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7/ 3/08

11:15 AM

Which Celebrities Can Pull Off Couture?

Armani Privé, Chanel, and John Galliano.Photos: Imaxtree

Nothing against our beloved New York Fashion Week, but thanks to the couture collections' froth and fantasy, and the Technicolor head-trip that is menswear, this is one of our favorite times of the year. After the recent slew of shows, we are dying to see which impressionable celebrities dare to try this stuff at home; many of them will, and a few might — might — even succeed. Based on our personal highlights from this week's shows, we're predicting which stars can pull off that walk on the wild side, and who'll fall through the wormhole and come out on the worst-dressed list.

More: armani prive, bernhard wilhelm, chanel, christian dior, christian lacroix, couture, couture collections fall 08, d&g menswear, givenchy, jean paul gaultier, john galliano, maison martin margiela, paris fashion week

New York Fugging City

6/27/08

11:30 AM

Fugs at the BET Awards: Where the Ceremony Gets in the Way of the Party

Fergie loses the Members Only jacket for this special occasion.Photo: GettyImages

When it comes to awards shows, we’ve got home viewing down to a science: booze, chips, and quickly pausing the TiVo on pissy facial expressions and unexpected nip slips. But we'd always been curious how the viewer experience compares to attending the show. So we were stoked to be tottering toward the Shrine Auditorium in L.A. on Tuesday night, with tickets in hand, ready to watch the BET Awards in person. Would we bump into anyone at the cash bar or pass toilet paper to Ashanti under the stall door? And most important, could we sit through an entire televised event without the comfort of our sweatpants? The answers: Yes, no, and… sort of.

Have you met our friend T-Pain? »

More: actresses, al green, alicia keys, awards shows, bet, en vogue, fug girls, gabrielle union, hip-hop, lil wayne, queen latifah

New York Fugging City

6/12/08

2:43 PM

The Teen Idol Is Dead, Long Live the (Reality-TV) Teen Idol

How many horsemen? We lost count.Photos: Getty Images

If all that boring, repetitive "drama" on The Hills — and the attendant boring, repetitive magazine covers — left you with a raging case of Untalented-Idiot Fatigue, we bring bad news: It's not letting up anytime soon. This week alone, news broke that former Lauren Conrad colleague Whitney Port may get her own reality spinoff show, former Lauren Conrad paramour Brody Jenner will star in Bromance — in which cheesy dudes compete to fill what we assume is Spencer Pratt’s old spot in Jenner’s douchey entourage — and Nicole Richie, ostensibly Lauren Conrad's progenitor as the genre's original dirty-blonde, do-nothing waif, is shopping a series in which women compete to "become the next Nicole Richie" — i.e., they compete to become famous for no reason. That ringing in your ears? It's the death knell tolling for actual, legitimately gifted teen idols. Those teen idols are dead.

More: audrina patridge, brody jenner, heidi montag, hills, lauren conrad, miley cyrus, nicole richie, reality tv, spencer pratt, whitney port

New York Fugging City

6/ 5/08

1:30 PM

Even Without Clooney, Sarah Larson Climbs the Ladder

We should've known things were heading south when he let her leave the house wearing that unfortunate dress.Photo: WireImage

Despite all the sturm und drang surrounding George Clooney's breakup with former waitress–reality-show contestant Sarah Larson, we're too cynical to think that anyone — much less Larson herself — was truly surprised. Now, we're not saying Larson didn’t love him. How could she not? We do, and we haven't even been to the villa. (Yet.) For all we know, they're both crying into a pint of Ben & Jerry’s right now. But you can't change what Mother Nature herself hath wrought, and anyone with an Internet connection knows the drill by now: The sun rises in the east, the Earth rotates on its axis, and George Clooney romances an interchangeable string of tall, slender brunettes he will never marry, no matter how many overly optimistic anonymous sources crow he's settling down at last.

And yet, the lady still set herself up for a fall. »

More: celebrities, fug girls, george clooney, sarah larson

New York Fugging City

5/30/08

7:30 PM

‘SATC’: We Watched the Movie, But We Really Watched the Clothes

OMG!!!! HIIIII! SHRIEK!!!Photo: Courtesy of New Line Cinema

Don’t ask how we ended up rolling into a 10:10 a.m. screening of Sex and the City, in a theater crammed to the gills with Ladies Who Lunch tucking designer shades into knockoff handbags and gossiping during the film about whether Candace Bergen looks bloated. Just know that sometimes the prospect of a big-screen buffet of expensive clothes, big hair, and killer stilettos is hard to resist. Fear not, we’ll warn you before we dish plot spoilers, but we don’t think it will ruin anything to tell you that the heart of the film does and always will belong to one Mr. above all others: Mr. Manolo Blahnik.

