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Hallo Readers,

Astonishingly, three years after Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time in a decade, the country still stands, President Zelinskyy is still alive and well, and Putin has lost who knows how many soldiers and billions of dollars. Meanwhile the West has poured many billions into supporting Ukraine militarily. Why? Because it knows that as night follows day, if Putin rolls over Ukraine he will not stop. Where will be next? Moldova? Lithuania? Poland. It is right to say WTF has a certain interest in this matter. Her mother was born in what was Romania which is now Moldova and which used to be part of Russia until 1917. WTF’s maternal  grandfather was born in what was then The Ukraine. So she is one quarter Ukrainian, one quarter Russian and one half Polish (on her father’s side). Which is why she is feeling a sense of dread at the announcement this week that President 47, fresh from his total failure to relocate 1.8 million Palestinians to someone else’s country without their consent so that he can steal theirs, is proposing to sit down with Putin to negotiate a settlement of the Ukraine issue. The role Zelinskyy will have in all this is unspecified, but it is clear that 47’s starting point is that Ukraine will have to give up some, if not all, of its territory seized since 2022, not to mention 2014. To date, she has not heard a single word of condemnation of Russia from 47 or from his idiot Defence Secretary, former Fox News host and alleged sex pest and pissartist, Pete Hegseth. If anything, it was Ukraine’s fault for wanting to join NATO so that they could avoid being invaded by Russia, which it has been because it is not a member of NATO. Unless let us not forget that when Ukraine became an independent country, it was persuaded by the West to give up its nuclear weapons in return for some promise of protection. Which it did not get. But if you listen to 47, or Hegseth, or the shouty bloke who is 47’s new Security Adviser, and the 47 fan club, including our own Nigel Farage, it is Ukraine’s fault for provoking Russia. This is the equivalent of suggesting that a woman out on her own in a short skirt was asking for it. What impertinence to want to preserve its borders and its independence in the face of a murderous tyrant next door!

This week, 47 went so far as to tell Fox News on Monday that “Ukrainians may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday.”  Which is hardly reassuring. But for this US Government, it is about two things in particular. First, the money is needed for tax cuts for the billionaires. And secondly, 47 wants to be seen as the man who brokered the deal, however crap a deal, and win the Nobel Peace Prize, which he has coveted ever since Obama got it in 2009. With the added bonus of cozying up to Putin because if there’s one thing 47 really, really, likes, it is a despot who doesn’t have to put up with pesky people objecting to his policies and power. So do not hold your breath that the people of the Ukraine will be well served by this negotiation, any more than the people of Palestine will be looked after. 47 may be the leader of the Free World, but he lacks the morals, decency and a fundamental belief in democracy that is needed to exercise that power properly.

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We start our review of the week’s atrocious attire with actor Colman Domingo, who appeared on the Seth Myers show to promote his new movie Sing Sing, wearing a most remarkable ensemble.  

Yurgle. It seems that even the super-stylish Colman cannot get away with wearing a pastel straitjacket on what appears to be a homage to Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. 

Now to the Critics Choice Awards, twice postponed as a result of the awful Los Angeles fires, where we find  actor Nava Mau, one of the stars of the hit TV show Baby Reindeer, wearing Fendi.

Oh dear. Oh very dear. She must have pissed someone off at Fendi to be forced into this nastiness, which neither fits nor flatters and looks like it is being held up by hair plaits. It seems to have been made from those bouncy aluminium sheets that you put in the bottom of grill pans to absorb the excess fat and stop the oven catching fire.

Next up, here is actor  Catriona Balfe (Outlander) wearing Prada.

Catriona is lovely but this dress passeth all understanding. Why she is wearing a workman’s belt around her waist and a selection of rivulets? She looks like Bob the Builder. Only he is better dressed. All she needs is the hard hat.

This is actor Kathryn Hahn, one of the ceremony’s presenters, wearing Oscar de la Renta.

Kathryn has come dressed as a crow. Who knows why?

This is actor Hannah Einbinder, who won Best Supporting Actress for Hacks, wearing Louis Vuitton.

This is a very ridicuous garment, the lovechild of a Lego alien buggoid and a lampshade.

Here is actor and singer Arianna Grande (star of Wickd) wearing Christian Dior.

This is heinous in so many ways. That is not so Arianna’s colour and she resembles a straw man in a tutu. She would have scared off Kathryn Hahn in her black crow dress. It is certainly scaring the hell out of WTF.

We leave the Critics Choice Awards and to the launch of the third series of The White Lotus. This person is called Marval A Rex (WTF is not making this up), self-described as “a transmasculine, Catalan-American actor, artist, stand-up comedian and professional astrologer”. (WTF is not making this up either).  Brace yourselves…..

He looks like a Porno Plumber, the one in the movies turning up with a giant wrench, promptly having it off with the titsy blonde housewife who fiddles with his stopcock….

And finally, here is Orange is the New Black actress Dascha Polanco wearing Elena Velez at the designer’s show in New York. This one is amazingly bad.

If an muzzled Alsatian went to a fancy dress party  as a shipwrecked pole dancer, this is what it would look like.  

This week’s It’s Got To Go comes from WTF aficionado WTF of Islington  who was aghast to read that Lego is, get this, heteronormative. Seriously. If you go on the Seeing Things Queerly tour at the Science Museum in London, you stop in front of a block of Lego where the guide informs you that “Lego bricks are often described in a gendered way. The top of the brick with sticking out pins is male, the bottom of the brick with holes to receive the pins is female, and the process of the two sides being put together is called mating. This is an example of applying heteronormative language to topics unrelated to gender, sex and reproduction. It illustrates how heteronormativity (the idea that heterosexuality and the male/female gender binary are the norm and everything that falls outside is unusual) shapes the way we speak about science, technology, and the world in general”. To which WTF responds as follows: FUCK. RIGHT. OFF. Who are these people who describe lego pieces as male and female and that they mate? They need to get a life, and look snappy about it. This is not woke, it is wank. It’s Got To Go.

OK Readers, that’s your lot for this week. Your tip top comments have not been coming through of late, plunging WTF into deep distress, which surely you do not want, do you? Oh, and keep sending your splendid suggestions for It’s Got To Go. And do follow me on @wtffashionshark.bsky.social. WTF is off for a fortnight so let us meet again in three weeks’ time on Friday 7 March for an Oscars Special. Be good.