Baby . . . What Do You Think?

Welcome to “Baby… What Do You Think?” where fashion faux pas are taken to task and sartorial excellence is championed! Clutch is crazy (like a fox!) for giving these two a forum to take their fashion commentary – usually delivered at home in front of the tv to each other and their Chihuahua, Angel – to the masses, saying exactly what you’re thinking, but are too couth and refined to say out loud! A Brooklyn-based couple, Filthy is a New York born, loud mouth, aspiring music impresario with a penchant for Funkadelic, Barker Blacks and fancy ties and Kristy is a professional spindoctor with Southern roots, a vintage clothing junkie and an inherited shoe fetish.

Kelis & Dania Ramirez
Filthy: They look like they get dressed in the same room after coming home together from their jobs at Contempo Casuals.
Bella: Stop it. They do look like they coordinate their outfits, though: “Kelis! Let’s dress like we’re going to our high school proms tonight!” “Totally! And then we’ll wear ALL WHITE tomorrow? Super cute! *high five*”

Rihanna
Filthy: This young gal has gams for days! And I love that leather jacket.
Bella: Yes . . . Every gal needs a short casual jacket like that. It instantly upgrades a T-shirt or tank, plain pair of jeans or leggings and boots. She’s channeling Billy Idol with those bracelets.

Lauren London
Filthy: The trashy L.A. look has never looked so damn sexy.
Bella: Those leggings are popular, huh? I don’t know how I feel about THIS particular 80s trend repeating itself. Very Vanessa Huxtable with that asymmetrical afro.
Filthy: Damn the trend! She looks tipsy sexy!

Kelly Rowland
Filthy: The dress is real blah and looks like a feather duster, but something about Kelly makes me love it. She just looks so damn fantastic and shimmery.
Bella: Well, we black girls DO like our skin to glisten! She’s cute, but the dress looks like an ostrich bending over and showing me it’s ass. The earrings and Barbie watch throw it all off for me, too.

Tracee Ellis Ross
Bella: JOAN! I love her style – on AND off Girlfriends. What a beautiful look—from the oversize ring to the t-straps to the hair and the muted makeup. Gorgeous.
Filthy: Yeah, she looks gorgeous. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her look bad.

Rihanna
Filthy: Why does she look like Liza Minnelli??
Bella: Why does this jumper look like a doily from a bordello night table?

Lil Kim
Filthy: When did Lil’ Kim become an old Asian woman??
Bella: The same time she “Jacksoned” herself. She and LaToya could be sisters now!

Kelly Rowland
Filthy: I love how great high waisted pants look on some ladies and that leather jacket is crazy. But the shirt is the money maker; it is sexy as all hell. This is a perfect example that one does not need big boobs to have great boobs.
Bella: Yeah, that shirt isn’t made for everyone but if you’re in the IBTC, it’s a fun flirty option. I need those shoes in my life.

Alicia Keys
Bella: This is classic. The vintage looking dress and belt are RIGHT up my alley. So sophisticated, feminine and sexy.
Filthy: It DOES look like something you’d wear.

Solange Knowles
Bella: Top to bottom, she looks like a freshly groomed poodle.
Filthy: She looks like she fell into a box of glue and lingerie scrap pieces.

Kerry Washington
Bella: I usually LOVE Kerry’s style but this was just a bad choice. The fit just looks forced—she’s cuter than this dress. A+ on the pumps.
Filthy: Yeah, I’m with you. It looks like she forgot to put on the rest of her outfit.

Tina Turner
Bella: I AM THE FEMBOT QUEEN!
Filthy: Is it just me or does it look like she’s had A LOT of work done? What’s wrong with aging gracefully?

Andre Benjamin
Filthy: Maybe I’m being biased, but I love the way Andre dresses. He rarely does no wrong in my book. He owns his look, it comes of natural and comfortable.
Bella: True, he usually owns his looks with that trademark swagger, but this looks like a costume to me. It’s a mish mash of mess. How you like that alliteration?
Filthy: I couldn’t disagree more. Damn near everything he wears is over the top. I dig it and I don’t see how it’s any different than his usual look.

Cheri Dennis
Filthy: Um. Wow. I really don’t know what to say.
Bella: I do. She looks like the young mom at the PTA meeting who yells “I’ll never be too old to be sexy, boo!” at the other parents right before she stumbles and spills her flask of Hennessey on them.

Janet Jackson
Filthy: Janet was so excited to receive yet another martial arts yellow belt!
Bella: Is that little Mr. Miyagi next to her? He got TAN AS HELL.