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# Fug or Fab: Rooney Mara in Giambattista Valli Couture
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-or-fab-rooney-mara-in-giambattista-valli-couture-10-2015/
- Published: 2015-10-05T21:00:40.000Z
- Updated: 2015-10-05T16:57:11.000Z
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: fugs, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 07:44, Rooney Mara

I just keep imagining the conversations between Rooney Mara's stylist, and that stylist's assistant, wherein the assistant keeps holding up, say, a green dress with a questioning expression, and the stylist sighs, "No. You know she'll only wear black or white. I know. I *know*. But I've given up. She's been utterly monochrome for years now." So I've reached the point where I don't know if I think something is unsuccessful in general, or just BORING:

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2015/10/ffn_ggff_pan_pemiere_1_10032015_51869614.jpg "'Pan' New York Premiere")](https://www.gofugyourself.com/fug-or-fab-rooney-mara-in-giambattista-valli-couture-10-2015/pan-new-york-premiere?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

I mean, whatever. Yeah, it's a backwards apron dress too timid to go full mullet on us:

[![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/10/FFN_BESTIMAGE_PAN_PEMIERE_10042015_51870124.jpg "Celebrities Attend The Premiere Of PAN")](https://www.gofugyourself.com/fug-or-fab-rooney-mara-in-giambattista-valli-couture-10-2015/celebrities-attend-the-premiere-of-pan?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

But I think I would have liked it on Emma Watson.

Here is the thing, and this might sound a little radical, but bear with me: Her black-and/or-white only wardrobe is slowly making Rooney feel like a celebrity non-entity to me. She hasn't done enough big projects (especially recently), nor done enough press, to make a real impression on 80% of the world. *We* know who she is, but we're paying attention. For most movie goers, she is -- despite an Oscar nomination! -- barely even a household name. Which, look, I don't know her life and maybe what she really wants is to do Chekhov in tiny, obscure places forever and God speed, if so. I doubt it, though; *Pan* looks like a mess from the ads, but a *Peter Pan* adaptation always has the potential of being a very commercial project, and obviously so was *Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.* But when you're consistently presenting yourself in black and white at press events and on red carpets, you start to train the on-looker's eye to just flicker past you -- we respond to color -- and there are ten thousand tiny serious brunette actresses in the world. Now is not the time to be subtly, consistently inducing the movie-ticket-buying public to pay you no mind. Look, I'm not arguing that she needs to pop up at the next photocall in a red tube top for attention. But I think these press events are actually very smart ways for actresses to introduce themselves to the audience, or to remind us that we like them, or to catch our attention -- take Lily James's great press tour for *Cinderella*, for example. There is absolutely a way for her to be true to her personal style -- which is a little goth, a little quirky, a bit what *Vogue* would call "directional" -- without it making people subconsciously tune her out. So I guess that what I'm saying is, I'm starting to worry about Rooney Mara's career, and, in short: maybe try blue next time?

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