by John N December 20, 2022, 10:58 pm inUncategorized

The Most Daring Red Carpet Looks of All Time

Red carpets aren’t always red, but the memorable ones are always filled with wild outfits. The Met Gala shocks with a Kendall Jenner dress. The GRAMMY Awards ceremony gives rise to an iconic Jennifer Lopez look. The MTV Video Music Awards night spurs Miley Cyrus to let it all hang out.

Join us now as we revisit some of the most memorable, daring, seriously scandalous red-carpet moments from the giants of the oeuvre. Or, to make it plainer: here are lots of pictures of Chrissy Teigen, Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna, Cardi B, Lady Gaga, and more stunning stars doing their best on the red carpet to make us look.

Tate McRae

Tate McRae attended the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards in Newark, New Jersey.

Bebe Rexha

The singer wore this striking number at the 2022 MTV VMAs

Olivia Rodrigo

In 2021, the High School Musical: The Musical: The Series star posed on the green carpet for the opening gala for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

The “Good for You” singer wore a plunging black gown.

Megan Fox

The actress turned heads on the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards red carpet.

Fox wore a sheer mini dress by Mugler that left little to the imagination.

Zoe Kravitz

The actress wore a metal mesh gown by Saint Laurent to the 2021 Met Gala. The theme of the event was “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.”

Chloe Bailey and Halle Bailey

In 2021, the sister act sparkled on the red carpet for Global Citizen Live.

They wore similar nude, crystal-covered gowns.

Megan Fox

The Jennifer’s Body actress and her “Bloody Valentine” singer beau, Machine Gun Kelly, made headlines at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards thanks to their steamy red carpet PDA and daring red carpet attire.

Fox wore a black cut-out Mugler dress while MGK showed off his chest tattoos in a black jacket. He topped off his look with a painted black tongue and black-and-white nails.

Kendall Jenner

At the 2017 Met Gala, Kendall Jenner was the center of attention in what we called a “nearly naked dress.” But there was more to the model’s almost-nothing getup than that — a lot more.

The gown, by the Italian fashion house La Perla, featured 85,000 crystals. La Perla creative director Julia Haart told Elle that the crystals were strung into a single piece of “very strong, very flexible, incredibly thin” nylon string. The string plus the jewels became — voila! — the Jenner dress. “Aside from her underwear,” Haart said, “that’s it.” So, upon further review, maybe there wasn’t that much more to that head-turning dress after all.

Jaimie Alexander

Jaimie Alexander modeled this attention-grabbing number at the 2013 Hollywood premiere of Thor: The Dark World. Alexander starred in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film and its 2011 predecessor, Thor, as Sif, the franchise hero’s Asgardian battle buddy.

And while her MCU character is usually seen clad in armor, the actress is probably best known for her five-season run on Blindspot, in which she played a woman who is found sans clothing in New York City’s Times Square. It could be said then that Alexander’s Dark World dress — a “floor-length black Azzaro gown with completely sheer panels,” per The Hollywood Reporter, was far more Blindspot than Thor.

Rihanna

When you look at this picture of Rihanna at the designer-honoring 2014 CFDA Awards in New York City, perhaps you see a glittering Adam Selman gown. Or you may see “a crystal do-rag,” as the star’s hairstylist called the headpiece. Or possibly, let’s be frank, you see what’s under Rihanna’s dress. Well, we’re here to tell you that Rihanna herself sees nothing in this picture — nothing but regret, that is.

As the GRAMMY-winning “Diamonds” singer told Vogue, the dress looked so much better before she up and ruined everything by wearing “a thong that wasn’t bedazzled” underneath it. “That’s the only regret I have in my life,” Rihanna concluded. When pressed by Vogue to clarify if she meant to say that the thong was the biggest actual regret of her actual entire life, Rihanna didn’t flinch: “Yes,” she said.

Angela Sarafyan

Chrissy Teigen

This Chrissy Teigen number from the 2016 American Music Awards was initially reported as a wardrobe malfunction. After all, the black Yousef Akbar gown, with its beyond-thigh-high slit, appeared to be held together, and precariously so, by a single golden safety pin. But Akbar would deny the fashion piece had gone awry; Teigen, he said, “wore the creation perfectly.”

As for the Chrissy’s Court star, John Legend’s supermodel-turned-cookbook author wife knew exactly what she was wearing when she ventured into public with the sizzling gown. In an Instagram post, Teigen thanked Akbar, her shoe designers — and, most key, her laser hair removal team. “[A]pologies to anyone harmed mentally or physically by my hooha,” Teigen wrote.