Fugs and Pieces, January 27 2012


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Yay, it’s Friday! Please have a cocktail for us. Note! The SAGs are on Sunday, and we’ll be live-blogging the red carpet HERE at GFY, starting at 3pm Pacific. Come on by!

– Kate Middleton has been anointed something called HAT PERSON OF THE YEAR. (Fashion Etc)

– I don’t think I need to tell you any thing beyond this headline: The Most Ridiculous Science Fiction Plots From Actual Soap Operas. (i09)

– The New York Times takes an interesting look at how Esquire pulled themselves together when other magazines totally went to pot. (NYT)

These Puritan baby names are amazing. “Wrestling Brewster” sounds like a kick! (The Hairpin)

– I am really scared that this Ferris Bueller Super Bowl ad is going to suck. If it does, Broderick, I will….SPEAK HARSHLY ABOUT YOU ON THE INTERNET! (Lainey)

– Speaking of Bowls, the starting line-up for the Puppy Bowl has been announced! (HuffPo)

– The most alarming thing about this report that Jon Hamm has given up drinking is that his usual drink used to be a MIDORI SOUR? JON. Please. You are a grown man. (Celebitchy)

– This is amazing: the National Gallery of Victoria reported a piece of art stolen….twelve years after the fact. They thought it was just misplaced. FOR TWELVE YEARS? (Time)

– Star Market asks: is it over for Katherine Heigl?  The answer is brutal. (NY Mag)

Take a look at these pretty pretty houses of famous famous authors. Dibs on the Wharton estate. (Flavorwire)

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Fugs and Fabs: Sundance Omnibus


Plopped between the Globes and the SAGs, Sundance never really does have much hope of providing that level of sartorial entertainment — but for some reason, this year it felt ESPECIALLY dull. So I decided to go on a Crazy Hunt, and wade through the countless albums of Q&As and premieres and people in plaid shirts and Uggs to extract the best and brightest of the madness. Turns out there was some fug there after all — and even some occasional fab. It was just buried under the boredom. Thank God I have a virtual shovel.

[Photos: Getty]

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Fugknown


In a sense, this is the high-fashion version of Lauren Pope’s monstrosity.

So, you know, the fabric is a bit more expensive-looking with some actual inherent prettiness, and the effect is a bit less Demented Pageant, to the point where I almost catch myself thinking, “Aw, it’s not THAT bad, maybe it even works!” And then I smack myself upside the head and realize that no matter how lovely SHE is or now great her legs are, she’s still essentially wearing a fancy bag over a bodyshaper. I miss Pacey, too, but sometimes it’s just better not to drag him into these things.

[Photo: Getty]

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Well Played, SWINTON


By popular demand, I present to you SWINTON on The Daily Show:

I love how she is doing the whole “wind in your hair” thing that Tyra squawks about on Top Model, except instead of her hair, it’s in her blouse. It makes her look like she just landed her own plane, ripped off her Earhart goggles, and strode into Jon Stewart’s world.

And I love that jacket on her — lots of Tweets suggested she looked like a cabaret emcee that had been mugged; me, I think she’s the ringmaster of a divine circus of her own making, surely the only circus in the world I would willingly go to or even pay to see. She was delightful in the interviews, too. I think we are soulmates. She talked about how she never wants to direct because she’s too lazy (me TOO), how she has twins who are awesome (ME TOO), and, how your best shot at raising normal kids is up in a tree in the Scottish highlands (I… also have a tree!). I would suggest that we’re the same person, except we have actually been spotted — by Jessica — in the same place at the same time, i.e., on a plane to Newark. And it would’ve been awkward if Jessica had sat down next to SWINTON and been all, “HEATHER! SWINTON is on this plane! She’s with a dude who looks like Jesus, and he… wait, did I just sit on someone’s lap, because I… oh. OH.” But she didn’t, so she must be able to tell us apart. Sigh. I guess I’ll have to save it for Halloween.

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Helena Fuggensen


Remember how I said Marchesa must be stopped?

Can we make them fight a cage match with Stella McCartney? Winner takes an endless vacation from designing. Everyone wins. (Sorry Helena, I’m afraid it’s too late to help you.)

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Fug or Fab: Katharine McPhee


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I am excited about Smash. If it’s good, that’s going to be fun and if it’s terrible, that will ALSO be fun. Maybe even MORE fun.

And anything that has McPhee back to brunette is okay with me.  This outfit might be okay with me, too — although anyone with a stylist worth her snuff should know that the combination of tea length skirt + photographers on a riser = Stumpsville. And we want to stay out of Stumpsville as long as we can — much as we want to avoid taking a trip to Dowdytown, or moving to Matronlyburg.

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