Fug or Fab: Demi Moore

I thought it looked like a graphic of something. I like it! I hope I look like that when I'm older! I also hope pigs fly!

The lower part of the skirt looks very wrinkled from sitting in the limo, but the back looks like it might be interesting. The thing that tears it for me is the awful little white bow on top of the awful, big black bow at the neck.

Oddly, it's not the print that bothers me about this dress. It's the weird pinchy-squinchy bow at the neck that looks like something made of fondant that would top the centerpiece cake at a gift wrappers' gala.

The bow and the neckline concern me more than the pattern. This is a coulda/shoulda been better.

I think it would look much better without 1. the ugly bows on the top, and 2. the wrinkles on the skirt. And yes, I hope I too look like that when I'm older. Also the hot, younger husband would be nice. But I won't hold my breath...

The dress just needs a few tweaks: lose the straps/bows (cute maybe on a different dress?) and add a little more coincidentally graphic tire marks, and we're in business.

I'm not nearly as bothered by the spots/stains/streaks as I am by the wrinkles and the bow around the neck. If the dress were strapless and well-kept, I might be okay with it.

I'm more concerned about Ashton. Without a belt, those suit pants look like, well, Sansabelt pants worn by golfers and puttering retirees. And the last time I saw a tie that skinny was at a Cars concert in 1982.

The bow and the floppy bits of fabric hanging off the straps are too much, but otherwise I like it. Interesting and modern. Even the pleats/wrinkles.

To me, it's one of those things you see after an hour or so shopping at TJMaxx, and you think it looks good. Then you get home and realize it only looked good in comparison to most of the rest of the merchandise.

Which causes me to wonder what she rejected in favor of this.

Now all I can see are tread marks.

She IS hot though.

Ironically, the pattern of this dress looks like the scenes in Ghost where the bad guys died and were pulled by evil spirits into the Netherworld. Which is, quite frankly, where the bows belong.

So, I really like the *idea* of this dress, but there are some major problems. The worst, in my opinion, are what I think are four or more huge wrinkles across her thighs. That's not even where her hips would bend! I'm so confused. Also, if you look to the right, behind her hand and purse, there might be a bustle/ass-flap that I cannot approve of. And finally: the bow. I could accept it if it were the worst part about the dress. But it's not. However, the sort of watercolor staining is very pretty and the layering from the hips up is on point. The straps are in a place so she can show off her amazing shoulders and arms, so the dress definitely has some great things going for it, too. Wow, my feelings WERE complex...

So, The Wrinkles are distracting me from all else. All I can thinking of is them kanoodling (etc!) on the ride over. Seriously, can you get that many wrinkles from just sitting? Also this theory would explain the missing belt on the boy wonder over there. Let me close with high fives all around! It's super to see how much they *heart* each other.

Ick.

Also, want to know where she gets that virgin blood she's bathing in too look so damn young.

If that dress was just strapless, without the hideola bow neck part, it would have gotten a "well played" and we wouldn't even be discussing it.

I completely love this! I don't see what's up for debate. Demi is usually one of those women who can make things work that other women can't, but I think this would work on pretty much anybody.

I JUST WANT TO RIP THAT HORRIBLE THING OFF HER NECK AND PRETEND IT NEVER HAPPENED. That is all, thank you.

Love the shoulders, don't mind the bow. Hate the creases (those aren't just wrinkles). And the smudge decoration leaves me baffled (head tilts to side).

My problem with this dress is not so much that the designer thought oil stained would be a good look, but that the designer wasn't fully committed to oil stained as a look. If it was an all-white dress where the only contrast came from the oil stained bits, that would be fine, but the very clean neck bow thing (is that even part of the dress? Did Demi add that herself?) in both bright, bright white, and shiny, shiny deep black just makes it all too confusing.

It would be fine if the skirt didn't look like she'd been sitting in it for hours. Wrinkles are never hot. However, Demi Moore is always hot.

The dress sucks. Ashton isn't quite as skeezy as usual, at least he had the decency to shave that cursed dirt-beard. As for Demi's (ab)normally creamy visage: the lady looks a tad over-taut. Specifically, in the eyelid. There I said it.

