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August 28, 2009

Fug or Fab: Jessica Stroup

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Help me out with this one, Fug Nation, because it's a Friday and I think you all know what happens to my brain on Fridays. (Actually, it's exactly like what happens to my brain on Mondays through Thursdays, but with a new issue of People in my mailbox.)

Is Jessica Stroup's dress cute and youthful and fun?

Or is this a shockingly accomplished piece of dressmaking using nothing but the wrappers from fun-sized Reese's peanut-butter cups?

Or is it both, because maybe a dress made of the detritus from a Reese's binge isn't necessarily a bad thing?

And don't you TOTALLY want some Reese's right now? I wish I was getting paid for this endorsement. I bet I just talked at least three people into buying some the next time they're at Target. You owe me about 20 cents of commission, Reese's People.

poll by twiigs.com

August 27, 2009

Fug or Fab: Olivia Palermo

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I truly am so torn:

I feel like I OUGHT to hate it, but I love stripes and there's something about it that's so charmingly gamine, even in a way that's bordering on stereotypical, like she considered tossing a beret on her head and a baguette in her pocket. It's hot, and my neighborhood seems like it's about twenty minutes away from bursting into flames (that's summer in Los Angeles for you), so it's entirely possible that my brain has simmered into thoughtless mush in my skull, but I think I like this in spite of myself. Kind of like how I feel about Real Housewives, which is where I fully expect to see Olivia come the 2014 premiere of Real Housewives: Upper East Side.

poll by twiigs.com

August 24, 2009

Melfug Place

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ASHLEE SIMPSON: SIGH.

KATIE CASSIDY: Right? Another day, another boring Melrose Place junket.

ASHLEE SIMPSON: I KNOW. But I'm glad to see you're keeping things fun by making a joke out of it.

KATIE: Me? YOU are the one making a joke out of it.

ASHLEE: Uh-uh, babe. I'm not the one dressed as a gymnast at the Olympics closing ceremony dance.

KATIE: I'M not the one who looks like she murdered a zebra. But hey, as long as you DIDN'T, then PETA won't come after you and everything will be fine.

ASHLEE: Oh, shut up. Admit it: I look kind of cute.

KATIE: Yeah, you do, actually. It's true. And so do I.

ASHLEE. I wouldn't go THAT far.

KATIE: Huh?

ASHLEE: You also kind of look like you're auditioning to play Julianne Hough in some Disney Channel movie all about how she first learned the paso doble.

KATIE: That's rich criticism coming from a girl who is vag-hugging everyone tonight.

ASHLEE: I don't know what you mean.

KATIE: Don't you? Well, allow me to illuminate.

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August 21, 2009

Fug or Fab: Katie Cassidy

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So, somehow I've kind of missed everything Katie Cassidy has ever done:

I didn't see her arc on Supernatural, and I only vaguely watched Harper's Island. So when I managed to get my hands on a screener of the new Melrose Place pilot, I was very surprised indeed to see that she's kind of a scream in it (that's a compliment). The whole enterprise, in fact, is pretty entertaining -- although I suspect I am preaching to choir as far as any Melrose iterations go. That being said: girlfriend, I actually like your dress, but you're made up like an overly zealous Benefit counter girl decided to use you as practice for her cosmetology exam and, I hate to break it to you, she is totally going to fail that thing. This much dress plus that much face is just too much.

poll by twiigs.com

August 20, 2009

Fug or Fab: Renee Zellweger

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RENEE ZELLWEGER: Hello, I'm Renee Zellweger.

R.J CUTLER: And I'm R.J. Cutler, the producer/director of The September Issue.

RENEE: How've you been?

R.J: I'm great! I'd say more, but Jessica worked for me for many years and she finds it weirdly impossible for write dialogue for me. She would make a terrible biographer.

RENEE: I couldn't agree more! But enough about me. I want to talk about me, and my dress. I look cute, right? Youthful! Like I'm having a good time! The color is flattering! It's not ANOTHER boring strapless sheath! I FINALLY PULLED ONE OFF! Right? Right?!

R.J: Can we see it from the side?

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August 18, 2009

Inglourious Fug-or-fab-terds

When this photo was thumbnail-sized, I expected to enlarge it and find out that it was Diane Kruger. But no -- it's her Inglourious Basterds co-star Melanie Laurent.

