit. That, to me, is the sign of a true fugger. She is the bottom of the fug barrel. The big veiny boobs popping out all over the place sealed it for me.

Sorry - from Round 1, I just haven't been able to vote for SWINTON.

SWINTON is someone who just does her own thing and doesn't give a crap. Sometimes, I think she's really just pulling an Uma-Thurman-at-the-2004-Oscars, and is wearing stuff that will intentionally land her on worst-dressed lists.

Aubrey O'Day is, quite simply, a horrendous dresser. She is far more Fug to me than SWINTON ever will be.

See, to me fug is NOT a compliment. So to vote for SWINTON would actually be an insult to her delightfully outre sense of fashion. She's not really fug, she's an artiste in every sense of the word!

Aubrey O'Whateverhernameis - total fug.

To Georgia:

WORD.

As weird and wacky as I find SWINTON, Aubrey deserves to win for the sheer fuggery of what she does to that poor little dog. Therefore, I will whole-heartedly put my vote behind O'Day in hopes that her post-Fug Madness win press tour will keep her distracted long enough for someone (please, god, SOMEONE!) to kidnap that poor little dog and place it in Witness Protection.

I think what this comes down to is how you are going to view the supreme title: do you bestow it as a tongue-in-cheek congratulations to someone who you secretly love because of her weirdness, and thus turn Supreme Fug into an award of admiration? Or do you take Supreme Fug as an award that really, truly intends to deride the "winner" for their truly awful and attention-whoring sense of "style?"

In the end, I think I just hate Aubrey more than I love SWINTON. My vote is for Audrey!

God... SWINTON. I am in awe of you and your performance art clothes closet. You are my hero. Alas, I cannot vote for you. I thought all weekend about the meaning of true fugnaciousness. I had to vote for Aubrey O'Day for she is the poster-girl of true fugnaciousness. SWINTON... forgive me.

at least SWINTON has talent.

VOTE SWINTON

Wow, it's (sorta) another year of bad fugs already, and with the turnup of artistes, from Lady GaGa to Solange to Katy Perry to Aubrey O'Day, it sure has been a hell of a year. To more fugs and great criticism from the GFY ladies (and team, Intern George), here's a toast of champagne.

OMG Y'all!

SWINTON SWINTON SWINTON SWINTON SWINTON!

Don't y'all know who is destined to win? SWINTON is destined to win! It is her destiny!

Aubrey is just tatty and nasty, and Tilda wears her madness like a crown.

VOTE TILDA SWINTON.

SWINTON.

After thinking about this one HARD, I decided that I had to go with the one whose pictures gave me a sick, yucky, twisty knot feeling in my stomach over the ones that leave me squealing with delight and amusement.

Audrey ftw.

Aubrey O'Day's fug is just so generic. SWINTON, on the other hand, aims for the fug. I'm sorry—I cannot bring myself to endorse generic fug over a fugliness that's so artfully created.

sorry, but aubrey makes swinton look pretty fucking good.

Alexa at 9:18 said it all. Aubrey FTW! Let us not discourage SWINTON - let us step back and admire her as she continues to... to... well, however it is that you'd describe the way she moves through the world in those SWINTON get-ups. Thanks, Fug Girls. Always so sad when it's over....

Of course I meant AUBREY ftw... see, this is what happens when I try to make a post without finishing my first cup of coffee!

Wait, SWINTON's baby-daddy once made banana-skin boots??? Methinks that's what it would take to give her the win.

AUBREY AUBREY AUBREY!!! I picked her to win from the start, and I REALLY hope she doesn't disappoint. I don't even like her, but seriously, I think she is the DEFINITION of Fug. Although I must say, if anyone takes it away from this master of fug, I'll be glad if it's Swinton. Two diametrically opposed standards of fug, but only one can win. And it's all about Aubrey.

aubrey's poor dog made me vote for her. she needs to learn a lesson.

Au contraire - we DO come here to read. You guys are awesome!! I tell everyone I wish I could have your job.

Because I am a major B, I decided to vote for the person whose feelings this would probably hurt the most. Therefore my vote goes to Aubrey.

I was planning on voting for AOD, but made a last minute switch to SWINTON.

If you put that much thought and effort into your clothes, and they still look awful, then you should beat the person who pulls their clothes off of the clearance rack at Skanky Ho's R Us.

Personally, I'm upset that Solange didn't make it to the final round. She had my vote til the end. However, I must Dinsdale swayed me with "makeup shotgun 'set on whore.'" That says it all.

Weirdly, that rationale warms my heart. Is that wrong?

Just want to take a moment to thank you Fug Girls for another year of the AWESOMENESS that is Fug Madness. It truly is incredibly fun and addictive (in a good way). Bless you.

That siad...
SWINTON FTW!!!

SWINTON all the way, c'mon people! She completely owns her fug while Aubrey just looks desperate. Plus I don't want Aubrey winning anything, but SWINTON deserves all the accolades we can throw at her.

I truly adore SWINTON and had to go with the fashionably fashionless as opposed to the truly trashy of Aubrey. Plus, SWINTON's hat just kills me... I crack up everytime... love it!

wow.

This was tough.

I voted for Aubrey just in hope that this will finally be enough attention for her and she'll go back to whatever cave she crawled out of. And I hope to see SWINTON in years to come.

Ps- does anyone else have The Hills ad? And if so, aren't you getting freaked out by Heidi Montag staring at you? I TRY TO SCROLL AWAY BUT HER PLASTIC FACE JUST STAYS THERE.

SWIIIIIINNNNNTTTTOOOOOONNNNNN

The're not in the same league...
So hard to judge yet.
Swinton is superb in her weirdness, O'Day is just...fug.

I celebrate SWINTON in all her glory!

Suzy: Anyone can find synthetic crap at Wal-Mart, a cheap plastic surgeon, and throw it all together in a parody of skank. Only SWINTON can fug up couture.

Suzy's post finally convinced me to vote SWINTON. I was thinking, I can't vote for her b/c I think she's awesome (the two lovers thing rocked my world). But I CAN vote for her because she wears fantastically ugly things, that are still supposedly fashion forward. Seriously, I see trashiness like Aubrey all over the place. I have never seen fug like SWINTON. So I am voting for her - not because of how I feel about her as a person, but because of how I feel about her FUG.

This CAN'T be happening! SWINTON must win people! Hopefully more people are reading the comments before voting. She is the fugliest of the fug. The top fugger of all! Love the Skanky Ho's R Us comment earlier regarding O'Day! So true, but SWINTON for the win!

I voted for Aubrey solely for that HORRIBLE "bad girls heart Obama" outfit.... shirt.... dress... thing. Wow.

The're not in the same league...
So hard to judge yet.
Swinton is superb in her weirdness, O'Day is just...fug.

If Audrey O'Day wins, will someone please post and tell us who the hell she actually is?

Aubrey's fug is trite and boring. Aubrey represents the dark side of fug: thoughtless, kitschy, completely classless. In a word, her fug is EVERYDAY. SWINTON, on the other hand, represents fug taken to the next level. SWINTON is to fug what Kanye claims he is to music: the end-all-be-all. SWINTON's fug in TIMELESS.

SWINTON MUST BE VICTORIOUS. the future of FUG depends on SWINTON.

NOOOOOOOO! Not O'Day!!!! SWINTON is ART, people! O'Day just looks like a hooker. Where's the creativity in that? Where's the interest? SWINTON takes fug to a whole new level, while O'Day just looks dumb and trashy. Don't reward trashy. SWINTON!!!!!!!!

With every vote for the inexcusable Aubrey O'Day, an orphan dies in Malawi. And I'm not just saying that because my bracket had Madge going to the Final Four.

SWINTON, in all her elegantly fug glory, FTW!

Hello? Swinton is like white Grace Jones. You wouldn't fug Grace Jones, would you? O'Day makes me embarrassed, however, to have voted for Obama, to be a dog-owner, to be human in general. If Swinton wins I am going to issue an empty threat.

I voted for Aubrey, and hoped that when the results popped up that I would be overwhelmingly defeated. I just couldn't vote for Swinton, she looks classy, and not at all FUG. Aubrey defines FUG...

All I can think of is what they'd look like if they SWITCHED styles. Picture Aubrey in that majestic Siberian Hat ensemble- she'd never pull it off, but would find ways to cut peek-a-boo panels into its wooly expanses. That woman would make Lady Di's wedding dress look like a polyester/spandex blend. But SWINTON in the 'bad girls heart obama' disaster- I think she could make it happen. On SWINTON it would be commentary on the hopelessness of the capitalist ethos and an ironic indictment of the celebritization of politics. Aubrey fugifies everything she puts on, while SWINTON's fug is so carefully and deliberately chosen as reinforce her status as a fashion megalith of counter-culture. Which fug is better? Or worse?

Hello? Swinton is like white Grace Jones. You wouldn't fug Grace Jones, would you? O'Day makes me embarrassed, however, to have voted for Obama, to be a dog-owner, to be human in general. If Swinton wins I am going to issue an empty threat.

Here is where I admit to not even knowing who the fu*ck Aubrey O'Day is. I <3 Swinton, and the truth is, I love all the crazy things she wears, because she is a badass motherf*cker and there are few who are allowed to get away with such things, but she is one of the few.
Anyway, Aubrey O'Day gets a giant veto from me...how are you famous?! Who are you?!

SWINTON is the hopes and dreams of all the fugly children of the world. To look upon her fug is to gaze into the eyes of God. SWINTON has brought this competition to new heights that Aubrey whatever-the-hell-she-is can't possibly reach.

SWINTON forever. Long live SWINTON.

SWINTON's fug is pure of heart, and not at all like Aubrey's fame-whoring. SWINTON for the win!

SWINTON SWINTON SWINTON!

I just can't vote SWINTON for top fug -- when it comes down to it, she is the High Priestess of Fug as High Art. Not art that I necessarily understand. Or like. But I have to appreciate the way she carries it off.

O'Day is just fug in its most pejorative sense. She isn't only desperate to be noticed, you get the sense she actually thinks this crap looks good. That SHE looks good and deserves attention. She has to win in the sense that being the fugliest means to LOSE.

I had to give the nod to AOD. I just have to go with who offends me the most. Look at AOD's face in the pix where she's wearing the snake-skin boots (probably pleather) and the boa vest. She somehow morphed her appearance to look like that HORRIBLE HORRIBLE women who sells her schlockly Signature A products on one of the home shopping network shows-I don't watch any of them so I don't know which one. Does anyone know who I'm talking about? The lady is like 130 years old pawning herself as 60 and she has the HORRIBLE HORRIBLE voice. Her face is so pulled and stretched. Freak show. SWINTON never wore anything that I found morally offensive. I think I just wanted her (SWINTON) to keeping going so I could type SWINTON in all caps. I like typing SWINTON in all caps, and I'm not sure I know why.

Here's the thing. Both of them are equally fug. But the thing is, Swinton makes it good to be fug. she wears her fug with pride and in interesting ways, while Aubrey...

Fugston knows, peeps. I love ze SWINTON. She's a treasure. But AOD is new wave Paris Hilton, and she must be labeled as the evil she truly is.

The problem with the Fug bracket is that it doesn't separate our Treasures from our Enemies.

Dear GFY,

Next year, can we have two distinct brackets? I want SWINTON to size up people who are actually trying to be artsy and fabulous, and AOD to be thrown in with the rest of the trash. They can be "Treasures" and "Trashy." It will be divine.

...Please?

<3.

I just had to give it to Aubrey. SWINTON (who's name shall be in all caps eternally) actually has a kind of hippie-commune-glam thing going on. Aubrey is just a fugly ho. She is definitely the Bai Ling of her generation.

I am imagining it now ~ Aubrey and Bai hosting their own television show about turning old fishnets into tube skirts and pasties that have lost their stick into earrings...

I would pay to watch (and laugh at) that (once).

I find it humorous that no one has a compelling reason for voting Swinton except: "SWINTON!!!" Darlings - that is not a moving argument. You are just merely putting her name in caps.

May the poorest taste win!

I agree with Jael_Paris that people are voting SWINTON just because she's SWINTON. I think half her fug is mostly just boring anyway. OK, the hat and those pegged pants are total fug, but otherwise? In half her pictures here she looks nice and respectable, even if they are sort of odd choices. She gives me the impression that she doesn't care and dresses to make herself happy. It can be boring and unflattering and sometimes odd, but it's not "fug".

True fug burns the retinas of everyone around you. Enter AOD, who doesn't even look tolerable in a single picture.

I think Aubrey O'Day is more fug because her fug is contagious. I've seen poor, misguided desperate souls attempting similar fashion faux pas. YES- they use her as a FASHION ICON. Terrifying, I know. The overly boobage, too short, too much thigh and make-up look is dangerous AND apparently, low-brow enough that the masses have attempted to adopt it.

At least everyone just assumes Swinton is a "quirky and arty" nutjob and leaves her sacks of "artistic" fuggery alone.

Stop the O'Day skankification of society! Where are Lindsay Lohan's overpriced leggings when you need them?! Someone get the girl some pants!

I think Aubrey O'Day is more fug because her fug is SPREADING. That's right, her fug is contagious. I've seen poor, misguided desperate souls attempting similar fashion faux pas. YES- they use her as a FASHION ICON. Terrifying, I know. The overly boobage, too short, too much thigh and make-up look is dangerous AND apparently, low-brow enough that the masses have attempted to adopt it.

At least everyone just assumes Swinton is a "quirky and arty" nutjob and leaves her sacks of "artistic" fuggery alone.

Stop the O'Day skankification of society! Where are Lindsay Lohan's overpriced leggings when you need them?! Someone get the girl some pants!

Since there is nothing I can say on this matchup that hasn't been said by other commenters, can I instead mention the Hills background the site is wearing today, and specifically how Lauren Conrad, either by virtue of weird posture or because her dress is all f'd up, has a severe case of lopsided boobies. On GFY. You'd think something that might go up on a celebrity-fashion-mockery site would want to take care not to have people dressed badly on it.

AOD is winning?? Lucifer just put his Uggs on! My heart and vote belongs to SWINTON!!!