Oh, tutu, you've come back to us! »

More: chris noth, cynthia nixon, fug girls, jennifer hudson, kim cattrall, kristin davis, sarah jessica parker, sex and the city

New York Fugging City

5/22/08

4:00 PM

The New ‘90210’ Commits the Ultimate Sin: Bad Fashion

The recently leaked promotional reel for 90210 — the CW's quasi-spinoff of Aaron Spelling's awesomely bad-good nineties teen drama, arguably our all-time favorite soapy drama — pierced us to our rotted cores. We hoped the teen-friendly network might do justice to the glory of Spelling's cheesy, preachy pastiche of love triangles and after-school special issues. Alas, the uninspiring montage felt dull, predictable, and worst of all, unfashionable.

Even Shannen Doherty can't liven this up! »

More: 90210, arden wohl, blair waldorf, cw, gossip girl

New York Fugging City

5/15/08

1:20 PM

Whitney Is America's Next Top Model — Let's Discuss

Ta-da!Photo: Courtesy of CW

Well, well: Miss Tyra threw us a curveball! Instead of handing the America's Next Top Model title to the stunning size-nothing Anya, Tyra anointed Whitney, the plus-size dark horse who is not just the only girl with boobs and a booty to win, but the first even to get as far as the abroad episodes. Still, even though we gave Whitney the longest odds, we're not that surprised — after all, Ms. Banks is nothing if not an Issues Girl. (We can see it now: an entire episode of The Tyra Banks Show about Whitney's success, wherein the audience is forced to wear unitards with their BMIs printed on the ass.) But the question is, was Whitney really the best? Did she genuinely deserve the big win and all its riches?

More: america's next top model, fug girls, reality tv, tyra banks

New York Fugging City

5/14/08

1:45 PM

Fug Girls Handicap the Winner of ‘America's Next Top Model’

We're down to the wheat, if that's what you want to call it.Photo: Courtesy of CW

As tonight’s finale of America's Next Top Model looms — at stake for the "lucky" winner: a year of being relegated to terrible TV spots, traveling to CoverGirl factories, and getting almost no other work — we find ourselves struggling to decide which of the three remaining model wannabes is most likely to bring it home. There's Whitney, the first plus-size girl to make it this far; Fatima, an occasionally bitchy Somalian beauty with a heartbreaking backstory; and Anya, who gamely allowed the ANTM crew to wash her hair with peroxide, talks like a Russian surfer chick with an adenoid problem, and somehow manages to win a lot of challenges.

It's a tight contest — even resident horndog Nigel Barker doesn't seem to be batting his bedroom eyes at anyone in particular — but that won't stop us from making predictions about the contestants' chances.

More: america's next top model, fug girls, janice dickinson, nigel barker, tyra banks

New York Fugging City

5/ 9/08

12:12 PM

The Fug Awards: The Best and Worst of the Costume Institute Gala

Jennifer toes the line of indecency, Joy blinds us with Pucci, and Amber — yeah, we dunno what she's doing there.Photo: Getty Images

The Met ball is arguably even better than Oscar night: more fanciful fashion, more dramatic entrances, and a more perplexingly varied guest list that allows for the rare chance to see the likes of Hilary Duff in the same room as Julia Roberts. The only things missing are some actual awards. Until now. Herewith, our very special awards for the most memorable — even if we'd rather forget them — looks of that magical evening.

Best Argument for Panties: Jennifer Connelly's black and white dress could've been an interesting, girlie homage to the tuxedo — hey, Bruce Wayne was technically a superhero — but instead we were stressing that Jennifer was seconds away from flashing her bajingo on hostess Anna Wintour's dime. Which would be bad. Anna Wintour is not in the bajingo business.

More: amber valletta, bee shaffer, beyonce, claire danes, costume institute, costume institute gala, eva longoria, fug girls, jennifer lopez, joy bryant, katie holmes, maggie gyllenhaal, marchesa, mary-kate olsen, scarlett johansson

New York Fugging City

5/ 2/08

11:35 AM

Calm Down, Everyone: Miley's Just Following the Script

Oh, the scandalous horror.Photo: Vanity Fair

This week America has been rocked to its core, and not just because Lo is being particularly nasty to Audrina. No, we’re talking about the Miley Cyrus semi-nude Vanity Fair “scandal,” in which the fifteen-year-old Disney superstar posed for Annie Leibovitz with a bedsheet — er, a duchess satin stole — wrapped around her otherwise naked torso. The world thus got a look at her uncovered back and promptly flipped out. But why? It’s not like she left the photo shoot and drove her car into a tree with cocaine in her pants. And isn’t all this drama just part of the young starlet script?

A grown-up photo is nothing compared to Miley's grown-up life. »

More: fug girls, miley cyrus, vanity fair