It looks like she tried to change the toner in the copier and the dress got stuck in all the paper moving gears. I can't like her until she comes clean about who her surgeon is. Not natural.

It's a Rorschach, a psychological study, but not a dress. Way too much going on at the neckline as well. She looks great, though, how DOES she do it??

I actually like it a lot! I'm ambivalent about the neck bow, but I really like the black on the dress. Just imagine it as a plain white dress--boring, right? I don't even think they look like tread marks, but rather like ink paintings. Also, Demi herself looks great.

I would like it more without the heavy creasing on the skirt. It makes it look as if the skirt was wrinkled at the bottom of the bag when it was delivered and Demi decided to just go with it, figuring that so much was going on everyone would just assume it was supposed to look like that.

Also, this dress brought back memories of the film Just One of the Guys, specifically the dress Terry was wearing when getting ready for her date with her boyfriend, the dress she ended up squishing into a ball on her bedroom floor when she had to go back into her disguise as a boy. If Sherilyn Fenn's character had run over the dress with her car after her flirtations were rebuffed, the dress would have looked a bit like Demi's. I think.

I can only assume that, after Ashton (who, for the record, looks fantastic here) ran her over with the car, she was accidentally pinned there for 45 minutes. How else to explain those wrinkles all over her skirt?

I hate the twee bow. Only Helen Mirren knows how to do a bow properly.

Otherwise, she looks great. Beautiful hair, her make-up is gorgeous, her smile looks real. She's age appropriate and hot.

Perhaps if it weren't so horribly wrinkled, it would look less like a tragic accident and more like a conscious choice. Usually she looks great, so this is definitely an anomaly.

Likes: the graphic, the colors (or lack thereof, I suppose), the overall shape and fabric

Dislikes: the wrinkles (although, I think we can all sympathize) & THE WRETCHED BOW

Also, she appears to be getting hotter with age... Ashton, not so much. I believe this is irony. Yes?

It's just too much. Either lose the bow/straps, or lose the tread marks.

My complex feelings are pretty much like a lot other people's. The wrinkles are bad. The bows, though. The BOWS. It reminds me of the dress Cinderella made that her evil stepsister ripped apart. http://students.ou.edu/P/Lesley.B.Pierce-1/cindypink.gif

The difference is that Cinderella can rock bows; Demi can't.

Also, the rest of the dress is so out of tune with the bows--it's so unusual and sophisticated. If the bows were killed I'd love it.

She looks like she was changing the toner cartridge in a printer and had some serious trouble whilst doing it.

These two elements make my head hurt.

Keep the prim bows, but lose the smudgy print below.

Or keep the smudgy print, lose the bows and do a one shoulder, asymmetrical strap.

The bows are troublesome. The print doesn't bother me as much as the bow(s), but why would you choose a dress that looks dirty? And she does look fabulous.... have to agree with the others.

Oy - she could have done much better... in dressing both herself and the man candy.

First of all, he's a tall cool drink of "hold the cougar in me back". Demi's face and hair are lovely - hey, $100,000 worth of "relaxing treatments" and young man candy and I'd look that good, too. Her dress, however. The bows aren't bad, but the smudges from working in the 12-car garage on Ashton's souped-up Big Wheel just don't work for me. And D, if you can get rid of body wrinkles, pull out an iron and get rid of those in your dress!

I have definitely read too much GFY because I thought "gosh, that dress looks like a car crash" before I even read the dialogue!!

If there are bows, the wrinkles and oil stains should go. If you loose the gift wrap element, stains and wrinkles look much better.

And what the FUG has happened to Ashton Kutcher?!?! He reminds me of a song called "I'm my own granpa"...

Guys, can we talk about the SHOES?!

Seriously, they make her ankles look huge and her feet look like hooves.

I like the fabric, and I mostly like the cut of the dress. although, there looks to be a flap or ruffle or something in the back. Could be a deal breaker. The black & ivory fussiness at the top is total crap.

I'd like it a whole lot better if that godawful bow weren't up there on her breastbone.

