(1) POSH vs. (6) BEYONCE
Beyonce has had it rough here — it’s been an endless string of divas for her, from Kylie Minogue to Helena Bonham Carter (who isn’t so much a diva as a Derelicte devotee, but whatever — in terms of TALENT, she has as much right to be a diva as any of these people if not more) to Sienna Miller, who frankly, would probably like you to think she’s a diva but who is more accurately a sheep in Kate Moss’s clothing. And now she gets Victoria Beckham. It’s got everyone buzzing. Unless that’s just a side effect of having had water trapped in my ear for two days.
These two women really aren’t so different. Beyonce, for example, isn’t averse to wearing dresses that barely rein in her assets — or, what we lovingly refer to as “Pulling a Posh” — and Victoria is wildly unafraid of hot pants.
Beyonce’s grocery shelf may not be as squished and crammed, but the effect is the same: One false move and the melons will go flying. As for Posh, well, she could well be the daughter Tina Knowles never had, if you don’t count the two she does.
And at times — inexplicable, ill-advised, presumably hung-over times — these women both prairie it up in garish style…
… and then look a tiny bit ashamed of it. Beyonce is all, “Yeah, I drew the short straw, so I let the other Destiny’s Child girls wear little sundresses and I’m dressed like I’m about to dress like I’m frigging Laura Ingalls going to the prom in something her blind sister Mary picked out for her.”
And, I mean, Victoria, you accessorize like a champion — David is the best thing you could wear with any of your batty outfits — but wearing a see-through lace undergarment with the curtains you ripped down from your country home in England is not the way to look gentle and genteel. It’s what you (specifically YOU) wear if you want to say, “Last night I finished off four bottles of champagne by myself while I was burning copies of Rebecca Loos’ newspaper interviews and I’ve been up all morning heaving into the toilet, so we’re just going to be here for a few minutes and then David’s taking me out for greasy fish and chips and then I’m going to sleep for two days and wake up with amnesia. Okay? Great.”
These two are magic. They’re both people whom we feel drag queens must LOVE to impersonate on Halloween, or just for fun on a random Wednesday. It’s heart-wrenching to think they won’t both move on (not as tough as what’s going down in the Charo bracket, but still emotionally challenging), so vote carefully.
Comments (191):
damn….it’s really coming down to the wire in fugville…
Oh my god, this is soooooo hard! I don’t know if I can handle the stress as we get closer to the final two!
Posh simply sets the standard here. Beyonce is a mere follower.
I have to go with Posh. Beyonce can always blame the crazy choices on not wanting to hurt her mom’s feelings. Posh doesn’t appear to be related to her stylist and she still wears those crazy things.
Orange Basketball Boobs FTW!
I voted for Beyonce because she brought upon us the travesty that is the House of Dereon. Posh I think gets it, but she just misses on occasion, and I think she does it intentionally. She knew what she was doing when she left the house in the hotpants and the gloves. Beyonce just thinks she looks hot in sequins and miniskirts. I had to go with Beyonce/Sasha.
POSH. All the way.
Again, in some weird way, Posh pulls this off, and Beyonce doesn’t – which leads me to vote for Beyonce (but which I suspect is the reason many people would vote for Posh). It’s kind of fascinating the different approaches we all take to this….
This one was not as tough as Bai vs. Chloe. I voted for Posh because, just like Chloe and Kate Moss and Sienna Miller, she THINKS that she looks good dressing the way that she does and she is labeled as a fashion icon. Beyonce just dresses like she is in an eternal beauty pageant and I find her style to be very juvenile.
I agree B’s mom is at least partially to blame here. But P comes up with those things all on her own.
Tough to judge. Tough to judge. But I had to go with Le Posh. Because I hate her husband. He is the most useless thing on the planet, and in my opinion, not very attractive nor very stylish. And if I was famous I would TOTALLY dress like Beyonce. With a few days in between where I would dress like Posh.
Though mostly, that “green” photo of Posh is fascinating because:
ARE THOSE HER TEETH?!?!?! IS SHE SMILING?!?!?! HAS HELL FROZEN OVER?!?!?!?
Gotta be Posh.
Beyonce has the excuses of youth and domination by parents to offer in her defense–the Posh has no such mitigating factors.
Has to be Beyonce. Posh is her own brand of crazy, and she works it! Beyonce gets halfway there, and then forgets to brush her hair, or wear jewelery, or settles for something her mom picked out.
i go with posh! i almost didn’t bc i saw a glimpse of david beckham in one of the pictures and when he’s around, i don’t even notice vic, alien or not.
and i just read the comment above me and we gravely disagree on issues surrounding the fug, but still we can agree that posh’s fug reigns supreme!
Love Posh. Want to see more Posh all the time.
But Beyonce just doesn’t get it, and that means I’m voting for her.
Posh. Because she has apparently convinced poor sweet Jada Pinkett Smith that Permanent Bitchface is the new black.
I agree, it has to be Beyonce. Posh’s look is bold and purposeful and damn if sometimes she isn’t spot on. Beyonce, on the other hand . . . hot mess, tranny, hot mess. I have yet to covet anything she wears. Take the scissors away from Mama once and for all!
While Posh and her fake assests are gross, Beyonce is all over the place. Another day another comstume! At least Posh is consistant.
Posh. Always and ever Posh. She is gloriously delusional and eternal fugly. There is nothing like it. Except Bai Ling. And Chloe. Beyonce, despite having gotten this far, will have to work long and hard to achieve what the other three have. Although, those green micro hot pants are working. See, the thing is, Beyonce is usually fug in performance clothes. The others, well, they just wear that shit to the corner store.
My money’s on Posh to take this whole shooting match.
Posh, because hot pants are never formal wear. (although Beyonce could take care to remember that as well). And she has fugged up her face with too much work – at least Beyonce can still smile rather than present a death mask grimace to the world.
