5 photos in galleryTwitter has been awesome for many things, and this is one: At the first SWINTON sighting on the the telecast, we received about fifty simultaneous tweets from people shrieking, “SWINTON!!!!” Because they knew we’d be doing the same thing. It was like a hug. A hug made of fug.
This photo is one unholstered pair of finger guns away from Nirvana. Because I am not sure if that’s a button-down tucked into a canary satin bridesmaid dress skirt, or if they are sewn together. And I totally don’t even care. It’s all SWINTON. She’s like, “You do not even know how to handle me. And that is how I like it.” Seriously, if Leighton Meester was clad as the fancy sister-wife in the house, then SWINTON is clearly in costume as the all-knowing First Wife who is totally hip to your needs; confident enough in her awesomeness that she doesn’t have to flash her goods at their communal man-candy because she knows that HE knows she — much like Tony Danza — is the boss; and also is totally not afraid to get up in your grill about remembering to do the shopping or that it’s your turn on Latrine Duty or that you are falling down on the job when it comes to home-schooling your kids in math. She’d be perfect: You’d never want to let her down, but you’d also be able to go to her and be all, “Dude, I am really sick of this braid, it has GOT TO GO.” And she’d be like, “I hear that,” and pull out the hedge clippers and hand you a beer.
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It’s the “almost a wink” that undid me.
Another reason why this woman is in a class all by herself.
I am not worthy.
This post pleases me greatly. Those shoes are a major win with that outfit.
What pleases me the most is that she’s like six feet and she’s still rocking some serious heels. Not for her the sorry slouching and kitten heels. Go SWINTON!
When I first saw this my gut reaction was, “Is she trying to channel Donald O’Connor?!” Because, let’s be honest, in this picture she totally looks like him doing that dance draped in a table cloth while pretending to be a woman.
Dude, she has POCKETS in that skirt!
I’ve liked some of her other looks better, but whatevs. SWINTON is a goddess.
She is so glorious I have to shield my eyes.
SWINTON. I am not worthy.
All hail the mighty SWINTON.
I totally do not understand her, yet I cherish her. I also desperately want to attend a party at her house.
Did anyone else notice how, when she was announcing the nominations in both of the categories she and Geoffrey Rush presented, she twice said, “Pillars…of the EARTH.” It was hilarious – it reminded me of exactly how we all say or think SWINTON whenever we see her.
How has not a single person referenced Sharon Stone’s 1998 Oscar get up?? Her husbands white button down shirt + purple silk skirt?? SWINTON reminded me of a bulkier version of this. I like the idea, but it fit horribly.
LOVE all the commentary, Fug Girls. You nailed it with the description of SWINTON with Geoffrey Rush. BTW, anyone think that the profile shot of SWINTON with Claire Danes made her (the former, not the latter — I am not holding my pinkie down on the caps key again) look like a young, male, Calvin Klein model?
Eh. Whatever. She’s an excellent actor who’s weird and wears bad clothes in a way that’s above it all and oh so hip. We get it.
didn’t Kate Bosworth wear a skirt very similar to this at some las vegas event – featured on this very website? Is Swinton taking fashion tips from Bosworth?
I’m almost 100% positive that it’s a dress by Jil Sander’s SS11 collection which is the most hideous collection of all time.
Love the SWINTON.
SWINTON!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, daymed! Helen Mirren looks great.
Tilda Swinton is “The Thin White Duke.” Do you think if she showed up at Iman’s place that Iman would even notice that Tilda’s not her husband? Oh for the day when TS and David Bowie could inhabit the screen together! They could play brothers. Or sisters. Or a married couple – in which he is the she and vice versa… Sigh.
SWINTON is an international treasure. I actually had the pleasure to meet her once (!!) and was totally, totally not worthy of her majestic presence. There’s a reason HELEN FREAKIN’ MIRREN was overjoyed to be in her company.
I love SWINTON even more now that I see she is wearing pink shoes. That throws the whole thing that much more over the top for me!
SWINTON is winking. At us. Your argument is irrelevant.
When she approached the mic, it actually looked like the skirt part was walking by itself. Seriously.
I was having a bad day. My co-workers were snarky, I had tough projects and crazy meth neighbor woke me up in the middle of the night again. Then you guys put this slideshow up and I swear, it’s the Fug post that’s filled me with the most delight in at least a year of daily clicks. I love you guys, and thanks.
My favourite thing about Swinton at the Globes was the way she pronounced “television,” as though it were a fancy French word. She is glorious.
I love the pic with Claire Danes. It’s kinda like she’s sucking out her soul like a Dementor.
I suspect the wink is because [s]he knows [s]he’s put one over on all of us.
Good. Bad. Indifferent. It matters not. The Swinton, she remains: Epic.
Swinton wears the clothes, the clothes don’t wear Swinton. Therefore, she is fabulous, unique and utterly cool.
@fuh ugh … i would totally watch your made for tv movie where SWINTON and BOWIE played a married couple that each started off as the sex opposite what they are now ( OMG crazy awesome )
how have SWINTON and bowie not happened yet? they are a match made in heaven!
love this. i sqee’d when i saw it. no-one else could do this, not least because no-one else is 9 feet tall in pink heels, androgynous and brave enough to go the GG without make up.
btw, helen mirren, her body is insane. wow.
I just made that first pic with the pop-eye wink my screensaver.
