Fug or Fab: Freida Pinto

Ugh, the shirt looks like it's made out of that really horrible, vaguely shiny, super-scratchy material that little girls' gymnastics leaotards are made of. Ick, ick, ick.

The skirt is deeply weird. That said, she still looks great in it, so I kind of have to give her a pass.

I could do without the tassles on the boots and the giant brooch-type object on the dress.

Im in love with this color on her, but the dress itself is horrible. Shes way too pretty/cool/option having to be wearing something that looks like THAT.

this reminds me of eva green's commercial for 'midnight poison' - the midnighty, moonlit vibe. but the blue is a bit too bright and the bag doesn't match, either. i would fix those two and at least have a well-planned look

The skirt is strange and ill-advised. And I hate open-toe booties on principle. I think she must be holding someone's bag for her, because no one in their right mind would pair that bag with that dress on purpose.

Despite all of that, she is very pretty and the color is lovely on her, so against all odds (cue Phil Collins), she is sort of pulling this off. But only sort of.

I think I would like it better if the waist was either higher or lower. Also, lose the shoes. Yuck.

I love the skirt and the dress. But my distaste for boots with peeptoes is so immense that I have to fug her.

Yes, the color is pretty. As Penelope has just pointed out, it looks like a leotard -- are we sure it ISN'T a leotard? But it's a fine simple leotard, except it's a little too thin; one can make out the bra underneath. (At least there is a bra underneath; let us count our blessings.)

The skirt is weird. Interesting, but weird; it doesn't really look like clothing, but like some kind of abstract fabric art. (I could go on and on about how since about the end of World War I, clothing designers have ceased to design clothes that make women look good, and instead have created abstract fabric art that doesn't look good on real women, but I sha'n't.)

Shoes, awful; I don't understand why people wear clunky things like that. I would substitute simple pumps in black or bone, a much smaller purse in ditto, and if I were really getting creative a skirt consisting of a couple of yards of silk in a complementary color, wrapped pareo-fashion. That would knock so many eyes out, we would have to send in aid packages of guide dogs. Simplify, simplify (Thoreau).

Penelope beat me to saying what I came here to say: Icky leotard top! Change the fabric of the top, and perhaps make it black or leave it blue but make it sleeveless, and I think I would like this much better. Not loving the purse either; a simple black bag would let the skirt and shoes speak for themselves.

As bizarre as the outfit it, it doesn't bug me that much. The skirt I kind of like. The fabric of the top is wrong, the shoes are hideous. I am so over the bootie/hooves things...ESPECIALLY PEEP-TOE ONES FOR HEAVEN'S SAKES. But she is so pretty, I get mesmerized out of my righteous indignation that something so expensive is so ugly.

I, too am rather fascinated by the skirt. If only the top didn't look like a Soviet leotard for gymnasts, I might have loved it. But it does, so it fails. Sigh.

Also, I despise the shoes. HATE.

it all looks very early 90s revival to me. I can just see linda, cindy, and naomi each wearing it in different colors....

Dear shoes,

I WANT YOU.

That will be all.

I just HATE the bag. What IS that?

I actually love the skirt! It's different and pretty and fun. But it needs to be paired with a short sleeved black top or... NOT a blue shiny leotard!

I agree with all of you who loathe the shoes. Dinsdale, I too am SO over these hooflike booties, peeptoe booties, giant gladiator foot traps... I was over them from day 1, actually.

I'm guessing the top is actually a leotard, the skirt is from a quincenera gone bad, she stole the boots from a drunk Peter Pan (who cut off the toes of his boots on a dare), and the LV bucket bag.. well, there's no reasonable explanation for the hot pink LV bucket bag.

So what I'm trying to say is she's trying to channel a 15-year-old Mexican ballerina who held her party in Neverland. Still no reasonable explanation for the hot pink LV bucket bag.

I'm not crazy about the outfit, but if she were wearing sandals or something I'd be okay with it because she herself is so lovely and poised. But those open-toed galoshes are awful awful awful. The prettiest girl in the world cannot work those hideous shoes.

This is one of those outfits that comes so close and just falls a little short. I think the skirt is a bit too deconstructed, so that it does look like, yes, a loofah. And while I don't love that superfluous-looking flap on the boots, otherwise I think they're fabulous. It's really the bag that utterly destroys this outfit's potential, though. Good proof, I suppose, of the importance of appropriate accessorizing.

