If fashion was, as Oscar Wilde defined it, "a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months," then the jumpsuit would only help to perpetuate fashion rather than end it.
Here, ugliness itself is the defining aesthetic, though it is not the determinedly crafted ugliness of, say, the Chapman Brothers or Sarah Lucas, more the everyday ugliness of hard drug use, wilfully bad tattoos and young people who should know better behaving badly.
Roads attract ugliness and provoke ugly behaviour.
Yet because ugliness is harder to define than race or sex, some argue that anti-discrimination laws are impossible to maintain.
Beauty is boring – but ugliness, no matter how difficult to define, always fascinates.
Courbet became the "critical" artist at mid-century, and the critic's position was largely defined by his stand, pro or con, on Courbet's revolutionary "ugliness," or brutal Realism.
The ugliness and inexplicability of the violence in our cities comes to define you and everyone around you.
The tweets' dislocation, ugliness, nihilism, and max disorder all approach the textbook characteristics – as defined by historian Jacques Barzun – of Dadaism, a first world war concept originating from French babytalk for "hobby-horse".
Most of the time it was defined as the opposite of beauty but almost no one ever devoted a treatise of any length to ugliness, which was relegated to passing mentions in marginal works".