WHY DIDN'T SOLANGE MAKE IT?!?!?!
My Personal Thoughts:
-SWINTON id avant-garde, who can blame her?
-"celebrate" a FUG? It shouldn't be about that! It should be about who has the tackiest, ugliest clothes, NOT who is elegant yet crazy!
-K8 (above) said it right! "Aubrey fugifies everything she puts on, while SWINTON's fug is so carefully and deliberately chosen as reinforce her status as a fashion megalith of counter-culture"
-I don' think I should vote for ANYBODY!! I was counting on Mishca Barton / Solange / Chloe Sevigny / Courtney Love
-Aubrey O'Day is ridiculous - SO IS SWINTON!(question: if the sentence is in all caps, is SWINTON made into a swinton?)
-I have another question: No matter who is in the final two, will the readers always be so vicious in the comments?

I don't know if this should, or does, sway anyone but it made me make that James van der Beek face the Fug Girls have used of late:

http://www.celebuzz.com/kathy-griffin-aubrey-oday-tongue-s98961/

If SWINTON had an ocelot dyed to match, I'd give her the win. Until then, Aubrey all the way!

I was banking on Mischa in the final round. Ultimately, I think this whole tournament comes down to one's definition of fug. I agree with those who see it as a censure, rather than a celebration. It is, after all, a contraction of f-ing ugly. I get SWINTON. Her pieces are visually interesting and avant-gard. Kooky, maybe, but that's who she is. AOD is just fugly, down to her very soul. How can anyone justify coloring and dressing a dog to make it match your outfit? CENSURE.

As someone noted above: "Aubrey O'Day is just a trashy skank who is desperate for attention"

What is she even famous for?

SWINTON takes fashion risks. Sometimes they go horribly wrong, but she's working it.

All hail SWINTON--the once and future Queen--Aubrey is just a pretender to the throne!!!

The Fug Girls define fugly as "fantastically ugly" (in the FAQ Section) and NO ONE is more fantastic than SWINTON!! VOTE EARLY AND VOTE OFTEN FOR SWINTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think Swinton looks that bad! Her taste in clothes is different from the norm, which to me, is totally fine. Aubrey on the other hand, is just A SKANK HO!!!

NO! We have to turn this around, people. It's not that I cannot accept a SWINTON loss. I understand that people have varying opinions on SWINTON and what winning this competition means. But what I cannot accept is an O'Day win. Solange, yes. She is a worthy competitor to SWINTON because she honestly seems to think she is a trendsetter of some sort. Had Bai tried harder this year, I could see it being an honest competition for SWINTON. But this is just absurd. How is a hot mess animal abuser like Aubrey winning this thing? It just doesn't make sense. She's not just fug, she's kind of sad. By the way, it's raining heavily in Queens, NY which normally makes me sleepy and THIS IS THE MOST WORKED UP I'VE BEEN ALL DAY. I think I need to reevaluate my priorities. Anyway:

SWINTON FTW!

Swinton must win. Aubrey, like Paris, must be allowed to fade away.

I celebrate the SWINTON as much as anyone but could not vote for her outre-fug compared to the semi-mobile trash heap that is Aubrey O'Day. SWINTON gives me the giggles on occasion but mostly I bow [a full esclava] in awe. AO'D on the other fug has forced me to look at her veiny plasti-boobs and bruised late-shift hooker thighs, all while she is thinking she is hot.

For fug's sake, AO'D fashioned a headband (strike one) out of satin, accessorized with a diamante brooch (strike two), that draws attention to her two inch roots (strike three) as her Polish grandmother bleach/perm combo grows out. She wore a purple, fuschia, and blue tulle explosion with lipstick in Texas-sorority-girl orange. [Try Delts, till you've tried them all!] And, is a serial mascara abuser.

Although I was disappointed that Solange and Lady GagA lost earlier, AO'D channelled the fugliest of their spirits in the feather vest, black shiny control top tights, and python boots ceremony of fug, which she topped with an I Dream of Jeannie clip on from the corner Wallgreens.

Finally, I voted for AO'D because I think it will make her cry whereas SWINTON would have worn the mantle of fug with pride.

What a glorious dance was this year's Fug Madness. Our Fug Girls truly are goddesses living amongst us.

Fug is celebration, and SWINTON is an artist. Fug her!

Swinton was my front-runner. I really thought she'd carry it off. But, the vast evidence supporting O'Day's complete lack of guile compared to Swinton's (at the very least) ecclecticism forced me to reconsider.

As an aside to the SWINTON/O'DAY debate, I too find it ironic (and incidentally, hilarious) that these obnoxious Hills ads are displayed on the very site that so cleverly derides their very existence...I'm talking about you, SPEIDI.
Hehe, maybe there is karma in this grand world of ours...

BTW, SWINTON RULES, O'DAY (and her poor little dog)DROOLZ

SWINTON 4EVA PEOPLE!!!!

Don't let the Kathy Griffin pic sway you -- it's not from the eligible period! Remember, only stuff worn BEFORE Feb. 28. Thanks!

It pains me that Aubrey is beating SWINTON. I may go sit in the corner and cry.

While Aubrey is truly an attention whore with her tacky, ugly clothes and the sad puppy she carries around, I think she deserves nothing but obscurity.

However SWINTON is fairly empirical in her horrendous fasion sense, wearing each ghastly creation with queenly style and poise, as if she were saying, "We are not amused. And we are allergic to mascara."

I'm just gonna go print out pictures of her face and draw all sorts of eyeliner on her.

ALWAYS SWINTON.

NOOO! You Aubrey-fuggers! You say you love SWINTON too much to vote for her, yet don't you see that's exactly how to show your love? I just know she would rather wear jeans and a t-shirt EVERY DAY OF HER LIFE then find out that she's been beaten by that hussy O'Day AT ANYTHING.

Until today, I'm sad to say

I wanted SWINTON all the way.

Aubrey wins, in my view though

No class, no taste, uncommonly low.

She wins--she loses, and if I may,

"She's the fugliest, Aubrey O'Day".

SWINTON cannot be loosing to AOD...sacrilidge!
Anyone who dresses like SWINTON and STILL has a husband AND a younger boyfriend deserves to be fug champion and actually just champion of the universe over all :)

People. Friends. Surely my eyes deceive me.

By all that is holy, can the unspeakable creature of sweat and animal abuse be SEVEN POINTS AHEAD???

This should not be a contest. It is not even a true choice. On the one hand, you have:

SWINTON, in whose presence a discarded slipcover reforms itself, draws a funky orange star down from the heavens, and cleaves to her tall form, with a laugh;

Against Aubrey O'Day, who grabbed that diaper thing off some fellow inpatient's bed as she escaped from rehab that morning. The thing over her shoulder? Shower mat. It probably reeks of vomit (bad night, bad morning, bulimia, whatevs).

You cannot compare SWINTON -- whose trim on that velvet coat is the happiest fate the black bric-a-brac could have dreamed of when it landed in the remainder bin -- to an individual whose dog is her couture hostage.

Please, people. I beg you: see reason. SWINTON is the best thing that happened to crazy black batwing glitter s**t since her Heaven's Gate followers chased Hale-Bopp into space, in search of her.

O'Day, on the other hand, never truly "wears" anything, beyond her spray tan. She is worse than unworthy. She may be ineligible.

SWINTON, for all of us. For life. For the win!

The Final Countdown aside, who votes that our favorite Fug Girls create a compendium of the most fantastic comments? I love all you commenters, but really, who has the time to sort through them all?

Not really getting the Swinton adulation thing. Occasionally avant garde perhaps but mostly meh and certainly not bad enough to have made it to the finals.

(BTW, what on earth do her personal life choices have to do with influencing your 'fug or not' votes? That seems to me to be a very silly rationale for crowning her the fugliest, along with the 'doing it for love' thing.)

However, I am voting Swinton for the Fug Madness champion because I hate hate hate her footwear. Mostly (although not always) I like O'Day's; I LIKE her snakeskin boots, I think they're rock 'n' roll and I'll take rock 'n' roll over avant garde (boring? unattractive? often granny-like?) any day.

Wow. Talk about a hotly contested race! When I checked earlier, it was Aubrey by a good twelve percentage points. Now, at 2:42 Central, Swinton has reduced that lead to a mere 7 points. This is exciting! Who needs basketball?!

While my heart is breaking to see my lovely SWINTON fall behind in her race to the throne, I am comforted. Swinton, no stranger to adversity, will avenge. I look forward to year (if not a lifetime), of viciously apathetic red carpet appearances that will slay AoDay before she knows what (did not deign to) hit her.

While my heart is breaking to see my lovely SWINTON fall behind in her race to the throne, I am comforted. Swinton, no stranger to adversity, will avenge. I look forward to year (if not a lifetime), of viciously apathetic red carpet appearances that will slay AoDay before she knows what (did not deign to) hit her.

I have to give the Fug to O'Day. Yes, Swinton deserves accolades for mastering the fine art of ugly/beautiful with poise and style, but when I look at Aubrey's fashion flops, I want to do terrible things to cute puppies. And I love cute puppies.

Like Karen at 12:37 says, I always have put SWINTON first. But now, at the end, is only when I've seen the truth. I voted for SWINTON but I don't believe she is the fugliest of them all. It would be hard for anyone to triumph over the tawdry, PETA-hatin' ways of Aubrey O'Day.

no. NO! we've brought SWINTON all the way to the finals, and she. must. win. dammit. she's come this far, guys, let it not be in vain. besides! aubrey? really? I don't even know who that is. SWINTON ftw. Treasure the avant garde.

I could seriously, right this second, go pick up a hooker downtown that dresses exactly like Aubrey O' Day. Is this who we want to take the crown? A common hooker?

See, Aubrey always looks bad, almost like she was planning it. It's deliberate. The SWINTON thinks she looks great stepping out on the town. Like someone told her once that a frilly, skin colored item of clothing was pretty or that a garbage bag was an avant-garde dress choice. She didn't pick up on the sarcasm of the comment. SWINTON, if you're reading this, everyone lied to you. You don't look good, avant-garde or otherwise. Thanks and have a nice day.

Oh, my god...I'm having flashbacks to the 2000 and 2004 elections right now. SWINTON losing to that orange girl who got booted by Puff Daddy for being too much of a fame whore?! This is why democracy doesn't work! Fug Girls! Please! In the name of Alexis Carrington Colby and all other things booze-soaked and unholy, rig this sucker however you need to and let our beloved Fug Goddess emerge victorious! Don't let the fug terrorists win!

SWINTON forever. Come on, y'all. We can't have that little twit winning this thing. There is no fug as magnificent as SWINFUG.

Did anyone else notice SWINTON is actually wearing BLACK NAIL POLISH in one of those pics????? Seriously! FTW!!! And I still want a SWINTON tee

And hey fug girls, what's with the horrible giant ad plastered all over both sides of the page? Makes it darn near impossible to read. THUMBS DOWN.

Oh sorry- checked again- TWO pics she is wearing BLACK NAIL POLISH... BLACK!!!

My biggest problem with these two women as the Fug Finalists is that, outside of the GFY universe, I have no idea who they are. At least Mischa Barton and Katy Perry have recognizable faces. Not knowing what the hell these ladies do in their professional lives has left me a little bit apathetic about who should win.

SWINTON SWINTON SWINTON SWINTON the woman IS fug.

Bunnyman, I cannot stop laughing!

Mais non! She's going to loose!!! How can that be? Doesn't bode too well, whenever the percentage is shown, it doesn't move even when I vote over and over and over again! If the other one win, then "tacky fug" wins, and supreme remains SWINTON!

This really is the ultimate pair-up - at first I found myself asking "what is fugly" - fabulous or f***ing ugly? But then, I though about who I enjoy most - and, while I absolutely love Swinton, there's something so pathetic about AOD's fugly, than I can't help being completely enthalled by it. This girl is a train wreck, a circus clown, a Britney waiting to happen. The fugliness is absolutely blinding. Swinton is an icon - but AOD really is the definition of fugly. (And let's face it, they're both trying to get attention - to pretend otherwise is naive.)

SWINTON. Simple because she should KNOW better. O'Day is just common trashy.

I voted for Aubrey, aiming to censure her for obvious fug reasons (the most obvious which is her abuse of that poor pooch). However, after reading the comments I began to experience voter's remorse. I greatly enjoy SWINTON and I have been persuaded that she is worthy of fug celebration. I have cured my voter's remorse by voting four more time, all in favor of SWINTON. I pledge at least six more SWINTON votes. Others should do likewise.

SWINTON! SWINTON! SWINTON!

it has to be Swinton, come on! Aubrey is just a brat, we see that kind of childish fug all the time, but Swinton, she's the queen of the royal fugdom!

SWINTON.
The question is who reigns supreme, and I think that's what she does. Aubrey merely disgusts, she doesn't provoke. And since it's the end of the voting, I can't bear to vote for a nobody like Aubrey and then reading about her fug for the following year. I'm hoping she will fade away. On the other hand I hope la Swinton will continue to spread her SWINTONISMS.

Trashy beats classy any day (even if the classy is deranged).

Aubrey FTW.

SWINTON's hat does it for me. She embraces the fug while Aubrey O'Day can only flounce along in her mighty wake saying "look at me, look at me, LOOK AT ME!!!" While SWINTON wins by being awesome.

I heart SWINTON, but Aubrey drug Obama into her fug madness. On a t-shirt, meant to be worn as a night shirt. Which she wore in public.

Aubrey, with that you clinched it.

I'd like it to be known that my vote for Swinton means that I think she's FABULOUS and can't stand the thought of her losing anything

Celebrate SWINTON!!

When you look at SWINTON (and Solange and Bai for that matter) you get a level of fashion hubris and FUG that is irrefutable. That, in fact, must be celebrated with all due snark.

When you look at AOD you get a sense that this FUG award may be her last dying grasp at celebrity and you risk a rash.

Does slutty trash = FUG??

Really?

SWINTON!

I cringed every time I scrolled down to her picture, it just couldn't be beat, the FUG of SWINGTON. You know that Aubrey has fun in those outfits and throws them together to get attention. Where you can see the calculating genius of Swinton and how she just doesn't care what we think, and does it all to amuse herself whilst we squirm in distaste!

SWINTON makes me giggle.
Aubrey makes me want to cry. I wish to see no more of her.

SWINTON is pure talent and awesomeness and dresses as if she is from another planet and does not give a shit what we think about her outfits because we are lowly peasants from Planet Earth and we could never grasp her Supreme Rulage of FUG.

