Hallo Readers,
Thursday marked 100 days since President 47 re-entered the White House. And what a whirlwind 100 days they have been! His Administration has mistakenly deported gay hairdressers and family men to hellhole prisons where a mini-me dictator is paid millions of dollars to house those expelled. In a new sideline, they are also deporting toddlers who were born in the US and who are US citizens under the Constitution, even though one of the toddlers has cancer. And an American father. It has defied the courts at every turn. It has introduced ludicrous tariffs and then withdrawn them and then reintroduced them and then halved them and then doubled them and then halved them again and then suspended them. Law firms are being forced to do pro bono work in order to atone for previously representing people of whom 47 disapproves, while universities have been told to change their syllabus or lose their funding. And anyone on a student visa expressing support for Gaza and/or criticising Israel is arrested and thrown into gaol.
Despite a promise to stop the war in Ukraine within 24 hours, more than 2,400 hours later, bombs continue to rain down on Ukrainian citizens and 47 has blamed Ukraine for starting the war (presumably by being invaded, which is of course really provocative of it) and called the democratically elected President of that country a dictator, not to mention humiliating him in the Oval Office. Meanwhile the dictator who did start the war has neither been accused of starting the war nor of being a dictator, and 47 has been demanding mineral rights as the price of continuing to support Ukraine at all. Nor has he had much luck solving the Gaza problem, although he did manage to outrage everyone by suggesting that the residents of that God- forsaken, beleaguered place should be shipped out to an unspecified spot somewhere (TBC) while Gaza itself, now owned and run by the US, is turned into a glorious resort of pleasure domes that would make Kubla Khan’s mouth water. Both the Ukraine issue and the Gaza issue have been entrusted to 47’s mate, Steve Witkoff, a billionaire property developer with as much knowledge of diplomacy as WTF has of nuclear fission, that is to say none whatsoever, and who has said publicly that Putin is a good man who wants peace. At least Witkoff has his own private plane and so US taxpayers may be saving on the fuel costs. The Defence Secretary is a drunk who sees nothing wrong with sharing details of military manoeuvres with his wife, the Health secretary is a former junkie who does not believe in vaccination and who once expressed the view that the COVID virus was targeted at Caucasians but not at Jews or Asians. The billionaire Trade Secretary believes that no one is importing American beef because it is too good and that most Americans really, really, really want to work in factories making widgets. The billionaire Finance Secretary says that his mother-in-law would not mind if she missed her Social Security cheque. The National Security Adviser mistakenly included a journalist on a group chat about the impending attack on the Houthis and has become the first person this time round to be told “You’re fired”.
The 100 day anniversary coincided with the financial results for the first quarter of 2025 which demonstrated the biggest fall in decades. Apparently this was Joe Biden’s fault and not the uncertainty caused by the hokey-cokey application of 47’s tariffs. It is quite simple – any successes in the market are down to 47 and any failures are down to 46. The Administration insists that this is the most consequential presidency of modern times, with each cabinet member in turn applying their tongue to the presidential rectum in a display of sycophancy that would embarrass Kim Jong Un and which was a more effective emetic than syrup of ipecac. And you can’t even hope that 47 pops off quickly because Vance is even worse.
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We start our review of the week’s sartorial stupidity with actor and professional English rose Rosamund Pike at the premiere of her new movie Hallow Road, wearing a dress and shoes by Simone Rocha.
The dress is a shapeless scarlet sack with some inexplicable hardware and the heinous shoes look like a couple of puppies lying on her feet. Someone should call the RSPCA to complain about a crime aginst canines.
We are now celebrating model Gigi Hadid’s 30th birthday in New York, where she and boyfriend actor Bradey Cooper threw a party at the department store Saks Fifth Avenue. One of the guests was fellow model Martha Hunt wearing – this.
This is not so much a tit window as a tit porthole. How the dress stays on is a mystery, right up there with how can she walk on those shoes.
We are now in London for the opening of Ibsen’s The Master Builder. WTF is not really a fan of all that Nordic doom and gloom and would prefer to spend a couple of hours in the dentist’s chair having root canal treatment. Frankly, with the exorbitant cost of theatre tickets these days, particularly when film stars, in this case Ewan McGregor, are involved, root canal treatment is probably cheaper. Anyway, actor Elizabeth Debicki turned up wearing Lanvin.
Elizabeth is known to play it safe style-wise, but on this occasion she decided to throw caution to the winds and come dressed as one of the Beatles on their 1967 pilgrimage to meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishnikesh.
We pop in the Lincoln Center to the premiere of Amazon Prime’s new show Another Simple Favor (or Favour as we Brits would have it, because we know how to spell). One attendee was stylist and makeup artiste Jay Manuel wearing a most remarkable ensemble.
The whole thing is very Ava Gardner and not in a good way, And he is wearing a pink vest under a sheer white organza shirt. Stop. It. Now.
One of the stars of Another Simple Favor is Blake Lively, whom WTF has always found quite unbearably smug, even before her ludicrous litigation with film director Justin Boldoni. But even if WTF loved her to death, she would still not have been able to tolerate this terribly terrible thing she is wearing while out and about in New York, paired with $2850 Louboutins. Ready? You won’t be.
Instead of sitting in a reclining faux leather chair, she is wearing one. Yurgle. That peplum has to be one of the most unflattering things ever in the history of ever.
Also in leather, but in London, was actor Florence Pugh publicising something called Thunderbolts, wearing Francesco Murano.
On Instagram, Flo wrote that she could not sit down in tbhis outfit but it was ‘totally worth it’. Was it? It is so tight that there was visible spilth between teeny-tiny-bralette and the waistband and her nipples are about to come out and say hello to the ladies and genetlemen of the press.
Here is actor Alexander Skarsgard at the premiere of Murderbot, whatever that may be, wearing Calvin Klein.
Seriously? WTF can only surmise that Alexander is wearing this in homage to the late, lamented Richard Chamberlain who did the sexy priest thing in the hit TV series The Thorn Birds decades before Andrew Scott climbed into his cassock for Fleabag.
Finally here is actor and comedian Sabrina Wu who was at the same gig. WTF cannot even tell you what this is. Scroll down slowly.
Bloomers, sock-suspenders and a tux. This passeth all understanding and taketh the biscuit. No, sorry, WTF is going to have to go and lie down.
This week’s It’s Got To Go comes from WTF aficionado WTF from Islington who has come across more egregious fashion nonsense at sky-high prices. Keen Readers will recall the ridiculous The Row flip-flops recently which cost an eye-watering £670. And now we have the grotesqueness of a pair of Miu Miu “technical panties” for £750. Yes, you read that right. £750. Ye Gods.
So there are a number of objections here. First, these are less like panties and more like nappies. Second, they do not constitute clothes, not even at all. And third, £750 is sheer fucking robbery. It’s Got to Go.
Ok Readers, that’s your lot for this week. Please keep sending in your top suggestions for It’s Got to Go as well as your comments, which WTF much enjoys. You can follow me on @wtffashionshark.bsky.social. Let us meet again next Friday where we shall muse on the madness of the Met Gala. Be good x
