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# Is This Fun Enough on Lupita?
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/is-this-fun-enough-on-lupita-06-2017/
- Published: 2017-06-06T15:00:46.000Z
- Updated: 2017-10-21T00:33:04.000Z
- Description: Her talents might not be put to best use here.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Fug or Fab, CFDA, Jason Wu, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 07:51

I would assume that the beauty of dressing Lupita Nyong'o is how versatile she is. This woman can carry so much color, so much pattern, and so much *business* that I feel like she's the person with whom you can get all funky and experimental. As noted earlier today, the CFDAs -- Council of Fashion Designers of America awards -- are obviously not the Met Gala, but once upon a time the designers had real fun with them. Remember, in addition to Janelle Monae's ensemble this year, this is the event of [Rihanna's naked Adam Selman dress](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/cfda-awards-nakedly-played-rihanna-in-custom-adam-selman-06-2014/), or even [Lupita wearing this wackadoo thing](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/cfdas-scrolldown-fug-carpet-lupita-nyongo-in-suno-06-2014/), which she came close to making work. As close as any person ever could. So, it's a relative bummer that she's in something plain. And mildly stumpifying. (The shoes excepted; they're very pretty.) It's like she was staying at Caesar's Palace when a toga party broke out, so down came the bedroom curtains.

Some dresses *can* be that simple, usually when they are [bastions of flawless construction](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/well-played-heidi-klum-in-zac-posen-11-2015/) or celebrating a crisp design. This isn't a victory of either of those things, so I think it might've needed a pattern to give it life, so that she could then do her Lupita thing. And with such a long time since she was promoting anything, or so it feels, "her Lupita thing" is what I have missed most. I want to see the magician at work, not being asked to go watch someone else's show.

\[Photo: Getty\]