Fug or Fab: Rihanna/Take A Fug

That first dress--it's too close to what I expect Riri to one day get married in. It would work better for me, in this non-wedding scenario, in black or grey or some crazy colour like canary yellow.

Wow. That second one is UGLY.

You know, I can't even get past her horrible, horrible hair to pass judgment on her dresses. Blond = Not A Good Look For Her, IMO.

I like the chiffon in the second dress, plus the colour is pretty on her skin, but the high curved things on her hips are weird - like something on Henry VIII's jacket. It's unnatural in that fabric.

If that opening was about twelve inches further down her leg, and minus the curved ridges, it would be pretty.

The first dress needs a little pulley thingy on the side so the levelor slats can go up and down, up and down. The second one is missing a panel in a very compromising place. No thigh deserves to be entirely abandoned of clothing.

the white one is fabulous and you all know it.

Let us all step back and note that RiRi here is NOT wearing black leather with silver studs and the like. She's in very light and neutral colors...coming out of the darkness?? I THINK SOOOO! I think she looks gorgeous in both outfits.

Her hair color is the most fug thing about both of these looks. She's so pretty, she could easily keep her hair natural and look gorgeous.

I think I'd like the white gown better if the sheer neckline was taken away, and the folds at the top created the neckline instead.

I have heard (not seen) that the back has a big white zipper from her neck down to her thigh. Sounds very disturbing.

I like the top. The bottom (fishtail?) reminds me to much of ironed linnen napkins.

The second dress is just... wrong.

I agree with Blue Satin Sashes...although I like touch of sheer fabric at the shoulders, I too wish the folds/architectual whatnot created more of a neckline. It's so bulky.

It is really great to see her in neutral colors, and I do love the shade of both dresses, but that leotard peaking through at the croch is just....blech.

But all of this is invalidated by how HORRIBLE her hair looks!

I like the white dress - so what if it's impractical. I hate the chiffon one, though. It makes her hips look weird, and I don't ever want to see people's panties through their dresses. even if they are at least wearing them.

I can't see illusion netting without also imagining an intricate ice dance routine in my head. If not for the attached mesh tee on the first one, I might have liked it. As it is, it is Ice Capades on the top and Chrysler Building on the bottom.

Dress #1 looks like those paper fans we'd fold out of our worksheets in math class when the the room was a bit warm and things got particularly boring. It's definitely wearing her. Like a giant angry swarm of elementary-school paper fans.

Dress #2 looks like her pelvis is broadcasting her sign - ARIES (which is misleading as she's a Pisces - I think she needs something from her water sign to put out that fire sign that is in her crotchal area) - below what is clearly a Miraclesuit maillot. The only miracle I see is that we're not seeing more of her "miracle".

First dress: sure, why not? I do think the top part could have been better executed, but overall it's fun and I like fun. Second dress: no. Just no.

First dress is kind of funny and artistic but the sheer t-shirt part and pocket make it weird. Second dress could be featured in Star Trek... :,D It's all I can really say!!!! She could seduce commander Riker just like that.

BTW, Fug Girls, your re-naming of Day After Tomorrow (in 20fug2 post) was really rotfl of the day for me. THANK YOU!!! :) :) :)

The pocket on the white dress -- which I think is awesome -- is not for lipstick or change. It is a place to rest her HAND and show off the sweet little tattoo on her wrist.

Ok, to be honest, and don't get me wrong I love Riri and i totes love her bod, but I really do think the dresses she picked are suited to smaller, thinner, perhaps taller women? Idk. Either way, I think the first dress had potential until the neckline which I just don't agree with... and I agree, all over the ground! Eek!

But the second dress, absolute disaster. The bottom is seriously questionable... and not complimenting.

And then there's her hair.. I don't even want to start on that one.

I'm surprised you haven't mentioned the innocent bystanders in the background of both of these photos. All of them are joining in our collective chorus of "Ummm... Yeah, not sure..."

I do quite like the first one, if only because she looks as though she feels confident in it but the second one? Good Grief. Why would anyone do that to RiRi?

the first dress looks like a project runway paper dress challenge gone horribly awry..

