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The Best Thing About Kanye West on American Idol

Was not, obviously, the singing. We remember trying to defend him after the SNL debacle, but no one wants to hear it anymore. Our position is this: Kanye West can't sing. Also: Kanye West continues to sing on live, national television. This sort of makes us love Kanye West even more.

Anyway: Our takeaway from the show was his denim jacket.

Which we now need, in girl size and shape. Though not to wear with weird, white, polka-dot skirts. Or to pay $98 for, but we can't find we like at F21 yet. J. Crew Nolita jacket, $98

Our Celebration of Belinda Carlisle's ’80s Fashion Choices

Now that Belinda Carlisle is back for a round of Dancing With the Stars—an episode of which we have actually never watched until tonight, and that was mostly because we dropped the remote control between the bed and the air conditioner—we are newly interested in her hyper-’80s Go Gos wear. (It's all the rage, we hear.) The leggings look familiar; we have yet to see the chunky-knit off-shoulder Day-Glo sweaters (with matching socks) but we eagerly anticipate more.

Bows! Top hats! Hairspray! Honestly, our problem with ’80s inflected dressing isn't so much the wardrobe staples as it is the fact that we're not entirely sure how to do it without looking like we're going to a costume party.

In fact, we saw a girl with a big bow and off-shoulder sweater at a party last week, and we were like, "Are you feeling very Halloween?" and she totally nodded.

Belinda Carlisle has seriously sleek-ified over the years, huh? She had such an adorable baby face. And massive eyebrows, apparently.

Of course, Jane W. was always sort of our favorite.

Honestly, though, something about this makes us miss the ’80s. Isn't it sort of like we just lived through the ’80s again (conservative leadership, banking failures, widening gap between the rich and the poor, etc.)—but...whoever the Go Gos (and Prince, and Michael Jackson, and Madonna) would be today? We're not sure, but we think this may be Clear Channel's fault.

Tilda Swinton for AnOther

While we're way too puritanical to get completely behind her living situation (though really, in some ways it does seem like a family-friendly solution to a divorce \ mid-life crisis) we love Tilda Swinton, and that she so genuinely (almost) 50 and foxy. Nothing (except pie) makes us happier than when fashion houses team up with non-14-year-olds in an amazing way, and this definitely counts. Yay, London Fashion Week!

Our Favorite Oscar Dresses

That is synergy! Honestly, we only cared about the dresses this year. And—eh? No? Besides the fact that Alicia Keys and Natalie Portman were sort of wearing the same dress?

We will say in the couples sweepstakes that we think John Legend and the woman identified as "date" totally beat all the rest of them, including Brangelina, which IOO looked a little vampirish, no?

We also felt that Robert Downey Jr.'s wife looked fetching. Why is his tuxedo so shiny? We have no idea.

In the vaguely shiny-and-noirish category, we go with Queen Latifah, who looks sleek. What's up with all the belts this year? Millions of belts.

Speaking of: SJP's boobs look like they've been put on a plate. We're still wrapping our head around these, so to speak. We love that minty color, tho. And Marisa Tomei! God bless the woman, making 45-year-old strippers completely credible.

Personally, we would have rather seen Anne Hathaway in something a bit bright, and Kate W., we love her, so we will not complain.

Madonna in W, Yay!

Honestly, the whole Material Girl thing gives us a headache. And we'd be totally grossed out if these were photos of some random 50-year-old dude and his senior-in-college girlfriend. We were talking about that this weekend, how Sean Connery and Clint Eastwood—both on the far side of 70! way, way, way the other side!—are still considered sexy, when there is no female analogue. And we want there to be. Madonna is as close as we'll get. For that, we bid her thanks. We've read some other commentary suggesting she's jumped the shark here, and goodness knows we don't envy her personal life. But we hope she's still walking around in her Agent Provocateur in ten years. (Twenty years. Forever!)

It always amazes us how shiftable our idea of general beauty can be, when prodded in the right away. Anything that prods that idea away from, say, Kim Kardashian (whom we're sure is very nice, but whatever), and toward surveying the entire spectrum of eccentric female beauty, from Madonna to Tilda Swinton to Helen Mirren and so on, the happier we will be.

Our faves below. Supposedly you can find the whole shoot at the W site, but it's not working for us.

Our Top Three Favorite Grammys Looks

MIA in Gola by Lacroix. If we ever procreate, we hope we dress like we does.

And we are not big Paris Hilton fans, but we heart this. We would prefer it if that bottom-ish layer were shorts.

We've heard the kvetching about this but we thought JHud looked awesome, regardless of whether the top half looks like a napkin. It does. Not! Not really. Not exactly. Er, sort of.

MIA in House of Holland @ the Grammys

We are basically amazed that MIA was able to move at all, much less in House of Holland. Honestly we find the entire thing incredibly baffling, but we admire her moxie. Here is the Henry Holland dress on the runway:

And here it is last night:
What we love about it is that it makes like a thousand times more sense on MIA than on the runway model. Not that we find it—er, covetable, but that is, as the title promises, quite a bit of swagger.

Our Faves From the Golden Globes

Honestly we thought it was a whole bunch of meh, and these red-carpet close-ups are just, like: foundation! whoa! And we're sure we saw Angelina Jolie in this same dress like three days ago. But: that pink lipstick! It's exactly the one we want! Worth viewing just for this!

America! Sort of like this. And definitely love her makeup—her eyes especially look super fab.

This makes us sad for J. Lo. It's like 1997 flashback, when everyone wanted to be her and she didn't know Marc Anthony. It's just so not the cultural moment for barely-there gold dresses, we think.

We heart the Amanda Seyfried Lucky cover but what's up with all the champagne dresses and dangly earrings?

We're so sad we can't find a full-length of Freida because we loved everything she wore in Slumdog (er, while she was being abused) and we have faith, somehow, for the choice tonight.

We heart Kyra, too, but what up with that belt? No! No belts on girls on the red carpet! Rumer Willis has one too but we don't know why she's famous so we're not showing it.

And we close with the first and last time we will ever mention the Jonas Brothers. Ever. In our lives. Finito!

Mary-Kate Olsen's Knees, Revealed!

Pursuant to our question last week (Could these actually be Mary-Kate Olsen's real legs?:

M. very helpfully supplied us with this presumably non-Photoshopped look at the munchkin's—perfectly normal and knee-like!—knees. Why Photoshop the knees! They were perfectly fine to begin with! We are once again disturbed by the air-brushing. Honestly, we support a moratorium. It's just not good for any of us—man, woman, or child.

We Are Not Usually A Fan Of the Moppet (Mary-Kate Olsen in Elle), But....

We love the new Elle UK cover with MK. The subscriber one (at right), as usual, more than the newsstand edition, but we really love both.

Question: Are those knees on the right Photoshopped, or do some people just actually have knees like that? This is a genuine question.