Lindsay Lohan for Ungaro: Pasties & Poor Fashions

One of the most controversial fashion hirings this year was Ungaro's employing Lindsay Lohan as "artistic advisor." The choice was rumored to result in the French fashion house's former creative director, Esteban Cortazar, splitting; a relatively unknown designer, Estrella Archs, soon took his place. "Hearts but no soul," Suzy Menkes wrote in the New York Times of the collection that was, in a word, confusing. Granted, Archs had to get the collection ready for the runway in an inconceivable three weeks.

In the place of one of spring’s biggest trends, underwear as outerwear, there was none at all. Instead, Menkes writes, there were “only wardrobe malfunctions, bits of black masking tape or sequined pasties popping from jackets tricked out with hearts.” To boot, “one hemline revealed the curvy derrière that paparazzi might hope to snap in a downtown club—but not what you would expect on a sophisticated catwalk.” Put simply the collection was a drastic downgrade from the kind of thing Cortazar put forth in just a few seasons at Ungaro. Given the fact that Lohan’s latest ad for her leggings line, 6126, features her standing guard at a stripper pole, it looks like Ungaro should have done a bit more research before trying to reinvigorate their house by hiring a celebrity with a penchant for pole dancing and stripper style.