The 80s were tough enough to live through fashion-wise the first time. To see desperate designers turning back the clock yet again is just depressing. Is there no one with an original idea left on Seventh Avenue?

There were a lot of things that were fun to wear in the 80s: steel-toed hiking boots with big red laces, stretch lace finger-less gloves that went up to your elbow, earrings that hung down to your bodice ... I could go on and on, but most people wouldn't get it, at least not the younger set. Maybe they're the same folks who think this week's two fashion assassins actually looked good.

First there's Rihanna. She wore this to the Costume Institute Ball at the Met. She earned an honorable mention next to Madonna's $8,000 court jester ensemble, but it was a very close second. Girlfriend needs to stick to the bondage wear and leave the super-puffy sleeves to the twiggy girls. All that extra fabric just draws the eye to all that extra forehead she's got above the eyebrows. It's all too Flock of Seagulls for the average person.

If that's not bad enough, I give you perennial bad dresser Rumer Willis, who must have forgotten to cover her doughy torso again. I wish someone would tell that girl that baring her spud buds will not make people forget her potato head. I won't even begin to talk about pairing that with those shorts - yes, technically they match, but that's about it.

To recap, some things are better off dead. Reliving the 80s by strolling through a boutique or department store is just unsettling. Watching allegedly stylish young women just rehashing that which wasn't so hot back then is even worse. I think I'll stick to my 90s wardrobe. It's safer.