Donna Air here is a British TV presenter and model, and has a huge paragraph on her Wikipedia page about how she was EXONERATED in a SCANDAL in which she was accused of the HORRIBLE CRIME of having….TWO PARKING PERMITS. You guys, it’s okay. Parking is confusing sometimes. SO IS THIS OUTFIT:
Can we even fix it? Have I lost my mind if I suggest losing the short and making the shorts into pants? Or, as we call it: GOING FULL TOM FORD FOR GUCCI 1996 OR THEREABOUT? Because that’s my suggestion. What’s yours, Stylists of Fug Nation?
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what is that MESS? eeek! Heinous!
Those shoes should not be worn by an adult. The shorts should either be shorts or pants: the current length is an abomination.
There is no hope. Not even if we had Obi Wan.
Long pants, in a complementary color not the same as the jacket … the reflective fabric is blinding, but could possibly be acceptable as a jacket only, not a full suit. The shoes make me smile, actually … I could live with those if we swap out the pants.
I expected pants before I scrolled down, so yes, PANTS!
And yes, the smoking shoes are major wtf.
I didn’t realize they were smoking! I was like, WTF do her shoes have straws?
One piece of that “suit” can be shiny..but not both. I think the shorts have a cute touch of whimsy but would be better served on a younger starlet.
No. Just no.
skirt to about the same length as the shorts currently are … full length pants would be too much of that fabric
Pants, please. I disapprove of those shoes with ever fiber of my cranky being.
They need to be full pants. Then, it needs to be either the reddish or orangeish color, but not striped. Then, SWINTON needs to wear it.
I was at that party last night and saw this up close. It was NOT PRETTY. Like a sort of ‘gay little boy intern’. Weird.
Donna Air kind of sounds like an airline for hookers.
I can’t get over the shoes! Are they smoking??
yes those are Prada’s smoking shoes. I blame Jane whats-her-name over at Sea of Shoes. She loves them and has undue influence on the young-ish fashion set. Away with those shoes!
Yes, that girl drives me up the wall with the smoking shoes
Shorts into a high waisted skirt, lose the jacket, go shoe shopping for something completely different in the non open toed variety and buy everyone that sees you a double Jameson shot and some sunglasses? Repeat Jameson step. Repeat Jameson step…. etc.
Burn it. No, wait, that would produce toxic smoke. Bury it? Cut it up and make it into bibs for children. I bet baby food would slide right off that surface….
I think she has to wear that white shirt so we notice her face, but the color of the jacket loves her complexion. Those shoes are sublime, yet they need a full tulle poodle skirt to deliver their potential. Or, go old school where the slacks would be worn with a strapless orange top and accessorized with a bejewelled cigarette holder, sparkly earrings and keep the shoes. This unfug was a challenge!
different shoes, obviously…high waisted, pencil skirt and lose the jacket or, if we must keep the jacket, button it higher up and lose the shirt
I adore the shoes. I’d go in an entirely different direction- lose the jacket and unbutton and roll up the sleeves of the white shirt, add a pink camisole underneath, give her an oversized satchel and sunglasses and send her to the beach or the park.
In the early 70′s when I was a child and pantsuits were all the rage, my mother made me a red patterned pantsuit that I LOVED! I felt like Mary Tyler Moore and thought I was super groovy.
I wondered what happened to it.
^ This is my favorite comment! MTM was awesome.
I just can’t get over the fact that people are actually wearing those Prada shoes.
Something else I can’t get over? That suit. No, no… I just can’t.
*makes shooing motions*
If you turned the formal Bermudas into a pencil skirt and gave her a black bustier instead of. . .is that a WHITE BUTTON DOWN OXFORD SHIRT WHAT THE??? I would love this. I love the weird shoes too. This is fun and shiny and reminds me of something a female Graham (Grahama?) Norton would wear. Actually, if the shorts were pants, I think it would be something the male Graham Norton would wear. Or maybe he’d wear the shorts, but I’d bet money he’d wear it with pants. SHINY BRITISH TV PEOPLE FTW!!!
She looks EXACTLY like Alicia Silverstone as Cher in Clueless! I can’t see anything else!
I say no to the shoes. Ridiculous. I don’t mind the shorts suit, though. The color is fantastic and I like a bit of shiney shiney.
Dear God … Talk about a “Scroll Down Fug” girls! *shudders*
Actually, the suit looks like something that she could be wearing for medical reasons. I burned my arm once and had to wrap it in something that was a similar material. But…not so much the color.
And…is it just too nit-picky in the face of the main carnage to point out that the bag totally does not go?
Yeah, it may be kicking a dead (or poorly dressed) horse or piling on at this point. The whole thing makes me shudder.
Just change the background to a three ring circus. That’s a hell of a ringmaster’s outfit!
I think that’s probably the most plausible solution that’s been presented. Bravo.