This was hard but I had to go with Posh. At least partly because people — including her — seem to think of her as a fashion icon. And partly because of the chest balls and the piggy nose, UGH.
In the featured pictures, they both look like some Marvel Comics artist’s dream come true: Beyoncé’s the nice girl (with a big rack)- you can tell because she’s wearing a dress – and Posh is the naughty ninja – complete with fingerless gloves, hotpants and a bad attitude. Also a big rack. Perhaps the Naughty Ninja’s superpower is her indefatigably soreheaded expression? She glares at the bad guys until they cave and call her a fashion icon? (Oh, wait – Missus Beckham does that *now*.)
Beyonce because she squeezes herself into all manner of gilded and inappropriately shiny fabrics, like a woman stuffed in a basketball trophy. Skirts too short, bodices too low, hair too blonde, and what was that Oscar show where she got to sing all five songs w/costume changes all about? Posh, the phoenix of fug, has risen from the ashes of my votes as she intrigues me, I am interested, engaged. Beyonce bores me. Now…fetch me my drink.
That sparkly blue eyeshadow! OUCH.
Sevigny vs. Ling? My head may explode. This? Not so much. Beyonce’s fashion choices trend toward the inexplicable, but Posh wears these flat-out ugly outfits…and gives eyeball-curdling bitchface…and poses like she’s the greatest thing since sliced white…and gets PAID TO DO IT. Plus, I heard “Wannabe” on Jack FM this morning and now I can’t get it out of my head. DAMN YOU, POSH.
Most I vote for out of vitriol for their outfits and/or public persona. However, I lovingly vote for Posh. Her outfits are fucktarded, and yet I adore them and her.
I love Posh — I think she has fun with her clothes and usually seems to have a smirk on her face for her more outrageous outfits.
Beyonce, though…House of Dereon says it all. She not only openly promotes her fugulous fashions, she’s encouraging other people to wear it too! At least Posh has the good sense to stick to (hideously expensive) jeans.
Come on people!!!
The hot pants and the shiny and the fugginest most terrifying wigs – and the creepy grey gardens thing w/ her mother and….the hot pants, and feathers! Feathers people! Tail feathers!
Victoria has a sense of humor about herself – Beyonce is fugging serious.
Its gotta be Beyonce. Like somebody else said, Posh knows what she’s doing whereas B actually thinks she looks good in sequins and hot pants. Plus, I think B takes herself way too seriously as an actress and singer. She’s only minimally more talented than Posh yet thinks she’s ‘all that’.
Beyonce’s mindless acquiescence to her mom’s fugatrociousness is unconscionable, whilst Posh’s determined stance to be orange plastic couture is at least admirable. Beyonce must advance.
Beyonce: Does flowy gowns rather well but her tastes seem unimaginative (and not her own). When she fugs she seems clueless about it. Her fuggery ends at the clothes which is nice – she’s not plumped and tucked in certain places… she looks human.
Posh: Does edgy very well and is certainly creative. When she fugs – she MEANS it and offers no apologies. She goes a little far though with looking plastic and waxen and artificial.
This is tough, tough, tough… I hate to to do this because I lover her like Sharon Stone, but I have to choose Posh. I feel like she has the first and last word on every get-up, but I feel like much of B’s misses may have come from some ill-advised motherly advice.
Posh is an earth goddess, there’s no messing with her supreme fugness so don’t even try.
So who do you vote for when Posh’s fug is fantastic and Beyonce’s fug is because she doesn’t know how to dress herself???
Posh all the way! At least Bee has good days!
In the end, because this was such a tough one, I voted for Beyonce. The final determining factor for me was their hair. I like Posh’s POB haircut, and Beyonce’s hair is way too drag queen most of the time. They tie for fugly outfits. The hair decides the winner for me.
When I think “ugly,” I think Beyonce, but fug is so much more than that, isn’t it? I voted for Beyonce on a reflex, but in the end I’m not sure it matters, because neither of these two are winning.
Now, I’m off to sacrifice two bottles of fat-free water and a seafoam-and-pink-rhinestoned iPhone to the altar of the Ling of Bai.
I if had thighs like Posh’s, I’d throw caution to the wind and fug it up too.
I have to go with Beyonce. She always looks like she is wearing an outfit from the Macy’s juniors department or a gown from David’s Bridal.
not as difficult as the Charo bracket, but i struggled
Posh wins purely on the fact that i more often than not look at her and think, no, just no.
wait – to mrs. o’s comment above: “orange basketball boobs FTW” …. i’m actually having a hard time figuring out which one you were referring to???
Dude. Beyonce or bust.
I made a checklist:
Posh: should be one of the best-dressed women in the world (ups the fug); has Becks, the perfect accessory for every occasion (down fug); not much actual talent (up fug); looks cranky much of the time (up fug).
Beyonce: her mother dresses her (up fug); has clothing line (up fug); goes with her curves (down fug); usually smiles (down fug).
But then I saw this, possibly the most ugly and inexplicable outfit anyone wore offstage all year (yes, Bai Ling is always onstage, in her mind). Posh takes it at the bell.
I’ve been looking forward to the Fug Madness so much that I had a dream I was at a Fug Madness party with the Fug Girls. It was a rude awakening when the alarm sounded and ripped me away from my pink cocktail.
Anyway, I’m glad this is nearing a conclusion – Posh vs Beyonce was the most difficult decision for me. However, Posh will always win as long as she continues to stuff her corsetts with softballs.
I don’t want Posh to change. She brings too much delicious “ohmygodIcan’tbelievewhatshe’sWEARING” to the party. But with Beyonce, her choices are inexplicably cheesy and often boring. I DO want Beyonce to change. Just not five times in one song.