Aubrey is a reality-TV-created, fame-starved, discount-bin Barbie Doll that clearly gets dressed and does her make-up in the darkness but not before she dumps her cute dog in a vat of dye to match her outfit. Please, please, please. I REALLY wish to see no more of her!!!

Vote for SWINTON! If it weren't for her fashion shenanigans no one at all would be talking about this other chick.

A limerick for the battle:

There was a tramp named Aubrey,
so pathetic, tanorexic, and tawdry.
But along came a SWINTON
With her ROYAL FUG we are smitten
O'Day is gonna be sorry....

SWINTON FTW. O'DAY's egregious veiny boob fug is not enough to take the title....

I thought the whole point of the fug was to be fashionably ugly. aubrey is not fashionable; she's just plain ugly. whereas master swinton manages to be both. my vote is with the queen.

Plain ol' fug trump high fashion fug any day of the week. Love ya SWINTON, but you actually dresses like that to make a statement, to be artistic. Aubrey dresses like that to get the photog's attention. Aubrey's actions are fuggier than words!

Okay!
I am looking at that very last picture of Aubrey O'Day where the top of her dress is three inches from her waist.

I have been wondering what Law of Physics or other areas of scienctific knowledge might be holding the top of her dress up.

I have come to the conclusion that it is nothing we can explain by science. This is a Jesus thing...

He just don't want us to see any more of her stuff than we already have.

Thank you, Sir! You know that my eyes just cannot take it.

I went with SWINTON. Because, in order to be truly FUG, shouldn't there at least be the possibility of FAB, however remote and unrealized? This is where SWINTON reigns supreme over aubrey*.

*(If SWINTON can only be imagined in ALL CAPS, then by contrast, aubrey doesn't deserve any caps at all. In fact, if I could format the type to be several point sizes smaller for aubrey, I would.)

My vote goes to Aubrey. Swinton is really cool and avant garde (even though sometimes only she knows why she dresses like that). Aubrey is slutty and attention hungry, like that fortysomething redhead.

VOTE AUBREY!!

btw, I love GFY.

For some scary reason, everyday run of the mill cheap fug seems to be winning!

PEOPLE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?
As if O'day will be able to ever match, let alone maintain, the fabulous arty fug pleasures SWINTON produces year in, year out.
Long will she reign supreme!

So it comes down to this: Haute FUG versus Hooker FUG. Neither of these choices represents the pure, perfectly crazy and fun FUG of Bai Ling. SWINTON comes close but reigns it in too often to be completely crazy, and Aubrey? Crazy but not really all that original in her choice of FUG. Still, my vote goes to Aubrey since she at least goes all out, all the time.

I was going to play the vote-refresh-vote-refresh game... but then I was forced to just throw up my hands and howl about the pointlessness of it all.

Aubrey winning over ~Swinton~ is going to be such a colossal downer. I mean, Bai Ling was a good winner because we care about Bai Ling -- the same way we cared about Sharon Stone, Posh, and other high placers in the first tournament. The same way we care about ~Swinton~ and even Solange.

No one cares about Aubrey O'Day. She is the Ruben Studdard to Bai Ling's Kelly Clarkson.

Ah, the eternal question: swanky-fug versus skanky-fug. I had to go with swank. SWINTON looks great while looking terrible. Quite a feat. I don't want to encourage the other one with more attention. She makes me feel like I need to wash my eyeballs. With antibacterial soap.

I was so torn coming into this round...it's the ultimate test of good fug vs. bad fug. But just scrolling one more time through the pictures above really does make SWINTON look good and make Aubrey look...well, you've seen the pictures, there's no need to describe the horror further. So even though I had been leaning towards queen SWINTON I had to follow the Fug and vote for Aubrey. Who, incidentally, I can't stand. But she's just so damn fugly!!! IKEA BATHMAT! Mr. Snuggles!! PINK SHREDDED PURPLE TULLE TIE DYE VOMIT TULLE!!!! hdE08gfY&R3ijhPOIJ3EOIOHFPI!!!! I am having a breakdown people!

p.s. Heather and Jessica: Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! The internets would be dreary without you girls and I am completely dependent upon GFY for my daily dose of awesome! I recently went through a bad break-up and to cheer myself up I took a stroll through archive lane and I actually felt better...you are true humanitarians ladies. And to my fellow commenters, you're all hilarious...see everyone in 2010 (when I secretly hope The Sev makes her comeback)!!

Now where did Intern George run off to? I need a refill of my Sea Breeze...

A very difficult decision, until my poor eyes had to view that photo of Swinton in that long beige boring "dress". Nothing could look fugglier than that. Also, Aubrey is just sort of yucky.

Dear God, please let SWINTON pull through!

ugh, Aubrey? Really, people? I will be SO CROSS if SWINTON doesn't win this competition.

I love you, SWINTON...really, I do. But Aubrey O'Day must be stopped. You, on the other hand, must continue being deliciously, deliriously fug.

how can anyone vote for ANYONE other than

SWINTON
SWINTON
SWINTON
SWINTON
SWINTON

Oh, T.Swin. I adore thee. Aubrey...sigh. You have failed to delight me, have made me loathe you, and your hair needs work. Fugged in the first degree.

One final thought, before the comments get shut down for a year: can you imagine if these two swapped outfits?

Why can't we award the FUG to someone who isn't a famewhore doing this for attention?!?!?

I know Swinton is glorious but I CANNOT let someone who I have never heard of (I am Canadian....are we supposed to know who she is?!?!?) take the win and the glory.

Nuff said.

As sick as I am of reading about Tilda Swinton on this blog, and as much as I voted against her in every other round, you've worn me down. She deserves it.

I just wish that didn't mean another year of heavy coverage of her.

GOOD FUG SHOULD ALWAYS PREVAIL OVER EVIL FUG!!!!

its only the most common archetype in the history of the world, people....

sheesh

I go for Swinton as the winner here. Aubrey's "fashion" (if we dare call it that) is more wholly UGLY, whereas Swinton seems to truly capture the meaning of FUGLY.

One of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make! I've been Team SWINTON all the way, but I changed horses in the final stretch. No matter how she does it, SWINTON always delivers the fug with elegance and wit. In the end, Aubrey got my vote. HER FUG IS SIMPLY FUGLIER.

Solange is the Anne Boleyn of Fug.

Yes, I have watched too many episodes of The Tudors.

Tilda you make us think, you make us question, you give us a reason to write.

Aubrey is just a big blob of bland awfulness.

No contest TS all the way!!!

Nooo!!

Don't you peeps remember SWINTON informing us that sometimes a vote for a Fug Madness contestant is a censure and sometimes it is a celebration?

Aubrey O'Day won't be "stopped" by winning Fug Madness and we all know it. Most people I know aren't even aware of her existence.

The results of Fug Madness continue to depress me, ChloSev should have a title by now, and Aubrey O'Day shouldn't even be in the finals. Initially I was saddened by Bai Ling winning, and then came to see she is indeed an artisan of Fug and deserves her title.

But again, Aubrey O'Day? - No way...

P.S. - I had something incredibly clever to say which included a rhyme with SWINTON's name, and I tragically forgot it, so hopefully I'll be back to unleash the goods.)

I'm voting SWINTON, because I can see her being proud of the title. Maybe she'll treat us to more wackiness if she wins!

Then again, even if she doesn't win...

May the fashion deities bless you, Fug Girls.

But hey, it's gotta be SWINTON. For Fug's sake!

TS all the way. There's wretched fug and there's divine fug.

I was stunned last year when Sev didn't take the trophy.

Bai Ling took it, and I think AOD will take it this year.

Swinton is fugly, to be sure, but we aren't celebrating artistry in fug... just plain old fug, if last year's winner is any indication.

Sooo... AOD FTW.

SWINTON's fug is a wonder to behold, while AOD's is just sad. I gotta go with SWINTON!

Of course the REAL problem is that Solange should be in this race instead of this Aubrey person. Solange COULD look good but CHOOSES not to. Now that's fug.

And seconds on the annoying ads. Please make them go away.

I thought for sure I would vote SWINTON. She is so amazing!

But the toga/diaper thing with the bathmat on the shoulder was too much for me. AOD is the champ of fug.

Why is Aubrey ahead? This person DOES NOT deserve attention under any circumstances! If we all ignore her, then eventually she'll just go away. And that's all I can ask for.

SWINTON.

You know, I was all set with my vote until I got down to the very end of the page and came face to face with the eternal question:

Whose fug reigns supreme?

I think, perhaps for the first time in my life, I am at a loss. Even after my impassioned, Julius Caesar- inspired call to arms in the name of all that is SWINTON, I feel that perhaps I haven't really seen the big picture. I mean, should I vote for Aubrey, who clearly needs an intervention in the worst way (come on, her ASS was all BUT hanging out in that white dress thingamajig!)? Or SWINTON, whose Capitalization has endeared her to me forever as a symbol of a fug like no other? So wrapped up in the present, I felt the strong need to look to history for answers. Surely, there is a wisdom in ancient fug that I may draw upon...perhaps I am taking this all too seriously....*Borat* NOT!

And with that, I have come to a final conclusion. I think here on GFY, we welcome all types of fug- everything from the desparate to the delusional- with open arms. Yet, as last year's champ Bai Ling showed us, it is truly a gift when one breaks away from the pack as an Individual, bringing their own special fug into our lives.

Ladies and gentlemen (well, really, just Intern George), we must continue on in our lifelong quest to advance fuggery. We have set a bar, and we must always try our best to surpass it. We continue to ask questions, and we will continue to seek answers.

Tonight, the answer is SWINTON. The answer is fug.

*bows gracefully, exits*

This is tough. This is the first one I really had to think about. I see what everyone is saying about SWINTON and how she is elegantly fugly and I completely agree. But I also agree with the people saying that Aubrey is the epitome of fugliness.

What it comes down to for me is that if Aubrey doesn't win this just think of what she will do next in order to win next year. My eyes can't take that. I know win or lose SWINTON will continue to be gloriously her in what she wears. So I had to vote for Aubrey just in an effort to save my eyes and my sanity in the coming year.

aubrey is just disgusting and so fake. she's trying hard to be relevent and dresses like that in a desperate attempt to get her picture taken.

i think we need to celebrate the SWINTON fug and embrace her for her originality (even if it is full of fug) and sheer fabulous SWINTONness.

please don't give aubrey the attention she does not deserve. there is no enjoyment in her fug. it just makes me want to stick toothpicks in my eyeballs.

For me, the label "Fug" will always be a negative, and for this reason I can not vote SWINTON. SHE rocks!

WHAT is the worldCOMING TO?!? SWINTON for the WIN PEOPLE. GOD.

Aubrey= Trash, and in desperate need of a style makeover.
SWINTON= Class. The answer is clear.

SWINTON.

I still don't know who this O'Day girl is.
She has no right, NO RIGHT, to beat SWINTON! In anything! I could take some pics of the hobos outside my office and post them on here. Do they deserve the win? No sir.

I spent days thinking about how I would vote on this one. After thinking long and hard, I'm going with SWINTON. We cannot give any kind of attention to Aubrey O'Day or else she, like Phoebe Price, will never go away and wear normal clothes. SWINTON, however, deserves any attantion she gets because she is marvelously talented AND a fugly dresser.

ONE WORD PEOPLE: SWINTON!

I voted Aubrey and here's my criteria: SWINTON has a few outfits that might look nice if they fit propertly. Aubrey has only pure, pure fug. So Aubrey takes it.

And I STILL don't really know who she is.

Jaime B, I agree completely. People think that O'Day will turn it around because of a Fug Madness win?! Oh hell to the no she won't! It will get WORSE, not better. Instead of being treated to more of the amazing classy avant-gard fug fiesta that is SWINTON, you will be rendered blind by AOD overload. Do you really want that? AOD will probably wear a T-shirt that simultaneously exposes her frankenstein, veiny boobs and shows her winning Fug Madness- when everybody else wants a SWINTON tee (myself included). Remember back to the good times in this contest, people: remember the crazy fug of Solange, Juliette Lewis, Bai Ling, and Posh that put a smile on your face. Do you want to cry (AOD) or do you want to smile (SWINTON)?

SWINTON ALL THE WAY!!!

I've got a fever... and the only remedy is MORE SWINTON!

Ask yourselves this, gentle readers:

When you page through GFY, is it more SWINTON-esque, or O'Day-esque?

Aubrey is the epitome of what I (hope to!) find each time I visit GFY. And is it just me, or does SWINTON look like one classy broad after seeing her collection side by side with O'Day?

I have to admire SWINTON... she is the only actress I've ever noticed who does NOT have pierced ears.

To have Swinton win is to make this a POSITIVE award and after all the negativity with the economy, don't we want to be positive?

I just can't bring myself to vote for SWINTON. Much as I don't want Aubrey O'Whoever She Is to be champion, I don't actually think SWINTON is fugly. I think she is GLORIOUS.

On another note: While we don't necessarily put them out there the same way AOD does, some of us just have veiny boobs! Horrible clothing makes the fug, not veins which happen to show through the skin!

Swinton=Fab
Aubrey=Fug

Oy vey. Aubrey O'Day will PUT THIS ON HER RESUME.

For some reason, it upsets me immensely that this is the only place I've ever heard of her.

This one was definitely the hardest one for me, too. It really came down to the overall styling (ha.) for each. SWINTON may dress for the crazy, but her hair is always impeccably done, and I applaud her for eschewing makeup on the red carpet. Who else has the guts for that? She is NOT clueless - she knows what kind of look she wants and just goes for it, full-out. So what if it's not the traditional? But Aubrey O'Day - God help us all. The troweled-on makeup (Xtina Aguilera School of Makeup, obviously), the too-blonde hair with the (gag) black-and-gray roots - that is more offensive to me than the bad clothes (even though they are horrible!). I had to go with Aubs.

I love SWINTON, I do, really. If she starting dressing "normally" it would be as though a twinkly, crazy star had gone out in the sky.

But. While she may be a Queen, she is not the Queen of Fug. She is the Queen of Avant-Garde, Unattractive, Super-Expensive Baffling Costumes.

And my love for her is irrelevent! I'm not voting for the one I feel FOND of. I'm voting for the one who best represents this website: the bad judgement that makes you gasp. And AOD makes me gasp harder and longer, and more gaspingly, than anyone.