The first dress would work so well on SWINTON.

i am so in agreement with christina on the first dress. i can't get past the sheer t-shirt all the files are stapled to! what. is. THAT? a t-shirt?!?!

Paging Watson & Crick! It's like she's standing in a puddle of her own collapsed DNA strand. Maybe the pocket's holding some extra random genes in case she wants to mutate into something else for the after-party.

Or maybe it can mutate into a DIFFERENT DRESS. In which case - AWESOME, and where can I buy one?

somebody please tell me: what is she wearing under the mountain of paper fans? all i know is that it's sheer and confusing.
from the waist down, though, the white dress is glorious. her hair, notsomuch.

I second Grace's emotion that the first dress would look better on SWINTON. Otherwise, it makes my eyes go all wonky. Makes me dizzy for some reason.

The second dress could've been nice. I love that color, but it looks like someone started to make the dress, got mad at it, and decided to destroy it. And then sell it.

Why is project runway so lame this season? Heidi and Tim are so crabby and the designers are BOOOORING...I mean, there certainly isn't a Christian Siriano among those people

Does anyone else notice the tan line or is it just me? Her hand looks pale compared to the rest of her arm. just sayin.

i'm so glad theres comments for this one!

the second thing looks like a deconstructed version of the red bit of business worn by that entertainment tonite lady who's married to a hardy boy [i think] on some red carpet--the one where everyone who's anyone here will remember we got to see a Bit of Her Bit of Business.

i say the same for rhianna, here:
put it away, lady.

[i believe someone cleverer than i said that last time.]

i am also reminded that this could easily be worn by lady v-hervey, & we should be glad she hasnt got her smokestick into it--cos she'd've worn it sans leotard.

okay.

the first one's great. i think the pocket's for balance. the rest of it, so help me, looks like books. i wonder if rhianna is familiar w/ them? it might look like phone books falling down, but even still--they're made of paper, they're made to resemble something that, well, you read. this may be the last of them. i wish they werent dragging on the ground.

Hate the construction of the first dress, but the color is beyond yummy-it's mesmerizing. What's with the make-up though? Her face looks like she's got three layers of crusted calomine lotion on it. Does anyone else think she's got a huge forhead?

Hate the construction of the first dress, but the color is beyond yummy-it's mesmerizing. What's with the make-up though? Her face looks like she's got three layers of crusted calomine lotion on it. Does anyone else think she's got a huge forhead?

POCKETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

i am a huge fan of pockets. i love pockets 99% of the time

and thus, i want to die right now

this makes me want to never see a pocket again.

I voted 'Fug' on the first dress because I don't like it on her. I actually think the dress itself is interesting-and-possibly-fabulous (although I'm not sold on the sheerness/tee-shirtiness of the top, and I hate the pocket), but it's definitely wearing her, and not the other way around. And it makes her look chunky. I agree with a few previous commenters who have said it might work better on SWINTON, though I'm not sure about that color for her. So far, I like it best on the runway model, even though she is totally scary looking (http://www.coutorture.com/2737203?page=0,0,38).

The second dress is hardly worth a comment other than "put it away, for god's sake!" And it, too, is doing her figure no favors. I like the color, though.

I HATE the hair (color and style) and the nude lipstick. But I also find Rihanna unremarkable in general, so maybe I'm biased.

I was going to make a Project Runway comment about the first one before I saw the commentary on the second one. It looks like the challenge was to go to a restaurant supply store and make a gown out of products available there. Christopher - who so deserved to go home weeks ago - made a little too much volume out of the dinner napkins.

Hee! The first one, top half, looks like another misguided Ri pasties attempt covered up last minute by a prudent stylist handy with a tiny stapler, who also had a plethora of wedding gown silk material samples at hand. (Picturing, "No more nip pasties, EVER"! Okay, maybe her stylist is also Joan Crawford/Faye Dunaway in my mind.)

The bottom of the first is very cool and intricate, but I bet it is dirty on the bottom.

The 2nd is night of a thousand scarves at 15 minutes before last call.

All I know is, I bought the same headband* she once wore and I thought was crazy for $9!! OK not the same same one. Today I'm wearing it and loving myself and loving her. So she is forgiven for anything today.

