She's ba-aaaack.
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And in a way, Solange here is making my heart hurt, because I had hoped she'd bounce back from her Fug Madness elimination by coming at us with something bolder, stronger, madder, and wronger than anything that came before it.
Instead, she's flummoxing me a little. Because in principle, there's nothing objectionable about the silhouette she's working here, and I don't even mind some of the pieces separately. Yet I can't help looking at this and feeling totally overwhelmed. Even Solange's posture makes it seem like she's weighed down, as if she got caught in a deluge of hoo-ha raining down from the ceiling of her closet. The purse almost gets lost next to the metallic snakeskin skirt, the giant belt of an entirely DIFFERENT texture competes for attention with everything below it AND the shoulder ruffle above, she's debuting very severe bangs, and on top of all that she's got giant dangly earrings. I know we quote Tim Gunn to a fault on this site, but he did say it best: It's a whole lotta look. In fact, I'm half-surprised she's not sporting tights and elbow-length gloves just to make it as busy as possible. Maybe those are the two pieces she edited out before leaving the house.
Or am I being too harsh? It's Solange, after all. The woman is a fiend, capable of so much more destructive crimes of fashion than this middling, piddling one. Although sometimes, in the words of my father, nothing is so bad as something that's not-so-bad. Translation: Maybe it's better to be at one extreme or the other than languishing somewhere forgettable in between.
[Photo: WENN.com]
And in a way, Solange here is making my heart hurt, because I had hoped she'd bounce back from her Fug Madness elimination by coming at us with something bolder, stronger, madder, and wronger than anything that came before it.
Instead, she's flummoxing me a little. Because in principle, there's nothing objectionable about the silhouette she's working here, and I don't even mind some of the pieces separately. Yet I can't help looking at this and feeling totally overwhelmed. Even Solange's posture makes it seem like she's weighed down, as if she got caught in a deluge of hoo-ha raining down from the ceiling of her closet. The purse almost gets lost next to the metallic snakeskin skirt, the giant belt of an entirely DIFFERENT texture competes for attention with everything below it AND the shoulder ruffle above, she's debuting very severe bangs, and on top of all that she's got giant dangly earrings. I know we quote Tim Gunn to a fault on this site, but he did say it best: It's a whole lotta look. In fact, I'm half-surprised she's not sporting tights and elbow-length gloves just to make it as busy as possible. Maybe those are the two pieces she edited out before leaving the house.
Or am I being too harsh? It's Solange, after all. The woman is a fiend, capable of so much more destructive crimes of fashion than this middling, piddling one. Although sometimes, in the words of my father, nothing is so bad as something that's not-so-bad. Translation: Maybe it's better to be at one extreme or the other than languishing somewhere forgettable in between.