I <3 SWINTON

But I had to vote for Aubrey. My vote is for censure.

I think the problem here is seeing these pictures side by side. When you look at them next to each other, AOD's terrifying skankery makes SWINTON look like the essence of style and sanity. Whereas if you looked at SWINTON next to, oh, Reese Witherspoon or someone, her insanity would be plain.

Still, I come down on the celebrating side of the fence, and SWINTON's high-fashion lunacy is truly inspired, so she gets my vote(s).

I am bummed to see that Swinton is slightly down in the ranks right now, I think that her totally wacky take on FASHION should somehow be applauded and celebrated, and what is Fug Madness but a perfect forum to do so?
If Aubry wins, we might as well give an honorary lifetime FUG to Paris...and that would just devalue the whole thing... I beg you, vote SWINTON and let's make FUG-i-tude something to be honored!!!!
-C

I swear to god, no matter who wins, "WWSD" (what would SWINTON do" is going to be my mantra for the next year, if not the rest of my life.

(Followed closely by, "WWSHSW", who would SWINTON have sex with. God, I LOVE HER!)

SWINTON is not of this world. Our human "crowns" and "titles" mean nothing to her, and I'm sure GFY will feature her plenty in the future. O'Day, on the other hand, really is an eyesore. People are complaining that she's a common tramp, but come on, she puts way more effort into the fug than your average streetwalker. The diaper-bathmat combo is not going to be on a stripper near you anytime soon, for obvious reasons. She thinks she's CLEVER and that's the worst part of all. Vote O'Day!

Just think. With whom would you rather be seen with? Then vote for the other one.

Also, AOD sounds like an STD.

I'm really hoping Aubrey will hold onto her lead--perhaps her win can be used as a platform to expose the plight of poor, poor Mr. Snuggles.

SWINTON embodies a timeless fugliness, whereas Ms. O'Day exhibits both the limited charms and worn-out familiarity of the fug-next-door. With classic pre-raphaelite features and an intimidating stare-down, SWINTON is the perfect canvas upon which to paint all the colors of the rainbleagh, but O'Day will never amount to more than the equivalent of a tacky, outdated Warhol calendar. A vote for SWINTON is a vote for the artistry of the awkward, a carousel of crazed creativity. O'Day should be sacrificed to the creatures of the night. Which, I am led to believe, SWINTON rules in perpetuity.

First I must say: Jessica and Heather, you rock my world. Thank you for the joy you have given me this year.

I'm completely split on the Fug as Celebration/ Fug as Denigration debate. And our two penultimate pre-queens really embody the two ends of the spectrum. We pretty much agree that SWINTON is divinely mad, a Maenad of fashion, and that Aubrey is Trashpuppie Barbie. Really, so many of those outfits look like things my sisters and I made for our dolls out of bits of old ballet costumes, air filters, candy wrappers...sigh.

I have decided that, in alternate years, I will Celebrate and Denigrate. Last year I was all about the Bai and her deliciousness. Next year again I will celebrate the glory that is SWINTON. But this year, in an odd year, I must Denigrate, and therefore it's all about Aubrey.

O'DAY! OFF WITH HER--well, really, everything.

Scrolling through those pictures, I almost changed my mind about voting for SWINTON. I think she is fantastic (in the true sense of the word) and have been celebrating her elegant fug all along. But Aubrey's outfit's are truly and horrendously fugly, but she obviously think she looks hot. I actually feel sorry for her. Why don't her friends all pitch in for a full-length mirror for her birthday?

In the end I had to stick with my original choice of SWINTON, as her fug is truly and gloriously on purpose and, after all her efforts, she really deserves to win.

I hope to God the Fug Girls' votes count x1000

Really? O'Day? She is a childish beginner at fug. Yeah, that's lowercase f-u-g. She doesn't know what she is doing - she is no Jedi Master FUGGER. No I tell you, No! She is but a girl with a Forever 21 charge card, a Tan-o-rama lifetime membership and a small dog super-glued to her hip.

SWINTON! rules the Fug. She owns it. The Fug bows to her. She is a Fug Master™

SWINTON! IS FUG.

O'Day must be knock out of the game.

God Save the Fug. Long may SWINTON! Rule!

Respectfully submitted again,
-Magno

SWINTON's fug is MAGNIFICENT. O'Day's fug is just cheap and skanky. Celebrate the magnificent and show the skank the door!

Oh yes, SWINTON's time has come. Slutty and cheap is no match for...whatever that is that SWINTON has going on. Honestly, the closest Aubrey can come to SWINTON's genius is that bedsheet/bathmat ensemble, and even that pales.
The principles of SWINTON fug worship:
Expensive but intentionally unflattering outfits? Yes.
Strange, intriguing accessories? Yes.
Bland yet secretive smile? Yes.
SWINTON for the win? YES! YES! YES!

SWINTON MUST WIN. SHE COMMANDS IT. THE GOD OF FUG COMMANDS IT. Hell hath no fury like a Fug Goddess up-fugged.

O god, that poor dog. That poor dog.

Aubrey is such...the opposite kind of fabulously fug from SWINTON...I don't know what to do here.

I have no clue as to whom Ms O'Day is, and while I appreciate how she made it to the final, Swinton has to win it for the turquoise "brains" dress alone. The Swinton reigns supreme.

This is not Skank madness...if it was, I'd vote for Aubrey in a heartbeat. SWINTON MUST TRIUMPH!!!

I celebrate SWINTON! She's a WONDER! She is not fugly, however. When Bai won last year, no one -- not even Bai -- considered it a validation. SWINTON should never have it this far. We need to distinguish between avante garde and stupid, agree stupid is fugly, and "award" it accordingly. It will be a sad day if SWINTON finds out she won this thing. She deserves better. O'Day, not so much.

I think we must approach our appreciation of fug as we do our belief in how we as a species got here on this spinning rock we call Earth. Was it via the "intelligent design", the calculated craziness of la Swinton? Or the "natural selection/mutation/interbreeding/just throw on any old thing that offers minimum coverage and glows like Day 2 at the Chernobyl Juice Bar" path of Miss O'Day? I gotta go with the monkeys on this one - VOTE AUBREY!

Natalie 2:48 PM, you might just be my new best friend.

The lurkers support SWINTON in the comments.

But the sweaty masses know fugly when they see it. O'Day, for the win.

SWINTON for the T-shirt.
A.O'D for the crown of shame.

Each is honored appropriately.

Anyone with a spray tan and poor little beast in people-clothes can be a pop tart like Aubrey. Yawn. Let's have a reigning fug queen who is dedicated to true fugliness and not just exhibitionist crap. Fug is an art! And SWINTON is a great artist. Rule, SWINTON!

I don't think SWINTON's oscar dress is fug - I love it on her. Even in her weirder choices she looks regal and statuesque. Aubrey looks like Jerry Springer show trailer trash.

I was reluctant to give O'Day any more attention than she deserves, especially instead of the divine SWINTON. However, I decided that perhaps winning Fug Madness will convince O'Day that DOGS ARE NOT ACCESSORIES!!

for the love of the dog, vote Aubrey, maybe we can spark an intervention so the poor thing can stop being multicolored... plus SWINTON makes STATEMENTS, Aubrey is just tacky, tacky is WAY more fug

Fug girls - THANK YOU for getting me through the winter doldrums. I think I can manage on my own now (she says bravely).

Fellow fuggers - *Sniff* I'm going to miss you all until next year's comments. You made me laugh out loud at least once a day. Usually at inappropriate times. I also learned a lot of new words.

Cheers, all!

A "loss" will only fuel SWINTON. Imagine what she delicacies will serve up next year!?

I just peed a little.

O'Day. For the win.

Come on SWINTON! Come on people, Aubrey doesn not deserve to be put up on this pedestal.

As much as I truly enjoy and adore SWINTON's elegant and demure wackitude, I just couldn't *not* vote for that sad sack o' trash with the scruffy mutt. I mean, really, we're voting for who's attire and general aura is the worst, right? Kind of? I just couldn't crown SWINTON the worst of anything. She is magnificent! Plus I really didn't want to inadvertently discourage her from being even more bizarre and amazing this coming year....

Side by side, the choice is clear: Aubrey. At least when Swinton fugs, it's still with a certain amount of panache and style. Aubrey's just tacky.

so hard. had to go for aubrey since swinton, though i had her for a lock the whole time, just seems...better than this. yes she IS the queen. but the queen of fug? or the queen of GENIUS fug. to be scorned or admired? back again at the old dilemma- is the crown a punishment or a celebration?

It's so hard to vote when the site is plagued by an all-encompassing ad (I know the girls don't have approval control over this, so I fault them not) for a show I hate that I can't turn off or easily ignore. >.<

That said, I voted for SWINTON of course, because I love her more than I hate Aubrey. But a win for either one of them is well-deserved.

My vote is a celebration of SWINTON in all her glory!

And I second SWINTON having her own bracket next year.

Heather and Jessica - thank you for the wonder that is Fug Madness 2009 and for all of your posts over the past year.

It was a tough choice for me but I had to vote for Aubrey. The fact that she accessorises with a signed copy of her Playboy issue is the epitome of fug.

SWINTON IS THE QUEEN and MY HERO.

SWINTON ALL THE WAY

I'M YELLING I REALISE.IT'S THAT EXCITING TO ME.

Aubrey is just a skank.

I have voted for Aubrey three times, because I don't feel like deleting my cookies and I have two browsers on my computer and one on my mom's. In the end, it comes down to your gut, not fancy rationales and head-fakes about who would like it or hate it or who needs the publicity or who is a goddess. Aubrey O'Day is disgusting. I particularly can't stand her makeup in that last picture, where it looks like she's curled her eyelashes to within an inch of their lives and then applied TWENTY COATS OF MASCARA. And insists on STARING at us with these eye-frames of doom. She is gross, gross, gross, and I think that is fuglier than Tilda's arguably insane getups. Yes, SWINTON wears things that are fug (I don't think I'll ever get over the sequinned-zip-tuxedo), but they do not make me cringe in horror nearly so much.

Why do you do this to me people? I was crushed when the title was ripped from the clutches of The Sev, and this year you've taken away my SWINTON?

I need a hug.

Heather and Jessica - thank you for the splendour that is Fug Madness 2009. Checking out your website to see who has been fugged is part of my morning ritual.

As for the SWINTON vs Aubrey match-up, I had to go with Aubrey. I mean, this is the girl who once accessorised an outfit with a signed copy of her Playboy issue.

I believe the crown should go to the MOST MEMORABLE contestant...
SWINTON is definitely memorable.
Aubrey O'Day... who is she, even?
She's just another stupid kid who doesn't know how to dress herself.
But everyone knows who Bai Ling is, because her fugtastic style is so unique.
Same goes for SWINTON, here.
SWINTON must have the crown, or I will throw a fit.

I want Solange FTW! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Seriously, I don't think there would be this much drama if Ms. "I live under my sister's oversized, robot-gloved shadow" Sol-Angel was in this. Oh well.

SWINTON probably won't win, although her fug outranks whorey fug anyday, so skank on skanky O'Day.

I would not have voted for SWINTON if I did not find AOD so disgustingly vile as a human being who deserves no praise for her fame-whoring ways in fugly dressing.
So AOD take your damn FUG MADNESS trophy in exchange for your poor little dog and GO AWAY.

Wow, I'm not just a bitch I now am a bitter bitch. FUG MADNESS what have you done to me!

Thank you Fug Girls for another fun, if somewhat maddening, fug competition. I will now return to my regularly scheduled life.

Also, I agree entirely with Anonymous at 2:19. Hear, hear!

Fug lovers, you are my people.
My life will be emptier without the wonder of this year's madness. Have loved every fugly second of it.

SWINTON for the win!

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHO AUBREY O DAY IS??? It would be AMAZING if the fug girls could call her and Phoebe Price "random fugs" for here on in!
Pretty please????

None of us know or care, for that matter, who they are!!!

Sure, Aubrey O'Day is one of the most horrendous people on earth. I'll grant you that. But she should WIN NOTHING. EVER. Her life should be the cavalcade of failure that her persona projects! Even if that means she doesn't win as the fugliest. ESPECIALLY if that means she doesn't win as the fugliest. SWINTON forever!

This is so interesting, are we trying to "punish" or "reward?" I don't care so much how the finalists perceive our vote. One is too glorious to care much, and the other's too stupied to string two thoughts together.

I don't think "fug" is a compliment, or that there's anything flattering or honorable about it, though it's deliciously fun to declare...O'Day gets my vote.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHO AUBREY O DAY IS??? It would be AMAZING if the fug girls could call her and Phoebe Price "random fugs" for here on in!
Pretty please????

None of us know or care, for that matter, who they are!!!

Well Im certainy not going to discourage the Swinton .. she finally threw on some lipstick... so my vote goes to the blond circus clown

SWINTON is glorious. Aubrey is stupid and irrelevant and ought to have PETA beating down her door. SWINTON FTW!!

OH FINE. What to do??? I feel like my heart and brain are being torn apart!

Last year's win by Bai Ling makes this a celebration, because there is nothing in B.Ling's closet that is not a tribute to wacky joy (until this year at least). SWINTON is meant to be celebrated at all opportunities.

BUT, oh the but's.
That AOD should be burned in effigy at every fashion week 'round the world. To give her the crown is to make this a worst dressed, worst accessorized, worst pet owner contest and we all know that FUG is more than that.

SWINTON SWINTON SWINTON! Whatever happens, WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The pet lover in me has to vote for Aubrey - long after most celebrities have given up carrying around their pets like purses, she continues. If for no other reason than that - Aubrey deserves the title of fugly queen.

People! SWINTON is an artist, and fug is her medium! If I have to stay up all night clearing cookies and clicking SWINTON to ensure her victory, I will! I will FALL ON THAT CARPAL TUNNEL GRENADE, PEOPLE!

C'mon people!!! Swinton may be a crazy dresser but at least she is avant garde and has poise, elegance, class and self respect.. O'day is just plain fug and trashy. O'Day for FUG champion.

OH GOD! HOW DOES ONE CHOOSE?!

How is this even a contest? Yes, Tilda does have a problem from times to time going TOO runway heavy in her appearence (after all, sometimes looks need to be edited). However, at least she gives you fashion on a daily basis. Aubrey on the other hand looks like a common hooker most of the time.

