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October 20, 2009

Fug or Fab: Taylor Momsen

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Okay, let's take everything we know about T. Mom and set it aside: the years of cranky expressions (including this one), KISS-inspired face paint, and general surly mien. Cleanse your Momsen palate. Pretend you've never seen this girl before. You have fashion amnesia:

What do you think? "Wow, that cranky-looking girl in the flesh-colored number is pulling that whole look off in a way I would not have anticipated, if I knew anything about her, which I don't. Where am I again?" or "I find those fishnets a brave and intriguing choice. This irritated looking woman reminds me of a vaguely sexy zombie! I love it! What's my name?" or "What a bowl of surprisingly delicious oatmeal! Once this woman -- whomever she may be -- cuts loose those flammable extensions, she'll look positively fashion-forward! Who are you again?" or "Ew, AGAIN, person on CW? WHY?"

poll by twiigs.com

October 19, 2009

UnFug or Fab: Jaime King

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I can't quite figure out what's going on with Jaime King here:

Seriously. Could you please help me with this? Is this good? Is it bad? Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it so wrong it's right? Is it so right it's righteous? But, more important, WHAT IS IT? Personally, I think that if her hair were less distracting, I might love the dress...and if the dress wasn't as busy, I might appreciate the hair. Did I pick the wrong week to stop smoking crack?

poll by twiigs.com

October 19, 2009

Fug or Fab: Isabel Lucas

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Don't even get me started about Transformers 2. It was so terrible. NOTHING about it was good. Literally, everything down to the Egyptian geography was wrong. If you were lucky enough to miss it, Isabel Lucas here played a sexually voracious college student who provided tons of upskirt shots of her panties and who was secretly actually a man-eating robot with a tail and a twenty foot tongue, like, SUBTLE AND LAYERED AS USUAL, MICHAEL BAY. Honestly, the whole thing made me want to re-enroll in college just so I could write an enraged critical paper about how insulting the entire thing was: to women, to men, to minorities, to the government, to the military, to college students, to parents, to cars, to small appliances, to the audience. On the other hand, the movie did allow for Roger Ebert to write this review, which begins, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a horrible experience of unbearable length." I love you, Roger. Anyway, Ms Lucas is a pretty girl:

The dress, I think, is cute -- I have one sort of similar to it, so I'm biased, although mine isn't shiny and looks somewhat less like fancy French doors. But I am worried about whoever has taken over Ms Lucas's hair and makeup duties. Check it:

Continue reading Fug or Fab: Isabel Lucas.

October 16, 2009

Fug or Fab: Nelly Furtado

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Let's talk about Nelly Furtado.

First of all, am I the only person who thinks Nelly looks like Courteney Cox? Not exactly, but as though they could be related -- like Nelly is Courteney's cousin, or something. Angle for a gig on Cougar Town, Nelly. I hear it's funny. Second, this outfit: I feel like it's SO CLOSE to being awesome, and yet something about it has pushed it off the Awesome Highway and into the gutters of Almostville. I fear I must lay the blame at her hose and shoes. They're sort of dragging your eye down, like an anchor. And the last thing you want your legs compared to is an anchor, am I right?

poll by twiigs.com

October 16, 2009

Fug or Fab: Halle Berry

"So I hear y'all bitches at the tabloids think I've been looking pregnant. Well GET A LOAD OF THIS. It's tight and it's low-cut and I'm wearing the shit out of it, and later I'll be sporting it at my audition for the obligatory Sexy Cylon Whose Dress Is Close To Falling Off Her Breasts role in Battlestar Galactica II: Galactose Intolerant. The only bumps you'll see are the ones spilling out of the top. GOT IT? GREAT."

poll by twiigs.com

October 16, 2009

Unfug-or-Fab It Up: Rose McGowan

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Obviously, if you're doing something spiffy with the Museum of Arts and Design, you're going to be tempted to wear something very unusual -- something artsy, perhaps, and full of design. I just can't decide what to make of Rose's effort here:

My brain keeps whipsawing between the good and the odd. Tiny waist! Clunky shoes. Interesting neck! Terrible hair. And the skirt gives me pause: On one hand, it makes her look like a martini glass, all boring stem and then an explosion of fun up top. But on the other, what the hell DO you wear with that top? It's like when you try something on at the store and you love it but you don't have a thing that goes with it in your wardrobe, and so you think, "Well, I'll buy the top first and then I'll FIND SOMETHING to wear it with," and then you never do, and suddenly you've never worn it and you really want to and so you just throw any old thing with it and hope for the best.

