Here's Vera Wang attending the 33rd Annual March of Dimes Beauty Ball at Cipriani in New York City:
Dig that ballerina pose. And for god's sake, Vera, cheer the fuck up. You're rich.
Big, fat DON'T LIKE. She looks like she's wearing a bejeweled laundry bag. Also, that's an ugly shade of brown. Also also, she's wearing a minidress over pants. Also also also, she apparently keeps this dress balled up under a stack of heavy books.
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Totally reminiscent of Victorya's prom dress- jeweled top, squished bosom, even the bubble skirt. And who didn't love that?
ReplyDeleteAso, also, also, also: Ha!
ReplyDeletea big OUT.
ReplyDeleteI'd say more Oy than Out.
ReplyDeleteShe looks like a bedazzled Idaho potato.
And worse, she apparently has been seeing the same, shall we say, 'facial specialist' as Pricilla Presley, and can no longer move her face.
--GothamTomato
I think this is fine for "Go out to eat night" or a movie date. The fabric looks a little cheap though, is it from her Kohl's line?
ReplyDeleteShe should wear something more formal for a Ball. At least from her high end line.
Maybe she's showing solidarity for Victorya's "misunderstood" prom dress, as well as Christian's "misunderstood" Reese's Peanut Butter Cup dress...
ReplyDeleteI hope Vera will come back to PR and judge more challenges next season...just not wearing that.
"GothamTomato said...
ReplyDeleteShe looks like a bedazzled Idaho potato. "
ROFL. That's hysterical, Gotham Tomato.
How is that people who are supposedly "fashion icons" routinely wear the worst shit of all? Cases in point: Chloe Sevigny, Sarah Jessica Parker, Posh Spice.
ReplyDeleteI hope the Fug Girls rip into this one.
Make her a tinfoil hat and she's a Hershey's kiss.
ReplyDeleteIt's rather a youthful look for her, too. She's into that 'mutton dressed as lamb' area.
BLECH!
ReplyDeleteBill said...
ReplyDeleteIt's rather a youthful look for her, too. She's into that 'mutton dressed as lamb' area.
That's a good rule. I just can't bring myself to follow it. Sometimes it's better to be a mutton dressed like lamb,because a mutton dressed like mutton is just so ~depressing~.
" Bill said...
ReplyDeleteMake her a tinfoil hat and she's a Hershey's kiss."
Make her a tinfoil hat and she's a bedazzled baked potato!
Gotham, Bill, I see you and raise you. ;o)
Vera's out. That thing looks like something that happens after the puppy gets into the costume jewelry.
Good one, emeraldliz! And that FACE -- did Vera just come from having dental work done?
ReplyDelete"Vera Wang always looks a little uptight, no? Or is it me?"
ReplyDelete"It's not just you, Heidi."
Unbelievable. This woman makes the most stunning gowns and dresses. Why can't she dress herself?
ReplyDeleteYou know, it kinda reminds me of Victorya's prom dress, which was just dreadful. So O-U-T she goes.
Yikes! qualifies as OUT, right?
ReplyDeleteGilding potato sacks is not fashion.
I expect better.
Emma P.
TLo, you hit it out of the ballpark on this one from my POV.
ReplyDeleteThe bedazzling, the wrinkles, the fug shade of brown (and I LOVE brown!)
MWAH!!!
She looks like a bedazzled Idaho potato.
ReplyDeleteBWAHHHH.
Way too old to wear this. And WHY??????? wear this at all?
That top reminds me of Angela Kelar's work for the dog and jet setter challenges.
ReplyDeleteAmy - right on! I loathe the way most designers dress themselves and it never makes sense that they can't style themselves better ... Vera is so out, for so many already-stated-reasons.
ReplyDeleteSmall favors section: at least she isn't wearing cream color heals and pearls...and she is sort of standing up straight...sort of...at least not standing like a coy pre adolescent.
ReplyDeleteIt would make a great bag though.
ReplyDeleteThere aren't words. It's horrible. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about it.
ReplyDeleteOut.
There is a big disconnect with most designers: what they design vs. what they wear.
ReplyDeleteOur dear Michael Kors admits that he basically wears the same outfit all the time so "he doesn't have to think about what to wear" because he is so busy. So does that mean if we are busy we don't have to worry about dressing correctly?? Don't think so. And certainly most of the PR designers have a questionable wardrobe.
This is one reason I love our dear Tim Gunn. He says that clothes should be a bit uncomfortable to make you stand up a little straighter, make you a bit more focused.