You can kind of see why my brain went there, though, right? They're both blonde. Sometimes La Krug enjoys hairdos that evoke a milkmaid skipping through the meadow. And the top half of the dress reminds me of the kind of experiment-gone-wrong that DK undertakes sometimes -- like initially it was supposed to be a much more interesting dress, a veritable festival of sheer fabric erupting in head-cradling confusion, but the designer got bored somewhere around that haphazard, limp neck tie and just threw in a pencil skirt real fast so he/she could go to happy hour.

As for what Diane actually wore, here you go:

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August 13, 2009

Fug or Fab the Pockets: Angelina Jolie

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We've said before we're tired of Angelina Jolie wearing the same boring array of colors -- but when the black dress she's squeezed into is made of LEATHER, well, I am totally on board. Because if ever there were a girl born to wear leather or a leather-like substance, it's Angelina. I don't care if it's a put-on or her actual personality; the woman leaks biker-chick from her pores so copiously that she might as well come with a factory-installed kick-stand and a sidecar.

So, for the most part, I loved the badass simplicity of this.

But I am not so sold on the pockets. On the red carpet, I think pockets are the devil. Given the amount I catch myself idly hanging my fingers out of my jeans pockets when I'm just in line at the supermarket, I cannot imagine how tempting it would be to fiddle with them when I'm stuck at an unending photo opportunity where everyone is screaming my name. Mercifully, I will never find out -- but judging from this photo, even Angelina is not immune to jamming her hands in her pockets for lack of any better idea about what to do with them. I guess it shows them off as a feature of the dress -- although in a tight leather frock, what could you keep in there but a bill and maybe a Listerine pocket pack? -- but the conundrum is: Fiddle with them, and look a bit like you're throwing secret gang signs, or don't touch them and risk them flapping open and giving your hips a weird contour. What's a girl to do? Methinks maybe just don't wear something with pockets. Especially when you are Angelina Jolie, and you have a giant man pocket walking beside you in the form of Brad Pitt.

poll by twiigs.com

August 12, 2009

Teen Choice Awards Fug or Fab: Jojo

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Hey, guys, remember Jojo? Super young girl who sang world weary songs about how that boy at YMCA camp totally done her wrong, or something? Didn't you wonder what happened to her? Neither did I. But here she is at the Teen Choice Awards:

Wikipedia tells me she has an album coming out at the end of the year, and good for her, I say: from what I remember, the girl CAN sing. But who cares about SKILLS? Let's talk about her outfit.

How cute of her to match her bag to the sign.
WTF is going on with the bodice on this thing? It COULD be awesome. Or it could be just too similar in effect to what you'd get if you pasted tiny bits of aluminum foil to Ace bandages and wrapped them around your boobs. So let's go in for the close-up:

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August 12, 2009

Teen Choice Awards Fug-or-Fab Carpet: Audrina Patridge

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This one has been brewing for a while now, but I keep forgetting to wax confused by it. Behold Audrina Patridge, having completed -- presumably -- her transformation into having more fun:

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It's not that she looks so terrible as a blonde, but... really? Did The Hills need another blonde? Granted, the only other brunettes on that show are Stacy The Bartender, who injected idiotic fake drama into the Speidi relationship with all the skill and enthusiasm of someone trying to shove a brick through a tennis racket, and the terminally drippy Jayde -- girlfriend of the terminally cheesy Brody Jenner. So I can't say I blame Audrina for wanting to distance herself from that aesthetic. But she was also THE brunette on the show for a long time, and there's no way anyone who watches is going to mistake her for either of those other two yokels, so why she felt the need to make herself just like everyone else on The Hills is beyond me. She doesn't even get to fall back on being The One With The Giant Fake Boobs, because Heidi got there first. Too bad, so sad.

While we're here: I can't even work up a criticism of the outfit because it's just sort of there. (Kind of like Audrina herself at times.) The shoes are fun and I like the bag, but maybe not together -- certainly not both of them with that fuchsia. And the dress is kind of sagging on her boob job, which in many respects defeats the purpose of getting a boob job -- and seriously, honey, if you're insistent on wearing a strapless dress, can't you at least get out the power sander and slough off those tan lines?

Huh. Turns out I could work up a criticism on the outfit. Who knew?

poll by twiigs.com

August 11, 2009

Fug or Fab: Diane Kruger

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We've gotten quite a few emails about Diane Kruger's look at the Inglourious Basterds preemieeerrrre last night:

I sort of like it, guys. Sure, it mildly recalls a cocktail dress made of sea anemones, but that's also something I suspect I might like, were it presented to us in the course of a seafood-themed challenge on Project Runway (WHICH CAN'T RETURN SOON ENOUGH). But I kind of think it's groovily tactile. Of course I'm also out of coffee. Let's take a look at the back:

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