Perhaps this little Twitter exchange between Rachel Zoe and the designer about this dress will inform the discussion:

rzrachelzoe RT: @prabalgurung TY both 4 putting Demi in mydress lstnite. She lkd beautiful chic n amazin. TY very very much xoxo
16 minutes ago from web

Replyrzrachelzoe youre so welcome--she killed it! u r a genius http://ow.ly/xl3g xoRZ @prabalgurung

It reminds me of her dirty white dress in Nothing But Trouble. . . could only find a pic of it clean.

http://www.starz.com/titles/NothingButTrouble/PublishingImages/nothing_but_trouble_1991_685x385.jpg

Funny though, she looks older then.

Wrink can only think of one thing to say that isn't WAY past snarky.

Her earrings might be nice.

My feelings are a bit complex. Demi DOES look smokin'. That's simple. How I feel about the dress has not so much to do with how it looks like she got ran over a car, because I think the smoky dirt look is sorta working on the dress...but that huge bow on the collar is what I'm not really feelin'...

I can't make a proper decision cause all I see is a very crushed dress. Someone get Demi an iron.

It kinda looks like Ashton and Demi were playing a game of Naughty Mechanic, where Ashton was the appropriately greased up and shirtless mechanic and Demi was the swankily dressed cougar from the upper east side... WITH SEXY RESULTS. And that's actually a kind of a hot thought...

Anyway, I can't tell if the dress is actually matching separates (which I kind of hate) or just a really wrinkly dress. So it's hard to judge.

I think I'd LOVE the dress if it weren't for the bow and the straps. I might still like the dress with the straps, and no bow, but I am not convinced that they need to be there.

Is Ashton wearing one of the new Brooks Brothers Mad Men suits? It sure looks like it.

the pattern could be interesting, but...what is up with the wrinkles??

I wouldn't have said roadkill. To me it looks more like what sometimes happens when you try to change the toner in a photocopier. The moral of the story: never attempt office equipment maintenance while wearing your good dress right before you have to go to an event.

Everything which has been said, above, about the wrinkles, the *BOWS* and the tire-tracks, I agree with.

But, I am fearful that the day may have arrived when Demi Moore needs to think hard about not wearing sleevless dresses. As has been observed elsewhere, that unlovely area called the armpit is one of the first to show the ravages of time, especially in thin women, and hers is beginning to look... aged. I suspect the cut of this dress as well as the position of her arm (there's a reason women of a certain age tend to hold their arms at waist height, and a bit to the front) but it looks like the old axillary area needs taken into mindful account.

This saddens me, for she is (mmphfmmfmm) years my junior.

Honestly, the dress is cool and arty, but it doesn't, ultimately, do much for me. Looks a bit to ill-fitting on the top, like it was made for a woman with a much shorter torso.

What I really wanted to express, however, and what I am BURSTING with excitement about, is my Great Anticipation of tomorrow's Friday Fug Challenge! Woo hoo!

TOO--TOO! ugh, I disgust myself.

My feelings have been expressed by many folks already, but I do feel a need to defend Ashton's 'Joel McHale width' tie--I think he's rocking it. Though the comment made me laugh. I also feel a belt would improve things.

It's a good thing he's got something working, because his legs, somehow, have been stumped!

re: Demi, I think Big Fun said it best: Double-decker bows...don't do it! Double-decker bows...she blew it! (we DO remember and miss you, Heathers)

Demi IS hot, and I like the dress, except for the neckline, the bow and the wrinkles. Ashton, however, needs a belt. Also, is it just me, or does Ashton look like Josh Hartnett in this photo?

sigh...Ashton....

O LORDY !
Demi looks like she just hitched up her skirt for a quicky in the back of the car, or perhaps on a damp park bench . The "stains" I could over look, but the wrinkly " I had a GOOD time " look I cannot.

I refuse to dignify that bow with a response. I will not acknowledge that bow's existence. A more pressing problem (ha! pun) is the wrinkle-factor (those are NOT pleats, which I don't even think would be possible, according to the physical laws of the universe), in combination with the length of the dress. It hits her at her knees, which I think does unfortunate things to her legs. She's a mature woman, so I don't really know if it would be appropriate to go shorter. But maybe a slight A-line would have ameliorated this issue?

