Julia Grey: Fashion Bashion

The shirt belongs on the Senior PGA Tour

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:55:20 GMT

And it's worse with that skirt. What a terrible length.

Dries Van Noten Spring 07

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Doo.Ri has done this singularly unattractive gathered neckline....

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:53:01 GMT

...on many of her frumpy dresses. It seems to me if you have to have a high neckline, it should stay flat and close to the body. Not that neckless people like me should even bother to have an opinion....

Doo.Ri Spring 07

Yet another sack attack

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:47:58 GMT

Donna Karan Spring 07

Uhhhhh-gly-ER!

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:46:09 GMT

Donna Karan Spring 07

Uhhhhhhhhhh-GLY!

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:44:39 GMT

Derek Lam Spring 07

Tickety tackety fabric

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:39:28 GMT

... is the least of this outfit's problems:

Danielle Scutt Spring 07

Well, hell...

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:38:01 GMT

...why just hint and tease when you can let it all hang out?

Danielle Scutt Spring 07 RTW

And now, back to the runway.

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:08:57 GMT

Holey ship, do I see.....?

6267 Spring 07 RTW

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One horrendously huge scarf wasn't ENOUGH?

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:06:16 GMT

(Kiki Smith)

Kiki is my dog's name. She would never wear ANYTHING like this.

I can just see the photographer egging this poor woman on:

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:03:58 GMT

"Yeah, Arden, GO FOR IT, baybay!"

Our old friend Arden Wohl, in Cynthia Rowley (speaking of polyester bridesmaids)

How NOT to accessorize a cocktail dress

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:02:09 GMT

It might not have been so bad (but still pretty awful) if the dress didn't have a chiffon hem. For pity's sake.

There are things that deserve to be remembered and revived, and then...

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:01:02 GMT

...there are nostalgia nadirs like this:

I mean, come on. Fifties prom dress that was stupid even in the 50s. What's next? Polyester bridesmaid dresses? Oh, wait....

(Victoria Traina in vintage, meaning stuff that should have been thrown out 30 years ago.)

Another Amazon in an emetic print

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:59:45 GMT

(Virginia Smith in MiuMiu, Doo-Ri Chung in her own design, Meredith Melling Burke in Gaudknowswhat)

Not that Cutey looks all that great on little Doo-Ri, either, and Meredith is likely to mush that pretty face when she trips on the skirt of that hideous color palette.

What is UP with these Amazonian women in distressing prints?

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:58:21 GMT

And cutesy 80s stylin's?

(Liz Goldwyn)

Just a tip: If looking at your dress makes people seasick...

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:56:31 GMT

(Joanne de Guardiola)

Cute shoes, though not right for the dress. Then again, what WOULD be right with that?

Pulled out of a wastebasket?

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:54:57 GMT

AND combining the worst of inappropriate outerwear and sackishness.

(Julia Restoin-Roitfeld in Thakoon)

I have a bee in my bonnet about Julianne Moore.

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:53:29 GMT

I don't like her. Never have. I, unlike millyuns and millyuns of others, don't think she's actually all that great an actress. She's parlayed an inevitable open-mouthed overbite into "sexiness" and "acting" which to me looks totally vapid. So okay. I admit it. It's truly a bizarre hatred.

Which is why it pleases me to no end to be able to post this photo:

(Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich)

HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE-HEEEEEEEE(long wheezing breath, wipe eyes) AHAR-HAR-HAR-HAR!

Oh dear.

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:50:24 GMT

Ione Skye in Oscar de la Renta.

She looks like she tried to force a smile and it came out kicking and screaming.

Kate, Kate, Kate....

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:48:59 GMT

You coulda been a contender in this...if it had been a little longer.

Here's a tip: your skirt is too short if you're afraid to raise your arms. Or if you have to keep your legs so tightly together you look like you REALLY have to pee.

(Kate Hudson)

Piper Perabo. Yikes.

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:47:31 GMT

I swan...

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:46:10 GMT

Kathy Hilton has got to be one of the tackiest women in Hollywood. But the horrendous...thing...to the right makes her look positively elegant in comparison.

(Kathy Hilton and Liane Weintraub)

The problem with being an avant garde designer...

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:45:01 GMT

...is "having" to wear your own stuff wherever you go, no matter how inappropriate:

(Maria Cornejo in her own design)

Jenni Kayne in her own design

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:43:58 GMT

Poor deluded darling.

(Boy do I hate the wide patent leather belt thing.)

Illustration of the Point in Post Below

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:42:35 GMT

Look how much better (and thinner) McCaw looks in this dress:

Not so sure about Bell here.

Statuesque Women Cannot Do Cute

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:40:50 GMT

-- and should never bag their boobs.

Gwen McCaw and Colleen Bell