By Oscar Holland, NCS; Photo Editor: Jennifer Arnow
(NCS) — The MTV Video Music Awards have a wealthy historical past of outlandish — and, at instances, outright weird — vogue. Even with out Lady Gaga’s meat costume or Britney Spears’ python, the annual ceremony is assured to ship over-the-top styling, playful equipment and tributes to icons of VMAs previous.
Sunday night time was no exception. From underwear-baring sheer robes to throwbacks from the style archives, the occasion’s red carpet was, this 12 months, enjoyable and risqué in equal measure.
Here are a few of the most memorable looks from New York’s UBS Arena.
Tate Mcrae leads the sheer pattern
The VMAs red carpet isn’t any place for prudes. Sheer cloth — and consequently, seen underwear — reigned giant this 12 months, with Zara Larsson and Nikki Glaser amongst these leaving little to the creativeness in semi-transparent robes. But Tate McRae’s white silk chiffon outfit was, maybe, the sheerest of all of them.
Online, the ethereal robe noticed McRae in comparison with a “Greek Goddess” (although the pleated bra prime and matching underwear had been hardly plucked from antiquity). It took 134 hours to supply, by hand, in response to Parisian label Ludovic de Saint Sernin.
Sernin has emerged as a favourite for celebrities seeking to elevate lingerie- and BDSM-inspired looks for the red carpet. He isn’t any one-trick pony, although: McRae’s customized costume comes from the very Spring-Summer 2026 assortment that spawned the structured leather-based mini-dress Olivia Rodrigo wore to headline this 12 months’s Glastonbury pageant.
A Huntr/x ‘sleeping bag’ breaks the fourth wall
“KPop Demon Hunters” is now the most watched title in Netflix’s historical past, with the music “Golden” even nominated for VMAs Song of the Summer class. So, regardless of being animated (and fictional), it appeared becoming that the film’s central lady group, Huntr/x, made an look on the red carpet.
Ejae, Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna, who present the band’s singing voices, broke the fourth wall in complementary, Huntr/x-style ensembles.
But it was Nuna’s life-imitates-art puffy jacket — an nearly literal nod to her character Mira sporting a sleeping bag to the Met Gala — that despatched the film’s followers into meltdown on social media.
Yungblud’s Ozzy tribute
The leather-based pants, heavy boots and goth styling had been very a lot on model Yungblud. And whereas his shirtless look was divisive on social media, there was just one a part of the British singer’s outfit that basically mattered: the bejeweled cross necklace gifted to him by hero and mentor, Ozzy Osbourne, who died in July.
In a shifting second between two generations of rock stars, Osbourne famously gave Yungblud the cross in 2022, throughout filming for the latter’s video “The Funeral.” The 28-year-old says he has worn it ever since — and has additionally pledged to carry out Black Sabbath’s “Changes” at each present he ever performs. Yungblud later revealed that, by full coincidence, the cross had been made by his girlfriend Jesse Jo Stark’s father (Richard Stark of Chrome Hearts) within the early Nineties.
Arriving at the VMAs forward of a tribute to Osbourne carried out alongside Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Yungblud ripped off his fur-trimmed jacket to present the necklace full, bare-chested prominence.
Doja Cat brings ‘80s glamour — and an edible prop
Doja Cat was an image of ‘80s glamour in a voluminous blonde wig and embroidered, harlequin-patterned costume by Balmain. With her forthcoming album “Vie” anticipated to be closely Nineteen Eighties-inspired, the look was, partly, a bit of intelligent advertising.
So, too, was what occurred subsequent: In one of many night’s viral moments, the singer took a MAC lipstick out of her lipstick-shaped clutch and started making use of it in entrance of the cameras earlier than taking a hearty chunk. Moments later, she was revealed as the brand new face of MAC.
Confirming the appointment, a spokesperson for the cosmetics agency revealed that Doja Cat’s red carpet snack was, actually, an edible trompe l’oeil chocolate prop made by the TikTok pastry chef and chocolatier Amaury Guichon.
Tyla turns to (and reworks) archival Chanel
The first time Tyla’s costume appeared in public (at Paris Fashion Week, nearly a decade earlier than the South African singer was born) it wasn’t a costume at all, however a shirt. And it was worn by Claudia Schiffer.
For the VMAs, double-nominee Tyla put a inventive spin on archival vogue by remodeling a sleeveless prime from Chanel’s Spring-Summer 1993 assortment. Helped by being considerably shorter than the statuesque Schiffer, the singer was in a position to — nearly — re-style it right into a skintight minidress.
And as a model ambassador for Pandora, it was maybe little shock that Tyla accessorized with jewels from the model’s Talisman assortment, quite than the gold Chanel chain belt worn by Schiffer.
And the remainder…
This article will probably be up to date all through the night time with extra standout looks.
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