Now, possibly, that's just sewn to LOOK like it's separates, but I just wonder if it's a waste of an architecturally interesting upper half not to make it a full ball gown, or have it flow into a tight pencil-cut dress. I am gripped with indecision on this fine Friday, and I don't like to end my week under such terrible stress. Indecision is for Wednesdays, people. Because then you get over it and you cake walk through the rest of the week. So help me out here, in sort of a hybrid Fug or Fab and Unfug piece -- talk up its relative merits and demerits in the comments, and let us all know what you'd do if you got to play stylist. Stay on topic, stay friendly, stay on target, stay with me, stay for a while, stay sweet and see you next summer, etc.

poll by twiigs.com

October 15, 2009

Fug or Fab: Sienna Miller

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Okay, I need you guys to sit down. Okay, actually, I assume that you're reading this sitting down, so I want you to stand up, and then sit down again. What I'm about to say is very shocking. Sienna Miller's posture is terrible, and she would, I think, look much better if this were NOT a jumpsuit but rather a dress. HOWEVER: She does not look so terrible in it that I want to barf all over my keyboard and then run outside, screaming until I lose consciousness from lack of oxygen. If she were not standing as though it were too short on her torso -- which I think is just a trick of the photo -- she might look....okay. Maybe? I mean, you know, considering.

I realize that saying this is sort of the equivalent of saying, "that time I got robbed was WAY better than that time I got murdered," but go with me. Let's talk this out, guys. Let's have that tough jumpsuit conversation. The longer I've sat here with this, the more I've hated it, but I realize that some of you don't feel as strongly. In fact, I believe it's possible that one of you reading this might actually be WEARING a jumpsuit. RIGHT NOW. So let's have the talk, guys.

poll by twiigs.com

October 15, 2009

Fug or Fab: Minnie Driver

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So, I guess Minnie Driver is in this new movie, Motherhood, for which I just saw an trailer. It seems to be about a harried and somewhat downtrodden stay-at-home blogger/mom who runs errands in her nightgown and knows a lot of working mothers who are kind of mean to her. It is hard to tell from two and a half minutes, but I suspect this might annoy bloggers, stay-at-home mothers, mothers with jobs outside of the home, and women who are asked to believe that Uma Thurman is anything other than incredibly striking and youthful looking, by which I mean: all of us. But trailers can be misleading: Heather and I have a friend who once announced, based solely on the trailer, that if the Johnny Depp/Penelope Cruz movie Blow didn't sweep the Oscars, he was going to leave town forever. I believe he is in Burbank right now.

I don't think Motherhood is going to sweep anything, and I am equally unsure about this:

SHE looks great -- like, as a person -- and I am easily amused by a saucy print. That being said....

poll by twiigs.com

October 14, 2009

Fug or Fab: Blake Lively

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To begin with, I think we all need to remove our hats and salute Blake Lively's hair. It is glorious and I covet it:

The hair on her head, guys. Not on her skirt.

That being said, I don't wholly loathe this. It's textile, and fun, and a bit....well, it is a Where the Wild Things Are event. Maybe this is her way of suggesting that it's time for the wild rumpus to commence. I have to have some respect for someone who so clearly embraces a theme.

poll by twiigs.com

October 14, 2009

Fab or Fug: Lauren Ambrose

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So, this is kind of unusual. This dress appears to be held up by MAGIC:

But I think I really like it. I, TOO, give it the thumbS up. Am I crazy? By the way, when you ask Dr Google if you're crazy, the answer you most often get is that you are actually PSYCHIC. Which means I can finally tell you guys some of the information I have about you: Jennifer K in Philadelphia, your boyfriend IS going to propose! MAZEL TOV! We're so excited for you. Allison L in Des Moines, make sure you get your oil changed. Katherine in Topeka, that leftover spaghetti in the fridge has turned. DO NOT EAT IT. Tom in Rhode Island, those pants do NOT make your ass look fat, that coworker is just jealous. Francine from Minneapolis, you should not buy those boots right now, they WILL go on sale. And, finally, Jessica in Los Angeles, do NOT buy this dress, you're supposed to be saving your money.

poll by twiigs.com

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Fug or Fab: Taylor Momsen

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UnFug or Fab: Jaime King

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Fug or Fab: Isabel Lucas

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Fug or Fab: Nelly Furtado

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Fug or Fab: Halle Berry

Unfug-or-Fab It Up: Rose McGowan

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Fug or Fab: Sienna Miller

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Fug or Fab: Minnie Driver

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Fug or Fab: Blake Lively

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Fab or Fug: Lauren Ambrose

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