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Fug and Fab the Upfronts: The CW

May 18, 2012 By Heather AT 10:00 am
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Jaime King and Rachel Bilson
Nina DobrevKat GrahamShenae GrimesKatie Cassidy
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Listen. We may say a lot of things about Zoe Hart’s habit of practicing medicine in formal shorts, or about our theory that Lemon Breeland walked through a warp hole in 1940 and decided to stay in rural Alabama because of all the amazing advances the world had made in technology and feminine-hygiene products. But we are as happy as anyone that Hart of Dixie is renewed, because seriously, if any of the aforementioned fashion issues disappeared from our screens AND we were denied Hot Neighbor Wade and Jason Street and Mayor Lavon Hayes and a parade of attractive male guest stars? NOT OKAY. Plus, Jaime King has been turning out the wacky wear now that she’s promoting a network show, and I would be bereft without all those associated feelings of bafflement. So BRING IT, LADIES. Our arms are open with the tough-love hugs.

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Fugs and Fehs: Wango Tango

May 14, 2012 By Jessica AT 12:00 pm
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Maria Menounos
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Wango Tango is a concert that KIIS-FM (the local pop-music station here in Los Angeles) organizes every May, and which generally features a LOT of artists who are intensely popular but ultimately kind of flashes in the pan, mixed in with people like Britney. If you want to feel old, you should look at the Wikipedia compendium of past line-ups, as they are kind of brilliant time capsules of pop culture. For example, the ’98 line-up included Hootie and the Blowfish, Vonda Shepard (!), Paula Cole and Meredith Brooks, Olivia Newton John (???) and N-freaking SYNC, who were not even the headliners (that honor went to Mariah Carey, which is fair). 1999 had — among others — Ricky Martin and Britney, a girl I’ve never heard of who doesn’t even have a Wiki page anymore and who therefore isn’t even officially alive, and Fab of Milli Vanilli in the midst of his failed attempt to be a solo artist. The following year, N*SYNC headlined (that may have been the year I personally saw N*SYNC at the Rose Bowl and had an argument with the 12 year old in front of me about whether or not JC was my boyfriend or hers [I let her win when I realized what for me was "an argument" was for her DEADLY SERIOUS. I realized this when she asked me if JC and I had "an anniversary" (we do not).]) and there were two bands I’ve literally never heard of, plus Sisqo (remember when you couldn’t get in your car without hearing “The Thong Song”? Personally, I am much more a fan of its contemporary “Hot In Herre”), and J. Simp…backed up by Nick Lachey. You guys, that page is a total wormhole and you should go procrastinate there. Get ready to say things like, “OMG REMEMBER O-TOWN?” And then come back and look at all the fools Hologram Me is going to be waxing rhapsodic about in 2022.

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Freaky Fug Friday: Kat Graham

Apr 20, 2012 By Jessica AT 10:00 am

I love you, Kat Graham. This outfit makes me feel like I’m late for Social Studies:

THE SITUATION:  I can’t improve on what our photo service said about this: “Actress and star of ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Kat Graham seen performing with her band ‘The Knocks’ at the opening of the Chilli Beans Sunglasses shop in Los Angeles.” Oh, Kat Graham. Opening a Chilli Beans. I LOVE YOU.

THE TASK:  This outfit is obviously straight out of 1991. Our giveaway is a book that involves magical shenanigans. Please share with us the magical incantation Kat Graham uses to time-travel so elegantly between Today and Back In the Day.

THE RULES: All entries must be posted in the comments of this post by 9 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday.

THE PRIZE: We are giving away three advanced copies of Leigh Bardugo’s amazing new book, SHADOW AND BONE,  some awesome Shadow and Bone swag, and — to the best overall entry — one $100 gift certificate to Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics. What’s the book about? Behold:

“Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha…and the secrets of her heart.”

I have read it, and it’s seriously fab. You guys are going to LOVE it. Good luck!

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Halfway Well Played, Kat Graham

Apr 12, 2012 By Heather AT 1:00 pm

I want to like this so badly. And for fifty percent of the way, I actually do.

That top is seriously cool, and at the premiere of a superhero movie, it’s definitely thematically apt — without being grossly on-the-nose — to wear something that looks like fancy deep-sea armor. In fact, I wish it had continued as it began, instead of changing for the skirty bits (man, I am so good with fashion terms). The effect is as if she’s being expelled from a body of water, which really only works if you’re looking to add the scene in Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail where we actually SEE the watery tart rise up in a farcical aquatic ceremony to lob Arthur the sword on which his supreme executive power is based.

All that said… you know what, even with the rippling mismatch of a skirt, I’m on board. She’s selling it like the store’s about to close, and I’m in the mood to buy.

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Fugerina Graham

Apr 9, 2012 By Heather AT 1:00 pm

On some levels — well, several levels — this isn’t anywhere close to the weirdest thing Kat Graham has put on her body.

But I am terribly unclear how one sits down in a cummerbund of bling. Perhaps she can take lessons from WWE wrestlers, although I’m pretty sure they don’t sit down in those things, either. They just wave them around over their heads and then smack people with them and then bleed all over the place while wearing boots and man panties. Frankly, I think she should just put it away and then sell it to Kanye West when his alleged torrid affair with Kim Kardashian inevitably leaves him in need of a neck brace.

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Oscars Fug Carpet: Kat Graham

Mar 1, 2012 By Jessica AT 3:30 pm

So CLOSE. SO VERY CLOSE, KAT GRAHAM.

We just need to hoist this up a wee tad. Oh, and get you out of those clodhopper shoes. And make the dress look 10% less like it’s eating you like a giant, (wo)man-eating snake. THEN WE’RE GOOD.

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