So Posh, I love you for your wicked, wicked ways, but you are not the queen of Fug. You are something else. Something meritorious. Maybe the Queen of People’s Fugly Little Hearts. I have decided that winning the Fug crown is NOT an honor.
Come on people! Beyonce doesn’t even know her size. She’s always wearing something way too friggen tight! Remember the emerald green shiney thing? It looked like it was going to burst and kill everyone within reach of the shrapnel. http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2007/12/fug-or-fab-beyo.html
Doesn’t that count for something?
I had to go with Beyonce. Posh wears some out-there things, but I think she’s at least going with her own personal sense of style. Beyonce’s out-there days are just tacky. Granted, it’s hard to fight genetically ingrained fug, but still…
Beyonce is fuglier because she has none of Posh’s fun – she seems so serious about her bad clothes choices, BUT Posh got my vote because Posh vs. Sharon Stone is just too funny. If only they could really swan it out – in a fashion show of some sort!
I have to go with Beyonce here… Posh is CRAZY, and it works for her. Beyonce tries to be stylish and it’s ugly.
that post on beyonce/solange is one of the very best, but this is posh. POSH. she’s got to take it all for all that fug and holy.
Beyonce is shiny, and her clothes are too tight, and her fashion “risks” are always belly flops, and her mom dresses her, and she just embodies fug!
I’m not saying Posh isn’t guilty of any of those things, but the difference between Beyonce and Posh is that I think Posh is in on the joke.
Vote Beyonce!
Doctor Science, you have made me question my vote for Beyonce with a single pink toga curtain shorts belted thingy. Curses!
I had no idea how difficult this whole voting process was going to be. I am AGONIZING over some of these decisions!
Here’s my reasoning here – both Posh and Beyonce are worthy contenders, but I went with Posh. Because we can’t forget the behind-the-scenes FugMaster involved with Beyonce – her “designer” mom. Surely a lot of the fug credit belongs to her! There could conceivably come a time where Beyonce could snap! and snip the gold-lame apron strings and start dressing fairly normally in real designer clothes. Beyonce is a singer who fugs, whereas Posh is a fugger who attempts to sing. Posh’s desperation to become a fashion icon will drive her to greater and greater extremes, and that, combined with the unnatural aging process sure to come, will keep us wallowing in top-notch fug for years.
After reading the comments, I kind of wish I had voted for Beyonce…
God, it’s the Battle of the Basketball Boobies. How delightful!
This was difficult. I’m all strung out after the Charo match…and I don’t think I can think clearly. I think the other day I was all like, “Posh is so going to win this…” and “Beyonce is so young and innocent…give her a break” but the Chloe and Bai match has gotten me all confused.
I voted Beyonce because I remember secretly liking Posh in her “coming to America” special… and Beyonce, well Beyonce just seems bishy all the time (and her outfits are considerably worse…always like a hacked up 80′s prom dress…at least Posh has italian seamstresses slaving away for her). Perhaps any other day I would have fugged Posh… I don’t know….somebody call a medic.
Wasn’t it Diane von Furstenberg who said, “It’s better to have bad taste than no taste at all.”? Posh = bad taste ; Beyonce = no taste at all. Beyonce gets my vote.
CECILY… I think we cancel each other out.
I don’t feel so bad anymore.
So hard, but I have to say it. The Cameltoe of Dereon has fug that is just too fierce. Beyonce’s either dressed like a birthday cake or a high school baton twirler. Posh would win for fug face, but since this vote is about so much more, I must support Bee.
UGH what a decision!!! I think I have to go with Beyonce, since as some people have already stated, she doesn’t know when she’s fugging. She just blindly goes forward and listens to her (ill-advised) “fashion consultant” A.K.A. Mom. Posh knows exactly what she’s doing, and while she may be grossly misguided, she is confident in her choices. Plus, who cares, she gets to go home to Becks. Aaahh jealousy.
PUH-leeze! Posh stomps Beyonce. She’s fugging it up in million dollar panties and bike gloves (Daring! Brash! I can’t believe she’s someone’s MOTHER!) while B. looks like she’s playing dress up…for the Icescapades. No contest.
No! I can’t accept that VB is going to take this. H&J, I believe it was unfair to dredge up Poshistory. Posh should only have to account for herself during the time period that Beyoncé has been actively fugging.
This one was the hardest. Beyonce just cant dress herself and needs a stylist that isnt her mom. Posh just looks like an alien – a well dressed, at least put together alien, but still the alien. So though I think Posh dresses better, the alien card trumps all. Also think Becks might be just a tad more superficial than hot. I mean who could marry that well dressed freak of nature?
they SHOULD look “a tiny bit ashamed”!
Gah!
This was a tough choice, granted not as tough as the Charo bracket, but still tough.
I went with Posh because every time I see a picture of her my inner voice screams “Oh Vicki, you crazy minx… what have your wrapped yourself up in today?” I absolutely loved her show, loved it like I do Rock of Love, or Flavor of Love, or What is Love, or Piss on Love. She really thinks that she is a fashion godess and that we, her minions, are all crazy because we do not embrace her “style.” She tried to convert Katie Holmes (hasn’t that poor girl been through enough?) but thankfully she has seemed to escape her orange grasp.
B.K. Broiler is just the vehicle that the Devil’s Handmaiden, I mean Tina Knowles, uses to dispense her brand of fug. However, aside from the penchant for looking like an award statue or a sausage ready to burst she can do it right sometimes.
In the end, it comes down to the fact that, regardless of what they choose to drape their respective bodies in, Beyonce is gorgeous and Posh is scary. And, as Machiavelli so wisely said, it is better to be feared than loved. Miss Tang 2008 all the way!!
Posh, Posh Posh!!!! Woo Hoo!!! Vote for POSH!
