Fugger: Taylor Swift

Billboard Music Awards Fug or Fab: Taylor Swift


Well, the makeover seems to be taking: If this were last year, she’d likely have been in something gold and sparkly, with a gentle milkmaid updo.

The drama of this is deeply appreciated, then, but one question remains: Is the bodice cool, or does it photograph too… veiny? I’m having flashbacks to dissecting a heart in science class, and it’s kind of making me want to take cholesterol meds. Just in case.

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ACMs Mostly Well Played: Taylor Swift


My chief beef with Taylor here is this: Emcee Blake Shelton cracked a joke about her omnipresent, amazed, dropped-jaw OMG face — you know, the one she deploys whenever she wins something/is applauded for something/gets her order delivered correctly at a restaurant, and which seems falsely modest at this point after five years of touring and a gajillion awards — and when they cut to her in the audience, she looked pissed and mouthed, “Yeah, yeah.” To which I say, “No, NO.” That is the moment where any truly sensible self-aware person would MAKE that face, and then everyone in the country would love her for how she’s able to laugh at herself. Instead, after she got all weirdly serious about scolding Kanye and then absolving him, and now this, I’m totally on Team West. Save the grumpies for backstage, kid. Or your songwriting den. Go write “OMG” and then make your face all over town while you’re washing it with Benjamins.

But the dress? A big improvement. Let’s talk, shall we?

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Grammy Awards Mostly Well Played: Taylor Swift


First off: I like Taylor Swift. She writes songs that are totally fun to sing along with in the car, and I actually think she is one of the only funny things about the execrable Valentine’s Day. But her singing voice isn’t generally very strong, especially live, so I always worry when she gets up to yelp at one of these things. That being said, I thought girlfriend sounded pretty good last night. On key, mostly, and way stronger than usual. Voice lessons? Keep on doing what you’re doing. And let’s look at your outfits!

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Fug or Fab: Taylor Swift


It’s a tale as old as time, beginning with “I was going to ‘Well Played’ this,” and continuing with, “AND THEN.”

I do love her in red (isn’t she contractually obligated to wear gold, silver, or nude tones — sparkles optional,  but encouraged — to every event?), and I like that she went with the restrained eyeliner and bold lip. It’s all fine, is what I’m saying. But then I kept looking, and… is the light reflecting strangely, or are there bra-cup outlines under there? Hooray for bras, a friend to every breast, but now that I’ve seen it I can’t go back and pretend it’s not happening. SOMETHING is going on under there, and I’m not just referring to how that boning and shiny stuff means her torso looks a bit like a Grey’s Anatomy episode gone wrong. I need you to vote and screw my head on straight.

But first, at least this happened:

It’s lit’rally adorable

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CMA Awards Well Played, Taylor Swift


I can’t ding Taylor for this — she looks lovely, even if the detailing at the bottom sort of looks like something was accidentally sheared off this dress in a tragical meat-slicer accident:

Is it a little snoozy? Sure. Is it a little bridal? Yep. But she looks very pretty, and I’m grateful that she has branched away from the sparkles, at least for the moment. Not that I don’t wholeheartedly EMBRACE a sparkle — I’m writing this from inside a sequin factory — but it had all gotten a little predictable from T. Swift.

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Celebs at Rodarte: Fugs and… well, more Fugs


We had a keen feeling we’d see a Fanning at Fashion Week; we just didn’t correctly predict where. Rodarte is one of those lines that always puts on an interesting show, but whenever I see one of the outfits on somebody, it makes me scratch my head so hard I lose a layer of skin. Let’s take a squizz at what everyone in the front row wore — well, you’ve already seen Beyonce’s baby bonnet — and applaud Solange for leaving on the J.Crew blouse she’d put on earlier in the day, because when it’s cute, KEEP IT.

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