Hands-down, Aubrey O'Day is fuglier.

Seriously, is AOD's publicist keeping her ahead?

SWINTON!

PS, thank you Fug Girls.

I can't believe SWINTON is losing to a skank the likes of AO'D. How can a goddess lose to a nobody??? I vote for the celebration of FUG -- the outfits that bring horror, puzzlement and DELIGHT -- not the outfits that make you want to pour bleach on your eyeballs!

There is an artistry to the fugs of SWINTON, Solange, Bai (can anything compete with her SpiderWoman outfit?), and the other queens of fug. Their outfits add up to more than just flashed lady bits and truly trashy, dressed-in-the-dark nightmares (with or without matching dog). They dress with daring and humor and a casualness that just dares you to "top this".

Don't get me wrong -- I love looking at the pictures that make me scream and cover my eyes -- it's loads of fun. But to crown a queen, I expect someone who can rise to the highest fug, not sink to the lowest. Any streetwalker or costume party attendee can look like AO'D, but only a champion can achieve a SWINTON.

OMG!!! SWINTON. SWINTON. I don't think she'll be able to pull this off, but I'm crossing my fingers.

Thanks SO much for the last few weeks of FUN at "work". Probably the only time I've actually done something productive. (not counting last years Fugfest of course)

Swinton has class and intelligence so her clothes are always interesting....o'day is just trashy, nothing she wears every looks interesting or good. swinton shouldn't win just because she is so out there, fug should be fug which to me is looking like ass all the time.

I'm so sorry fug girls, its super clear that it will pain you to possibly hand the trophy to Aubrey instead of SWINTON. But apart from the first outfit I cannot in good conscience find SWINTON fugly in any way. She is just fabulous.

This was tough - trash or treasure, you might say?

In the end, I erred on the side of genuine celebrity. I have never seen whatever reality tv bullshit Aubrey hails from, and therefore can't endorse her for any sort of award.

SWINTON, on the other hand, is genuinely talented, terrifying and mad. And we need to encourage this sort of behaviour. If the Oscars are any judge, we're entering a dangerously sensible period of celebrity dressing. A vote for SWINTON is a vote for the Bjorks, the Helena Bonham-Carter's and Daniel Day Lewis' of this world.
Do the right thing people - vote SWINTON as our patron saint.

Hmmm, trash or treasure?

Can't believe the trash is winning...I agree with all the above comments that we should not be validating this girl in any way whatsoever.

I have lost all heart for this now that Solange is out of the running...she will always be the fugliest to me.

What did it for me was the lean, angular pose and the overall smug joy of SWINTON. That, and the fur hat.

And can someone please tell me who the hell Aubrey O'Day is and why she's fame-whoring herself onto this site?

Oh, did I mention...Team SWINTON!!

Seriously, that shirt would be BRILLIANT.

SWINTON is an artist, and by voting for her i feel as if im supporting her work..

whereas AOD is a trashy street performer in comparison, whom no one would give their change..

therefore by voting for SWINTON were supporting a worthwhile cause.. hopefully ensuring future entertainment

I could never worship SWINTON on the Altar of FUG. Let SWINTON be SWINTON. After all, would we prefer it, if she went around, dressed a la Katie Holmes, or -gasp!!!- Lisa Rinna? Hell No! I've lost my #1 feathered Princess Solange this year. And while my heart goes on, carrying the burning flame of hope, I will gladly, unconditionally vote Aubrey O'Day, even though I have absolutly no idea who she is, what she does and what kind of air she breathes. This year of FUG is O'Day's.

SWINTON's style is crazy, but imaginative. I can respect her insane choices, but this Aubrey person's fashion sense just makes me wince. I voted for SWINTON because she deserves the "honor", and I think she'll wear it proudly!

My heart is broken. Tacky, trashy, tarty fug prevailed, quelle déception! Can imagine SWINTON though with a smile sipping whatever she sips and having a blast out of this Fug Madness. Can't imagine A'OD having any clue about the whole thing on the other hand. But it was a lot of fun, thank you!

Fellow GFYers! If Aubrey wins, we'll NEVER get rid of her! Celebrate crazy (clothing) choices, not attention-deprived skank!

I shall say SWINTON FTW but I already voted O'Day. She's trashy, but her Fugs are no-brainers, good to look at and mock after a hard day at work. SWINTON is too high-maintenance.

SWINTON is fabulous. AOD is fug. And I want a Team SWINTON tshirt yesterday.

SWINTON must win!

Dear Fug Girls,

I am not sure I can go through this next year: SWINTON is loosing to Aubrey. This can not happen Style is above trash nediocrity, even or perhaps because it is Fuggly Style - It takes a real skill.
Please revise the rules of March Madness for 2010.

Sincerely,

Heartbroken in Seattle

I've been wanting to call shenanigans for so long now. I feel like the people have allowed themselves to be swayed far too much by this all caps SWINTON business! I think it generated false love for her and became a thing of it's own, and now people can't even see that she's really just a boring, pale, makeupless woman in boring and awkward clothes. It's NOT THAT INTERESTING! I don't think Aubrey should have ended up here, either, but I'll vote for her anyway just because I'm so tired of the Swinton nonsense. I think we could have all agreed in the beginning that Solange should win and left it at that.

Swinton looks weird, Aubrey looks stupid. Nuff said.

My therapist said I can't play with you guys anymore. It is too upsetting for me to see this competition highjacked by (stupid) people who don't know what fug is. SWINTON is too fab to be fug; AOD is trash not worth mentioning. This finale is a huge disappointment.

So, you Swinton lovers, if it had to be you who told Tilda about winning this 'honor' you'd do so enthusiastically and without embarrassment? How would that conversation go, exactly?

You: SWINTON! You've been crowned the Queen of Fug! You've won the March Fug Madness over at Go Fug Yourself!

SWINTON: I beg your pardon? Did you say I'm the FUG queen?

You: Yes! I'm so excited for you!

SWINTON: FUG?

You: It means fantastically....um....ugly?

SWINTON: I am not culturally illiterate. FUGLY means fucking ugly.

You: No no! Everyone voted for you because they love you!

SWINTON: The site, this 'Go Fug Yourself'. It celebrates the artists who step outside of the safe and normal, yes? It glories in avante guarde couture? Women who view themselves as canvasses to be clad in extreme alternative interactive art pieces rather than mere tasteful pieces of designer clothing? Yes?

You: Um....no. It sort of...makes fun of...or mocks, if you will...they post pictures of celebs wearing really ugly...NO! NOT UGLY!! More like...well, weird...YES! WEIRD! Weird clothes on people who really ought to know better because they have money and stylists. And friends, presumably.

SWINTON:

You: But not you, of course! You are terrific! You take the FUG to the extreme and....Wait! No! I didn't mean FUG, I meant ART!

SWINTON:

You: You are awesome.

SWINTON:

You: So...here's your trophy. We made it out of that AnOther cover you did? 'Cause we all totally loved that.

SWINTON: My AnOther cover is now the FUGLY trophy. And it will be presented each year to the celebrity who was deemed by the unwashed masses as the MOST FUGLY?

You:....yes?

SWINTON: Off with your head.

If our beloved SWINTON does not pull through, as sadly I am worried she will not, can we send her some sort of consolation prize? Let her know that she has a large and passionate following who enthusiastically embraces her fug?

People, people. No matter how fondly you feel about the incredible SWINTON, the O'Day Diaper Dress of Shame takes it all.

I have to agree with Lilli that the all-caps SWINTON has added to the mystique of SWINTON,thereby giving her added notoriety. But, I still cast my vote for SWINTON, and here's why: AOD's fug is your basic, interchangeable, porn-star,stripper, FUG. You can picture Heidi, Lindsey, and Paris-to name a few- in these get-ups. They are fugly, but also very commonplace. SWINTON's fug, on the other hand, is definitely, distinctly hers, and no one else would even try to replicate it. Ill-fitting, outrageous, and yes, FUGLY!!! SWINTON all the way!

holy mother. this is SO much closer than i expected. and right now o'day is ahead - something i did not see. what it came down to for me is holding precedent for how i voted in previous rounds, i chose awesome fug (juliette lewis) vs annoying, give me attention fug. i love swinton's wacky sense of fashion, she got my vote. but i won't be upset if o'day takes it bc she is fug worthy as well and i was literally wavering over the mouse over the two options.

thanks grrls for another awesome year of fug madness!

Is it possible that we could all conspire to make this a tie?!? SWINTON takes the win for art-fug, and Aubry O'Day takes the win for gag-fug.

What then Fug Girls!? What then?!

the magazine cover was amazing.

i think it is certainly one of the five best magazine covers i have seen in my entirely too long life.

i had to think about this in terms of evolving language.

id est:
there are MORE than enough people present to reskew the meaning of the word fug. when one considers tilda swinton, its components no longer make sense & it becomes a word of its own--in a way similar to tilda swinton, come to think of it.

if i think of this as a kind of perverse, rather than inverse, best dressed contest, there is no choice other than tSWINTON as well.

the other one is, so help me, too boring. &, in regards to the dog, to copycattish. copycattering from someone unworthy is not worth this title. too much encouragement, too much dull for next year.

[as an aside, OMFG: i look unusually like a cross between these two, sans veins, but w/ dark hair, if you go the other way around, put swinton on aubrey, you kind of get me. i almost had swinton's life, almost, but i am afraid i was not swintonesque enough to hack it. another reason to vote, i think,
as i can hack most things. she really has a way, doesnt she?]

I voted for Aubrey, because it's clear she is a walking disaster cum attention-seeking whorelet willing to abuse "clothes" in the name of fame.

SWINTON, on the other hand, is a treasure, and her fuggery must be encouraged at all costs. What if winning this made her stop and reconsider? Do you REALLY want to be responsible for that?

No, but seriously, SWINTON does actually get things right occasionally, and she's at least supporting art. O'Day is just trash.

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! Why isn't Swinton kicking this wannabe to the curb? Why oh why??

SWINTON IS FUGTASTIC, FUGNANIMOUS, FUGRIFFIC, FUG FRICKIN ROYALTY. YES, WORTHY OF ALL CAPS!

aubrey oslutty is but a pithy blip on the fug-o-meter. she smells like sushi-laden trash rotting in full vegas heat. by next year, we'll all be asking, "Aubrey who?" So unworthy I can't even stand it.

FUG THAT!

Anyone can dress like Aubrey. Just look at Rock of Love! But it takes a true genius and personal flair to don the enchanted garments of SWINTON.

I'm with Madeline. Comparing O'Day and SWINTON is like comparing apples to tangelos. Split the award so that O'Day will not go into a false sense of acceptance and SWINTON will realize the travesty that is her style and the negative global effect it is causing.

We could really make a difference in their lives here, people! Could you imagine O'Day with a toned down look and SWINTON wearing Mizrahi. Perhaps the two will form a friendship and have a reality TV show about coming to grips with their fugly former ways? Tyra, and Ashton...get this in the works!

Fug girls, I know you put SWINTON before all others, but truly the woman is the least fug of any in the Final Four, Elite Eight, and Sweet Sixteen. Swinton makes fashion choices that, while not to our tastes, are clearly not cheap trash she picked up out of the Forever 21/KMart joint dumpster. While AOD ... ahem. The girl is the true, original definition of FUG -- at least how I learned it back in the 8th grade. Not only does she drag her poor tortured (and dyed) dog into her atrocities, but she made the ultimate breach in taste of bringing Obama's good and fugless name way down deep into her crazy-ass fug fantasy. For me, it is that single, eye-scorching abuse of the very best part of 2008 -- Obama's election -- that makes me have to vote for AOD as the Queen of Fug for this year. (Of course, that's with the fervent hope that Sevingny will return to full glory next year to beat her into a pulp. After all, AOD is trashy fug, but Sevigny is worse: smug fug.)

I've worshipped SWINTON since before she was capitalized. Even her failures (the SWINTON-colored dress, for instance) are beyond epic. You cannot hate on a true artist.

The child O'Day is made of failure. Sad, diaper-wearing failure.

O'Day for the fug.
~

Aubrey = Trashtastic
SWINTON = True Fug

Swinton is, well, basically not attractive, nor terribly important, all things considered. But, she also has no taste. This is true organic fug. The other gal, well, I have no idea who she is, where she came from, or where she's going, but I do wish she'd go back. She is false, archetypically.

If SWINTON were to win, it would be a celebration. If Aubrey were to win, it'd be a censure.

SWINTON should totally win. I agree with comment above; anyone can look like Aubrey (although who knows why they'd want to); but it takes that something special to pull fugly off quite like SWINTON does.

Um... my boyfriend just said that he thinks SWINTON! is hot.

I guess I think she is too. Go SWINTON!

Celebration, censure. Censure, celebration. Debate, debate, debate ...

... and then I was reminded of the infamous swaddling diaper job, and it's Aubrey for the win.

Holy sweet little tomatoes people are getting NASTY!

There were many a cat-fight I wish I'd been able to see along the way - Madge vs Mischa would have been a spectacular event - but now, I wish I could watch a few of you voters duke it out!

Specifically: Amanda @ 3:37 PM vs Claire Zulkey @ 11:47 AM. That fight would be awesome. :)

PS Thanks Fug girls for weeks of fun!!

See, this why we now need CATEGORIES for Fug Madness. We are all trying to cram two different awards into one spot. O'Day wins for "True Fug" (fuckin' ugly, desperate, attention starved BS) and SWINTON wins for "Transcendental Fug" (goes beyond fug and we all know it) a.k.a. "I See What You Did There".

I think we need an Oscar model, rather than college hoops, sad to say.

I am so sad right now... I understand that she IS intensely fugly, but... how can Aubrey win ANYTHING aside from a wet t-shirt contest at the local titty bar?? I just hate giving a fame whore any more of her crack....

It's been an interesting ethical discussion on whether winning is good or bad.

I use the time-honoured tradition of "trusting my gut". I just scrolled through the final pictures and every time, the visceral recoil of repugnance came on Aubrey's parade of low-rent tragedies. Sure, you don't want her to win ANYTHING, but this is for worst dressed fame whore in Hollywood! Dude, you beat out PHOEBE PRICE!! Somewhere, you made the Peldon throw up a little in her mouth, before she turned back to her sewing machine and continued planning her comeback, still a little groggy from the painkillers prescribed after her massive implant operation....