THe picture of pPosh in that long Gypsy Rose Lee welcomes Hawaii as a State! outfit with the long hair… her face looks gorgeous! She looks about 16 years old and SO much better than now. Of course, back then she was eating more for supper than Air Pudding.
The long outfit was tacky, but hot DAMN she has pulled out all the plugs on her fug these days.
Beyonce, you need to lose that beautiful face if you want to compete with Posh.
Posh, because she has fugged her entire body! Those boobs, that hair, those legs. I bet she has had a few ribs removed as well. And then she dresses up her freaky body in utterly hideous, very expensive clothing, and then vogues for the camera. As if to say….”You ALL wish you looked like me.” I really think she believes that she is the hottest looking woman on the planet.
I covet nothing about her, except her husband. OH. MY GOD.
Vote for B! Vote for the discoball-turned-waitress! Vote for supershinyhotpants.
Posh really does look good at times I think!
How is Beyonce loosing this? (Is it a joke?) Posh is certainly orange, plastic fantastic, but Beyonce is GOLD SPARKELY HOT PANTS. Come on!
How is Beyonce losing this? (Is it a joke?) Posh is certainly orange, plastic fantastic, but Beyonce is GOLD SPARKELY HOT PANTS. Come on!
Posh. BECAUSE SHE IS POSH. THE HIGH-FASHION FUG QUEEN.
Also, has anyone else noticed that in both her picture in this entry, and in the picture linked to in the “Pulling a Posh” link, Posh is wearing the SAME leotard(ish) monstrosity? I mean, I don’t mind people wearing the same thing twice, as long as it works and is comfortable. But that thing?! And the very concept of Posh wearing the same thing TWICE?!!!??!?!?!?!
Posh is professional fug, whereas Beyoncé is simply misguided.
The phrase “Pulling a Posh” sealed it for me. Posh is the original, Beyonce is just following in her wake. Posh for the win.
im kind of tired of this bracket thing, when is this over??? why are you doing this???
Can we all just take a moment and thank whatever entity (God, the universe, Joan Collins) we choose that the Fug Girls have given us the chance to use the phrase “Charo Bracket” in a sentence?
Fug Fans – where are your eyes??? BEYONCE all the way! Puhleeze, she is La Diva Fug! Two words: panty hose.
Beyonce all the way! At least Posh knows how to integrate her styles instead of Beyonce’s unending wardrobe of overflowing ballroom gowns. She’s like the Renee Zelleweger of R&B.
Beyonce all the way! At least Posh knows how to integrate her styles instead of Beyonce’s unending wardrobe of overflowing ballroom gowns. She’s like the Renee Zelleweger of R&B.
In a way I’m glad that Sra. Antony didn’t make it to this level, because this was a much easier competition for me. As has been said before, Beyonce’s clothes are often thanks to her mother. Beyonce is also kind of like one of the sixth graders I teach if she got the chance to be famous and hasn’t stopped yet. She lives in this weird fantasy world of magical princess celebrity where gold is the once and future denim. Posh on the other hand has tried to show us that she is beyond that, what with the estates and the hanging out with middle aged designers and the most famous man in the world husband. And she still looks like a Robert Palmer music video backup dancer who got a gift card to Forever 21. Posh it is.
Hard choice, but it’s gotta be Posh, if only because she looks more like a combination space alien/praying mantis every time she’s out in public. And if she has the smarts to snag herself one of the hottest men on the planet, she should know better than to dress that way/do terrible things to her assets.
Posh is divine. So I’m voting for Beyondsaving.
Beyonce often looks glamorous and sexy. Poor Posh always looks like she made a bad choice in plastic surgery providers.
I voted Posh on behalf of Jillian from Project Runway. her appalled bitchiness that Posh sat there daring to judge her while wearing her matchy-matchy orange shoes and orange dress kept running through my mind. Beyonce is no match for that.
Chav-tastic Diva Droid Posh vs. Disco Diva Droid Beyonce.
I’ve given up on Posh. Once you’ve crossed over into Thin White Duke Drag King Robot Land, fug no longer applies. You’re just no longer of this earth. Beyonce still appears to be made of human parts, and so the Droid thing is going tragically wrong all over her. I’m giving my vote this round to Beyonce.
I voted Posh on behalf of Jillian from Project Runway. her appalled bitchiness that Posh sat there daring to judge her while wearing her matchy-matchy orange shoes and orange dress kept running through my mind. Beyonce is no match for that.
Beyonce isn’t crazy enough. I love that she is curvy and flaunts it, but she OVER flaunts. I get bored with what she wears: tight. shiny. yawn. I LOVED the C3PO outfit, but once again: tight. shiny….
We NEED POSH to stay in. She can do tight…and bloody big bird…and man…much more fug variety for your dining dollar!
posh is winning?????????
Posh FTW. Beyonce cannot compete against Posh’s badassed fugness.
I did some serious soul searching on this match-up and came up with this:
Posh = designer fug
BK Broiler (thank you Tara) = House of Dereon fug
Followed by:
If either one was invited to a White House State Dinner or dinner with The Queen, what would they wear?
Posh = I truly believe she would dress appropriately
BK Broiler = Sparkly, spangly, ill-fitting, Tina Knowles designed, gold lame fug
Gotta go with BK Broiler on this one!
I went with Posh since the bulk of Beyonce’s mishaps are on stage…But man, this was tough!
Posh wears the fugly well, Beyonce just looks awkward most of the time. I’m so bummed that Posh is winning!
This is continuing to be hard. Can’t they all win? Must there be only one? Can there at least be the, “In case Miss Fug 2008 cannot perform her duties, the 1st runner-up will hold the crown.” kind of position?
