Fug Girls: A Spring 2013 New York Fashion Week Superlatives Wrap-up
Fashion Week has gotten exponentially less dangerous since we started covering it six years ago: This time, we had no photo-pit tramplings. No near-death experiences at the hands of packed venues alarmingly full of candles. We were never inadvertently part of a mob scene trying to crash a show (R.I.P., Heatherette), and we never got swept up in a paparazzi scrum chasing Lindsay Lohan to her waiting limo. When you consider that on our first day ever at any Fashion Week we saw Nelly punch some dude in the face at a Baby Phat show, these are some major achievements. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a fun week. Here’s our traditional farewell superlatives post, noting everything from best-looking in person to worst hair to our favorite cases of mistaken identity. See you in February, when hopefully all of the above will still hold true. Although, if Nelly wants to start something, we won’t complain — a fistfight makes for great copy.
Best Looking in Person Certainly we weren't surprised that Elisabeth Moss is pretty (and it's not like any of these celebs were going to look lik...
Best Looking in Person Certainly we weren't surprised that Elisabeth Moss is pretty (and it's not like any of these celebs were going to look like secretly heinous trolls); we just didn't expect her to be quite so glowy. Peggy Olsen has many charms, but effervescence isn’t necessarily one of them, so for Moss to be so gregarious and personable was a nice surprise — and the bleached do doesn't wash her out, after all. We love it when we're proven wrong ... well, sometimes.
Photo: Charles Eshelman/2012 Charles Eshelman
Worst Hair We know Kelly Osborne is keeping the purple hair because she knows people think it's dumb, and she's screwing with them. That's also t...
Worst Hair We know Kelly Osborne is keeping the purple hair because she knows people think it's dumb, and she's screwing with them. That's also the only explanation for the fact that she wore it piled on her head like a Baroque candlestick to Chris Benz. Kelly, when you screw with people using your own physical assets, the person you're hurting the most is yourself. Runner-up: Mandy Moore, at Lela Rose. Mandy, we love you, but fire whoever did that to your head.
The Battle of the Teen-Centric Networks MTV has crawled back into our eyeline, thanks to the fact that they sent Crystal Reed and Holland Roden —...
The Battle of the Teen-Centric Networks MTV has crawled back into our eyeline, thanks to the fact that they sent Crystal Reed and Holland Roden — stars of their hit Teen Wolf — to so many shows this week. Those girls came out and represented. The CW came in second, pimping out their new Carrie Bradshaw (AnnaSophia Robb), as well as Gossip Girl's Kaylee DeFer (since apparently Blake Lively was off wandering into wedded bliss). ABC Family — who, last September, produced stars from three of its active shows, this time produced just one Little Liar, in the form of Troian Bellasario. Weak sauce, ABC Family. At the very least you could have thrown us a bone in the form of an American Teenager.
Most Ubiquitous At the beginning of the week, we thought actress Dania Ramirez had this in the bag. Then she vanished and Alexa Ray Joel snuck up...
Most Ubiquitous At the beginning of the week, we thought actress Dania Ramirez had this in the bag. Then she vanished and Alexa Ray Joel snuck up on her. But Fashion Week is a marathon, not a sprint — the irony there being that Olympic speedster Sanya Richards-Ross ended up being the person we saw everywhere, all the time, always smiling and never wearing the same thing twice. Apparently after you've snagged two gold medals, surviving the tents in heels is a piece of cake.
Photo: Jason Kempin/2012 Getty Images
Most Surprising Absence We saw Katharine McPhee's sour puss all over town, but whither her Smash rival, Megan Hilty? We can only hope that she wa...
Most Surprising Absence We saw Katharine McPhee's sour puss all over town, but whither her Smash rival, Megan Hilty? We can only hope that she was too busy on the set of our favorite hate-watch to come out and play.
Photo: Bobby Bank/2012 Bobby Bank
Most Random Strangely, it's not Bryant Gumbel, although we were very pleased that Naeem Kham served up a steaming hot bowl of Gumbelaya. By far w...