Aubrey, rightfully, for the win.

Oh how I love the comments! But seriously, aod beating SWINTON??? "SWINTON looks great in some of those outfits," "SWINTON is avant garde," "SWINTON is fab not fug." WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! SWINTON doesn't llok great, she just doesn't stoop to looking tacky/trashy. That does not mean she does not look FUG in her own, very special SWINTON way!!! She is famous for wearing clothes so ill concieved you can barely discern she is a woman! And lets not forget the dresses even the Queen of England would find boring!!! The FING QUEEN!!! Oh, and lest we forget the lackluster hair styles, or the lack of makeup to the point where one has to wonder if she actually has eyes- I totally get the nude look, but its the RED CARPET PEOPLE- For the LOVE OF ALL THINGS SWINTON!!! And its not like she never wears make-up- after all there is the one photo where she has the vamp red lipstick on... And of course it was paired with an outfit that totally washed her out... Like always! Oh yeah, and then there were the black fingernails- yep, just like skank girl, painted em black... WTF?!?!?!?The more I look at her fug, the more I am replused by it, and the more I love it at the same time. I celebrate her for taking fug to a higher level and just not caring what the mindless minions think. Long live the SWINTON!!! Team SWINTON Tees please?

I still don't get the notion that being crowned the most fucking ugly is a good thing. Go Aubrey.

I had to vote for SWINTON. I just can't bear to see her take second place in ANY kind of competition to somebody as flagrantly trashy and eminently kickable as Aubrey O'Day.

I think people are torn as to the definiton of "fug" - and think that to award SWINTON this dubious accolade is an insult to her. But think about this - SWINTON would probably be THRILLED with it! She doesn't give a crap about appearances! Wherehas Aubrey, much like someone who would turn up in person to accept a Razzie, thinks that ALL attention, positive or negative, is a good thing! Don't give her the satisfaction people! Vote SWINTON now!

I have the answer to the high-art versus low-rent Fug Madness debate.

AOD is NCAA.

SWINTON is NBA.

:)

Aubrey is far worse by comparison, as far as UGLY goes.

However, I could do without more of her starting tomorrow. I have never found pleasure in what she wears.

SWINTON and Tilda Swinton both delight me for their individual strengths, and though I usually don't look at SWINTON and go "MUST HAS", I look forward to her appearing on these pages.... just like last year's winner, Bai Ling.

SO, six months into my dedicated reading of this website, I vote SWINTON... for the majesty, the splendor, and the sheer delight that is her ultimate Fug Fabulosity. Only she is worthy of MY crown and sash.

I love me some SWINTON. But she has class, even with her fug--and Aubrey does... not. Ms O'Day is tacky and skanky and for that reason, I must vote her as most fugly. SWINTON is sublime--nominating her is like nominating the Queen (of England, not Latifah). The Queen has some fugliness too, but yet she does so with class. Aubrey's "Bad Girls for Obama" tshirt as a dress with nothing under it pushed me over the edge.

SWINTON is art.
Audrey is fug.

Thank you Jessica and Heather for another unforgettable March Madness!

Damn you Aubrey O'Day, screwing up my bracket.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but... I'm not voting SWINTON.

SWINTON is so fugged up she's fabulous. Whereas Aubrey is just... trashy. "Bad Girls Heart Obama"? Seriously? Hate to validate her like this, but that's just so cracked out I have to acknowledge it.

Dear god, at least I got here on time to vote for not SWINTON who is awesome

I don't know if I want to live in a world where SWINTON doesn't win Fug Madness. That would be PURE madness.

I was Swinton all the way until I saw the eyelashes on Aubrey in the final picture. That was just too over the top.

Everyone makes such good points...I finally chose AOD, but now reading some additional posts I don't know. I second the pleas for a dog show format -- the BEST avant garde fug, the BEST skank fug, the BEST WTFug, etc. Then put all the winners together and run them around the ring to determine who conforms best to the standard of the breed. Then we aren't so conflicted!

Aubrey O'Day is so damn offensive, there's no way she can escape this contest unscathed. Swinton, I respect the skillz, but Aubrey exists in a completely separate bracket/universe!

Fug Madness is a celebration. I mean its says it right there "fugly is the new pretty." SWINTON for the win.

Expensive Fug beats Cheap Fug any day!
TEAM SWINTON!

People! We are forgetting how Tilda Swinton became SWINTON in the first place: because it was the only way for the brain to resolve (protect itself against?) her (in the excellent words of Suzy @ 9.22) "extraordinarily expensive, poorly fitted, color-blind, clueless fugosity of original smug".

I vote for SWINTON not because I love her, but BECAUSE SHE FUG. SHE FUG! SHE FUG FUG FUG! SHE SMUG FUG! GRRR!

Vote Aubrey, Swinton is an artiste and an artwork, she is FAB the opposite of FUG. And not in an ironic way, don't worry Tilda, I get you...I love you...

Aubrey is FUG FUG FUG.

I think that Fug's March Madness has caused problems for some people...

Paris Hilton seems to be so disappointed at her poor showing that she has sold her left eye to Satan in hopes that next year she will get the title. (Is it just me or is Paris looking like she is at least 40 years old these days??????)

As far as this year goes, Aubrey and her "I have been in Playboy and now I am looking for a man with water and a bar of soap... wash cloth optional."

RATS. I thought that by the time I returned from the gym SWINTON would be crushing that trifling little pirate hooker into oblivion(and her little dog, too!)

More disturbingly, I sense a lag in morale. Voting is not over yet, people!!! Refresh those cookies!!!

To get all the SWINFANS (not swimfam, although that movie is amazing) back on track, I give you a Belushi-esque pep talk:

Over? Did you say over?? Nothing is over until we say it is!!! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!!! And it ain't over now. When the goin' get's tough... .... the tough get goin'! Who's with me?? What the fug happened to the SWINFANs who used to believe in a little thing called FUG and could recognize true FUG GENIUS when they saw it? Its all, "oooohh, we are going to give up because this common diaper-wearing streetwalker happens to be winning at the moment? Hell no! Where's the guts? Where's the chutzpah? SWINFUG ALL THE WAY. Best be recognizing....

The difference has shrunk to five points. Sanity begins to take hold.

Again, for the record: I understand that being crowned the Queen of Fug may mean nothing to SWINTON. I get that it may be the equivalent, to her, of the dead mouse offered by a cat.

What DO these award things mean, to extraterrestrial beings? What is an "awards season", measured in cosmic time? On what parts of one's body do the crown and banner actually go? And might one try these things on one's human Earth companions, the older male and the younger male, first?

But isn't it better this way, gentle fellow posters? Isn't it good to think that this award may be the smallest thing in one's world -- as opposed to the biggest? Isn't it great to dream of a time when there may be ...

... yes ...

NO famewhores?

Dare to dream, ladies and gentlemen of the fug. Dare to cast a new kind of vote: beyond implants, beyond lies, beyond cruelty.

Dare to say that the crown for Fug Madness 2009 may well be the Oscar that lands in the winner's bathroom. On the planet Vega.

Dare to say it. SWINTON for the win.

SWINTON 09!!!!!!!!!!!

No way peeps....Aubrey is RANK, and let us not forget this is not an HONOR to win this thing!

Aubrey for the win!

Seriously, the roots on Aubrey in the one where she is pimping out her dog for Obama make me shiver EVERY time I see them....and thus she is the winner!

People! Aubrey O'Fug is a carbuncle on the ass of society! SWINTON FOREVER!

WHY! This is ridonkulous - SWINTON must crush AOD.

Bad Makeup is Bad
Skank Fug is Bad
Poor Dog is Bad

Illfitting is FUG
Washedout is FUG
SWINTON is FUG

It IS about honor goshdarnit, and if O'Skankface wins this thing, I am moving abroad STAT. No joke. Because if skanky fug reigns supreme, this glorious land we used to call America is a sinking ship and I am GETTING THE HELL OUT.

SWINTON!!! ok, i really have to write my paper now.... eeek. thanks fug girls for this awesome blog. i could not get through law school without it!

no more posts, i promise.... tear.

Hello, fellow fuggers!
I am listening to your cries for SWINTON, but when her pictures were posted next to Fugly O'Day's, SWINTON looked impossibly elegant! The sweetness of bitter chocolate after dry red wine (although Aubrey reminds me more of a B&J Strawberry Daiquiri- 25 of them, empty). Sorry, SWINFANS, I couldn't do it.

Aubrey deserves the win.

Tell me who else on planet earth can out-skank her???????

Like it or not, girls, SKANK is a big ingredient in FUG.

HEY! I did NOT make this up!!!!!!!*

If SWINTON wants the win, she is going to have to stop bathing so often. A little build up of crud, a little grease left on her face, let those dark roots sing out her fugness from a thousand hairs on her little head...

Face it, SWINTON is too clean to win all the way. She actually cares about how she smells, even if she does not care how she looks.

*Actually I DID make this all up, but I am older than most of you and feel the need to give you direction and guidance.

I am voting for Aubrey, because SWINTON just isn't fugly to me. However, I do wish she hadn't gotten to this point of the competition. If she wins, it will be a hallow victory

"FUG" = "fuckin' ugly".

As much as we celebrate Swinton, the fact of the matter is that she is here because she's chosen some truly horrendous outfits.

Aubrey, on the other hand, exudes fug not just through her clothing but through her make-up, her hair, her veiny boobage and skankitude.

The FUG trophy is not a desireable one people. If we truly love Swinton and her insane antics, why congratulate her with a title basically telling her she was the fucking ugliest person of 2008? Swinton is classy and talented - that alone would knock her out of the running in the face of Aubrey's TRUE, PURE unadulterated FUG.

Actually, I like SWINTON's lack of makeup. I don't like to smear greasy crap all over my face either.

Consider this: O'Day sincerely thinks other people will find her sexually attractive on the basis of her outfits. If that's not a prizewinning fugfest, then I don't know what is. With SWINTON though, I always wonder if she isn't having a little joke with us.

I agree with Sharon in the previous post. SWINTON is fugulous while Aubrey is just fug. F-U-G-L-Y, she ain't got no alibi, she's fugly,what? what? SHE'S FUGLY!!!!

I think Fug is a celebration of someone's style, not of someone's ability to grab attention by doing nothing but having big boobs (barely) covered by hideousness and a dog.

SWINTON just DOES IT. That's WHO SHE IS. AOD does it to become something.

SWINTON FTW!

.....Although, AOD gave rise to the hilarious Ikea comment. You Fug Girls, you. Thank you for proving that there are some smart bitches out there....starting with you.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN SWINTON IS NOT IN THE LEAD?
She could win this thing just by the power of Image 3 alone! Aubrey is hideous, but hideous is not fugly. Fug is something one wears with pride (and ferocity). Montag's trash teen wardrobe doesn't even rate. SWINTON FTW!

I couldn't do it, I couldn't vote for SWINTON. Aubrey is too annoying.

like so many, i am highly conflicted -- what is the meaning of fug? you know, and all that jazz. i want to give it to SWINTON, because i want SWINTON to be a winner. she's marvelous.

for better or for worse, though, i tend to appreciate her outfits -- even if they are kinda fug. AOD is abrasive and lacking self-awareness. her outfits are uglier, her existence seemingly without reason... AOD wins, unfortunately (though the lack of knowleses in the final round does suggest an imperfect process)

SWINTON SWINTON SWINTON!
Her fug is good fug people! Why dress like a skanky bore of a person when you can dress like SWINTON! If I had the money I would dress like SWINTON. She wears Lanvin regularly.
Aubrey is just TRASHY. All caps TRASHY. I mean wearing a "Bad Girls Love Obama" tee shirt WITH NO PANTS, roots showing, headband, and holding a sad looking dog? TRASHY.

SWINTON SWINTON SWINTON!
Her fug is good fug people! Why dress like a skanky bore of a person when you can dress like SWINTON! If I had the money I would dress like SWINTON. She wears Lanvin regularly.
Aubrey is just TRASHY. All caps TRASHY. I mean wearing a "Bad Girls Love Obama" tee shirt WITH NO PANTS, roots showing, headband, and holding a sad looking dog? TRASHY.

Deep in our hearts we know fugly MUST mean fabulous and profane, SWINTON is THE ONE AND ONLY, O'Day is just burn-your-eyes-out tawdry. Bai Ling (and Rapid Beaver of 2008) showed us the way, don't be overwhelmed by this last choice.

NO NO NO NO NO!

so much of the time tilda swinton looks effortlessly cool and chic. even when some article of clothing might be construed as fugly, she herself looks gorgeous. AUBREY O'DAY NEVER LOOKS GOOD. EVER. no contest.

I cannot believe tilda got this far. there was some sort of frenzy whipped up around her. most of the time she looks great.

It comes down to tacky vs. ugly.

...ugly wins.

SWINTON for the win! Aubrey is to me a giant hot air balloon that must be shot down with a mustard colored rifle.

I wish I could change my vote now - I read the third (?) comment by Jen and her argument of celebrating the elegant fug versus always upholding the skankiest won me over. I HAVE TRADED TEAMS! I TAKE IT BACK! Come on, Swinton, let's pull this out!

Colleen, I absolutely loved your conversation with SWINTON! So awesome!

I'm voting for her right now because I want to see that for real. ;)

If fugly means "fantastically ugly" I reckon SWINTON is 95% FANTASTIC and only about 5% ugly. She is a goddess, but this is not the appropriate way to revere her.

In my opinion, the fug of Aubrey, Solange, Courtney Love, Katie Price, Bai Ling and Juliette Lewis far outstrips SWINTON's kooky majesty. You may redefine fug but it should always be an insult.

Aubrey O'Day got my vote.

What she said. SWINTON!

Tilda Swinton is charming. Her clothes suck but we don't mind because she's brought us memorable roles. She's an artiste, after all. We can believe in her.

Aubrey O'Day is Malibu Phoebe Price. She just has more pitiful style. (Who would have thought THAT was possible?!)

So it boils down to what the Fug Madness is all about. If it's about the joys of goofy dressing, it's SWINTON. If it's a slap in the face, it's Aubrey O'Day. Maybe I'm just cranky, but I go for slapping Aubrey. After all, it IS Monday.