And how about Tim Gunn giving Ms. Wang a makeover? A shorter 'do and makeup with a decent dress... she would look great! She has a wonderful figure.
ReplyDeleteAs far as a smile, did you see her on the Celebrity Apprentice? Someone must have given her a shot of Nitrous Oxide. She laughed and smiled through the whole thing. NOT the normal Vera!
Doesn't matter. She's Vera F*G Wang for God's sake.
ReplyDeleteShe could wear a brown paper sack (oops....) and still be in.
I LOVE the colors at the neckline against the brown. Truly beautiful.
ReplyDeleteMake it into a table runner or throw pillow and I'm sold. Maybe even some shams, but definitely not that dress.
YUCK. That is really horrible.
ReplyDeleteLaura Bennett needs to do a "Case Clothed" on this hot mess!
Really awful. Her legs are crossed because her dress is too short. Maybe a smile on her face would do more for the look.
ReplyDeletetired, very tired.
ReplyDeletehutchlover said:
ReplyDelete"Doesn't matter. She's Vera F*G Wang for God's sake.
She could wear a brown paper sack (oops....) and still be in."
ha! funny stuff.
yeah, as soon as I saw it, I had to keep from screaming "VictorYa's prom dress! But worse!"
There's ugly, damn ugly, then fugly.
ReplyDeleteAnd now we have this-
We need a new word.
It's a hot tranny mess, and not in a good way.
ReplyDeleteTalk about age-inappropriate. I'm going to show this picture to my teenaged daughter the next time she tries telling me to wear one of her outfits.
ReplyDeleteI have to disagree with a few posters on one point: her boobs aren't squished, ala VictorYA's prom dress. It's a sack from the plastic fragments on downward.
ReplyDeletebut I love the rest of the postings - bedazzled baked Idaho potato, Hershey's kiss, face work etc.
thank you, one and all, and also also also also
MWAH!
Love the analogies! Love the also,also, also...as well.
ReplyDeleteI think Hutchlover's on to something. She probably doesn't give a satin, bedazzled, rat's ass 'cause she is VERA WANG. Like others have said, most designers are just too busy to put that much effort into their own personal appearance and feel that they are above it all and can get away with wearing anything. I've seen Vera in worse and I've seen her looking much better. So, this was no big shocker for my eyes.
One recommendation I do have is that she enlist the services of a personal stylist and NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER wear her own creations from her Simply Vera line at Kohl's.
In short, my vote is a big old "out" for Vera on this one.
Dammit! Now I how the hugest craving for a baked potato with sour cream & chives!
OUT OUT OUT. Even the tacky Housewives of Orange County said they were over bejeweled stuff.
ReplyDeleteHardly anyone likes having to dress up on a daily basis, but you're at an event for crying out loud, and being photographed to death, try a little harder.
ReplyDeleteWhat I find ironic is that this woman could wear anything she wanted, ANYTHING, and that's what she picked?
ReplyDeleteI say out, for sure, but I also say thank GOD she's wearing pants. What has the world come to that we think this is a minidress? It is a shirt! A tunic, MAYBE. So Vera here at least gets points for correct article of clothing identification, unlike most of the pantless starlets running around
ReplyDeleteI think if it weren't wrinkled, it would be ok.
ReplyDeleteIt should have stayed "balled up under a stack of heavy books."
ReplyDeletesewing siren said
ReplyDelete"Sometimes it's better to be a mutton dressed like lamb,because a mutton dressed like mutton is just so ~depressing~."
And the get-up she's sporting ISN'T? It's the same kind of somber drab shapelessness that was featured in her winter collection that was torn up by TLo. It screams "depressed artist". (And not in a fake emo teenager kind of way....more like a "somebody check on Vera on a daily basis to make sure she's OK" kind of way.) Not even the chunky bedazzling stuff around the neckline can liven that thing up.
I'm glad Michelle Kwan isn't still competing and being dressed by Vera; no one wants to see a skating outfit that says "I'm sad".
It's the hair that makes her look so tired. She used to have this amazing short 'do back in the 90s, and while I'm glad she embraces change, I wish she's embrace a more flattering hairstyle. This looks like the same wig worn by the gals who play Pocahantas at Disneyland, minus the braids.
ReplyDeleteVera, you were fierce once and you can fierce again!
Pier 1 called, they want their pillow cover back.
ReplyDeleteI don't think she's too "old" for this look. I just hate the look, period. The clump of bedazzler shards around the neckline is tacky at any age.
