Bad Girl Fashion |
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| Written by Nicola Hyland | |
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Bad Girls, Bad Girls, whatcha gonna do? The Fashion Police have rounded up the Bad Gals of Fashion. Lindsey, Nicole Paris and Britney!
The question is, should this female Brat Pack be made to pay for their fashion crimes, or be lauded for their 'rebellious' style? As the consummate source of 'fashion advice', AskBronny likes to help out with pearls of fashion wisdom about what's hot. Of course, we also like to steer you away from 'what's not hot' as well – and a surprising amount of 'what not to do' involves fashion crimes committed by at least one of these four infamous 'bad girls'. Yet, despite our constant bashing of their constant fashion faux pas, there has to be a reason for our universal interest in what they do - and what they wore when they did it. Two of them are famous for being rich men's daughters. One is a washed up singer who now lip-synchs to her own songs. The last is an 'actress' whose film credits would suggest the old child-star-gone-loco scenario. Between them they have been caught several times for DUI, possession, drunken and disorderly, battery and public exposure. The most publicised dates the four of them have had recently have been in court – now Paris has tasted prison, while Lindsay and Nicole are facing similar fates. Lindsay went into rehab before she was even legally allowed to drink. Britney went in to grow her hair and get her booty back Nicole checks herself into clinics to get her yearly taste of actual food. Role Models? No way. Fashion icons? Well… maybe. We'll always have Paris At the tender age of twenty-five, Paris Whitney [Yes, that's right, Whitney] Hilton has achieved what most mortals only dream of – being famous for fame's sake. A sometime 'model', reality TV 'star', 'singer', 'actor', and 'author', Paris started catching the eye of the paparazzi with her sister Nicky when they started turning up to the opening of anything in the early 00's. The notorious heiress leapt to fame with the release of a certain video in 2003, an event which would frame the media's obsession with Miss Hilton's privacy and her willingness to expose it. Paris has described herself as an 'iconic blonde' – in the vein of Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and Princess Diana. While most sane people would deign to associate Paris with these other legends, you do have to admire her complete commitment to self-promotion. Paris is a truly 'ambitious' blonde. You also have to admit that Paris is the ultimate representative for materialism and consumer culture. She has always paid scrupulous detail to a style that undeniably celebrates wealth and luxury. Paris is a label basher, a living Shopper Barbie. Since her stint in the slammer, Paris has publicly stated that the 'dumb blonde' persona has merely been an act to endear herself to the public. Paris has, apparently, been playing the part everyone expected of her, fuelling our interest with a 'fake' form of glamour we love to loathe. In terms of fashion, Paris has always been willing to embrace new fads and to take risks. Sometimes it even works. She has undeniably set a lot of bad trends (dog in a bag, anyone?), but has consistently got the attention she so obviously craves. Not many 'worst-dressed' celebrities can claim to have made the front page of the New York Times, can they? How Lohan can you go? Lindsay is your typical Jekyll and Hyde fashionista. When she's good, she's very, very good. When she's bad, she's blonde. Lindsay was a pretty talented child star – from the remakes of Parent Trap and Herbie, to Freaky Friday and Mean Girls. As she came of age, the public adored her for her gorgeous auburn tresses and smattering of cutesy freckles. Lindsay lit up the red-carpet with a curvy figure stuffed into flattering gowns celebrating her rose-hued complexion. When she made the move to a darker hair colour and released a ho-hum music career, the critics still gave her the benefit of the doubt and admired the marvellous décolletage that became too hot for Disney. Then Lindsay took the wrong road to Hollywood and ended up an emaciated brassy blonde alcoholic in a bad bikini. Thankfully, someone must have told her that skeletons don't make good movies and she put on a bit of weight and returned to her roots – those luscious copper locks. She made an amazing appearance at a premiere in the most magical Marchesa dress and those bad blonde days seemed to be behind her. Then you wake up to hear the newly rusty blonde has pranged her BMW, loaded with a few powdery packages, and is returning to rehab a few months short of her twenty-first birthday. Poor little Richie Girl It's not easy being the daughter of the largest lips in the business. Nicole shot to fame as Paris's side-kick on 'The Simple Life'. She was the funny one, the short curvy one. Yet, the media became far more interested in Nicole when she suddenly became dangerously, stomach-churning-ly thin. Boy trouble, apparently. Anyway, along with becoming yucky skinny and embroiled in a hilarious fight with Paris that saw them filming an entire series without acknowledging each other, Nicole turned out to be a surprisingly popular fashionista. I guess Nicole is kind of a champion of Boho for scarecrows. She was booed for thinking fur was for her, but has also made some pretty good fashion statements. Her love of scarves has saved the modern bad-hair day. She brought sun-protection back with her endless supply of man-hole cover sunglasses. She has great taste in bangles and chunky neckwear. If only she would take her father's advice and become at least 'three times a lady' she should be to get her out of the sub-zeros. And then there was that famous split between her and her stylist Rachel Zoe. Nicole now insists that her fashion choices were all her own - however when we see how Zoe dresses her clients, one does wonder! Bring back the Brit Mother of two, twice divorced and rather handy with an umbrella, Britney has had a bad time lately. The former star of the Mickey Mouse Club became a legend with a pair of pig-tails and plea to be hit just one more time. With a set of pins to die for, we forgave her teen trashiness as a phase of her youth. Hell, if Madonna thought she was the best thing since, well, Madonna, then she must have some degree of fashion worthiness. A sleek red-leather cat-suit, a tiny school-girl outfit and a cute man-accessory (Justin) got Britney through those endless bad garb days. Apart from a brief stint as a gorgeous brunette, Britney has made as many bad fashion choices as bad-man choices in the past few years. Underwear as outerwear? See-through shirts with no knickers? With the onslaught of bad hats, worse wigs and one of the most terrible hair-extension jobs in history, poor Britney has a lot to work on to make it back to the what’s hot pages. Perhaps she might start with the right man-candy. Love them or hate them (as they do each other), Hilty, Li-Lo, Richo and Britters have formed an important part in the international psyche. Apart from their crimes – legal and fashion – these girls have also all had significant man trouble. Paris was engaged to Paris. Nicole lost the DJ and then the pierced rocker. Lindsey has been linked to everyone from Jude to that foreign guy in That 70’s Show. Brit’s first marriage lasted only a little longer then a hangover. Her second…Ew… They each have managed to associate with a string of losers whose greatest achievement is dumping them and telling the world about their bedroom acts. Career wise, it seems the best fashion move for Brit, Lindsey and Nicole was their stints as brunettes. Will the reformed Paris re-invent herself as a brown-haired thinker? Take heed – blondes have more fun, but brunettes make the best-dressed lists. |
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