OMG, I am CRYING, I am laughing so hard! I didn’t tweet, but I shouted out, “SWINTON”! when she came on, followed immediately by, “What the…is she…wearing…oh, well, it’s Swinton.”
Bow down!!!
more like SQUINTON! duh-dun tssss
PALE PINK SHOES! That really was the perfect finishing touch for this look!
This post! This post gave me the most sustained case of giggles I have had in months? Years? I don’t know that I’ve ever actually HAD a sustained case of giggles before. I bow down not only to SWINTON, but to you, dear Fug Girls.
PUKE
I just watched “The Prestige” again where Bowie plays Tesla and he doesn’t look like Ziggy Stardust anymore but maybe … SWINTON is his picture of Dorian Gray? Have we seen SWINTON and Bowie together? SWINTON and Iman? Hmm …
I usually love what Tilda wears, but this, I do not love at all. 1. I disagree with the Sharon Stone reference; this is trying so hard it ACHES. 2. I agree with MPMZ. There is a whiff of “unsuccessful cross dresser”, along with bouffon clown and utility skirt about this. 3. I wonder who designed the shirt, though? It IS a stunner. 4. Not at the Golden Globes. With a “skirt” that seems to have been gathered with a rope. 5. Bleh.
My mom and I both screamed “SWINTON” when she appeared onscreen.
I never noticed before Sunday that SWINTON has THE GREENEST eyes I’ve ever seen… Pure magic, this woman.
I squealed with delight when I saw her pink shoes on the red carpet! They made the outfit for me.
It’s a dress, not a shirt and skirt. It is from Jill Sander–you either love or hate the collection but it’s definitely the way fashion will look for the next 10 to 20 years or so.
And as for Tilda–I love the way she does fashion as an art form, not dress-shill-desperate-star-overpaid-mannequin, like most other Hollywood actresses. You know any designer worth his salt would be begging to dress her lean, model-proportioned body in their finest gowns, but she just says “No, Thanks” and puts on what she really believes is new and innovative. Say what you will but we’ll never see SWINTON in a Marchesa get up, hoping she’ll get a bit part out of the deal.
LOL! The fifth picture sooooo made me think of this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_a89E6VQeHnc/TI1T4RSX1xI/AAAAAAAAEN8/JjniPTnGojU/s1600/farmer_wife.jpg
@Emily…YES, I too died of joy when she said “…of the EAHTH,” not once, but twice. Also loved Jeremy Irons saying “the FI-TAH.”
i just LOL’d at my desk thanks to your commentary!
tilda doesn’t give a sh*t what anyone thinks. i think that’s why she’s winking at us!! she’s just so statuesque and fab.
I can’t stop looking at this and imagining how great it would look with an obi that is pale green with cherry blossoms on it.
Swinton gorgeousness! It is from Jill Sanders (designed by Raf Simons) S/S ’11 collection. All the pieces of the collection were based on couture shapes rendered in electric hued cottons. Forward thinking clothes worn by a forward thinker…
THE SWINTON. The words alone are a song.
Love SWINTON. Wish she’d worn the original dress from the Jil Sander collection http://twitpic.com/3qrb2j
Face it, La Swin could show up having tied a tea cozy over her middle with an ace bandage and her freaking presence, her screwittothedoorjambcrazyass attitude, her je ne sais quoi (thank you Mme. Wanzer for high school French) and everything else that she IS….would have us all simultaneously howling, looking quizzical, laughing, crying, and looking for the mixed nuts.
She’s one in a bazillion, and thank the gods for her.
This shows how bad the US Vogue has become. Instead of putting that drugged up Twilight child they should go with Tilda who really is a fashion icon. There’s no second like her.
She looks amish, and I don’t care if she did it “ironically.” Why are we kidding ourselves? She’s not a fashion icon, she’s afraid to wear attractive clothes because she knows she won’t look good in them because she’s atrocious. She’s just out for the attention and presige of being “different.” And I don’t think she’s winking, I think she’s having a facial twitch related to her Marfan syndrome.
You know, Leah, when I think of adjectives that could describe Tilda Swinton “afraid” is just not one that comes up. The woman walks in an aura of self-confidence like it’s radiation and she was sitting in the control room at Chernobyl. And in a sea of pretty-but-kinda-boring dresses, that pop of alien glam sure stands out.
Ah, the shoes. I just… the shirt first, then the shoes. And the hair.
Swinton, indeed.
And yes — my best friend and I were watching, and she immediately declared that Swinton was Bowie’s doppelganger — has ANYONE ever seen them in the same room together….?
I did not tweet SWINTON, but I did yell it at the TV. She makes me happy.
Admittedly, not a look with broad appeal, but love . And I’m not a subscriber to any fawning admiration or senses of irony in sartorial matters because, please, that line of dialogue can’t DIE soon enough… (directed at no one here but to the broader cultural preoccupation that perpetuates such an idea or ever pretended that irony was an acceptable rationalization for what one chose to wear. God.). Tilda, for me, is a mannequin-ized Vivienne Westwood, a divine magical creature in her own right. Unabashed, never gonna give a f*ck, absolutely barking, yet fully committed and capable of wresting magic from a lipstick and chocolate stained dinner napkin. I get that some see an ill-fitting dress shirt atop a lumpen yellow tube, because it is. But it is also something akin to Singer Sargent come to life. And as such I’m delighted to have Tilda gliding around in crisp white cotton and lemony satin on her powdery thistle pink platform hooves. She is as right as rain, as is, but Lue’s suggestion does tempt…