ReplyDeleteOUT! She can't dress herself but, she damn sure can dress other women! Oh and I thought those were tights not pants and I'm not into the extra puffy bubble dress. However this is very Vera Wang she like to play with porportions in her personal style, and she has a kind of bag lady-ish personal style. I wouldn't be surpised if she didn't have a signature oversized slouch beanie to wear with it!
ReplyDeletedid her 7th grade niece make this for her in home-ec class? oh yeah, i don't think they offer home-ec anymore....this is positively the most fug thing i think i've seen on this blogsite.
ReplyDeletehow can a designer have such exquisite taste in the pieces they design for others and go out in public in crappola like that? and to a "ball"?????
bill, you are too funny -- hershey's kiss indeed! love it!
Muy OUT
ReplyDeleteAnd seriously fug. The one thing I can say about it is that at least it's not her usual black. Gotta give a few points for that.
Maybe...
LOL - "Cheer the fuck up - you're rich"
ReplyDeleteI wonder - if a Ricky or SweetP sent that down the runway - would The Duchess & Nina approve? or stick a fork in it?
Would it kill her to put on a little lipstick??
ReplyDeleteI concurr on the Victorya prom dress...
ReplyDeleteAlso she is in her mid -40's.
Also ewww, eww, ewww.
Seriously, just because you are thin, it does not mean you can wear everything.
Love ya babies,
Milla
Q: What would it look like if Victorya and Angela teamed up to design an outfit but ran out of time?
ReplyDeleteA: This Vera Wang-y mess of a dress.
And I'd like to shoot whoever started this cross-legged pose that everyone is now doing. It makes you look leaner, but it also makes you look like an idiot. Especially if you're in your 40's.
HIDEOUS! Totally age inappropriate and the color is putrid. The silouette is so unflattering - it's a bad attempt at hiding the body of a woman.
ReplyDeleteI Totally Agree!!
ReplyDelete"Sometimes it's better to be a mutton dressed like lamb,because a mutton dressed like mutton is just so ~depressing~."
Sewing Siren, what a great reminder for those of us still standing, not to lay down in a pile of granny lace and give up!
If this were a beautiful (but somewhat youthful) dress, she would be getting raves. The moral isthat only gorgeous young things can get away with wearing fug--the rest of us have to think before we leave the house.
Hmmm. I don't think the minidress-over-pants is so much of an issue, because her pants look like leggings, but I agree on all other counts, and that is a fug dress.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me sad. I like Vera Wang.
Come to think of it, if this were made from some deep, rich chocolate brown silk jersey, (not shiny, not wrinkled), draped exquisitely (Rami where are you?) it would be gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Biography Channel (and that's like, the Bible of these things, isn't it?), Ms. Wang was born on 27-06-1949. So by my math she's beyond the mid-40s.
ReplyDeleteJust sayin'
emeraldliz said "Totally reminiscent of Victorya's prom dress- jeweled top, squished bosom, even the bubble skirt. And who didn't love that?"
ReplyDeleteThat was my first thought too. I'm on the same track as gothamtomato, except it reminds me more of a bedazzled head of garlic or turnip than a potato.
Vera Wang's style has never done it for me. You're right, she's rich and you'd think she'd be smiling or should I say laughing all the way to the bank.
And for god's sake, Vera, cheer the fuck up. You're rich.
ReplyDeleteHahaha-WIN!
Yikes! No wonder the Wang line at my local Kohl's was on the markdown rack!
ReplyDeleteActually, it looks like bedazzled poop.
ReplyDeleteAnd she's smelling it.
ReplyDeleteAccording to gorgeous things' post, Vera was born June 27, 1949. So, if the Biography Channel was correct about her birthdate then I can understand why she hardly ever smiles for the camera. As a fellow Moon Child I know for certain that we rarely if ever smile for photos.
ReplyDeleteJust sayin'.
Glum and poopy. Is she auditioning for Andrae's bathroom ballet?
ReplyDeleteThat's some serious ugly, top to toe. There's just no good there at all.
ReplyDeleteGross. Vera Wang is a pretentious bitch.
ReplyDeleteThe dress looks like some child combined the leftover big plastic multicolored 'crystals' from VictorYA's prom dress supplies with the leftover hideous brown satin fabric from Christian's prom dress supplies.
ReplyDeleteThe leggings suggest Vera thought this was just a fitting and not the actual event. And where are those hair and makeup people when we need them?
