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Comments (89):
Love all of it, really, especially the origami-inspired dress.
What the heck is going on with that side view though?? She looks… um. Like a granny. Or like me, after I’ve eaten too much.
That dress though! *swoon* Can you imagine it in a jewel tone? She’d look like she’d finally reached her true calling and fused with a rare gem.
She does NOT look like a granny!! She looks like an real, healthy human being!
I agree that she looks nothing like a granny. She looks fantastic in all shots- I just love her….
Eh, she’s a 52 yr-old woman who seems to be living life to the fullest and not killing herself with six hours of exercise every day. A bit of belly is a natural thing to have. *shrug* Certainly doesn’t make her look any less awesome.
Perhaps you are mistaking a human woman for some sort of humanoid/god-like robot being?
She has a uterus right there in that slight bump. Also, some fat distributed in that area, as per normal female fat distribution. That uterus has been stretched on two occasions to accommodate children. The uterus stretch, the abdominal wall muscle stretched.
What could be more normal, usual or expected?
Are the exaggerated sort of lumps and bumps to which Fergie refers in “My Humps” (hips, boobs, bum) acceptable, but the real bumps and lumps (stomach, love handles, thighs etc) not?
Incidentally, however, she has always had somewhat loose muscle in that area, creating the effect you see in that blue skirt – exacerbated by the fact that, being very tall, she has developed a tendency to push her hips forward and curve her back forwards, crumpling an already soft stomach into an exaggerated paunch.
She has the body of a normal, healthy woman with all essential body parts (hips, uterus etc) exactly as they should be, creating her shape accordingly. She clearly DOES NOT prize masculinising of the normal female body by a severe regimen of muscle-building and tightening. Thank god. I’m not large by any measure, but I am not particularly concerned about having rippling abs etc. and it is nice to see someone similarly unconcerned, and so confident in their natural body. I have the non-concern but rarely the confidence.
See this YouTube clip of her in Female Perversions…
YouTube link
Nooo! I wasn’t complaining- I was just surprised. The high waist just looks like it rode up a bit.
I like the fact that she has human attributes as well as her otherworldly ones.
I love that there’s a rainbow in the background on that last pic. It’s like she’s the pot of gold at the end of it.
I noticed that too – what more do you want? Rainbows shoot out of her armpits!
The thing about SWINTON’s pants is the fact they are just skimming the ground and not pooling around her ankles, it makes her look taller and not like an infant playing dress-up.
A Ron Swanson reference in a SWINTON post?! You ladies are my favourite people on the internet.
I’m calling her the AntiKard (as in Kardashian). Stylish without being a slave to the trends; you’ll never see her in a “Who Wore It Best” contest, and she doesn’t prefer to wear so much makeup that she would be safe in a nuclear fallout. Awesome! She even takes some of the sting out of Bill Murray’s outfit.
God, she looks great. I absolutely love the coat look.
I also covet that coat in photo #4 … desperately want.
She’s a striking woman always, but her smiling, giggling face in the second picture is so pretty. Just so lovely. And, I adore the color combination of blue skirt and taupe blouse.
Bow down, kids. I love her. I want her tie neck blouse and pencil skirt. it’s like Joan Holloway’s cool collected Get-a-grip secretary idol.
That second picture is charming. SWINTON is lovely when she smiles.
I never have gotten her appeal before- too Borg Queen for my taste. But wow, when she smiles she’s quite lovely.
I like that in photos 2 & 3 you can see she’s wearing the same shoes. packing shoes to wear more than once on an international trip? she’s just like us y’all! except, more awesome.
The slideshow rendered in the wrong order, so I fixed it. But that means people’s comments about specific slides are kinda wonkus. Like, Lauren’s “second picture” comment now refers to the third picture. I’m so sorry.
Eet’s Ok! SWINTON in our life pays for any snafu.
Love the periwinkle blue of the pencil skirt. Also wish I was tall enough to carry it off with the same aplomb.
She is the only person who can carry off that coat. Love it!
I love SWINTON – bold style that works perfectly on her figure and persona. Props to Francesca for her wry observation that you’ll never see SWINTON in a who wore it best frame. And “Anti-Kard” – too funny!