Have to go with Beyonce, she is old enough and has been around long enough to know Fug from non-fug, you can only blame your mother/someone else for so long. Don’t get me wrong, Posh is fug, but she does look good on the rare occasion; she has just simply been out-fugged. In the end, we all know that the title will go to the Sev, so all this is just for our amusement.
Posh fugs victorious; she thinks she’s such the fashion plate, when she actually looks like her own drag impersonator. And mark our words, the infamous “Posh” hairdo will be merrily riduculed at gay cocktail parties of the future.
We bow now, to say a prayer for Beyonce’s poor mother, hunched over her singer sewing machine cranking out frankendress after frankendress. Let the wretched creature fug her fuggy fugitude in blissful ignorance.
Posh knows it’s all a joke, and Beyonce doesn’t.
I feel a vague pity for Beyonce, but I’m in awe of
Posh. That girl has taken fug and made it her own.
Okay, a little weepy now.
O God, O God, what to do? How to pick? I can’t decide…
But I must. So I’m going with Beyonce. She just seems like these awful outfits happen to her, and she had no clue how, and it’s all just so sad.
Posh is more of a fierce, unapologetic fugly. Which somehow I approve of more.
Posh looks kind of really pretty in her prairie picture. What gives??? Beyonce looks exceedingly like Tyra in hers.
I’m voting Posh – Beyonce’s ridden T.Know’s coattails this far with good reason, but you gotta give it up to Mrs. Becks, who owns the hell out of it. She redefines fug for our era. And stuff.
Posh seems crazier than Beyonce, so I have to go with Beyonce.
Crazy chicks are fun.
okay, first of all…that photo of vbecks is like, way old. and, compared to fabulous style icon she’s evolved into, seemingly irrelevant for this particular poll.
second of all, she’s unbelievably fierce. the house of dereon should fall.
C’mon people – the sheer amount of gold and silver lame that is incorporated into B’s too-tight wardrobe must put her over the top.
Plus B would NEVER have let herself be photographed in Paris dressed as the love child of a robot and a vacuum cleaner. Posh laughs at herself.
Vote B!
How fitting, that these two pop-biatches should face off in the “MADONNA” bracket. They do own a huge amount of fugitude to Madge. IRregardless, Posh is truly blazing a fug trail of her own. It annoys me a little that she’s in on the joke; I’d much prefer her to be oblivious to fug-blinding ways.
“okay, first of all…that photo of vbecks is like, way old. and, compared to fabulous style icon she’s evolved into, seemingly irrelevant for this particular poll.”
Actually, the photo is from June 2005, and is only two weeks older than the photo of Beyonce that’s next to it. It’s also newer than a lot of the pictures for Chloe, Courtney Peldon (2003-2005 with some 06), Kelly Clarkson, Bai Ling, Phoebe Price…
It’s about body of work as much as it is about what you wore yesterday, or at least, that was our philosophy.
BEY ALL THE WAY!
Why vote for the Poshter when she’s gloriously fabulous and actually cares about what to wear? Girl doesn’t have a day off and I workship her for that. She’s winning for all the wrong reasons!
Bey is the creator/liable responsable/wmd-enabler of the House of Dereon. She must wallop the competition.
Posh is Karl Lagerfeld’s barbie just as Beyonce is her mother’s. So, who is more crazy? Karl or Tina? I’m torn.
ummmm….is it just me, or do the bottom, prairie, photos make them look separated at birth…has anyone ever seen beyonce and posh in the same place together?
I have to go with Posh, because she just bugs me. She seems like a big mean girl, while Beyonce seems kind of nice. Sometimes.
The are both completely freaking me out in those pictures, but I went with Beyonce because she has taken her god-given beauty and just fugged it up once too many times. The girl must be stopped.
The (unironic)”fabulous style icon” comment from a poster, above, compelled me to write. That’s exactly why Posh has to win. She’s somehow convinced huge numbers of people, even those who enjoy this site, that she is a fabulous style icon. Millions of brainwashed morons believe that it’s stylish to don skin-tight synthetic clothing that detracts from the human being wearing it; that altering one’s appearance to look as plastic, emaciated, orange, bitchy, and unfeminine as possible while wearing tons of makeup and stiletto heels is “hot”. TAKE HER DOWN!!!!!
I had to go with Beyoncé. Tina Knowles’s reign of sartorial terror must be stopped.
Posh–bless her holy name *motions with extended left arm outward in semi-circle while holding imaginary microphone in right hand, which is Posh-devotee version of crossing self*–wears her fug stuff on purpose. Nobody takes Posh less seriously than Posh herself. And sometimes, she looks fuc*ing AMAAAAZING.
Beyoncé–and even moreso, Tina Knowles–is under the impression that B’s clothes are hot, risky and outside of the box. When in fact they’re just drag queen costumes. They fancy themselves style innovators.
INCORRECT.
Also, does anyone else like Posh’s long brown hair better than the blond bob? I can’t decide.
That is all.
in all honesty, i think beyonce is the greater fug. but posh gets my vote because i want to see her go head to head with sharstone.
Is Posh smiling? I didn’t think that was possible.
Is Posh smiling? I didn’t think that was possible.
Posh is divine, and somehow, her brand of fug works on her. Beyonce just can’t keep up.
I gotta be honest, I’m surprised Posh is winning. Yes, her outfits are insane, but to me it just comes across as so much FUN. And she’s never once struck me as “bitchy”. She’s got a sense of humour, and I think she’s hilariously awesome. Hilariously awesome & fun do not equal Fug.
Beyonce it is!
I’ve got to agree with Critter:
“Millions of brainwashed morons believe that it’s stylish to don skin-tight synthetic clothing that detracts from the human being wearing it; that altering one’s appearance to look as plastic, emaciated, orange, bitchy, and unfeminine as possible while wearing tons of makeup and stiletto heels is “hot”. TAKE HER DOWN!!!!!”
