Fug File: BAFTAs

BAFTA Awards Fug Carpet: Christina Hendricks


When I saw this outfit, I was alone in my hotel room (Jessica was off gallivanting at a fashion show), and I still said out loud, “OH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.”

I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that she doesn’t have a stylist; if that’s true then she could get one fast, and if it’s not true, then she should get a NEW stylist. That hair is a stringy mess, and worse, the dress makes her look like a fifteen-pound bag of cantaloupes in a five-pound carry-all. And the thing is, as we’ve noted, she is not big. She’s just not. She is treated like she’s big, but that’s a myth. As is the idea that her lovely, abnormal-only-in-Hollywood physique is just so hard for people who make clothes for a living to dress. Kick-starting that discussion was good, because it’s absurd the way people act like it simply can’t be done, and yet now she’s self-perpetuating that same myth by being completely unable to pull it together on the red carpet. Why? Remember when Lucky did it for her? And in fact, other ladies do it all the time.  She is not a Kardashian and she is not Pamela Anderson and she is not married to Ice-T, so I’m mystified and confounded and baffled and befuddled by why she thought she just needed to wrap herself in something that hoisted the girls up into her chin. I’ve said it before and I’ll repeat it: Some designer, somewhere, should be SALIVATING at the chance to be her signature clothier, because whoever gets this right — for more than one event every six months — will be freaking celebrated. So snap to it, fashion types. Also, we’re serious about that stylist thing, Christina. Get on the horse. It wants to carry you.

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Royalpalooza 2011 Fug or Fab Carpet: Cat Deeley


I just started watching So You Think You Can Dance this season and while there are parts of it that make me sort of crazy (namely, the same parts I fast-forward through on Idol – blah blah blah I grew up in a small town blah blah blah my parents both died in a coal mining accident blah blah blah my doctor told me if I didn’t dance I only had two months to live blah), Cat Deeley IS a really good host. Charming, and also totally on top of things, and sometimes she dresses crazy and the other week, they actually BEDAZZLED HER CLAVICLE (clavdazzled?) so that’s always fun. (FOX also spelled her name wrong in their chyrons two weeks in a row, so she apparently also has a really, really laid-back agent.)

She also posed like this in all the shots in our photo sub, which makes me think one of her arms is REALLY heavy or she’s resisting, with all her might, the urge to deal with a nasty wedgie:

Stay strong, Cat.

But how do we like the dress?

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BAFTAs Fug Carpet: Meredith Ostrom


Well, this is subtle:

Meredith Ostrom here has been in a bunch of random things — Wikipedia claims she’s mostly a painter, but Wikipedia also claims that “The topic of this article may not meet the notability guideline for biographies.” My feeling is that her dress does not meet the decency guideline for public consumption.

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BAFTAs Well Played Omnibus


Sorry, BAFTAs. Between Fashion Week, the Grammys, and you, something was going to get the shaft, and unfortunately it was y’all. We need to move forward and not spend all of next week’s pre-Oscar days posting on an awards ceremony that’s firmly behind us. But the good news is, we thought a lot of people looked very pretty, including these five ladies. So what if we’re trying to knock out the pictures from your red carpet? The point is, these women are knockouts, period.

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BAFTAs Fug or Fab Carpet: Julianne Moore


Overall, I really like this dress on Julianne.

But the the bow on the back of the dress interferes — in photos, anyway — with the lines of the front.  I think in person it probably looked normal, because the eye could distinguish between Dress and Back Bow, but in a flat two-dimensional photo you can’t. So in almost every photo she looked unusually wide and boxy, and it’s because where they SHOULD be air because of the curvature of her hip, you are instead seeing more blue velvet (not to be confused with Blue Velvet; if you see Isabella Rossellini’s head floating around back there, please do seek professional help). I chose this picture because the light falls in such a way that you can tell what’s going on a bit better, but it’s an unfortunate optical illusion with an otherwise nice dress that actually looks very pretty on her — and as an added bonus, does not have a giant sleeve that looks like a deflated balloon.

However, the whole issue could’ve been solved by just not HAVING the bow on the back, and I’m thinking I would’ve liked that alteration:

take (off) a bow

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BAFTAs Fug Carpet: Jennifer Lawrence


Objectively, this dress is pretty. Practically, it is like two inches or so too short for Jennifer Lawrence’s torso. Some poor schmo had to have been so stressed out all night just trying to keep those things out of play. Although actually, as you’ll see in the slideshow, sometimes the best boob-wrangling job is the one you do yourself.

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