Those shoes are amazing! In a very fug way.
The rest can not be saved.
Agreed.
Really? No riding crop? How gauche.
That black sparkly material that the purse is made out of would have made an interesting minidress to wear under that jacket (well, maybe not literally, because the purse may be something bizarre like plastic or pleather or panther pelts, but the black sparkly idea). There is no saving the shorts– those are just awful. The shoes are ridiculous, but there are worse sins than ridiculous shoes, and with the black sparkly, they could work…
Skirt instead of shorts ( pencil, A-line I don’t care, lose the dang shorts!)….lose the jacket and save it to wear with a fabulous pair of slacks. No white button down.. and for the love all that is grown up, get rid of the shoes!
Those horrible sparkly formal shorts need to go far, far away. Swap out for a plain black mini, make the white shirt under the blazer be less “business woman blouse” – let’s talk about a simple v-neck, or a scoop neck. And those shoes . . . just go for regular ol’ red strappy heels and we’re all set.
See, my theory is that it looks as cracked out as it does because there’s SO MUCH SPARKLY RED. The blazer by itself would be, I think, a nice pop to the black and white, if there wasn’t SO MUCH. And! And! Her clutch would actually go – she might even be able to swap it out for something with the ‘fun, quirky’ vibe I think she was going for with the shoes.
Girl, you crazy. Fug.
I hate everything about this.
I would have LOVED this outfit with absolutely no reservations when I was four, all shiny and loud and pink. I’m pretty sure that means no one over the age of four should be wearing it. No. It cannot be fixed, except by being something totally different than what it is.
I like the material, but there is just too much of it! I think the material works as pencil skirt but the jacket has got to go. I like the idea someone posted of unbuttoning shirt and maybe rolling up the sleeves a bit to make the shirt less stuffy. And I HATE the shoes — maybe if they were just lips without the cigarettes…
OMG-those shoes are totally on sale right now on ideeli!
http://www.ideeli.com/events/98158/offers/5011670/latest_view/2507730?from_quick_buy=1
Hmm… I was wondering what anyone could POSSIBLY wear with them…
Make it with pants instead of shorts, then send it to my Gran in Florida for their big Christmas Party.
She looks remarkably like a Barbie doll in this.
So true! But Barbie wouldn’t wear shoes that literally smoke.
Parking in central London costs $600 a month commercially, minimum. Getting a parking permit in both Westminster and K&C at the same time is fraud (you have to certify that it is your primary residence and you don’t live elsewhere in London for both applications), and anyone living in London should know that. No sympathy.
Full length pants and closed toe shoes are a MUST here.
I’m not sure why she left home without them.
On the upside.. SHINY!!
The shoes could have been fun if they weren’t SMOKING.
My one rule of shorts: they must not be made of plastic. Those look like plastic. If it’s warm enough to wear shorts, you also don’t need a jacket. Therefore, that outfit doesn’t exist and she’s free to go home and put on something else.
I knew all those math proofs were going to come in handy someday!
Pleeeeeease give a close up of those shoes…..I need to see what the ciggies are made out of and if they have lit ends. Would be WAY cooler if they puffed smoke.
Also, this is an outfit that Angus Young would wear if he were gay.
Absolutely fantastic observation.
Hilarious. Well done!
Love the jacket; the pants look weird; maybe a mini would be good, but….
I love the shoes! Really, made me smile big time!
Ugh… That looks like a little boy’s suit on LSD and I find the shoes whimsical, but morally reprehensible! There is no saving this! FUG!!!
I’m ignoring the clothes and focusing on the shoes. I’d love to have them!
Is that a mock neck top underneath that jacket? Oh girl. Those shorts are just a strange length. I don’t hate the jacket completely. With a different shirt underneath the jacket and with something..anything else for bottoms I would borderline love this.
Those shoes are cray and I adore them.
Why do things halfway, add a monocle, long cigarette holder, and TOP HAT!
I actually think if the pants were made to a full-length skinny, and you swapped out the shoes for a pair of black pumps, it would be great, in an outrageous kind of way. Like something Coco Rocha would rock. Now she may not be Coco Rocha, but I think she has the the body shape to pull it off.
Open the jacket. Cut it to 3/4 arms length. Make the shirt underneath a hair longer. Make the shorts into a skirt. Yes, that’s better.
It’s irredeemable. I have a theory though. Here in the UK Donna Air is notorious for two things. Ther first is appearing on a kids’ show called Byker Grove 20 years ago. The second is for mooning after her ex boyfriend, Damian Aspinall, who finished with her 5 years ago or something. She keeps giving interviews about how much she misses him. Damian, coincidentally, is a millionaire aristocrat. So I think this outfit is a last ditch cry for help. She is subliminally telling him that unless he relents and takes he back, she will continue to wear absurd outfits.
She’s really beautiful. What is she doing in this goofy outfit?