*at makethisyourown.etsy.com

Well, the fabric on the first one is really pretty, so I agree that it's too bad it's being ruined on the pavement. The dress though? Go ahead...can't ruin it any more than it already is.

The second one? Gaaahhhh!

Rihanna, honey, go home and change. On the red carpet, either look gorgeous or completely wacktastic...nothing else is worthy of you.

p.s. Who the hell puts a pocket in an evening gown? Madness!

I want to see video of her walking in the first number, because I don't think I could do it. I think I'd look down and get dizzy and fall over.

Pockets distroy the line on an evening dress. That's why cute little evening purses with the handle on the back were invented.

First dress has a charm about it's construction, but does bring back that fear of shoving my hands into the copier to clear a paper jam. Second dress, way too Danse Moderne. A guy in a fig leaf is going to sneak up and spin her around by that weird pale crotch layer any second.

Bad pocket, bad! You know, maybe I wouldn't even care about the pocket if she'd take her darn hand out of it! I'm sorry, maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I just do not believe in putting your hands in your pockets at a formal event. It just makes you look so shlubby, even if you do arrange your hand in a cute manner in order to show off your tattoo. Sorry, still doesn't cut it for me.

I LOVE the 1st dress, though. It'd be a "wtf" on anybody else, but it just totally has Rihanna's name written all over it. The 2nd one...I like the color, but they need to pull it apart and start over, and actually SEW IT together this time.

And argh, her hair. Try again, please.

I kind of like the first one because she looks fully clothed without being frumpy, and I like the hourglass shape of the Venetian blinds on her front. And I can't wear white, so I'm always jealous of people who can. The second one might be pretty, with the way the colors blend, if it had a skirt. Actually, I think it's like an extreme example of what sometimes happens on Project Runway, where the designer gets all caught up designing the top half of the dress and forgets about the bottom half, except that that usually just results in a really ugly skirt, not no skirt at all.

I WANT to love the first one, but the pocket and the way some of the folds near her midsection are hanging down like broken venetian blinds are distracting. I like the woman in the background chewing on her hair. That could be me.

Both dresses look like she couldn't fall asleep last night and in an effort to keep herself busy with...anything, she decided to make herself a couple of dresses. And since she was so obviously sleep-deprived the next morning, she loved what she had done and decided to wear them outside. Really, I think she just needs a nap, guys. Then she'll be properly embarassed about both these get ups.

Agree with the commenters who said the first look would look great on Tilda Swinton and in a jewel color. Or on some tall, thinner, model.

As for the second look, the color washes her out and the slit/split is too high but the style of the dress isn't bad.

But agree with the majority who cry foul on both looks because of her awful hair.

there is a sculpture in denver that looks exactly like the first dress. while i like the idea of sculptural clothing, it should not exactly mimic existing sculptures. see sculpture picture in news story: http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=100296&provider=top

I hated the first dress at first, then I saw this picture. she looks good in it here! I'm conflicted.

http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/50547/rihanna-steals-the-show-at-glamour-women-of-the-year-awards--pictures

I feel like the second one would be SO pretty on her if the skirt were completed to turn it into a formal gown.

Love the first dress! Crazy, sure, but beautifully so. The second, well. Meh. But more importantly, have you discussed her HAIR, or have I just missed it?

The first dress is pretty cool on the bottom half, but the top half is way off. The structure is all wrong IMO, it doesn't follow her figure at all whereas the bottom is actually pretty flattering around the hip area.

I really like the top part of the second dress though. It is so pretty and kind of ethereal. I do not like the 'split alllll the way up the leg' thing. Why? It's just classless. Also we know she has killer legs already, it would have been nice to see her in something elegant.

So, she is obv working her way up to getting a whole dress right. It's just taking a while.

The first dress has no redeeming qualities at all for me. White is a tricky color on its own, though it can be pulled off without looking too bridal. However, while this doesn't look bridal to me, it's not the way I would imagine someone pulling off the look. It's horrid. It's like an Escher painting and I like those well enough, but I wouldn't want to wear one. I don't like the mermaid cut on any dress.