Posh is FUG…Beyonce is just sparkly…there’s no comparison. Of course, the Sev should take this whole shootin’ match. Queen of Fug, fer sure!
Oh, and Martha…your comparing Posh to a praying mantis was so odd, but yet so perfectly right. I can’t believe I didn’t notice the resemblance earlier. Thanks for enlightening me!
Forgive me, Fug Girls, for being a bit off topic, but how much do I love the (vast majority of the) commenters here? It’s like the largest gathering of funny women and gay men (and, I guess, a few straight guys?) on the entire Internet.
christ, this is difficult.
I voted for Posh because she would’ve bitch slapped me if I didn’t. Beyonce is actually fuglier, and trannyish, but only because she seems so dumb and ignorant. Dumb people don’t deserve the fug crown.
Damn it, I painstakingly read each and every post to help inform my decision, came to the conclusion that Beyonce and her “House of Dere-NO” must be stopped (seriously–forget a stylist–will someone please get this poor girl a decent tailor?!), gave grudging props to Posh’s “Fierce Fembot” style, and ultimately voted for Ms. B. And Posh is STILL winning?!
Like it or not, rubber rack and scrunchy face aside, Posh still rocks basically anything she puts on her gloriously spindly, fake-baked, human dress dummy of a body (the one glaring exception being the “I’m-Pressed-for-Time-So-I’ll-Just-Throw-the-Hanger-Over-My-Head” look). Not to mention her endless collection of totally kick-ass color-coordinated designer bags and shoes. And that crazy-sexy platinum modified bob (come on–you know you’re jealous). And who can REALLY pull off a prairie skirt without sparking rumors of a community taffy-pull or barn-raising?
Beyonce, on the other hand, is no longer 8 and completely bound by a parent’s unfortunate fashion choices (e.g., plaids, saddle oxfords, orthodontic head gear, Swiss Miss braids) so she has absolutely NO excuse for walking around looking like Cornfed Star Search Barbie.
So please–do the right thing: bring Ms. B and the hizzy D-O-W-N.
WOW! I just logged into vote, and I can’t beLIEVE Bey is losing!
Well, I kinda can. Posh is a space oddity with disturbing doll features and the most synthetic body in the WHOLE world. I don’t view her as anything OTHER than a clothes hanger who just so happens to be constructed of movable, organic matter. She’s just SO WEIRD that I feel she can pull of basically anything. And I find her unattractive in the same way I find Anna Wintour and Dita Von Teese unattractive; it’s that whole Trying So Damn Hard to Achieve Something Staggeringly Chic thing.
That said, I LOVE some of that freakshow’s outfits. That red and navy thing with the gloves or whatever that she wore to the toy store a couple of weeks ago, for instance. I remember looking at that outfit and thinking that, if nothing else, Vicki Beckham is typically VERY well put-together, even if the results are effing weird. And her little boys are precious and her husband is disproportionately beautiful and I love how they all FREAKING MATCH EACH OTHER.
Precious.
There’s a part of me that treasures Beyonce so very much, because she is a jelly-jiggling, weave-shaking LIONESS on stage and I LOVE that part in “Upgrade U” towards the end where she spouts off this Texan-twinged litany of, like, every overpriced designer accessory in existence. She is CRAZY, but I’ve always thought she was super gorgeous, ever since the earliest DC days. That said, I also think she’s got a vivaciously curvy body that HAS looked really good in some outfits. Remember that hot pink short-as-hell Cavalli fringed thingie she wore when she performed that duet with Prince at the Grammy’s? I mean, she CAN look absolutely blazing hot, or even demure and graceful. If she’s styled by someone who isn’t her mother.
Beyonce got MY vote because she wears, like, aluminum pants and chartreuse mink boots or some shit. She has no shame.
What it finally came down to for me is that Posh is a mouth-breather and that’s so completely Fugly. Beyonce came close, but she seems to actually knows how to use her nose.
Posh is horrific but is totally committed, and doesn’t seem to care what anyone thinks.
Beyonce got my vote because she seems to think she is ALL THAT, and that people want to look like her. hey! I know! Let’s all get frontal lobotomies so we can look as vacant and mom-controlled as she does! Plus, anyone who always poses like my Twist ‘n Turn Barbie deserves the win.
Just wanted to share that I’m sitting in my town’s Public Library computer area, while my kids are upstairs doing their homework (aka playing dragon games). Mommy’s bringing ‘em up right.
POSH( of the Orange Basketball Boobs) FTW
xxoo
posh should take the whole thing. her lack of taste is unrivaled.
Posh! She is gloriously fug, and makes me want to be too. That’s a winner for you.
And I want her husband. Jay-Z, not so much.
I think the fact that Beyonce lets her mom dress her at her age should count against her instead of in her favor. Posh at least puts some effort in. Plus, I think Posh knows she looks like an alien while Beyonce looks like she wakes up and says, “I’m extremely hot, so I can wear anything I want.” Not so, trashy girl, not so.
Beyonce is strong with the fug, but she has her mother as an excuse. Plus, she often makes very nice style choices. Posh, on the other hand, has a kind of fug vision that Beyonce could only hope to aspire to.
Beyonce reminds me of those little 5 year old girls who are dressed up in evening gowns and spatulaed with make up and entered into a beauty pageant. I take pity on her. Poor pickle. Posh all the way!
This is getting too tough. In the end, I had to go with Beyonce because Posh sells it so hard. Sometimes, I think Ms. Knowles knows that what she’s wearing was a mistake, yet she wore it anyway. Posh never thinks she made a mistake. For me, wearing something even after you’ve looked in the mirror and had the “Hmm” moment is fuglier than looking in the mirror and thinking, “This looks hot!” But some would say that the instant of self-knowledge saves Beyonce. Too tough to call.