If SWINTON loses (or for that matter wins), could you FUG girls please make a personal communique to her (a telegram perhaps, methinks she'd like a telegram. She shouldn't take this as a blow. It's clear that we hail her as Alien Goddess of Elegant Weirdness (or something), and that "fucking ugly" is what she aint -whatever the end results might say.

:( Oy vey. Is this how my husband feels when the Jets loose? I don't like it.
SWINTON 4EVA

Seriously, who is Aubrey O'Day? Why the hell has she made it this far in the first place? And who would be so rude as to place this random starletard on the same tier as the inexorable Bai Ling? Please.

I ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO BELIEVE SKANK IS THE ULTIMATE FUG!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! (hair ripping, on my knees, tears streaming down my face) AS GOD IS MY WITNESS... SWINTON WILL NEVER BE HUNGRY AGAIN!!! Ok- I guess that doesn't make much sense... but oh the image was a good one!

I too, don't want to live in a world where a nobody can beat SWINTON.
But I'm not really taking this seriously at this point. It's too outlandish, it's like the C.H.U.D. winning a battle against Graboids. Couldn't happen.
I think you people who have forsook the SWINTON should feel the appropriate amount of shame and also wear hefty bags for a month. You know who you are, and you're feeling the shame, I can tell.

I think in these sad times, it is important to CELEBRATE life as often as offered. As Wham would say, Choose Life! Choose Swinton!!!!

SWINTON has made fug a high and holy art form, and for that she must be recognized as the reigning queen. HOW CAN SHE NOT BE WINNING?

Seriously people, I had never even HEARD of Aubrey HoSlut O'Day until Fug Madness, and I still don't know who she is, just that she's SUPER TRASHY AND ANNOYING.

Annoying does not = Fugtastic.

SWINTON ftw - please, Gods of Fug, make it so!!!!!!

how can this be happening? Do I still have a contact high from the Love Vs. Lohan battle?

How in Narnia is SWINTON losing!?

I... i need to go weep now.

It all boils down to whether trashy fug or sophisticated fug epitomizes true fug more accurately. While some Swinton's garments are simply insane, she still commands respect. Who else can really do that? Aubrey's fashion statement doesn't belong in this fug-off as much as on the shelf of costume world. However, my idea of true fug leans more to the trashy interpretation than sophisticate. Aubrey gets my vote. There is no joy in fugville tonight.

People, people, people... Either I've had too many YooHoos today or the earth has shifted its axis. In what universe can AOD be winning anything against LaSWINTON except the title of "most likely to cause a burning sensation when one pees". I mean seriously, doesn't she look like the bad girl in all the films in sex ed class; the one everybody was warned to stay away from? She looks like a 16 year old trying desperately to dress sexy so as to catch the eye of TylerJordanMorganAustinTravis and steal him away from his skank girlfriend AshleyTaylorMorganBrianaKaylee.
Shouldn't the Fug crown go to someone with unique abilities to Fug, not someone whose look is seen on every other hooker on the Strip?
The question is "Whose Fug Reigns Supreme?" AOD is skank fugly, but she is not supreme. At anything. Ever.
Check out SWINTON's bio on IMDB. She slept in a glass case in a London gallery for a week as performance art. Imagine! She IS walking performance art. The very definition of Supreme. Always.
I do so loves me some SWINTON, but if my calculations are correct, I would need to vote 1180 times for my beloved to make up the 5% deficit she now suffers, and, well, my cats are gnawing at my ankles demanding to be fed and I've only been able to vote twice. So please, every SWINFAN out there, offer to drive your neighbor to the polling booth. Just Get Out The Vote!

I voted for O'Day.

For my own personal safety, I will no longer be making visits to the wardrobe in my bedroom... I know Tilda is waiting on the other side in that Snow Queen suit and a plate of Tukish Delight.

She wants to hurt me. Because of my vote.
I just know it.

***sigh***

O!!! Shay at 2:03...my ears are wet from that laugh!! **bows gracefully** thanks for that!!!

ACK...correction Shay at 2:01!

Colleen, I love your mind.

Mille, I have no idea what a mustard-colored rifle is, but I love your mind.

AJ, Scott, Carol, Suss & Richard - the same, I love your minds.

Fug Girls, I am grateful for the fun.

You rule - I'm voting for you.

After SWINTON! wins!

SWINTON! FTW

In these dire and desperate times, I agree... the FUG Title should be celebrating the sheer kookiness and utter fuguloscity that is SWINTON. The crown should be sought-after and befitting for only FUGLICIOUSNESS, not lowly cookie cutter slagoids who happen to dye their dogs (instead of their shoes) to match.

Some of the Negative Nancies above may benefit by reading some high-quality Chicken Soup for the Soul exerpts so they may see the error in their pessimistic ways. SWINTON will heal the world...make it a better place...feel the love, people.

p.s. it is a moot point anyway...O'Day clearly doesn't understand the concept of constructive critcism. she is just a pathetic, attention-hungry hot mess. NOT WORTHY OF A FUG TITLE

pps. i like dogs and everything, but to my knowledge, none have ever keeled over and died from over-exposure to dye or lame doggie accessories... that should NOT be the reason O-Day clenches the crown! i guess that comment may be perceived as somewhat insensitive by the likes of PETA and friends(but they are all a little crazy for my tastes)..hey, sometimes the truth hurts.

Some women are born fug; others have fug thrust upon them.

I was hoping for a Mischa-- Solange showdown because they perfectly epitomize the former and the latter.

Here, I have to go with O'Day because of the Ikea bathmat scarf. She has the desperation of true fug. There is nothing desperate about la SWINTON.

o'day should win on her roots alone. talk about fugly - if you want to be a blonde, realize that IT TAKES WORK! dye your roots, girl! d*mn.

OMG this was very very difficult. It took forever to vote. But the bathmat necklace tipped me to the dark side of AOD- i actually had to google her- IF YOU ARE NOT CONVINCED OF HER AWFUL FUGNESS then you have to check out her website-IT HAS A GALLERY!!!!! The horror!!!

Ps: i did also vote for swinton cause i mean just look at her she is awsome :-)

Aubrey's skank is not worthy of SWINTON's immaculate fug.

I am going to vote late into the night so that our beloved SWINTON will win!

Here is one easy way to choose:

Which one of these women would you rather work with?

Remember, working with her means sharing:

Copmputer keyboards,
Telephone receivers,
Breakroom microwave, refrigerator, and sink,
Toilet seats and handles to the door of the lady's room
----AND----
M & M 's from the candy dish on the receptionist's desk.

I know, it makes a pretty scary picture on one hand doesn't it?

SWINTON is too clean. She does not out FUG O'Day.

Fug Girls - thank you for a fabulously entertaining site and another great year of Fug Madness!

Come on fellow fuggers, how can you ignore to wonderous wacktastic tower of crazy that is SWINTON!! Her fashion choices are an art form and should be encouraged!

SWINTON better make a comeback, you guys. Aubrey O'Day doesn't deserve to be in the same CATEGORY with her.

I had to go with AOD. I have been a SWINTON fan since Orlando, back in the early 90's. I wanted to vote for her. I don't know who AOD is, and I didn't want to vote for her. However. From looking at the pictures, it strikes me that AOD actually thinks she looks good. SWINTON is all, "piffle, I don't care what you think, I am ME." To me, it's the delusion that AOD is suffering under that defines the very concept of fug.

Are we voting to celebrate, or to condemn? I feel this is the central question.
This fug madness has brought up issues of the philosophical nature of fug.

SWINTON ftw. I choose to give the FUG to someone who deserves it. It's an honorable award.
AoD is just so not worthy. She not only likes to fly her freak flag, she owns the flag company.
That dogs face haunts me in my dreams.

What's this? SWINTON being out fugged by this O'Day thing? Impossible. Impossible, I tell you. SWINTON is a goddess and will strike back.

"By Lilli on April 6, 2009 9:58 AM
I've been wanting to call shenanigans for so long now. I feel like the people have allowed themselves to be swayed far too much by this all caps SWINTON business! I think it generated false love for her and became a thing of it's own, and now people can't even see that she's really just a boring, pale, makeupless woman in boring and awkward clothes. It's NOT THAT INTERESTING!"

So are you saying SWINTON's clothes are NOT fug?? Did the Fug girls make repeated errors in including her in their site? You would wear those hessian sacks, would you?
I'm going to have nightmares picturing your closet.
There are legitimate branches of Fug that differ from each other. Skanky Loser isn't the only branch.
But if we disagree with YOU then we don't actually have minds of our own(?!) and are being swayed by allcaps. That's petty, incorrect, and sore loser-ish. I too preferred Solange over O'Day, but them's the breaks.

Tilda Swinton is classy; Aubrey O'Day is trashy. Decisions, decisions... I have a feeling that designers loan or give Swinton their creations, and she graciously accepts. On the other hand, I don't think ANY designer would or has actually taken credit for anything O'Day has donned. Tilda doesn't have to prove herself; she's perfectly comfortable in her skin. Aubrey is constantly "look at me, me me!" in skank mode. The fact that she drags her poor little dog into her sleazy act makes me want her to win the infamous Fug of the Year!

SWINTON FTW. With pure love for her artistry.

I have a feeling this is going to end with peasants with pitchforks and torches being lead by baying bloodhounds chasing at the heels of those of us that have voted for O'Day.

Please, DON'T BECOME A MOB!!!!!!!!!!!!

To me this award is not a criticism nor a wake up call for O'Day. I hope she never changes.

It is simply my way of saying, "You have told me a thousand times this past year what you are. I want you to know I heard you. You, Aubrey ARE the PIGLET of FUG"

Of course, I do not want any of the Fuglets to change...
Aubrey, Paris, Juliet, SWINTON, Posh, Bai, X-tina, Chloe, Beyonce & Solange etc...
Keep on, keepin' on gals...

I think SWINTON goes beyond the realm of Fug. She's a category all to herself. Her outfits are so crazy I actually like them.

Aubrey O'Day, on the other hand, is just simply painful to look at.

Oh Jessica and Heather, thank you for another madness. Sadness now, for I have to leave my computer and go home, not knowing if SWINTON will pull ahead and vanquish AO'D.

Will snark devour strange? I hope not, but either way, it has been a good ride.

While I think Swinton should win at everything, Aubrey should be Fug Queen. Aubrey's fugness has no explanation... It's a shallow fug...

Aubrey cannot win anything, the woman is disgusting, she'd probably celebrate going out completely naked (this time for real) and yikes, no one wants to see THAT!

SWINTON is art! Vote SWINTON!

Thanks so much to everyone commenting; you've made the past few weeks an absolute delight!
As for my final ballot, it shall be cast in the direction of SWINTON.
While A.O.D. causes my eyeballs to O.D. on a regular basis from the intensity of skank enamenating from the screen, the mere suggestion of Ms. SWINTON makes me titter, and sigh that I might portray such confidence in my own fashion choices.

While I may not want to rush out and purchase SWINTONesque knockoffs, the very idea of her makes me feel warm inside.
I feel the same way whenever I think of Bai Ling.

Thus, I shall vote with my heart for SWINTON to epitomize the best combo of farghing ugh-ly and fabulous since Ms.Collins plowed the furrows of FUG.

*** Absolution for A.O.D. isn't in the cards. She loses the opportunity to be cherished by millions, no matter whether she "wins" or loses.. It's still a smack upside the head.***

SWINTON is FASHION.

aubrey is trashion.

Who the hell is Aubrey O'Day, anyway? Please, I don't mean this rhetorically, I really want to know.

SWINTON is SWINTON!
Aubrey... is just fug. She has nothing but fug to her name. SWINTON will live as SWINTON forever. Let Aubrey win something. She will never have a superior title, nothing that can compare to SWINTON. Or you could call her weirdo dog kissing lesbian, but thats a little too long. So FUG will be sutible.

Aubreyyy
all the way
look at her!
I agree that SWINTON is getting through on the odd fascination people have on her when there were many many fuglier contestants

I have to go SWINTON-if it was Barton or Solange, I'd have given Swinton an arty pass, and gone in for those who try and fail. But O'Day is so...trite and her obscurity renders me 'meh'.

I'd like to propose a slightly different criteria.

Rather than asking yourself whether this is censure or celebration, ask yourself, "When I open GFY to see the latest fugs, which of these fuggers would I rather see?"

There are some competitors in Fug Madness this year that (although hideously tacky) I honestly wouldn't have minded *never* seeing them on GFY-- because I feel that *any* publicity merely encourages them to continue on their downward spiral into Fame-Whore-Hell. (Phoebe Price, I'm looking at you.)

Why encourage those who are intentionally fugly merely as a means to get more media attention?

When I vote in Fug Madness, I vote for those whose missteps make me most gleeful. (That's right, kids-- schadenfreude is the main theme of my visits to this glorious site.)

I find SWINTON more intersting, but despite the fuglyness of her clothes, she's classy and talented which is not fugly. AOD cloths are horrible, and she can't touch SWINTON in the awesomeness category,and she's definitely not classy. I wanted SWINTON to win but AOD clothes are just to fugly and overdone, too colourful, too short, look too much like they came from the closet of a 10yr old ballerina on steroids and her face looks like leather

If Aubrey wins this, approriate prizes would be:

A map with directions to the Free Clinic in her neighborhood.
A bag of Cheetos.
A big ol' box of Kathy Griffin's mama's wine
and
some flip flops with rhinestones and feathers.

Heather and Jessica a million hugs and smooches to both of you sweet girls for the fun that is "Go Fug Yourself" and especially for "March Madness".
I check out your site everyday... A day without Fugging is a day without sunshine.

Smooches to all the other FUG FANS, too!

Don't give up, guys, SWINTON can still take it!

Incidentally, am I the only one who pronounces is "Swin-Ton" like Kang and Kodos pronounce "Clin-Ton"?

I must agree with whomever else said it--SWINTON versus Aubrey O'Day is not really an appropriate final 2. Bai v. Solange would have been better. Swinton looks awesome almost always, and while I get that this could be construed as a celebration, I just generally don't find her fugly, full stop. Just because she doesn't dress like everyone else doesn't mean its fugly. And while O'Day looks absolutely vile, it's an easy, obvious cheap ugliness that doesn't have much thought put into it. It's just the extremely tacky version of normal clothes.

