Maggie Gyllenhaal Dares to Wear the Fur Gilet

Fur issues aside (I figured Maggie to be one not to wear it), she's showing some serious fashion bravado for wearing the bulky fur gilet WITH A BELT! I see she cleverly kept the wide leather belt exposed in the front only, so the inescapable appearance of profile bulk is kept to a minimum. This is high-risk territory, reserved only for the fiercely confident fashionista. Dolce & Gabbana (below, left) sent long fur gillets down the runway for A/W 2008, worn both belted and unbelted, and Diane von Furstenberg took the belt-worn-on-the-outside look further (below, right), wrapping it around many layers of clothing to create the trend that so many of us want to work into our daily dressing, but can't because we'd wind up looking like a telephone pole with a rubber band around it.