Posh for sure. She’s fabulous forever. But, she’s also fugulous, too.
Beyonce it is. As someone above mentioned, Posh seems to be in on the joke, while Beyonce’s lost in pretty princess land hocking class rings on impressionable youth! (Yes, there are House of Dereon class rings. The cheek!)
And baby girl, you’re 26. Mama stopped being a valid excuse a long time ago.
I had to vote for Beyonce on this one and believe me, I agonised over it first. Posh, while seemingly having the fashion sense of a post-op lobotomy patient, dresses for her body shape and size. Beyonce looks like she’s trying to squeeze child-bearing hips into Barbie (or Posh because they’re the same size tiny with ridiculously oversized basketballs)formal wear. Also, in every picture of her, that’s a BIG ol’ weave on Beyonce’s head!
But it’s Posh!
I have to go Beyonce, if only because she puts her name & star power behind the horror that is the House of Dereon.
I can’t stand Beyonce.
CAMEL TOE!! Why has no-one mentioned the camel toe?!
Have to go with Posh. Beyonce’s strange fetish for shorts tugs at my fug radar (fugdar?), but because of Posh, I now understand the term “bitchface.” She wears these outfits and when her picture’s taken, her expression just says, “What? What?!?” I hate that. Strangely, though, I kind of love her.
Britain FTW! Posh is the fuggest of the fug. If you look up fug in the dictionary, there’s a picture of the hot pants outfit.
i miss posh with long hair
Sorry B, Posh is still Queen of the Fugs.
My vote goes to Beyonce, because Posh’s “job” is WAG/freakshow while Beyonce actually has talent and skills and shouldn’t distract from those with garish & tarty outfits.
I’m having so much fun! Thank you both, you are geniuses. Just the bracket names/images make me laugh out loud—then it gets better with each match up. I think I may put on one of my own fug outfits for the final 4!
Im sorry i have to go with Posh.
She’s just crazy
Where as Beyonce is just crazy in love (its a stage, it will pass)
Tough choice. They are both fug squared. But it must be Posh.
1. Beyonce’s mother is to blame for most of her horrendous outfits-Posh picks hers out herself.
2. And from time to time Beyonce can be seen in “normal” clothing. Posh is NEVER in anything remotely normal.
3. Since Beyonce’s mom decks her out in clearance prom wear combined with a Bedazzler, at least it’s cost-effective fug. Posh spends a ridiculous amount of money on her outfits and thinks she looks amazing wearing them from the look of her posing in them combined with the gynormous sunglasses, fake orange skin and fake boobage.
Posh has made fug into fierce. Who else could do that?
Posh looks so unhealthily frail next to Beyonce, who is so gorgeous that sometimes even the fug can’t make her look bad. Okay, well, it can, but not as bad as Posh, that’s my point.
PUH-leeze. There really is no competition here. P to the O the Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Between Mom Designed My Clothes and Pure Fierce Major Crazy, I opt for the crazy.
Posh because she has to face down either Chloe or Bai in the final round. C’mon Posh! Zigga-zig ah!
Posh. Not because she wears fuglier clothes, because that honor belongs to B, but because she embraces the spirit of fug. She is fug personified. Crazy, tacky, self-depricating and wonderful! B is far too humorless to be crowned Queen of the Fug.
Beyonce, because I totally wear everything Posh does. Two days before she does. While sitting at home and watching basic cable.
I voted for Beyonce as the queen of fug because Posh has the all-time best fashion accessory: BECKS.
The thing is, Posh is simply Fabulous to me. She is insidious! All that is right and true screams at me to be alarmed by her insane couture, but I am perversely thrilled by her. And, because of this, and also because of the fact that I personally disqualify her for being UN-HUMAN, my vote is Beyonce. C’mon! She’s friggin’ gorgeous and wears the fuggest of items. And does not entirely pull it off, whereas NO one expects Posh to be normal. Although I give props to B for respecting her moms.
I voted for Beyonce, because I feel she still wears what she’s told, and she should be way beyond that by now. As a matter of fact, I bet Posh could call her and tell her what to wear, and she would do it.
Ick. I really can’t stand Posh. I refuse to give her credit for anything, never mind the honor of Top Fug.
No, no, no, no, NO! In the immortal words of that great naval hero, Popeye, “I’ve had all I can stands, I can’t stands no more!”
Posh is the embodiment of e-fugging-ternal fugrociousness.
Beyonce is a mere wannabe.
I have spoken.
Why can’t they both win??????? Why must there be only one????? It is so unfair
But as the saying goes, “it’s an honor just to be nominated.”
Beyonce’s mom dresses her, I can relate I’ve worn some truly hideous things for my mother’s sake. But Posh dresses herself, she makes those choices she is and always will be the Queen of Fug. Yet I never want her to change. I worship the Posh.
Posh, you’re my girl! A complete fugilicious package chock full of style, attitude, and panache.
Dang, I haven’t been this excited since the Tigers signed Pudge.
BEYONCE!!! I am still suffering shock she is only a six seed. We have both nature and nuture at work here kids…
Posh, on the other hand, is fabulous for constantly laying it on the line and still getting a lot of it right. Look at what she’s done for Mrs. Cruise- that alone should eliminate her from final four contention.
What I love about Beyonce’s prairie outfit is that that mike totally looks like a brush and with her hair long and straight like that it looks like she’s brushing her hair in the mirror.
posh posh posh posh posh posh posh posh posh posh posh posh posh posh posh
Why can’t Beyoncé fire her mom?
WHY DOES THE “ELITE 8″ ROUND ONLY HAVE 4 IN IT?
LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME. THIS IS THE FINAL FOUR….duh.
Who would Bobby Trendy want to wear?
Posh, most days. BK’s fug = too pedestrian.