Most Random Strangely, it's not Bryant Gumbel, although we were very pleased that Naeem Kham served up a steaming hot bowl of Gumbelaya. By far we were the most surprised to see James LeGros, formerly of Ally McBeal, Mildred Pierce, Mercy, and most recently Girls. He was with Gina Gershon at Charlotte Ronson's show — an aesthetic that better befits other Girls characters' than his — and seemed almost as confused by all the seating shenanigans and press mobs as we were to see him there.
Oddest Couple At the Blonds, we watched as Amanda Lepore removed her entire left breast from the latex prison of its catsuit and showed it to Mic...
Oddest Couple At the Blonds, we watched as Amanda Lepore removed her entire left breast from the latex prison of its catsuit and showed it to Michael Musto, who was wearing shower shoes and a green Slanket. We would like these two to star in a buddy comedy immediately. It might also be part-tragedy.
Hottest Olympian You think we're going to say Ryan Lochte, don't you? But the honor goes to Nathan Adrian, who was very tall and extremely handso...
Hottest Olympian You think we're going to say Ryan Lochte, don't you? But the honor goes to Nathan Adrian, who was very tall and extremely handsome when we talked to him at Tommy Hilfiger Men's, but was also funny, articulate, and charming. He also graduated with honors from Berkeley with a degree in public health, which means that he cares about people! He wins.
Photo: Theo Wargo/2012 Getty Images
Most Missed Olympian Nathan "Hottest Olympian" Adrian told us that Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, and Conor Dwyer were his three best-dre...
Most Missed Olympian Nathan "Hottest Olympian" Adrian told us that Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, and Conor Dwyer were his three best-dressed swimming teammates, and we spied the latter two. It would have been nice to see Phelps for the trifecta, not least because we really want to see his wingspan in person. We also missed McKayla Maroney, looking unimpressed or otherwise. She and Anna Wintour could have a battle of stone-faced stares.
Best All-Stars You might think we're talking about the horde of NBA players in the front rows, but no. By far the starriest presences at any show...
Best All-Stars You might think we're talking about the horde of NBA players in the front rows, but no. By far the starriest presences at any show were the top models who walked for Zac Posen, including Karolina Kurkova, Coco Rocha, and Naomi Campbell. Those three are in town shooting a new modeling show called The Face, so big props to Posen for recognizing a buzz-y opportunity and then making it happen. His catwalk was more stocked than a hotel minibar.
Best Music The opening song at DKNY was the most divine mash-up of Nena's "99 Luftballoons" and Jay-Z's "99 Problems." We may...
Best Music The opening song at DKNY was the most divine mash-up of Nena's "99 Luftballoons" and Jay-Z's "99 Problems." We may never be truly happy until that's on our iPods ... which, alas, means we may never be truly happy. Somehow this is not a surprise.
Photo: Imaxtree
Question We Were Too Scared to Ask Jennifer Westfeldt popped up in the tents right after the world discovered those very explicit Internet photos...
Question We Were Too Scared to Ask Jennifer Westfeldt popped up in the tents right after the world discovered those very explicit Internet photos of her boyfriend Jon Hamm's, er, private deli meat. And Westfeldt was so excited to be at Nanette Lepore's show that we didn’t have the heart to sit her down, grasp her by the shoulders, and ask her very seriously how she has kept that thing a secret for the past decade.
Photo: Charles Eshelman/2012 Charles Eshelman
Diva Demand We Need to Make Look, we're very happy for Caboodles and Diet Pepsi and Fiber Plus and all the other random sponsors who popped up in...
Diva Demand We Need to Make Look, we're very happy for Caboodles and Diet Pepsi and Fiber Plus and all the other random sponsors who popped up in the tents. But we would trade them all for two or three purse hooks in the bathrooms. We need a place to put our stuff that is not the wet, grody floor, especially in winter. So listen up, corporate America: Stick your logo on some hooks, sling them over the port-a-potty doors (one for a purse, one for a coat), and watch us all weepily proclaim that you've changed our lives.
Trend We Hope Doesn't Take Off Dear God, please tell us all the leather harnesses we saw — from BCBG to Herve to Prabal — don't mean that we're s...
Trend We Hope Doesn't Take Off Dear God, please tell us all the leather harnesses we saw — from BCBG to Herve to Prabal — don't mean that we're spiraling into some kind of creepy 50 Shades of Grey fashion moment. Because we just can't go there. Please stop reading that book, you guys. That book is terrible.
