Okay, here's the thing. Natalia Vodianova is a beautiful woman. I mean, look at her:
So gorgeous, and she looks so charming and unpretentious. I have this whole imaginary scenario in my mind where she and I are friends and we hang out at her castle or whatever and she gives me all the dirt about all the other models she knows, and then we laugh and laugh and have another martini and she lets me try on her shoes. It's kind of like a cross between that terrible Monica Potter movie where she lives with supermodels and is in love with Freddie Prinze Jr (who is A CIA OPERATIVE I AM SO SURE) and Cold Comfort Farm. So, you know, I like her. Which is why if she swanned out of the house in this, I would just guffaw, "Oh, NATALIA, that coat is CRAAZZZZY! You're so RUFFLY!!" and then just eat a bottle of martini olives. But other people, I would be more likely to snarl, "NICE BUFF-PUFF, RUFFLES MCGEE," and then eat a bottle of martini olives. So you be the unbiased ones:
So gorgeous, and she looks so charming and unpretentious. I have this whole imaginary scenario in my mind where she and I are friends and we hang out at her castle or whatever and she gives me all the dirt about all the other models she knows, and then we laugh and laugh and have another martini and she lets me try on her shoes. It's kind of like a cross between that terrible Monica Potter movie where she lives with supermodels and is in love with Freddie Prinze Jr (who is A CIA OPERATIVE I AM SO SURE) and Cold Comfort Farm. So, you know, I like her. Which is why if she swanned out of the house in this, I would just guffaw, "Oh, NATALIA, that coat is CRAAZZZZY! You're so RUFFLY!!" and then just eat a bottle of martini olives. But other people, I would be more likely to snarl, "NICE BUFF-PUFF, RUFFLES MCGEE," and then eat a bottle of martini olives. So you be the unbiased ones:
If it didn't have the lacy tights I would like it a lot better.
I love the coat. Is the legging-crap that hurt my eyes.
Any one of those pieces could be fab by itself, but together, it's fug overload.
It's hard to tell, but it looks like all of these separates would look better had they remained so.
Much agree. Love the coat. It's the outfit underneath that is fug.
Remember that time on Project Runway, when Christian Siriano made a dress out of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup wrappers? That's exactly what her coat looks like.
Another positive on the coat - it would look fabulous in the pews of the Church of the Quivering Brethren. The wearer would be damned, but they would quiver magnificently... ;)
Love the coat. Although really not crazy about the color -- it looks almost dirty. What's it made of?
And I agree with everyone else -- the rest of the outfit must change. How about a pair of skinny jeans, awesome boots, and who cares what's on top (apart from something!) because the coat's covering it? Fab!!
Yeah, it's not the coat so much as the entire outfit together. The coat, over something streamlined, could be okay.
I like this infinity times more than Rihanna's look! (tho I too would prefer jeans instead of the lacy leg-coverings she's wearing.
I would call her Crazytights McGee instead of Buffpuff. But the coat could be interesting with a red sheath dress, right? Or the tights could be great with a casual black boots and dress combo.
I guess, really, that I nothing original to say except I strongly dislike the dress she's wearing. Great face though! The kind of face that can get away with crap like this!
Just too damn many textures. It screams "touch me", and not in the sexy way.
I love the coat. It's fun and funky. The tights and shoes are hideous, though. A shame, because if not for them, I could totally imagine myself in that fantasy about dishing on other models and trying on shoes.
I'm more concerned about the dude in the back wearing a tea-cosy on his head and the shimmering gold beer-belly...
if she had worn footed shiny black tights and closed toed shoes i would be on board. that coat is lovely!
no. nope. no way.
she IS adorable. but i hate the tights altogether. the coat or the dress would be fab. but together with the super-fugly tights (what is the point to the footless crap? hosiery is meant to make wearing shoes more comfortable!) it is a big mess of fug.
except for the face. because she IS radiantly beautiful and i would love to sit around with you both. and her shoes might fit me, as i'm an 11!
What?
Is this "lacy tights and no pants" week?
I just want to join you for olives at her castle.