I could totally get behind the second dress if it weren't cut all the way up to her pelvis, and if that weird purply brown layer was a different color that wasn't so blah. That slit up the leg robs the dress of any real class or femininity, and just sort of reminds me of a horror movie where the homecoming queen gets sucked back into prehistory and has to tear up her dress in order to out run the velociraptors.

The hair is awful. That shade of brassy doesn't work on anyone.

First dress is interesting but not pretty. Second one will not be referred to as a dress it is fabric draped in an ugly way.

My biggest issue is the hair. So very ugly. You, my dear, ought not be blonde. Mary J. Blige, you are not.

Fugly, fugly, fugly for the hair, the first dress and the second dress. The coxcomb effect befits ...well a rooster perhaps. Regardless of the color it just has to go.
Mermaid-cum-accordion pleats just don't work here and the last dress? Well with that leg she looks she just waiting to launch an attack on any CB look alike - not graceful at all.

Whaaaaaaaaaa? Someone said they think she looks lovely in both dresses? I'm sorry, but that hair is just heinous, and she's following it up with some horrible choices. I agree that the first dress is a "Seussian filing nightmare," and it feels a lot like the rumpled white material is stuck to the sheer with some fabric glue or maybe a wayward thumb-tack. The second looks like Tinkerbell got drunk at said birthday party, left to try to start a ballet company, tore her dress horribly in her drunk stupor of a dance and then thought it would look great on the runway.

Fug, fug, fug, fug.

The white one sorta reminds me of that dress Marissa Tomei wore to this year Oscars, especially with all that volume/construction at the bottom. But Marisa's dress was great because up top, it was relatively simple and the transition from all that busy-ness at the bottom to the relative simplicity at the top was gloriously done. Now RiRi's dress, like Marisa's love the busy-ness at the bottom but what the hell, instead of going into simplicity it just carries on with all that business, and maybe even becomes more, I just don't. In the immortal words of Michael Kors, 'that's a whole lotta look!'

I like most of the execution here of the Frank Gehry princess dress, but the netting shirt underneath tackifies it down to showbizzy, and should be changed to silk or something to uphold the bravura of the dress.

The Land's End maillot-and-sheer-drapes dress is not fit for life off-stage.

I love Rihanna's hair short, especially because her face is Barbie Doll. Without an edgy frame, her face, which I guess with favorable spin might be conveying "serene, symmetrical beauty," makes me see instead "plasticized victim resigned to imprisonment in endless loop of pettily inhumane interactions and alienation" ...probably because of the tabloids; but the association's not my fault. It's cultural...maybe manufactured by the entertainment industry puppeteers. Beats me. This soft blonde hair takes the edge away again, leaving us back at unnervingly-depressing victim icon--unnerving because after all, beauty + talent + youth + piles of cash = 21st century capitalist freedom, doesn't it? Doesn't it? Upshot: Green eyes with black hair is a knock out, rather than a wash out.

Ugh, she is just fug, fug, fug all the time. She is obviously dressing for shock value and never looks as interesting as she thinks she does.

I really which her whole domestic abuse incident didn't happen, because obviously it's horrible to happen to anybody, but also because for a while you'd look like a total tool for criticising her. But now that she's out promoting a new album I think the statute of limitations on criticism is over, she is a fugly dresser and can't sing at all

With the first couple pics of the white dress, I thought it was at least interesting in an artsy way. But, HOLY USELESS WEIRDNESS, what is up with that pocket? For the record, I HATE how celebs feel the need to show off that they have the pocket by posing with a hand in it. The only people I've seen pose with one hand or both in pockets and not look douchy are Kevin Bacon and Taylor Lautner. And they were wearing pants, where pockets belong.

Deep breath. Rant over. Have a nice day.

The first one is terrible. I might think differently if I could see different angles on it, but the top is just too much. The bottom half is BEAUTIFUL, but it's not an idea that translates well in the top of the dress. Epic dress fail.

It looks like that yellow art-deco thingy that you drive by in South Denver that no one knows what it is or where it came from.

Whatever about the dresses but I'm really hating her hair. That color is awful.

T-Boz?

Panties.

Why does everyone insist on showing us their panties? We all know what panties look like.