One should always draw attention to one's best asset.

Frito Pinto's best asset is definitely her sweet, sweet smile. Why, then, would she allow her feet to scream, "Look at us! Look at us!"? (I win the prize for most punctuation marks in a single sentence, btw.)

Wrink can think of many other women who would be well-served by wearing those boots. Including, possibly, herself.

The top half of the dress is horrid. It looks like a leotard.

The skirt - eh. Maybe if it had a different top. As it is, it looks like Punks-On-Ice tutu. Also, the waist being so high makes her look short from neck to knee, which makes her look frumpy.

The shoes - They're kind of cute, but I don't know that I can get behind open toe boots. Boots are made to keep your feet warm in cool weather. Seems like open toe boots defeat the purpose.

She can do better.

Ordinarily I loathe these open-toed booties, but I'm feeling generous today. I gave it a "love". The skirt is cute and funky, it's flattering on her, and unlike 99% of other people who wear these ankle high, open-toed booties, these make her legs look 8 feet long instead of about 16 inches long. If you can work it, wear it.

The top doesn't fit right, maybe it's her bra? I don't think the top and the skirt work together, either - the top is too simple and basic in construction, while the skirt - well, it's all sorts of interesting.

The boots, not my style, and I think those would work better with a different outfit. The bag makes me scream. I think her hair is a bit off too, a little too severe. She's so gorgeous, and this mess really just makes baby Jesus cry.

Peep-toed boots are the perfect solution for a burning, itching case of toenail fungus:

The rest of your foot keeps warm, while the affected toes get to cool themselves in the wintry breezes.

How smooshed her poor ladies look in that too-tight top. She's got Speedo-boob.

Though I, too, want to touch that skirt.

Bag looks nice, but skirt and especially shirt screams CHEAP!!!! Hologram bustle on the front... yeah right. And what's with the peeptoe boots? Ugly, ugly. Gosh, even the girl looks like "sorry but I was forced to wear this...".

'punks on ice' - love it. hate the leotard, hate the hooves. The skirt would be ok with something else. And someone should steal that purse.
and peep toe boots? whose idea was that? boots are for cold weather and socks.

I think the whole look is totes flattering, shape wise. And what's wrong with a little quirk if it doesn't make the wearer look as if they had a misguided amputation/reattachment procedure?
Love the color.
I also dig the weird hoof-like appearance this bootie craze affords the fashion forward these days. But maybe I am a perv. Seriously, google "Pony Play." It is both hilarious and disturbing.
The bag should be thrown far, far into the Seine.

Love the skirt. Hate the long sleeves.

The shoes should be closed toed and worn with something else.

Simpler purse.

Same as I said for Leighton Meester. I love all of it except for the shoes. I loathe this type of shoe!!!!!!!

No sorry. It looks like the kind of outfit my five year old puts together. "Mom, I want to wear my ballet leotard today." "Mom, can you help me staple all these different colored strips of tissue paper, so that I can have a pretty skirt?" "Mom, look my socks fit over my shoes!" Like I tell my daughter, "Oh honey, no, you can't leave the house wearing all that stuff."

P.S. I think she, like my daughter, is quite beautiful.

I like the skirt.

That top, whatever it may be, is conspiring to make her look fat. She is not fat. The top is wrong.

I do like the color of the top, but like some others I'd rather see a simple black top with at most a blue trim.

Lose the fabric lump at the belt line, whatever that's supposed to be. Replace the bag with something sane.

I, too, hate the shoes. There are so many shoe styles that would look cute with that skirt.

The dress works on her (can't see it on myself), but boy do I hate those shoes with it. And the bag? Cute with jeans, flats and a blazer, but not with the dress.

The color is gorgeous. I like the skirt. I wish the top fit better and it didn't look like her bra showed through it, but I'll give it a pass. And she is very, very pretty.

From the knees down, simplify! The handbag is too casual and all the wrong color. The shoes need to be FAR simpler - and SHOES. Not weird shoe/boot hybrids that belong on a saucy wench at a Renaissance Faire.

Freida can get away with a lot, but even she cannot pull off "middling Project Runway designer creates something for a Mormon contestant on 'Dancing with the Stars.'"

