Model Lily Cole here is now being credited as “actress Lily Cole.”
Much as these pants spent a great deal of time being labeled, in my head, a skirt. When I happened upon this photo — playing the role of the Zapruder Film in the grand story of Is This A Hideous Skirt or REALLY REALLY HIDEOUS PANTS???!?! — proving that tragically, we are looking at pants, I must confess to you that I actually said, “oh SHIT” aloud to my empty apartment. I mean….okay. First of all, those pants are like John Audubon’s wet dream married to the wallpaper at the Kate Spade store and then BLOWN UP into what are essentially the silk gaucho pants they hand to you when you descend to one of the less fiery circles of hell. And that is all very very distracting. So distracting that you might not notice that the rest of her looks like she’s running late for Variable Topics in Comparative Literature. Which is a fine look when you are, in fact, late for Comparative Literature but not so much when you’re on the red carpet at a film festival.
Comments (35):
What-WHAT? That is one of the most unflattering outfits I’ve ever seen. And I’ve looked at myself in the mirror on my way to comp lit seminar at 9 AM.
And they are GROSSLY unflattering. She should sue those pants for defamation of figure.
this pants are just…disrespectful
Those pants are the opposite of stumpifying. They gigantify her but in a very negative way. She kind of looks like an Okapi.
*these
I am almost entirely sure that is the same fabric as the blinds I had hanging in my room as a baby.
Really??? I guess nothing says “cute nursery blinds” like decapitated bird heads impaled on sticks.
ok, maybe they weren’t the same
My mother was not that strange.
WHY ARE THEY KILLING EACH OTHER? These are making me so sad.
Heehehehe. I figured. But it made me giggle out loud in my office to think about. And then I look at the pants again, and I also get sad. And I am developing a real dislike of this Lily Cole person based on her affinity for bird-on-bird violence.
I’m going to be very, very charitable and assume that someone forced her at gun point to wear these hideous garments.
Those pants are wearing her.
Is she sponsored by “Always” feminine products? Because it looks like she has wings coming out of her lady business…
Why are there birds killing other birds on these ugly pants? Aren’t they hideous enough without that?
Oh. Honey. No.
Imagine how fat someone who wasn’t a size 2 would look in those things.
Mother of pearl. Those are perhaps the worst article of clothing I have ever seen. Certainly, they are the worst of 2012 for me. Not only are they incredibly gruesome, they are gigantically unflattering. They are, quite simply, vomitous. And now I think she’s creepy.
Child. It should not have to be said, but seriously: if your pants make it look like you have a tiny, tiny head, then they are not the pants for you.
I was going to say the same thing about her head…what’s up with that? Is it the angle? Just looks bizarre!
You know, I think the HORIZONTAL STRIPES really pull it all together for me.
Aieeeee ….
Merciful heavens, these are some bad, bad pants. Put a bird on it: I think not.
Birds aside, these are the kind of wide-leg pants that don’t make you look like you’re wearing wide-leg pants, they just make it look like you have really wide legs.
Even Stella McCartney would have improved these.
And what’s up with her mouth? It looks like she has had some serious plastic surgery.
That is a true “Crazy Grandma from Palm Desert” outfit, shoes included (only grandma’s are a holdover from the ’70s).
I’m always baffled by photos such as this. Did she look in the mirror before she left her house and actually think “HOT”? Do her friends and family at home secretly hate her guts? Did her grandma coax her to wear this outfit because “the style is coming back in!” and she can’t say no to her grandma? WHAT?
Random animal prints are supposed to be “in” for fall, but even that can’t save these bloomers.
I wonder if this pattern is designed by Walton Ford?
He’s an contemporary artist who paints birds and animals, in an Audobon style, except the paintings are explicit and violent and have political overtones.
Lots of humping and pecking.
That outfit is a definite fug. Why is so many models seem unable to dress themselves? You’d think they might pick up some sense of style along the way, but it seems like few do.
PANTS WHAT?!
THERE’S A TWO-HEADED PEACOCK COMING OUT OF HER VA-JAY-JAY
IF THAT’S NOT HELLA SCARY, THEN WHAT IS????
Well, they say a bird in the hand….
(Ba-da-bump! Thanks folks, try the veal!)
I would look grumpy as well if I was wearing this disaster but I’d like to think I’d have at least brushed my hair.
That said, I think those pants would look better with fewer stripes on the bottom (maybe just one black?) and worn with flat sandals. The top would have to be more summery as well, something filmy and sleeveless but black… am I really suggesting a see-through top?
The dickens with the pants, has anyone looked at how ugly the pic makes her FACE? E E E W
There should be a disclaimer before posting a picture of such atrocious trousers.
They are hurting my delicate senses!
One should never wear anything on one half of the body that makes the other half look like it was Photoshopped by someone while blind drunk.
Why does she look like Honey Boo Boo?
do you think she lost a bet?