Photo: Imaxtree
Trend We Hope
Does Take Off Backless man-jumpsuits at Duckie Brown. Ryan Gosling could finally safely run away from us all and know we would be ...
Trend We Hope
Does Take Off Backless man-jumpsuits at Duckie Brown. Ryan Gosling could finally safely run away from us all and know we would be too shocked to give chase.
Photo: Imaxtree
Show With the Most Red Carpet Potential As writers who work the celebrity fashion beat, we're always thinking about the awards show circuit. Both...
Show With the Most Red Carpet Potential As writers who work the celebrity fashion beat, we're always thinking about the awards show circuit. Both Reem Acra and Naeem Khan sent out oodles of celeb-friendly formal gowns that we expect to see at the Emmys and beyond.
Best Color(s) Unlike past years, where we've seen a particular hue pop up in a variety of different places, this season the trend was more about ...
Best Color(s) Unlike past years, where we've seen a particular hue pop up in a variety of different places, this season the trend was more about patterns. Namely, that they're back, being spotted at ... well, basically everywhere, from Tadashi Shoji (good) to Whitney Eve (ehh ... ).
Photo: Alessandro Lucioni/Alessandro Lucioni
Most Covetable Accessories We're still thinking about an alluringly simple pair of gray grosgrain pumps from Honor’s show, followed by some brigh...
Most Covetable Accessories We're still thinking about an alluringly simple pair of gray grosgrain pumps from Honor’s show, followed by some bright green patent pumps at Lela Rose. But what won our hearts the most were Chris Benz's bright two-tone bags for Cambridge Satchels. Can we justify calling that a business necessity if we stick our iPads in it?
Girl Most in Need of Getting a Grip On day two of Fashion Week, we were seated next to a girl at Charlotte Ronson who kept falling asleep, and wh...
Girl Most in Need of Getting a Grip On day two of Fashion Week, we were seated next to a girl at Charlotte Ronson who kept falling asleep, and who would then contract into a fetal position whenever she woke up. Honey, we know Fashion Week is rough — and maybe you fell off the wagon at Fashion Night's Out and got run over by the wheel — but no one goes fetal until at least day four. Get with the program.
Guys Most in Need of Getting a Grip The dudes who show up at Badgley Mischka. One year, a guy hit on all the girls in his vicinity by asking them...
Guys Most in Need of Getting a Grip The dudes who show up at Badgley Mischka. One year, a guy hit on all the girls in his vicinity by asking them where he could buy a suit; this year, two dudes behind us made lascivious comments about all the naked activities they'd like to partake in with the models. Guys, (a) that's illegal since most of them are 16, essentially making you an episode of Pretty Little Liars (and not one of the good ones); and (b) put it away.
Photo: Stephen Lovekin/2012 Getty Images
Best Flub There were several, actually. Style's Jeannie Mai botched Julianne Hough's name on-camera, and a PR girl referred to AnnaSophia Robb as...
Best Flub There were several, actually. Style's Jeannie Mai botched Julianne Hough's name on-camera, and a PR girl referred to AnnaSophia Robb as "AnnaSophia Bush," which should give our former Most Ubiquitous winner a moment of joy to know that she may be absent from the tents, but not forgotten. However, the very best came when we were leaving Zac Posen and heard an excited fan point to André Leon Talley and say, "That's him! The guy from ANTM! It's Miss J!" Tantalizingly close, yet so terribly far. Photo: Billy Farrellnyc.com/BFA
Tragedy We Maybe Could Have Prevented When we spotted Alison Pill at Chris Benz, she seemed like a blast — drinking at the open bar, chatting ani...
Tragedy We Maybe Could Have Prevented When we spotted Alison Pill at Chris Benz, she seemed like a blast — drinking at the open bar, chatting animatedly with friends, and posing for iPhone pictures. We almost went over to talk to her but didn't want to interrupt her good time. Fast-forward to later that night, when she accidentally tweeted a photo of herself wearing only glasses. So perhaps if we had stepped in and trod on her party time, she might not have gotten so ... shall we say, technologically clumsy? Don't drink and tweet, friends. Let that be a lesson to all of us, Fashion Week or not.
Photo: Dean Nevillenyc.com/BFA
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