I contend that if anyone else on earth were wearing this, they would have been immediately consigned to the Barrel of Fug, where - I must add - ALL THESE HIDEOUS STUMPIFYING TOELESS BOOTS BELONG.

I am a little weirded-out by the waist of the skirt... it kind of looks like it should be a strapless dress and she decided to scrunch it down to be a skirt instead. I'm confused. And I think I'd be more ok with the top if it weren't trying out for the Olympics and/or had a different neckline.

The skirt is an almost-love. I'd lose the weird waistband and the brooch thingy, but the rest is fab. The top, as has been stated numerous times, has got to go. The bag is totally bizarre, but I'm kind of in love with the shoes.

I could get on board with the skirt, and I LOVE the shoes (and of course her pretty pretty hair)..if just the top of it didn't look like Underarmour. Seriously. I think I run in that.

I love it. All of it. I believe she was at a Louis Vuitton show, which explains the bag a bit, but I also think it adds a cool and unexpected pop of color and brings out the subtle red in the skirt. Also, InStyle gave it their "look of the day" seal of approval so there.

I really do like the color. I'm just not too crazy about the material. It looks like she just put a funky skirt over her gymnastics uniform to attend a totally bitchin' party after the summer Olympics.

Also, her shoes (shooties?) look like a pair of sacks that Peter Pan hides his extra fairy dust in. Like if she thought of how shiny her hair was REAL hard, she might actually fly.

Likes: The color, the color on her, her, and the shoes. The shoes are so great.

I do enjoy the color, it's very pretty. I feel like the structure of the dress is strange. The top half looks like an ice skater's top, and the bottom looks like a high fashion designer skirt that everyone loves but no one can pull off or afford so you'll never see it outside fashion week. However, I do love the color and the skirt. The shoes aren't great, I'm no fan of the open toed bootie thing. The purse I'm cool with because I own one purse and take it to everything. Where would my boyfriend put his keys when we're shopping? :)

Meh... put a scoop on the neckline of the top, trim off those black mesh panels off the skirt (seems okay otherwise) and turn the boots into a pair of proper closed toe ones about mid-calf.

I'm going to throw my hat in with the haters of the top part. It's BINDING her breasts in an odd way and the material does in fact look like those itchy, stinky, sweaty, polyester leotards.

The skirt looks like the bottom part of some little girl's Vanessa Hudgens slutoween costume.

The shoes look like she got stuck in a tar pit en route to her event, some stylist tied shoelaces around her ankles and whispered reassuringly "Don't worry. No one will notice".

Shoes- FAB- please send me a pair!
Bag- Cute, even if it does sport that LV logo way too big (but that might be my logo aversion)- don't mind the colour, the skirt pattern contains it as well!
Skirt- bit retro but great colours and it goes great with her long legs
Top- Having seen pictures elsewhere before coming here I am not blaming the top so much as her choice in bras. Girlfriend is flattish but put on a padded bra which then got flattened by the top making it all look very awkward...

It's a cross between an ice skater and a drag queen's favorite dress.

that top is way too high-necked and it makes her boobs look wierd. scoop neck or v-neck and a different bra and all would be good.

People. Everything about this is spectacularly repulsive. Even her collar bones look bad in this. Even her wrists.

I hate all of this. It's a gross meshy tacky tutu disaster, with peep toe suede black boots..with frills on... and an icky bright shade of purple bag! The purple clashes completely and the fact that the dress is in electric blue just adds insult to injury. Electric blue is not the colour you want your jersey/mesh/tutu dress to be in.

And there's a gross bright gold emblem letter on the bag... eww.. and the top part of the dress is sort of shiny and a bit too tight in places.. eww.. The more you look the worse it gets really, just look away.

You might have caught me at a bad moment though.

When I did a close-up, I thought she had sort of glittery makeup on, but NO! It's just her ACTUAL SKIN that glows. Who cares what she wears?

Ok, but not the shoes. Those are bad.

Well. LOVE the color, the hair and makeup. Do NOT love the hijous top or the wine bottle giftie bag shoes. Really, now.

WANT to love the skirt.........it's got everything - cool retro color combo, shimmery iridescence, black tulle, multi layers, a black sequined kidney shaped ornament. Maybe I love PIECES of it, but not all mashed up like this.

Bag - not even going to go there. Please.

