Just How Bad WAS Argylle? We Found Out

Also: That undies dress! A 60s love triangle! And Oscars party pettiness!

I missed this when it happened last week, because the day after the Oscars is so busy for us at Go Fug Yourself, but Emily Blunt’s longtime stylist Jessica Paster talked to Vanity Fair about Emily’s divisive dress — you know, the Schiaparelli that looked like it had sequined undies on it:

“Sometimes we don't play it safe. At this point of years of being with Emily, we can go have fun with fashion,” she said. “Did I know that people were going to talk about the shoulder? Absolutely. Do I care what anybody else has to say? Absolutely not. Me? I think that people that know fashion, like fashion, like things that are interesting, were going to like it and I know the people that like some things that are very classic were not going to like it. At the end of the day, she looked absolutely beautiful. It was such a beautiful dress.”

I think this is fair from her perspective. “People that like some things that are very classic” is diplomatic!¹ And it’s also exactly what I suspected: They knew wha…