The entire outfit, including the shoes, is a hot mess. No one is cute enough to make that getup look good.
I agree with other posters. The coat would be great with a simple top and jeans. But the leggings! MY EYES!
I love the coat, but her legging!! I mean, COME ON! It's totally fugly!
I can't get past the jumble of patterns/textures/nonsense. Each of these could stand on it's own with something more neutral (except maybe the leggings - oh, mercy), like maybe jeans or something. But she is so cute and has such a nice smile, I suspect she could be wearing a Hefty bag with orange peels for shoes and still look lovely. Not. fair.
the shoes and coat are fab and when you look that good and nice, does the rest really matter??
I do love the coat, and I think I would love it on anyone similarly proportioned, i.e. ridiculously tall and painfully skinny. There are some articles of clothing that are just not meant to be worn by mere mortals.
Love the coat, hate what's under it. Ugh. I can't get behind the lace stockings/leggings trend. Now that coat with a turtleneck and skinny jeans tucked into some sleek boots? LOVE.
I just wonder if LiLo is giving away those godawful lace, stirrup bodysuits to every up-and-coming It Girl out there. It seems like I've seen them on at least 4 different girls in perusing just a few blogs today!
A bit too much...maybe separate all the pieces, as they are individually pretty. But WHOOOOOAAAA!!! What a beautiful woman, and she looks kinda healthy, not model-scary.
Where are her PANTS! I'm also with Jennifer on this one, the coat looks like a project runway challenge, that is not working people.
With that prominent brow, she looks like she should be dating one of the Geico cavemen. And I mean that in a good way--she'd make a stunning cavewoman!
And then the coat would be fur. And the leggings would be...leg hair. So never mind.
I like the coat, it's dramatic ... & RUFFLY!! It has interest, when so many coats, don't.
Can't see the dress, shoes are whatever
The tights/leggings are Bad though.
And put me down for another for olives at the castle! Ha!
Another thumbs up for the coat, although I would love it more if the scrunchy part were a different fabric or maybe color...close up it reminds me of something I scrubbed my stove burners with. And I also want her to put on some pants and some shoes that are 1)bowless and 2)indicative that it is coat weather. I mean, is just your upper body cold?
Mari, this has been a *great* week for checking out folks in the background of pictures. My favorite, other than the long-lost Eldest Hanson Stepbrother, is the guy in the over-the-shoulder of Kate Hudson. Holding her purse has just DRAINED him.
The colour and texture of the coat looks like it may have been something in a white or light shade and caught fire at some point.
On the plus side, cute dress and she has a great face and eyebrows.
100% agreed with WAKEUPMAGGIE.
Also, the jacket, counter to the suppositions of several, is far too filmy/translucent to put with anything resembling jeans/boots/winterwear. It's freaking organza! It needs a streamlined dress that hits above the knee in a luxe matte material, lots of bare leg and romantic shoes.
"THERE BE NO BUTTER IN HELL!!"
That's all. I totally loathe this whole ensemble, but I LOVE your reference to Cold Comfort Farm, which I haven't thought about in years. And which contains one of my favorite movie lines ever.
I love the coat, although (or maybe BECAUSE?) it looks like those projects that I made in grade-school art class where you would crumple up squares of tissue paper and glue them to a construction paper heart or whatever.
Anyway, YES on proposition coat, NO on proposition doily-leggings.
Look at her. The girl could wear a smart apron of banana leaves and two pieces of duct tape and she'd be fabulous. The smile is what you see. The rest of it is window dressing. I raise my glass of vodka to this Russian Princess.
Oh, and MEH on proposition whatever's underneath the coat, since I can't get a good enough look at it.
I just really, really dislike her. I find her annoying and pretentious when I've read interviews with her and as a model I think she is really uninteresting.
I do like the coat, maybe with just a simple black sheath dress under and some heals, and worn on somebody fun and kicky
I don't like the tights and I'm not sold on the coat, but I feel like I need to see the dress properly before I make an informed decision.
To quote His Timness, that's a whole lotta look. Agreed with all who heart the coat.