While Posh is the enemy of talent and has a penchant for making even black look utterly slutty and tasteless, the concoctions Beyonce and her mother come up with are crimes against humanity. Please people, vote Beyonce, and call Amnesty International.
POSH. Because her fug is so extraordinary, so glorious, so I’m-a-fugly-alien-from-the-planet-fug (but have SO MANY designer or faux-designer friends that should KNOW BETTER), that it deserves to reign supreme atop the Fug Podium.
Posh is a pixie, so when she’s spilling out of her clothes it just doesn’t seem quite as… indecent as Beyonce does.
Plus considering yourself a fashion icon and having your own line when really you are just your mother’s tacky, tacky Life-Size Showgirl Barbie is grand high fugging in my book.
god i remember the first time i saw posh in those black hot pants (can we even call those hot pants? i don’t think they’re long enough for that classification which is truly scary…) i stared at the picture for about 20 minutes wondering what she was thinking and i still can’t be sure. seriously… what was she thinking!? that tears the fug for me. i find the idea of posh being reknowned as a fashion idol far more offensive than say, chloe sevigny, and it’s pictures like THAT which make me hope posh makes it to the final round.
Sorry, but this is a slam dunk for Beyonce. Posh has a sense of humor about herself and about the public perception of her. Look at the Marc Jacobs’ ads. They are fun and funny and crazy. Can you see Beyonce in her “House of Despair” clothes making fun of herself? NO. Plus the shorts are not flattering, nor are any of the dresses from her Mother’s horrid fashion house. Beyonce by a MILE.
So many of you have forgotten Posh’s chaps. Unless one is a cowboy or a Village Person, any public wearing of chaps should rate Automatic Win. In addition, Judy Jetson will never a style icon be, and Posh has been channeling her for YEARS.
I’m sorry, but I think they both dress well more than they dress poorly. That’s right. I said it. I love Beyonce. She knows she’s a diva and dresses like it sometimes, but I usually like her clothes. Not Final 8 of fug in my book.
Ok, the comments that lovingly speak of Beyonce’s talent and beauty while also addressing the issue of her clothes has made me see clearer. She is too beautiful to not always look amazing. I still don’t think she’s final 8 when the Olson Twins are out there, but I’m looking past my total love of her to see the fug.
I’ve been saying it all along, but Posh is going to upset the winner of the Sev/Ling matchup and take this whole damned thing.
Woof! Mme. Beckham has it down for me. Beyonce always looks like someone told her what to wear and has NO idea what her style really is. I think she will “come to” one day and dress like the diva she really is. Posh knows what the h**l she is doing and still thinks she looks fab. Definitely fug fug fug. (I still want her body, though—)
I picked Posh because let’s face it, you can think you’re a fashion icon all you want, even if your mom dresses you funny but if you’re orange all the time you just aren’t. At all. You are fug. So while I think Beyonce is saran wrapped into the most godawful things she just can’t compete with “orange” spice.
Pish (HA!) it’s all Posh (ZING!)
While Beyonce does dress like a barbie doll, the rest of her still appears human.
Unlike Poshbot who i’m 99% sure has been slowly turning herself into a cyborg bent on killing off the fleshy ones… and yes i mean Geri.
It’s ok though. Bai Ling will defend us with her nipples and taffeta. yay!
Beyonce can look human. Posh is so orange/plastic/skinny that she is, by virtue of her orange/plastic/skinniness just absolutely fug.
Posh is the reason they don’t make comfortable CUTE shoes for women… it’s like designers look at her and say, “See? She’s wearing them! What’s the problem, ladies?”
This is much harder than Chloe and Bai for me, I knew Chloe was the one. With Posh and Beyonce it’s a much harder choice because I think they both do take themselves seriously, hell, does Posh smile? I’ve seen her in a few interviews and she does seem charming, I’ll give her that. But the anorexic body is scary, where as Beyonce rocks the natural more womanly body. This to me is not fug, even though her clothes are truly fug. So, it’s Posh for the win, she may take the whole darn shootin’ match.
It was hard, but I finally decided on Posh. I’ve seen Beyonce look stunningly beautiful before; she’s had a couple of Well Playeds. Posh? Not so much. At least, not to the best of my knowledge.
Posh, Posh, pish pash POSH!!!
I’m still laughing at Debbie Gibson wearing your Gran’ma’s shoes…
I can’t believe it.
This is like when Villanova won.
Well, nice going Posh, I voted for Beyonce. Posh might be a worst dresser but she’s Crazy!! and generally even when i think her clothes are really stupid looking i have to give credit for the fact that fashion wise, she is willing to take risks. Ole’ B up there well she more often then not just looks like she forgot part of her dress, but other wise she generally appears sane, what gives B?
Can I vote for both of them?
I can’t believe I missed voting! I can’t believe it wasn’t closer, they are both super fug.
I can’t believe Posh took this, I love Beyonce to death but seriously she can’t dress herself. She is at least 1 size (ok 2 sizes) bigger in reality than she is in her or her mother’s mind. Nothing ever fits, nothing is ever flattering to her figure and sequence do not equal elegance. Also, have you seen the crap House of Derriere is putting out?
Posh sure looks wacky sometimes, but its always a well put together and properly fitted wacky. Also, Posh doesn’t really do anything so its OK for her to take some risks people with fans might not take.
Posh is divine!! How can anyone vote for her she may sometimes look like an alien/robot, but does she not make you smile. Beyonce NEEDS to win this match with her fugulous showgirl sausage dresses stiched by her “stylist” who probably has no sight left because one time she opened B’s closet and was struck blind by gold lame with sparkles???!!!?? Still the Sev for the win!!!
Going with B, Posh is in a category all her own and it works for her a lot of the time. B needs to fire her mom.