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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Mr. Blackwell, 86

Longtime fashion designer and critic "Mr." Richard Blackwell has died from complications of an intestinal infection.  He was 86.

Blackwell - who started as an actor - turned to fashion design in the 50s and was once the most well known fashion critics in Hollywood even hosting his own television show.

Blackwell was best known for his annual "Worst Dressed List" and for his pithy comments about the fashions of Hollywood's hottest celebrities.  Examples of his judgments include some of the following:

Madonna: "The Bare-Bottomed Bore of Babylon."

Barbra Streisand: "She looks like a masculine Bride of Frankenstein."

Christina Aguilera: "A dazzling singer who puts good taste through the wardrobe wringer."

Meryl Streep: "She looks like a gypsy abandoned by a caravan."

Sharon Stone: "An over-the-hill Cruella DeVille."

Lindsay Lohan: "From adorable to deplorable."

Patti Davis: "Packs all the glamour of an old, worn-out sneaker."

Ann Margret: "A Hells Angel escapee who invaded the Ziegfeld Follies on a rainy night."

Camilla Parker-Bowles: "The Duchess of Dowdy."

Bjork: "She dances in the dark — and dresses there, too."

Spears: "Her bra-topped collection of Madonna rejects are pure fashion overkill."

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4 Comments:

Blogger mary whoopee said:

Was the erstwhile Mr. Blackwell found in soiled black satin monogrammed p.j.'s? Did the pre-elmbalmed Mr. B. sport more chic savoir-faire in one cold, dead blue manicured pinky finger than all the Tainted Tessies of Tinseltown could muster in their shallow, fanciful pea-brains? The 86'ed couture critic dead at 86's legendary antipathy towards the 'fairer sex' went way beyond his gay-thing: Women's true crime? Laying unspoken claim to a living, breathing, and frequently violated vagina...

October 20, 2008 5:22 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Absolutely no one cares about this.

October 20, 2008 9:41 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Notice it's all about women. Apparently men don't dress.


Byebye Mr. Blackwell ten years too late.

October 20, 2008 4:28 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

rita hit this one, the guy was a real misogynist. And looking and dressing the way he did gives new meaning to hypocritical queer bitch. Like that fat-faced, shaggy haired dyed blond guy Cojo on Ent Tonight. Why do creepy gays bash attractive women?

As for the Madonna crack, the nasty divorce shit her ex is saying like she slept in thousand dollar creams wrapped in plastic so she couldn't have sex is definitely the price of fame. Plus she wouldn't let him eat dairy and sugar in the house. He's not above taking her millions though. What a creep the guy is to say that about his kids' mother. Fact is he wanted an excuse to go out and party and get laid. Seems like when a guy goes out and parties and leaves the rockstar wife at home trying to play good mom (like Brit for a while) she's boring. But when she does the same she's a slut and loses either way.

October 20, 2008 8:40 PM  

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