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MTV EMAs Unfug or Fab: Taylor Swift

Nov 12, 2012 By Heather AT 9:00 am

Poor Taylor Swift. I get that by writing songs about her bad boyfriends, she’s putting those relationships under the microscope, but now Us Weekly is dedicating entire covers to how she — at the ripe old age of 22 — apparently can’t find love. Obviously she should just give up on her shriveled old eggs right now and invest in a burial plot for one. Instead, she somehow mustered up the will to carry on, and attended MTV’s European Music Awards.

The trouble is, I can’t decide if this is slinky and cool, or an experiment that needed some revisions. The frosted side abs aren’t ideal, for instance. The extra white decoration on the neckline could go, because those cap sleeves are pretty and don’t need the competition. And I’m a little wigged out by how it all converges to make it look like we’re seeing straight through it to an ice storm raining from her pelvis. And yet I can’t bring myself to write it off, because somehow there’s still something striking and pretty there. What would you do, Fug Nation?

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Unfug It Up: Halle Berry

Nov 5, 2012 By Jessica AT 10:00 am

Real talk: I think this is one of those dresses where my feelings about it depend on who is wearing it:

She’s obviously gorgeous, but her outfits of late have been so try-hard — WHY, I WILL NEVER KNOW. If anyone never needs to try at all, it’s Halle Berry — that I look at this and sigh and think, “oh, Halle. Leather and cut-outs. You don’t need that.” But if someone who often comes across as super-twee were to try this — like, I don’t know, Carly Rae Jepsen — I could very well be all over it. What do you think? Is it fab, regardless? Would it be terrible on anyone? Should we try and make Chastain wear it? What do you think?

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Unfug It Up, Kate Middleton

Oct 24, 2012 By Jessica AT 12:00 pm
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This is not among my favorites of hers. It’s not aggressively terrible, obviously, but I think it needs your styling assistance, Fug Nation.

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Unfug It Up: Amanda Seyfried

Oct 24, 2012 By Heather AT 8:00 am

Amanda Seyfried has great hair, gorgeous eyes, and beautiful skin, and I think she’s pulling off this color.

But the dress itself isn’t… sophisticated enough for me. The fabric looks like what your mom would dig up to make a skirt for your Barbie, and the design is basically a corset with a dust-ruffle attached, like a fifteen-year old’s homemade party dress — or Prom couture from some early 2000 teen flick starring Melissa Joan Hart, where her part is a zig-zag and she’s got a bunch of clips in her hair. My question to you is, can it be salvaged? Does it need a more thoughtful ending? A less sharp fabric, or a less screaming hue? My temptation is to scrap it all, but landfills are taxed as it is, so let’s try and recycle. For instance, Joan Collins could cut out the boobs and stuff them atop her shoulders under a blazer.

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Unfug It Up: Jennifer Love Hewitt

Oct 8, 2012 By Heather AT 2:00 pm

If we’ve learned anything from the Emmys, it’s that this is a tough color to wear correctly.

And this is not the way to do it — it’s the wrong combination of consumptive makeup and a whole lot of dress. We here at GFY HQ have a major soft spot for J.Lo.Hew and she’s had a tough year, so we don’t blame her for trying to inject a little sunshine via a day-glo demi-caftan. In fact, we applaud her for resisting the urge to go full caftan and bunny slippers. But, in the Fantasy Stylist spirit: I think I’d fix this by snipping either the sleeves or the skirt, just so there’s less of all the glaring yellow, then prescribe a red lip. But really, it probably needs to be a richer, gentler yellow — more dijon than canary. What would you do, Fug Nation? Embrace her with your tender healing aura.

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Unfug It Up: Christina Hendricks

Oct 5, 2012 By Jessica AT 10:00 am

Oh god. I just can not even:

For some reason, the use of green in the words “Specsavers” on the step-and-repeat behind Christina made me think this was some kind of eco-fundraiser — you know, Save the Foliage or Protect The Hedgerow — and I seriously reflected, “OH, of COURSE. She’s wearing something that’s meant to look like fungus ON PURPOSE because ENVIRONMENT.” Then I realized it was more like she was wearing glasses on purpose because: SPECS. That being said, I think this can be saved. Me, I’d make the hem even — I really, sincerely hate this uneven hem on this dress, because it feels like Shenanigans for the Sake of Shenanigans, which rarely actually translates to Hotness — and then I’d rip that collar off, set it on fire, and throw the flaming debris into a Porta-Potty and then shove the Porta-Potty off a cliff.

Your turn.

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