@chasmosaur: Church of the Quivering Brethren FTW! Hilarious.
This entire outfit - jacket, tights, lack of pants, hoofy shoes - is made of NO. NOOOOOO. Do over.
LOVE the CCF reference. Kate Beckinsale was so cute with her bob and emma-ish meddling ways. And I like this outfit, but she could lose the tights and I'd love it more.
Like everyone else, I can accept the coat, even LIKE it, but I hate everything else.
ARE THOSE STIRRUPED LACE LEGGINGS?!?!?! *shudder*
She looks like a charbroiled poodle that moonlights as an exotic dancer.
Could it BE any rufflier/lacier/bow-ier? Please, God, not.
Deep in your heart you know that the footless tights make this fug, even without the grey big bird coat. I'm sorry to spoil the laughs and the olives and the martini but if we are that close, then we have a duty.
This is EXACTLY how Hollywood would cast a story about a baglady with a heart of gold and a masterful command of the oboe who is befriended by Robert Downey Jr. who learns a valuable, character-building, career-enhancing lesson about fusing charity and humility.
There are too many patterns and textures going on here but I am pretty confident that I would love this spunky coat on its own, as an adornment - a featured accessory to a very simple outfit.
There is just way too much stuff going on. If she had worn the coat with a little black dress it would have been a lot better. And that Freddie Prinze Jr./Monica Potter movie was ridiculously brilliant!
She obviously doesn't read this blog since Brandy was chastised just the other day for wearing similarly appalling tights...
Frankly, I am hard pressed to see how that is keeping her warm. Though maybe that is because it is 11 degrees (Fahrenheit) outside and I am clutching a warm mocha for dear life, trying to breathe life back into my fingers. Carry on, Natalia.
I think it's all in the attitude...like, yeah, she's wearing lacy tights and a whacked out coat, but she's all, "hey, it's fun! It's a fun, funny outfit." Unlike LiLo and Brandy and Kate Moss who are all standing around in the exact same outfit trying to convince you that is is HOT and SEXY and SERIOUSLY FASHION. No. You know? You can wear lacy tights if a) we can't see your ass under them and b) you can still stand up when you are leaving the party, you are smiling/laughing, and your eyes focus and c) it's not a formal event and d) they're not from your own clothing line.
I wonder if she found that nasty thing in the woodshed...Oh, how I adore Cold Comfort Farm!
Too much of too much.
You know how they say that you should always remove an accessory before you head out the door? This reminds me of that priceless bit of advice, only she should have removed a pattern. This is just far too busy.
coat-----> oh, yes
rest of outfit------>um, no.
hanging out at the castle-----> I'm in!
Coat over something else (simpler) = just fine.
Quivering Brethren, No Butter in Hell, something nasty in the woodshed, etc. = LOVE!!!
Olives and martinis at the castle = I'm there all night.
Jessica, I do so love your posts, what with the jars of martini olives and terrible Freddie Prinze Jr. movie references. Listen, I could lie and say it's fug, but I'm positive that faced with her sunny smile, I too would just laugh and be indulgent.
I voted "love it". But then I'm a 69 year-old guy. Seeing her walking toward me looking like that and smiling? So I may have skewed your poll a bit.
All of that together is a bit much. But one good thing she has going for her: she's smiling! That in and of itself helps alot.
I am a sucker for an overly dramatic coat so I LOVE that coat. I loathe the rest of what she is wearing but put that coat over a simple LBD or LRD or pretty much any Little Dress and it would be fantastic.
Here's the thing about being fat, which I am. You can't be too be too outrageous in your fashion choices. This is one of those outfits that makes me giggle when I think of putting it on, wearing it to Applebee's (a restaurant I do not visit unless forced) and digging in to some baby-back ribs. HOWEVER this little goddess here looks fashionable as well as pleased. So is this outfit wonderful? No, because 99.99% of the world's population SHOULD NOT attempt to wear it. Heidi Klum? Maybe, because she is also a goddess who is not afraid to look happy.
THERE ARE NOT LEGGINGS
it's the combinaison en dentelle TENDER ROSE taht she made for Etam.
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