I would totally love the skirt were it not so high-waisted, and the high-neckedness of the top is not helping with that. In fact, everything about the top is just wrong. It looks like long underwear. The skirt is SO busy that the blah design of the top combined with the pulled-back hair and no accessories just makes her entire body above the waist look like a giant blank. The color is great--get something in that color with a V-neck and maybe half-length sleeves, a nice necklace, and it would feel less like the skirt was trying to just blot the rest of her out.

Do we have confirmation on whether the top and skirt are a dress or separates?

Agreed that the bag would be cute with an entirely different outfit, and count me among those opposed to peeptoe booties on principle.

IIII... she's just so beautiful. And carrying off shoe-boots, to my horror, which are a personal Room 101. Almost feel as if the skirt could be okay, were her breasts not casually plastered on at the last minute. Or maybe it's just a bad top. Also not a fan of the bucket-bag, though maybe considering her top this is neither the time nor the place.

I don't even like the color, honestly. It looks tacky and I don't think it's flattering to her beautiful skin. The only thing I can say for it is it looks decent with black.

The top: Too tight, bad neckline, weird shoulder seams, really weird seam or whatever across the tops of her breasts, which makes no sense at all.

The skirt: confusing, too bulky, weird iridescence that totally clashes with the glitteriness of the (bad) top).

The shoe-boot-sandals: Just no.

I don't even care about the bag.

I am also not mad on the colour. She looks great, but the shade reminds me of the cobalt-blue wash you used to get on really cheap jeans (I had those when I was 10. My ma got them in packs of 3.)

I actually like the boots, which confuses me as I usually hate open-toed boots because I can't imagine when they would be a wearable option. If it's cold enough for boots, it's too cold for an open toe. The bag is a cool shape, but the colour and the badge are awful.

The skirt is terrible. Why does fashion keep reverting to that decade of iniquity, the 80's? This isn't even the best of the eighties. It's prom-night-dumpster-baby, and cutting off the velvet bodice that I'm sure was there originally isn't going to change that.

All in all, it's a bit of a mess. It looks like she's trying to go directional, but is, at heart, more of a classical girl. She deserves better.

she is so adorable, she can make even ugly dress like this look kinda interesting and beautiful. These are not shoes, but some strange animal's paws. And the bag is really too much here. But why is she still working it?

In her defense she's only wearing it because she's going to a Louis Vuitton event so naturally had to wear their designs.
Everyone else at the same event looked equally foul.

Those heavy "bizarre" shoes completly weighs her down. What was the gorgeous child thinking?

NO WAIST. THE WOMAN HAS NO WAIST. I mean to say, she has no waist in this what-have-you. I distinctly remember her having one previously, and I don't know why she would misplace it. You should do your best to keep your waist with you at all times.

Love the color. Love the skirt.

Hate the top: the sleeves, the neckline, the tightness, that weird line right above her chestage.

Open-toed boots are a scourge upon the earth. Close up those toes and put these with an edgier outfit, and I love them. But here they make me want to gouge my eyes out.

ITA with carrie. The angle plus the skirt makes her look shapeless and much bigger than she really is. I googled her just to be sure and the interweb confirms that she is tiny and that this is a tragedy.

I kind of love it, but make that skirt 6 inches shorter, and it's an ice skating costume.

Do not get the trend with the clydesdale shoes. I'm scared about the progression. Are leggings with feathery trim next? Neigh, I hope not.

Did anyone else think this was Madonna, then Lilo, before realizing it was KM? Ugh

She looks like she is wearing a foam bra under a spray-on leotard top. The colour is pretty but the skirt frankly resembles a mess of wrapping paper and plastic - you know, like when you buy some flowers from a posh-but-not florist? The shoes are skany and make her look like she has size 59 feet which is BIG!
So how to fix this hot mess?
A quick fix which would leave her at "bearable" would be to replace the boots with cute flats in black or electric blue. Even a rosette on the toe would be acceptable.
And bin the bag. I'd prefer she was carrying a plastic bag to that thing...

It seems very ice dancer to me.

That said, she's young, so some whimsy is appropriate, so I think if she just got rid of the shoes it would be ok.

OmG she's too pretty to look so bad! I had to take a couple of days to think about this one. And still I can't come up with constructive criticism!
Bad girl!! The color is flattering and thats all the praise you'll get.