I actually like the dress if she took those stupid bows off. If it was just strapless or a sheath and more fitted on the top, I could get behind the tire marks. I rarely ever get behind bows. And are those horrible creases on her lap, or part of the image too?

AAAACKKK! What a pretty lady in an ugly dress!

I could like bows. I think. In moderation, maybe, whatever that might mean as regards bows. And I could like a design that made a white dress look like a Rorschach test (as above) or a bad toner accident (also as above). But I'm thinking that I can't like them together. And REALLY not with that wrinkly business she's got going on.

C'mon, Demi!

As for Ash, love the suit, love the tie. Love the neatness!

hate hate hate the bow. and she should shorten it a bit - too conservative for her hot bod.

Neck up- Very good

Neck down- Not bad, but the shoes are a mere unobtrusive stopgap to the..

In between:

I think she wrapped herself in a 600 thread count satine cotton hotel sheet after rolling around vigorously on fresh newsprint, (I will not speculate the why of that last one, but I bet it was Ashton's idea), tied it with an invisible string and threw on some sort of bizarre half tuxedo/bowtie dickie to hold it all up.

But, I used to dress my barbies in strapless toilet paper dresses because I hated the cheesy, sleazy fashion they foisted on innocent barbie playing children. So what do I know.

Project Runway flashback: this reminds me the scuba dress that Ra'mon didn't have enough time to dye completely yet still won the challenge for.

I love a good Rorschach dress. But they should be scary - i.e. sans bows. And also sans wrinkles. Strapless and ironed, and I love it!

And clearly, her fountain of youth is standing next to her. So THAT'S the secret.

It does look like wrinkles across her lap area, but if you look at the close-up, you can see that its actually bands of color. Unfortunate that it looks like wrinkles, but I suppose since she knows its not, she never gave it a thought. Surely if she had known the print would make it look as though she had had her knees somewhere near her ears in the past half hour, she might have rethought the whole outfit.
Agreed that the skirt does seem to have some sort of bustle attachment going on, which, if true, is as big an offense as the bows. Maybe bigger, although those bows are pretty offensive.

This is one of those polls (and you even have it as options sometimes) where I am such a fan of Demi that there is no way I can't vote Yes to this outfit. I mean yes I see the oil stained outfit and I think on anyone else I would give it a big thumbs down, but on Demi I had to vote yes.

I mean if there is any star that I want to steal her beauty secrets it is Demi. I realize her beauty secrets might just be the phone number of her plastic surgeon but even there, I mean this woman does plastic surgery right. She looks awesome, so young and perfect without falling into all the standard traps (not even a hint of duck lips - Yeah!) I always want to sit Demi down with Nikki Cox and let them have a nice talk. :)

Not her best. No to the bow and to them both looking so rumpled and wrinkly, and what is with that suspect looking extra fabric at the back?

I say lose the bow thing at the top- it's too bib like. Then either make the dress fashionably wrinkled or not- the level of wrinkle on the bottom just looks messy, not chic. Otherwise, I actually like the fabric and pattern. And obviously, because she's Demi, she still manages to rock this slightly askew look.

So I am literally on an all-girls flag football team (I'm in grad school so it's ok) called The Cougars. We have a play named after Demi, and it is a very successful, well-run, good results sort of play. I may be biased at this moment, but I think she looks good.

it neednt be a tuxedette.

most tuxedettes are ghastly; ysl circa 'le smoking' was the only tuxedette done interestingly in the post-mid-century. &, of course, his designers-in-waiting. during the time of adaptations [in lieu of les knocks-off], some of these also turned out @ least semi-righteously baked.

then, of course, there are the dietrichs &/or bacalls, etc & ect, who could pull of wearing a tuxedo, its very self. but these are, or were, few & far between--& i, personally, would not count madonna OR demi moore amongst them. madonna, i'm sorry, i knew & liked her precursors. demi--after the Bike Shorts Incident, i find suspect in all sartorial things.

i do like the grease stains. since she appears to be doing automobile wreckage, perhaps it would be even more appealing if, once the bow & suspenders were externally & eternally lost, the rest of it was accessorized w/ red?

i can dream, cant i?

tho what i'd RLY dream about, @ least in this particular instance, might have been an option for the minority of us that did not find demi moore hot in any incarnation.

then again, alone might i be.

