“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”

--- John Waters

Pop Stars Gone Drag Queen. Fit or Phat?


By Faggus Howard

Sex+Design, specifically fashion design is what brings us here today. Sexy, fashion, sex-y fashion, fashion sex- when these two words are paired a number of people could come to mind. Sure, i could write about Madonna, Michelle Obama, or Lara Stone, but being obvious like that isn’t sex or fashion. No no, let’s focus on two very different and unlikely choices: Mariah Carey and Kristen Stewart.

Ok, Mariah Carey will never really know how to dress well and she will never have style, personal or otherwise, but she does have sex+fashion. Her clothing is ALWAYS 3 sizes too small = HOT and she has to wear 2 extra layers of Spanx to sausage-case her back fat- but Mariah Carey is clearly a bacchanal tart. She eats too much, drinks too much, probably does too much coke or at least used to, and fucks that squirrely child-husband of hers too much. Mariah Carey is a sessy hybrid of miss piggy and a paperbag full of legal Nevada hookers. When a person is too busy being sensually excessive, said person is too fucking busy to worry about style or clothes. She doesn’t even bother with those ridiculous My Little Pony hairdon’ts she used to perpetually try to out-diva herself with. She’s no Kate Moss or Sienna Miller thank God (or P. Diddy). Those women make fashion a serious task and though I can’t say I don’t love their fashion aesthetics, it is not terribly sexy to obsess about carbs and date abusive men who fuck around on you with the nanny or are Pete Doherty. Mariah Carey LOVES Mariah Carey. That is sex+fashion.

On the other hand, Kristen Stewart looks like shit in a dress and any other attractive clothing. Absolutely crap. Her legs and arms appear to be at odds with her torso. There’s always violent Sean Penn versus Amy Winehouse versus Chris Brown type brawl between her hair and makeup, but again she exhibits sex + fashion because her fashion sense is so very terrible. Not akward in a Tina Fey “what the fuck do i do with this strap on this dress”, but more like Jodi Foster or Lily Tomlin or K.D. Lang cluelessness. Kristen is too busy getting stoned, taking her “craft” seriously, hanging out with a fag in her mouth, and/or dressing up Robert Pattinson as a young Melissa Ethridge back stage at Lilith fair for fuck times to give a shit about clothes. I can’t wait for her cinco de gayo people magazine cover. Too bad it will be 17 years from now after her pluck is all gone. selfish bitch.

item of the week: prom dress


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