Fug File: Well Played

Met Gala Well Played, Sarah Jessica Parker


In the vein of what I said about Madonna earlier, let’s talk about KNOWING YOUR AUDIENCE:

One does not wear a Philip Treacy Feather Mohawk Headpiece and velvet tartan thigh-high Louboutins and a crazy ballgown to, say, the premiere of I Don’t Know How She Does It or that time you presented the Nobel prize in chemistry or whatever. You wear it to a formal event where the theme is “punk,” and you REALLY wear it when you start to get to the point in your life when you’re trying to figure out how best to become more eccentric. Because OF COURSE this is eccentric. But it is also fun, and it’s almost on topic, and I really wish three-quarters of the other people who attended this event had called SPJ and asked her for some advice on how to put that off — because many of them just gave up. And no one likes a quitter. (I like to think that this entire monologue was also just delivered by the gesticulating dude standing behind her to his rather un-punk looking companions, Marion Cotillard and Jennifer Lawrence. [Yes! This IS Raf Simons, the Dior designer; I meant to check when I wrote this last night and totally spaced out; thanks, Fug Nation!])

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Met Gala Well Played, Anne Hathaway


Apparently, I like everything Anne Hathaway is doing with her hair lately, because I was totally into the short hair, and I ALSO like the blonde:

This Valentino is from 1992 — two years prior to Elizabeth Hurley’s infamous Versace safety pin dress — and I think it actually really, really works on her. Unlike a lot of the more successful OTT outfits from this event, it’s not TOTALLY event-specific. I mean, it’s punk-ISH and it’s totally appropriate, but if she had worn this to, like, the BAFTAs, I probably would not have burst into angry flames. As it is, I actually think this is great on her. Anne’s big problem can be traced back to the fact that she comes across as a TOTAL try-hard, and this is trying just hard enough. It’s actually kind of hot. And that is a sentence I have NEVER SAID ABOUT ANNE HATHAWAY EVER. Can we blame the blonde hair?

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Well Played, Katy Perry


I feel like Katy’s face sort of says it all here:

Namely, “I have NO IDEA what Vera Wang here is wearing, but at least I look great.”

Note: this was an event HONORING Vera so I suspect Katy might ALSO be wearing Vera, which honestly just leads us all into Physician, Heal Thyself territory.

 

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Fugs and Fabs: The Abdication of Queen Beatrix/the Inauguration Of King Willem Alexander


For a lot of the scoop on who all these royal folks are, check out our post on last night’s celebratory dinner. Also: this looks like it was a fun day, Fug Nationals of the Netherlands! SO MANY HATS, for one thing. Sooooooo many hats. And official sashes! And outfits involving swords! (Many of which we get a good look at, because for some reason, the photographers were assembled on the side of the Royal Step and Repeat that the men were walking on. Dudes, you’re blocking the hats!)

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Well Played, Kate Middleton


It is, by the way, Kate and Wills’s anniversary, so if you are feeling nostalgic, take a talk down Ye Olde Memoryie Lanee and revisit our live-blog of the wedding. We laughed, we cried, we yawned (we pulled an all-nighter), we wore caftans.

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Mostly Well Played, Star Trek Photocall


How did I not know Alice Eve was in this movie, and will I ever stop inadvertently typing her name as “Alive Ece”?

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