Demi looks hot.
Her dress is roadkill.
Travis is funny (loved your comment!).
Agree about Ashton needing a belt.

Wish I could comment about Sandra Bullock's jumpsuit in the post above looking about as good as a jumpsuit can, which is not very, thus convincing me at last that the Fug Girls are right about jumpsuits after all. But that would break the rules, so I won't.

Bows are tricky. They can make a woman look as though she is trying to recapture the joy and wonder of being five years old if one isn't careful. While I think Demi looks great thanks to her plastic surgeon, great hair, and even better make up, this dress is a big miss.

The bow kills it for me. It has no place on this outfit, which was riding on shaky ground already. The "I just had to quickly change the oil in my car before I got here" coloring can work, but it's definitely not something that I would consciously choose. Are the wrinkles supposed to be there? You would think that a person whose job, in part, is to look good, would have at least taken the time to iron the thing, or have it ironed.

I like the abstract print and the drape of the bodice... but that bow at the neckline ruins everything. And the wrinkles, sigh... I guess silk is a cruel mistress to everyone.

Thanks for the laugh. This "convo" made my hungover workday much better. :)

Dress sans bow & wrinkles, then we're talkin...

Like other commenters, the print doesn't bother me at all -- it's the bows that are bugging me. If the dress had a simple fastening at the top, it would be vaguely avant-garde; instead it's a weird mix of artistic and twee. Which is not a good combo.

Oh yes oh yes oh yes! I have been DYING for a chance to tell you all this: I HATE Demi Moore! Well maybe hate is a bit strong, but I intensely dislike her.
In saying that though, she looks nice here. I don't like the dress per se, but she looks happy and fresh and the cream is lovely with her dark hair. She pulls it off. Besides, I'm more concerned for Ashton and his Harvey Keitel suit - is it glinting in the moonlight or are my eyes playing tricks? Ashton appears to be growing old moore rapidly than Semi-Demi Moore too.

p.s. I know I am flirting with danger here but I don't like Bruce Willis either. Sorry. I can't help it - the pair of them just don't do it for me.

You know, I think she is ALMOST pulling this off. It would be ridiculous on almost anyone else, but if she loses the wrinkled bottom, it's fab.

I feel that anyone who has this body, surgery, money, and arm candy, should ALWAYS look perfect. This dress does not fulfill my expectations. Maybe if the bow (?) were removed. The black pattern interests me more than anything else about this dress.

I feel that anyone who has this body, surgery, money, and arm candy, should ALWAYS look perfect. This dress does not fulfill my expectations. Maybe if the bow (?) were removed. The black pattern interests me more than anything else about this dress.

Am I the only one who thought the dress was *purposely* designed to look like the black dye in the bow wasn't colorfast and then the bow got really wet and bled all over?

I think the bow and the dress are meant to have an antagonistic relationship, and the bow is seeking revenge on the dress in the only way it knows how: bleeding on it.

But I'm not a fan. Bow, if you want to vanquish the dress this way, please be less ugly.

Moore is yet again flat-out beautiful. I don't mean to sound like a grocery store butcher, but look at that shoulder and neck. They're sculptural. And her face is just cute; though it makes me very frustrated because I cannot figure out how plastic surgery worked for her and yet it grotesquely disfigures most other people time and again. I really dig Moore's silky drive-over dress, except for the dopey bow. The dopey bow is just her & the designer's way of saying that she is so hot and rich that she can without social penalty drape around her neck hideous things that would crush mere mortals' dignity. It is therefore slightly sociopathic of her to flaunt that moronic ladies-high-tea bow in our faces. And in a closing reflection upon Moore's darling accessory, it is clever how Kutchner's institutional haircut puts a little twist on a suit.