The Most Outrageous Outfits Celebrities Have Ever Worn

The Woman Gaga outfit that wants no introduction. The Rain On Me singer’s meat ensemble sparked excessive controversy within the animal rights group when she wore it to the MTV Video Music Awards in 2010. “Regardless of how superbly it’s offered, flesh from a tortured animal is flesh from a tortured animal,” mentioned PETA president Ingrid Newkirk. “Meat represents bloody violence and struggling, so if that is the look they have been going for, they achieved it.” Gaga defined following the awards ceremony that the costume was an announcement about one’s must combat for what one believes in, and highlighted her distaste for the US navy’s don’t-ask-don’t-tell coverage.

For the 2018 Met Gala, actress Scarlett Johansson attended the celebrated vogue occasion in a Marchesa robe – the primary celeb to take action following the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Georgina Chapman, the designer behind the model, was married to Weinstein and celebrities on the time mentioned the disgraced film producer would strain them to put on his then spouse’s designs. In an announcement to The Cut, Johansson mentioned of her choice, “I wore Marchesa as a result of their garments make ladies really feel assured and exquisite and it’s my pleasure to assist a model created by two extremely gifted and vital feminine designers.”

After performing on the American Music Awards, Katy Perry obtained criticism for sporting a kimono with many calling it “racist”. One Twitter person wrote, “Liked the cultural authenticity of Katy Perry’s #AMAs efficiency. She nailed the historically ignorant costume of a white pop singer.” She later apologised, saying: “I did not know that I did it improper till I heard folks saying that I did it improper. It takes somebody to say, out of compassion, out of affection, ‘Hey, that is what the origin is’.” 

No stranger to a controversial get-up, Miley Cyrus opted for a barely-there customized Versace outfit for the VMA’s in 2015. It was not her solely outfit that evening to trigger controversy, sporting a number of robes that left little to the creativeness. 

Whereas this sequinned Vivienne Tam costume appeared gorgeous on a then 31-year-old Roberts on the premiere of Notting Hill, when she walked the pink carpet and waved to followers photos of her furry underarms rapidly triggered controversy. Chatting with Busy Phillips on E! discuss present Busy Tonight, Roberts mirrored on the now-iconic Hollywood second. She mentioned, “The image is vivid in my thoughts, truly, from that second. I believe I simply hadn’t actually calculated my sleeve size and the waving and the way these two issues would go collectively and reveal private issues about me. So it wasn’t a lot an announcement because it’s simply a part of the assertion I make as a human on the planet for myself.”

Rapper Nicki Minaj’s outfit on the 2012 Grammy’s was accused of being extremely offensive, particularly her “prop Priest”. Rife with non secular symbolism, the efficiency was a method to introduce Minaj’s alter-ego, Roman Zolanski. Explaining her look and efficiency, Minaj mentioned the rendition of her songs Roman’s Revenge and Roman Vacation (which included dancing monks, an exorcism and levitation) was simply a part of a “film” she was writing. 

“You understand how folks write performs and films? That’s what I did. I wrote that and I gave the world a tiny little preview of what was to return,” she mentioned on the time. “And so I’ve to carry out it on the set through which it will be within the film, proper?” 

Björk’s iconic swan costume was essentially the most talked about outfit on the 2001 Oscars, due to its “wacky/shock worth. The outfit was rapidly branded the 12 months’s “vogue fake pas”

When Rose McGowan arrived on the MTV VMA’s in 1998 with then boyfriend Marilyn Manson in nothing however a chains, many individuals have been shocked. The actress later defined the that means behind her controversial selection, stating: “That was my first public look after being sexually assaulted. I used to be like, ‘Is that this what you need?’” McGowan defined in an interview with Dr. Oz. “I’ve by no means worn one thing like that earlier than or since. That was a political assertion. In fact, there was no Twitter on the time or Instagram, no option to communicate for your self.”

Actress Anne Hathaway ditched her plans to put on a Valentino robe to the Oscars in 2013 after she discovered her Les Misérables co-star Amanda Seyfried was planning on sporting an nearly similar costume. To keep away from a possible lookalike second, Hathaway determined to put on this Prada robe (and offended the designers within the course of). 

On Oscars evening in 2018, Hathaway wrote to Instagram: “I needed to change my costume final minute and so it appeared like my nipples have been exhausting, I had full blown laryngitis and needed to sing, and a bunch of corny haters have been getting a number of consideration from the media for being haters however you realize what? It was nonetheless one of the best.”

Whereas performing her single Come And Get It on the MTV Film Awards in 2013, Selena Gomez was known as out for cultural appropriation for sporting a Bindi. “Selena ought to apologise after which she ought to get acquainted with the fundamentals of world religions,” Hindu statesman Rajan Zed instructed WENN on the time.