P.S. While SWINTON's clothes may cost an arm and six legs, I seriously doubt she pays for most of them. She is tall and skinny enough to wear samples, and Oscar win aside, I don't think she could truly afford them. The majority of her films have had budgets under ten million.

I voted SWINTON. Bai Ling dressed so bad, it was appealing. We can say that of others but AOD? She just reeks of fame-whore. We need Bai Ling, we need Mischa Barton, and dammit, we NEED SWINTON.

Who the hell needs AOD? Certainly not her damn dogs.

I went to school with Aubrey (she was a year or two younger than me) so I must vote for her out of pure school pride. Go Blackhawks and go Aubrey! (Also, nothing excuses the O'Day clothing line - the fug is SPREADING people)

It came down, in the end, to this: it is a logical impossibility for anyone or anything to be worse than Aubrey O'Day.

The mold for future Fug Madness trophies/statuettes should definitely be cast in the form of SWINTON. Definitely.

What pure JOY Fug Madness has brought me. Pure Bliss really. Thankyouthankyouthankyou. Sigh.

FREE MR. SNUGGLES!

Oh, please! Supreme fugliness requires ego, conceit, ambition, and gall. These describe SWINTON! Her outrageousness, while calculated, succeeds in being artfully fugly; admirable and distinctive! Aubrey is just a silly little bint that happens to have horrible taste. We may as well have crowned Joaquin Phoenix for all the difference it makes. There is only one SWINTON! And she not only is fugly, she defines it.
Sigh.

Funniest GFY comment ever goes to Samantha who wrote:

"SWINTON generally looks like an alien from outer space dressed up as a woman dressed as a man. With too-short pants."

It's perfect! Totally captures the spirit of the first picture.

I had to vote for SWINTON because to me, Aubrey O'Day looks like an ordinary club girl with bad taste. She is entirely forgettable. I could walk right by her and not even notice. Why would she deserve to be Queen of Fug? Instead, she should be allowed to sink back into the pop culture swamp from whence she bubbled up. In ten years, who will remember the name of Aubrey O'Day? Not me. Whereas SWINTON, when she chooses to be, is eye-catchingly, breathtakingly fug. Her fug is majestic. She is the White Queen of fug: a little scary. If I walked by her I would not only notice her, but I doubt I could keep walking. I would stop and stand stock still and watch her until she was gone, as if she were some sort of giant dragonfly.

I like that very much, Lajones. Very well expressed!

PEOPLE. PEOPLE. It simply HAS to be SWINTON. C'MON here.

And Lajones, you have it absolutely right. 100%. Aubrey might be Queen of the Mall Chicks, but she is *not* of the stature of SWINTON. Nosirree Bob.

We all knew Fug Madness was a formality. It was always going to be SWINTON. Not even the upper echelons of Fug could touch her. She raises the very concept of fug from a few unfortunate clothing choices to the arena of Sublime Costume, which she then carries off with pithy Regalness that we mere mortals could only hope to possess.

Competition? HAH.

Don't make me laugh.

Dear god, just go to Aubrey's website and look at her photo gallery...she is the epitome of FUG.

swinton at leas has personal style and chooses high end "art"
aubrey on the other hand looks as if she belongs on the corner some where.

for some one with a circus and cellulite fetish.

I see the Fug madness Bai-statue as being given as the severest form of censure and a fierce and desperate urging to the winner to change his or her ways. I never want SWINTON to change. I would, on the other hand, pay good money to shake some sartorial sense into AoD. And therefore, I declare AoD the Fugliest of them all. May a smarmy Prince Pratt kiss her and may they both turn into frogs.

All I have to say is...only O'Day makes me fear for the inevitable retinal contact with her nipples, which, in honor of Our Reigning Queen Bai of Nipsliponia, means I have to vote for her.

SWINTON transcends fug. And keeps those puppies largely under wraps.

The final count has depressed me. It should have been SWINTON all the way! She is fug with a capital F - and she owns it like it's never been owned before! Like our former queen, Bai, she embraces it with open and lofty, lanky arms! Fug shouldn't have to mean trashy.

I'm going to eat ice cream to quiet my sufferings. Does Intern George do housecalls?

Fug is fug. Attitude *makes* style. SWINTON has it, Aubrey O'Day (who I still had to look up after she got to finals) doesn't. Aubrey takes the cup.

How DARE you?!
You will not cheat me out of what is rightfully MINE. The win belongs to SWINTON.

OBEY

If Cate Blanchett was wearing any of SWINTON's outfits (with the possible exception of the russian winter army outfit) they never would have made it onto this site. Stop the madness, get off the bandwagon, AOD is FUG FUG FUG in the truest sense of the word.

Swinton cannot win this. She is a pleasure to look at. O'Day on the other hand is a shabby clashing taffeta mess. Swinton has class and style, random though it may be. O'Day looks like a crayon drawing by my 2 year old niece. Swinton sometimes looks nice. O'Day does not...ever.

VOTE O'DAY!!!! I don't even know how she is but I am passionately opposed to her...

Heidi Volatile, you made me smile.

I voted for SWINTON, for all you guys reasons combined.

If it was SWINTON vs Solange, then I'd vote Solange. But this finale is just meh meh meh..why is that other girl even made it up to this point? Baffles me...

Looking forward to 2010 Fug Madness. This year's Fug Madness was a blast, I enjoyed it very very much. Thanks Heather and Jessica. Can't start my day without this site.

Love from Jakarta

Side note:

Thanks GFY... for always cheering me up during long boring days at work!! Still one of my fave blogs.

On Topic:

There is nothing UGLY about SWINTON... she is pure awesome.

let me just say her name a few times because i love the way it rolls off my keyboard:

SWINTON SWINTON SWINTON

SWINTON is gloriously FUG, not attention seeking trashy

-could not agree more, SWINTON ftw!!

This will probs be the last comments moment of the year, so i would just like to reiterate the fact that i LOVE your website and my day is not complete without visiting it. Great!

And come on people, vote for Swinton. Fug girls, you do realize she she will probably go by your office and pick up the award herself, complete with a few paps.. Do you really want that? Do we really want to inflict this on the Fug girls? VOTE!

If SWINTON were to pull off a last minute ditch to the finish line, she'd need 996 more votes.
Now, I LOVE, WORSHIP and REVERE SWINTON (The lady deserves all capitals) but I cannot see her pulling off that many votes in the final moments of the compy.
Now Fug Girls, where IS Intern George? There are going to be a lot of upset SWINTON lovers in need of a hug...

SWINTON, but in a celebratory way! clearly that Aubrey O'Day one simply cannot win any contest against Tilda...

I choose to celebrate. SWINTON is sublime, in her eccentric, "I choose to wear this because I am SWINTON and I can!" way. Aubrey is just trampy, and she drags her dog into it. No, sistah does *not* like that! Thus, SWINTON, in all her glory, shall be crowned the Queen of Fug, and we will all love her and despair.

Looks like the SWINTON voters were up all night clearing their cookies and voting.

I voted for Aubrey O'Day, but did it painfully. I love the fug girls, have since the beginning of this site, but they pulled a Simon Cowell on this one, and by that I mean they complimented someone and hyped them to the point where they make it on that alone, same thing happened with Posh last year, and she lost at the very end too.... I know its not intentional, but it kinda felt like a bit biased, so thus, I voted for Aubrey O'Day, and am kinda pleased (though I loathe her) she's winning like Bai Ling of last year. But my heart went out of this when Solange and Lady Gaga lost out. Alas.

That said, this was a lot of fun, and I am grateful to the Fug Girls for giving me a break from having to memorize loads of Chinese characters.

Go Team SWINTON! Aubrey O'Fug is simply trying to get attention for herself by wearing minimal clothes is wacky colours. But Swinton is different. It's just her style (or lack thereof)!

Palpable excitement, pithy banter, egregious outfits and impeccable grammar - I adore this time of year.

Sante to you, fug fans for SWINTON is mighty

I had to go with Audrey O'Day. SWINTON looks good a lot of the time, and thus she really doesn't deserve the title. And hopefully a loss will encourage SWINTON to dress even crazier next year!

"Aubrey O'Fug is a carbuncle on the ass of society"
which is PRECISELY why she should win.
remember folks, winning the fug award is really about LOSING. it's about having no talent, no taste, AND *no*clue* that you look FUCKING UGLY in what you have on.
beauty pageant contestants are judged on their performance in many categories. since this is an UGLY pageant, it should be the same, only with opposite categories such as least talented, worst tan, least well put together, least likely to know they are fug, most exposed flesh, degree of fame whoring, most bad plastic surgery; bizarrest, trashiest, least flattering, and cheapest looking clothing.
judged this way, SWINTON (who is a beautiful woman who chooses to ignore the stereotypical standards of beauty) would score high in the "bizarre" contest but not much else. i'm sure she knows her odd choices will be frowned upon by many, but she just doesn't care. she is also a talented & respected WORKING actress who shows up at events for a reason. and i bet she has fun picking her outifts every time.
on the other hand, AO'D brings home nearly perfect scores in ALL categories. she is a whole nine yards of fug and a PERFECT successor for bai ling, as they are both trashy, over-exposed (in more ways than one) fame whores who have done nothing significant yet show up everywhere. bai ling may have more FUN with her clothes, but i am quite, quite sure that she is as convinced as AO'D that she looks very good in them. lets face it: bai won last year not just because she dresses like a whack doodle, but because she had that extra layer of trashy frosting on the whole fugly cake. solange didn't get this far because even though she dresses completely batshit crazy she isn't sleazy enough to run with the big fugs.
i think tilda only made it to the top because people are confused about what it means to be the fugly queen. it is not a celebration, it is AN INSULT. swinton dresses weird, but none of her clothes are eye searing or in bad taste. aubrey, on the other hand, could manage to make a conservativly cut $50,000 designer gown look like she bought it on the hoochie store sale rack. as for looking like a hooker, no hooker who wanted a customer would go out on the streets wearing a diaper dress with a bathmat- unless they catered to customers with some very *weird* fetishes.
in conclusion- swinton is right up there with cher, bjork, and grace jones as being above judgment, aubrey is the very epitome of fug and truly deserves what will be the only award she ever wins.

Which way to go, which way to go - and then I read Colleen's brilliant dialogue in the comments, and voted AOD. Because contrary to popular belief, I think it would hurt Tilda's feelings to be informed that she is "Queen of Fug" on some level. Anyone else see the interview with the press backstage at the 2007 Oscars? When a woman interviewer commented on her dress and Tilda's face lit up, praising the designer, until the reporter responder further "It's very interesting." Did you see the way Tilda's face fell - thinking for a moment she had been complimented then realizing for a moment that she'd been had, basically? Like the girl at the high school dance who the captain of the football team is playing a trick on, so that for 30 seconds she believes he actually likes her?

Besides, if you change one thing about some of Tilda's outfits (the hat, say) she'd basically look fine, whereas there is no fixing any of AOD's outfits. Although I agree she shouldn't have gotten this far. It seems an insult to Tilda to vote for her (again, see Colleen's dialogue above. RIGHT NOW) and an insult to last year's queen Bai Ling to vote for AOD. But, I had to vote for AOD as the only one of the two here to embody "fucking ugly" in style and in spirit.

I vote for celebration, therefore it's SWINTON for me!

Aubrey deserves to win this. Her fug is just so horrendous. SWINTON'S fug is an aesome fug, while Aubrey's is just... terrible.

Also, IT'S SO CLOSE! I can't take the suspense!

Given this site is all about letting people know they look terrible, how can it be SWINTON? She has transcended fug and fashion and art that no-one else is in the same category. So I voted for trashy little Aubrey (even though until I saw her on this site I had never heard of her - and wish I still hadn't.)

In next year's Fug Madness, there should be two prizes - one for Awful Fug and one for Awesome Fug!

Well, this IS a pickle. A particularly fugly pickle. Love and respect vs hatred and loathing: which way to go?

Well, it was tough, but, in the end, while SWINTON's fashion may be fugly, SWINTON herself is not. She is cool, elegant, inspirational.

Whereas O'Day is just...well, she is one fugly mofo.

So, in the end, O'Day FTW. Or loss. A loss for US ALL.

At least SWINTON looks lurrrvely once in a while - Aubrey O'Day can't even manage what a broken clock does naturally.

Support the genius drama of SWINTON! Vote Aubrey.

Oh my God, it pained me to do this.
But Aubrey accessorized WITH HER DOG. She freaking dyed her puppy and the little guy looks so miserable...as though he's just given up. He hangs limply in her arms, as though drugged.
I HAD to give it to Aubrey. She is so, so fug.

May Mr. Blackwell R.I.P.

The GFY "Blackwell" girls are here to take over!!
This Madness month has been FUGTACULAR! So much FUGGING FUN! (I love the word FUG and using it a million different ways)! You guys are great, tell yummy intern George, to stay yummy.

Let's crown a new queen!

I came in prepared to vote SWINTON all the way - she is truly fantastic - but having read the comments and the debate on 'fugly' I'm completely confused!

On the one hand - 'fugly is the new pretty' - so if SWINTON is fugly then the new pretty is cool, artistic, intelligent, individual women, and I'm all over that.

But then there's 'fug or fab'. Huh?? SWINTON is clearly fug and fab. She needs a category of her own. The other one - I'd never heard of her till I saw her here, yes, I'm old - is definitely NOT fab.

So now I can't decide. I'm going to let democracy run its course and learn from the result. Which is it people?

When it came down to the wire, I simply remembered the cool high art stuff SWINTON has done, and could not say she was the queen of fug. She takes risks, sometimes they pay off (like the gorgeous cover in which she appears to be 20 feet tall), sometimes they don't (woman needs to learn not to wear things that make her look washed out). Aubry has no taste and is a skank. She wins when it comes to being fugly.

Thank you ladies for keeping me entertained during Fug Madness. I couldn't wait to get to my computer to see what was going on! It appears that O'Day beat out Swinton. I am on team Swinton, but I TRULY understand how the tide went against me.
I look forward to next years FugMadness!!!

Love, yvetterene

I came to see the latest votes and the voting is closed! I thought all Fug Madness polls were open for 24 hours. Looks like the fuglier contestant won! I'm surprised -- SWINTON had all the clear advantages but true fug won out.

Thanks for an entertaining couple of weeks! Wish comments were always enabled - the site is so even more enjoyable that way!

XOXO