Not very flattering on her body.
ReplyDeletewhy are you surprised? she always looks like that.
ReplyDeleteTotally Victorya's prom dress in brown with an sourpuss Victorya expression to go along with it.
ReplyDelete2nd pic: damn, what a face.
ReplyDeleteVery Travis Bickle:
"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the f*ck do you think you're talking to?"
I wouldn't cross her.
re: the dress-ish-like-thing
Vera operates on a different scale of what's "in, out and age-appropriate" ...much like The Heidi and her booben-titsen, or Hollywood couples with 20+ years difference in age. We can only observe and ponder how it came to be and if anyone actually had the nerve to point out 'the silly' at the time of occurance.
occurrence (spell check)
ReplyDeletef*ing ugly!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't care how beautiful her wedding dresses are...that look is OUT!
Ew, please let this trend die. Soon.
ReplyDeleteI think it's unfair to act as if designers must wear their own clothes and look fabulous all of the time. That's why we hire professional models!
ReplyDeleteThere also seems to be a double standard ... men who design women's clothing aren't expected to wear those pieces, but female designers have to design AND model? Give Vera a break.
At least those hideous bangs have grown out! That was just a sad cry for help.
ReplyDeleteSleek is definitely not what she was going for. Color is off, too. Not good for her.
ReplyDeleteAs a woman of a certain age, (but slightly younger than Vera), she is much too old for this. She looks hideous. And I agree with TLo, she should SMILE!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for outing Vera Wang! I'm so sick of everyone kissing her ass, saying how great a designer she is. The clothes she designs are way too plain & boring for how much people are willing to pay for them. And the more plain & boring her clothes are, the more people rave how fabulous her designs are. I've never gotten it. Seems more like the idea of the "Emperor's new clothes" to me. And she always looks like she's suffering in pain. Not only is she a wealthy designer, she's also married to a very rich husband. Plenty of things to smile about.
ReplyDeleteNot only is she a wealthy designer, she's also married to a very rich husband.
ReplyDeleteAND she inherited a wad from her tycoon father: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E5DE153AF932A35753C1A9609C8B63
just what I thought. looks just like VictorYA's fugly dress
ReplyDelete"And for god's sake, Vera, cheer the fuck up"
ReplyDeleteShe can't cheer up, she's a miserable bitch who sales her stuff at Costco.
I can't stand this woman
I love me some Vera, HOWEVER, her pose looks like a 4 year old trying to keep from peeing in her pants. She needs to go buy a Stadium Pal and just tuck it underneath her tights...
ReplyDeleteViewer in KC said...
ReplyDeleteThe dress looks like some child combined the leftover big plastic multicolored 'crystals' from VictorYA's prom dress supplies with the leftover hideous brown satin fabric from Christian's prom dress supplies.
...and then Sissybear sat on it.
Ooh! I get to say heinous again in less than 24 hours.
Seriously, Duchess has the right attitude; wear something neat, plain and inconspicuous so the emphasis stays on your designs, not what you're wearing that day. This is what top architects and interior designers do so they don't clash with their client presentations.
Okay, if you're not presenting or at an event, it's fine to dress up... just not as a Bedazzled Idaho potato.
I don't get her stuff at Kohl's at all.
ReplyDelete(OK, calm down everyone, not everyone can afford high fashion.)
Ms Sangrail said...Make her a tinfoil hat and she's a bedazzled baked potato!
ReplyDeleteI fold. You win!! (this time)
Sewing siren, you certainly do have a point! Mutton dressed as mutton is, well, usually just mutton...blech.
Ugh. Really? She went out of the house in that thing?
ReplyDeleteOy vey.
I have very little personal style and even I can see that is a big NO.
"Bill said...
ReplyDeleteMake her a tinfoil hat and she's a Hershey's kiss."
Make her a tinfoil hat and she's a bedazzled baked potato!"
ROFLMAO.
She looks horrible!!
ReplyDeleteShe used to be a skater, and god knows they're taught to S*M*I*L*E. I remember seeing a few when she was judging on PR. Maybe she used all of them up?
ReplyDelete"Cheer the fuck up - you're rich" - LOL
ReplyDeleteThat dress is awful, but a smile and just a little makeup would make all the difference in the world. - Becky
Tee hee hee...you guys crack me up.
ReplyDeleteShe's so out she's almost in, but not quite.
Lipstick and a haircut would do WONDERS for her.
Lillian Von Stuaffenburg is the prettier more feminine version of Mz. Wang.