"Stylists have ruined everything...Nobody wants to be Björk. I love Björk. We need Björk." - John Waters, on the mostly un-fashiony dresses at the Oscars, in WWD.
Feb 26, 2008 @ 10:08am
posted by studioQ
Feb 26, 2008 11:47AM
Even Uma and her modern day milkmaid ensemble would have been a welcome sight. No one looked bad because they all looked the same. Hated Klum's red vampiress look though.
posted by Bobby
Feb 26, 2008 11:52AM
I love Bjork (I was just listening to "It's Oh So Quiet" getting ready for work this morning), and to be honest, I loved her swan dress. I thought it was great--and the matching egg purse: classic. --B
posted by Lauren
Feb 26, 2008 12:10PM
Waters is sooo right. I wrote about this yesterday -- it's starting to lemmings out there.
laurenintheafternoon.blogspot.com
posted by guest
Feb 26, 2008 12:50PM
I totally agree that Go Fug Yourself (as well as E!'s red carpet coverage) is a harbinger of the death of style. Those girls only love the safe (i.e. boring) choices -- everything else comes in for ridicule.
posted by Cassette Love
Feb 26, 2008 1:06PM
I think people are misinterpreting the Fug girls and their purpose- they aren't pretending to be the harbingers of taste, but merely pricking pins in oversized, overdressed egos. If anything, they seem to loathe stylists. Stylist, after all, make their job much harder.
Its more indicative of celebrity media in general that people no longer take risks and make asses of themselves on the red carpet, unless they're desperate and purposely trying to provoke. Blame InStyle and that kind of slathering coverage.
posted by guest
Feb 26, 2008 1:34PM
Speaking of John Waters, was his star DIVINE the inspiration for the make-up at Dior yesterday? HORRIFIC!
posted by guest
Feb 26, 2008 1:45PM
oh lord, get over it.
I think the fug haters have got it all wrong - they're more for entertainment purposes than fashion advice. i for one would never take their fashion advice for my own, although quite a few times they have been right on the mark with some of their quips, but all in all i read their blog simply because they are just hilarious no matter how right or how wrong an outfit is in their mind.
posted by guest
Feb 26, 2008 1:57PM
fashion is supposed to be memorable. love or hate bjork's dress, we are all still talking about it.
i loved marion cotilliard's look btw, so gorgeous and so very her.
what's more, i loved how the ever tacky kimora lee simmons was hating on everyone's look when she herself was sporting some wierd kind of harajuku lover's pigtail buns and that raggedy strippers outfit. she is the opposite of memorable fashion, and what's more annoying is that her look is always on purpose. i'll take marion and bjork a thousand times over before i would ever listen to what that woman has to say about what she think she knows is fashion.
posted by guest
Feb 26, 2008 3:32PM
it's so sad that in america, björk is only known/remembered for her dress, and laying eggs on the red carpet!
she's a true genius.
the oscars were a snooze-fest... but i'm so happy marion won!
i agree with the comment above!!!
posted by guest
Feb 26, 2008 4:11PM
re: the fug girls.
an insistence that every one wear staid (snores) gowns in the vain of early narisco rodriguez coupled with a melrose place/90210 reference does not equal entertainment.
or at least it shouldn't.
posted by guest
Feb 26, 2008 10:58AM
It's totally true. Everyone looked so dull and tasteful. It feels like never again will Cher say "I did receive my academy booklet on how to dress as a serious actress," while wearing a feather headress. I think the only people who took any risks were Marion Cotillard, Helen Mirren, and Mrs. Daniel Day-Lewis. Two pulled it off brilliantly and one looked ridiculous, but you know what--I respect her more than all the boring black and sparkly mermaid.