I like the skirt so much that I want to love it, but the shirt is terrible. It would look so much better with a black top. I think if the top were black, the shoes would also work (more so if they weren't open toed.) In addition, I would have chucked that bag ten feet to the right if I knew I was going to be photographed, and if I was Freida Pinto, I would know that I was going to be photographed.

She loves this cobalt color and must be wanting to remind us of her lovely Oscar debut. That dress had its issues and was saved by her sweetness and beauty and this does, too. I love crazy skirts with a simple top but each of these have their own problems. The skirt cuts her off at her slimmest area and then puffs out. Nix the "paper bag" top and it's so much better. I would then get rid of the crew neck on the top. It just seems like it should be a cotton GAP top, which, we all know, Sharon Stone pulled off forever ago. However, I don't think this is a a GAP top, I think it's an insanely expensive LV top and maybe it should have more oomph. Even a v-neck would look better.
OK, that said, not digging the hooves. That's all I think when I see open-toe booties. Close the toe and nix the dangly things and I'll live with them.

I LOVE the skirt. It's amazing. The top fits really weirdly though, i'm not in love with it. I think it may be too tight, and just looks awkward around her chest. I really want that brooch to be detached and stomped on by her boots and that bag couldn't of even worked if it was in black.If she wasn't carrying like some inflated pontoon, then she didn't need it.

I'm generally unhappy with this outfit -- She's so pretty, why screw it up with so much fluff and twitter?

You may have used the expression "douche bag" many a time... now you actually see someone wearing one. Seriously, that thing at her waist is a black bejeweled douche bag. NOT OKAY FREIDA.

Her shirt looks like the under armor stuff football players and the army wear.

the boots are gross.

Is that her undergarment pulling the top oddly or is the top made that way? It gives it a slightly ice skater costume look.

I do not like the boots, though they are a bold statement. (Though I don't like this, kudos to her for being daring with her fashion.)

The skirt... no. Looks unfinished. If not for the shear black part, I'm sure this would have the tag "crotchtacular."

The bag does not match. At all.

The fabric at the waist makes it look like she doesn't have one.

The color is beautiful, though perhaps not so much on her. She is too pretty to let a color steal the show.

I have seen that skirt before! Emma Watson wore it in UK Elle in the August issue (in green), but with leather leggings and messy hair - it worked better with her 'attitude', whereas I think Freida looks a bit nicey-nicey. She could do with a tougher look.

http://www.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/emma-watson-elle-uk-august-2009-pictures-1.jpg

Change the top and it would be fab.

Great from the waist down, BAAAAAAAAAAD from the waist up. What IS that fabric??

FREIDA, LISTEN. I love you, and you're amazingly beautiful, but Stop. Over plucking. Your. Brows.
I can live with the crazy getup- even the spangly leotard top that I'm pretty sure she stole from my past, but it pains me to see such skinny, sad excuses for eyebrows.

Well, it is hard to tell with the bunched-up tutu if she is really short-waisted or the skirt is out of proportion. The color is wonderful, though, and even the tutu, if dropped a little lower on the waist, would work quite well.

Even the shoes work, more or less, though I think ballet lace-ups might be more appropriate; possibly with a 4-inch stiletto heel. I can see them now.

That bag, though, smacks of someone leaving the house with no time to change bags or mindful of the time she did change bags only to leave her wallet or cell phone behind.

The "shootie" = the worst/ugliest/most-stumpifying trend EVER. I cannot wait until it dies a horrible death!

kinda loving the shoes actually -- but I'd make that top in black, and I'd make it look less like under armor. Girl is NOT a professional athlete. Also, the bag is an atrocity and must be replaced. But the skirt is totally fun! She COULD be rocking it, with the a fore mentioned changes.

I accidentally clicked Love & now I'm horrified because I think this outfit is made of suck! The color is probably my all time favorite but the way it's displayed is awful. And shooties or whatever they are called are the devil's work. Especially when they come peep-toed!

I actually really like the dress.

I think she just really needs to change the bag to something in black and needs to change the hair.

Yes the HAIR. Did no one notice that hair is wrong? She looks a little like a Rihanna wannabe in that hair and dress.

If she lets her hair down, it will soften up the whole look.

The shoes? Not great, but I can live with them.

First thought: what the frigg is goin' on with her tits...?! They're getting squished? Is she able to breath? Get yourself a new bra girl...