She is super gorge when she smiles. She should do it more often!
I’m in love. (And would love to know what Tilda and Bill were laughing about.)
i feel like the pants are ok because they aren’t puddled on the floor. they were tailored for her to wear those shoes exactly
Kind of love her sunnies! http://www.pinkjulepabroad.com
I need those sunglasses in my life.
she is so interesting. her look, her clothes, her talent, there’s no one like her in hollywood. so much better than being just another lovely face
I think I might die of star-struckdedness if I ever caught a glimpse of SWINTON in real life. And although I could never wear 99.9999999% of anything she does, I envy her stylishness and the way she never seems to be trying to shock people just to shock them or wear something ugly just to seem avant-garde (or however you spell that). She just wears the crap out of everything and doesn’t even seem like she’s trying.
Oh my god Bill Murray. What? How? What?
I am so addled by his plaid that my brain has locked.
I know, right? He looks like he threw that blazer on over his pajamas.
Agree on the pyjamas front. I was scrolling down to see if there were other comments on this.
I know. I love me some plaid, and love me some madras even more, but wow.
On a somewhat unrelated note: I once had my hair cut like hers. Did NOT work on me. I know, I shouldn’t have played with fire.
I was actually thinking that I wanted my hair like that…!
SWINTON has not match!! All the rest should go take a shower and try again.
can anyone identify the sunglasses? I might give up groceries for the next year to have a pair
That coat! my god, that COAT! THAT NAVY COAT!!! <>
(that was a swoon up there.)
It wouldn’t look anywhere near that good on me and I want it anyway.
Seriously, I want that coat so bad! I would do a number of unsavory things if I could have it in my closet right now.
She looks great.
Band name: Divine Mantis
Also, Groundhog Day with Swinton instead of McDowell … and the world explodes.
I <3 SWINTON. I'm also totally naming my band Divine Mantis.
Oh, that photo of her in the long coat……alien from planet Fierce. Bill Murray looks like an escapee from a nursing home.
Honestly, palazzo works on SWINTON because she’s ninety feet tall. That’s probably why it doesn’t look as awkward as it would on – say – the Hudge or Miley.
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THAT FIRST PHOTO THOUGH. THAT SKIRT IS DOING HORRIBLE THINGS TO swinton’S MIDSECTION THAT I’M PRETTY SURE IS ILLEGAL IN ALL STATES EXCEPT FOR NEW JERSEY. AND POSSIBLY TEXAS.
On that note: How DO you write SWINTON’s name when you’re caps-locking? I presume you’d still hold down shift, but it’s kind of like a double negative. But typing SWINTON when everything else is in capslock means that you’re essentially typing Swinton or – worse – swinton, and if SWINTON is Swintoning or even swintoning, there is something horribly wrong.
Your comment cracks me up! I started laughing when I read “swinton” and the following paragraph just sealed it. I have no answer, but what you did, it works.
Die hard Swintonites should check out her Jarman films especially The Swinton playing bitchy Isabella. And Orlando should be on high rotation.
Basically The Swinton is never ever wrong.
I love the coffee/satin/origami dress….wow! She looked amazing. The photo of her with Bill Murray made me smile – I love your imagining of their conversation!
I lurve The Swinton.
I so covet the gorgeous Chanel coat in the last look.
The Swinton is a Goddess.
It’s Chanel? Let’s hope Macy’s knocks it off … want, want, want.
she may well be your rapture but you two are mine. Greatest commentary ever ladies. X
SWINTON….never have I been more proud to possess the same otherworldly height as this magnificent creature. Thank you for making the world’s worst day slightly less terrible and also reminding me to stand up straight.
I had to come back to this to say that it seemed such a let down to go from the simple, understated grace and elegance of Swinton to the fluffy prettiness of Frieda Pinto and Eva Longoria in the previous posts.
Oh Bill, Bill, Bill…
(shakes head)
Sign in moderation so reposting:
Devoted Swintonites should check out her Jarman films especially The Swinton playing Isabella. And Orlando should be on high rotation.
