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Hallo Readers,

The bodies of some 39 men, women and children were still at the bottom of the freezing Potomac river, (28 more had been already recovered) when the President of the United States decided to ditch the traditional role of comforter in chief and to use a press conference, called specially to mark the disaster, to state, without the benefit of any evidence whatsoever,  that the cause of the collision of a passenger plane and an army helicopter was DEI. DEI stands for the three things that every God-fearing Republican hates – diversity, equity and inclusion. 47 admitted that he did not have any proof of this as yet, but he is not a man to let the facts stand in the way of a rant. Using what he claimed to be his common sense, he insisted that commitment to DEI  meant that the people flying the helicopters and directing air traffic might not be up to the job. He was particularly outraged by the fact that the civil aviation authority had sought to recruit disabled people, including “mentally disabled” people, and suggesting that anyone who was not (a) male (b) white (c) straight and (d) able-bodied had no business is holding a responsible job in air traffic control or anywhere else. In fact there are the strictest possible competence tests to become an air traffic controller, despite the implication that all planes are now being directed by female, gay, blind psychopaths. He was backed up in these assertions by a triumvirate of male, white, straight, able-bodied lackeys, namely, the new secretaries of state for Transport and Defence, and his Vice President, all of whom enthusiastically vowed to eliminate DEI, and to appoint people on merit, namely people who are male, white, straight and able-bodied. Of course, none of this is new. The former secretary of state for Transport under Joe Biden was a gay man who had the temerity to take paternity leave when he and his husband adopted twins – clearly it was being implied that a heterosexual man would have prevented this tragedy, rather than stuffing  the department with women, sexual deviants and the disabled. And when the fires raged in California earlier this month, Elon Musk, 47’s brother-from-another-mother, suggested that the fault lay with the top echelon of the fire department,  lesbians who, by virtue of their sapphic practices, were responsible for reducing thousands of acres of the state, not to mention some top real estate, to ashes.

The war on woke is being waged on both sides of the Atlantic. And let us call it what it is. It is racism. It is misogyny. It is homophobia. It is prejudice against disabled people. It has nothing to do with meritocracy. It is an easy stick with which to beat people with whom you disagree. It is an excuse to defecate all over people who have achieved something that you haven’t. And couldn’t, even if you tried. Yes, there have been some ridiculously oversensitive, overprotective and batshit crazy policies from organisations, local authorities and government. But the basic principle of allowing minorities to overcome the prejudice that prevents them from even getting through the door, to stop them from being treated less favourably, and being paid less money, and being denied opportunities for promotion and training is not woke, it is decency and it is fairness and it is equality. In short, it is all of the things that people like 47 and his minions, and Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage and Rupert Murdoch and the Daily Mail detest.

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We start our review of the week’s wanky wear at the Sundance Film Festival where we greet actor Niecy Nash-Betts wearing something snug and Louis Vuitton bootees.

Well at least her head and her feet will be warm. But her nether regions must be freezing and, with that cameltoe, it is a classic case of  Call for the Canesten. Yurgle.

In huge news, our old friend actor Julia Fox ventured out in public FULLY CLOTHED!!!!!!!!

Here she is in New York.

She may be fully clothed but she still looks preposterous. She appears to have a dead palm leaf on her head and for reasons unknown to WTF, or, she suspects, to anyone else,  Julia has a pair of bullhorns protruding from her waist.

Also at Sundance was producer Tristan Scott-Behrends wearing a most remarkable ensemble. Ready? You won’t be….

No, sorry, he looks like an arse. The scuffed red boots are particularly offensive. Matey, you are on the Red Carpet. Buy some bloody shoe polish. As for the rest of the ensemble, if a Victorian damsel in a crinoline went to a fancy dress party as a bearded prat, this is what she would look like.

And now to Paris Fashion Week where a lot of celebs dressed up in borrowed finery and looked foolish. And some of them are not even proper celebs. They are the offspring of celebs. Like Lourdes Leon, daughter of Madonna and her one-time personal trainer, Carlos Leon. Here she is at the St Laurent Homme show.

As you can see, Readers, the apple does not fall far from the tree. Lourdes, who is 28, purports to be an actor, singer and dancer. Sadly, she missed out on the lead role in the forthcoming biopic of her mother, the role going to Julia Garner, who has the advantage of actually being able to act. So Lourdes decided to get her nipples out instead.

Here is singer Megan Thee Stallion, wearing Jean Paul Gaultier at his show.

Sigh. This gives new meaning to the words flasher-mac. And wearing a minge rose does not count as clothes.

OK, this next one is REALLY BAD. This is actor Lisa Rinna wearing Viktor & Rolf.

Send in the Clowns…Don’t worry, they’re here….

And finally, Estonian rapper (WTF is not making this up) Tommy Cash and Dutch singer/rapper/silly person Joost Klein. They are at the KidSuper Menswear show. Klein was ejected from the Eurovision Song Contest last year for “misconduct”  although frankly that moustache would have been grounds enough on its own. They should both have been ejected from France for this nonsense.

They look like halves of a bisected giant with two heads.

This week’s It’s Got To Go comes from WTF aficionado Rebecca from Cornwall who was so horrified by the footwear worn by a woman she saw on an escalator in a London tube station that she whipped out her phone and took a picture.

Rebecca says “she is wearing tyres under her feet. It was appalling”. As ever, she is spot on. It’s Got To Go.

OK Readers, that’s your lot for this week. Keep your tip top comments coming through and your splendid suggestions for It’s Got To Go. And do follow me on @wtffashionshark.bsky.social. Let us meet again next Friday. Be good x