Basically The Swinton is never ever wrong
Swinton and Jarman–it’s like he discovered her. Maybe he did! I loved that guy.
speaking of SWINTON:
http://models.com/mdx/?p=14927
WOW! I didn’t recognise her at all. So amazing.
I like her casual looks (especially that jacket on the last slide…GIMME…GIMME..GIMME). However, when I saw the satin gown had three simultaneous thoughts: butterfly, bow and straight jacket. That can’t be good, can it? It looks so uncomfortable.
@sarah!!!!! OMG. Amazing photo. Thanks for sharing.
I don’t get it. What is with your fixation on this woman? She is unusual looking. But is it worth all this constant slobber?
Bow down to the SWINTON you mere mortal!
Ha!
I don’t get it either. She usually looks like a hot mess that would get torn apart on this site. In these photos she looks all right, but nothing to swoon over.
SWINTON. Can. Get. Away. With.It. That’s what makes her so amazing!
I like Bill’s suit. It’s almost insane but holds back just enough.
Ha ha. That’s so Bill. (Both the outfit and the comment.)
Bill Murray & SWINTON in the same photo, omg… So much awesome. Does that mean that they’re in a movie together?? [head explodes]
They are!! Moonrise Kingdom, which they both star in, opened the Cannes Film Festival! This should be the greatest.
Serious question that has nothing to do with fashion: When did Bill Murray get old?? Seriously, before reading the text, I thought, “Who is that crazy old guy with SWINTON?” Not that people shouldn’t age-God knows I seem to be aging at the speed of light-but it was surreal for me.
Anyway, I agree that SWINTON’s blue skirt is too “high-rise” for my tastes–a skirt version of mom jeans. At least it proves that SWINTON is, in fact, human.
Although, judging from the last picture where she looks eleventy feet tall and fierce, maybe she’s only PART human. No mere mortal should look that good in those clothes. (By which I mean–the clothes are awesome. That coat is to die for. But seriously? Put me in something like that and…oh I can’t even think about it. I need to go lie down)
He was born in 1950. He made Groundhog Day 19 years ago.
And Moonrise Kingdom in opening this week.
Swinton is perfection. Even if it’s wrong it’s right.
How I loved these and the captions (esp. the divine mantis comment–reminded me of one of my favorite Simpsons episodes, when Sideshow Bob marries one of the Bouvier sisters and describes embracing her as like “kissing some divine ashtray”). Also: that COAT! Love!
oh SWINTON you never fail to amaze and inpsire me……LOVE DIS WOMAN SENSE OF STYLE!
She is kicking it. We need some kind of totally new rating system for her. For some reason, I feel that she is the living incarnation of the hero in the 1984 film “Buckaroo Banzai” described as “concerning the efforts of the multi-talented Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, a physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, and rock musician, to save the world by defeating a band of inter-dimensional aliens called Red Lectroids from Planet 10.” And I might add, looking good while doing it. I feel that this best approaches SWINTON.
I would totally roll her for that coat… If I didn’t think she’d kick my ass.
Whenever you have a SWINTON post, it always makes my day. Swintonly played, Fug Girls.
LOVE that last outfit, with the coat of epic. So great.
How tall is she? And I’m surprised that Bill Murray didn’t look wee next to her.
The jacket in the last pictures is kind of the lady-version of THE JACKET Benedict Cumberbatch wears in Sherlock…and I MUST HAVE IT!
These shots all look gorgeous to me, but I’m especially knocked out by the bronze-y dress. That is SWINTON SMASHING.
And I love that she and Bill Murray appear to be having a fabulous time together.
She really is all kinds of awesome. I would’ve loved to see her as Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones (she does androgynous so well; see her Gabriel in Constantine), but the character is supposed to be younger, so Gwendoline Christie is well cast. Maybe she and Swinton can play sisters in something!
As I walk down the sidewalk, in my mind I am the SWINTON. In reality, I’m a 5 ft 4, wide-hipped, mousy brown haired average woman….but in my mind, oh in my mind, I am the Divine Mantis. Bow down to your queen sidewalk mortals!
I watched “Kevin” last night. If you haven’t seen it, RUN to your video store or however people source movies now. She’s fantacombobulous in in.