At this year’s Video Music Awards, pop’s biggest stars opted for gaudy and extravagant fashion, with plenty of fur, feathers and big silhouettes
Tonight she’ll become the first person to win Artist Director Honors, and she’s up for 11 other awards: it’s Taylor Swift looking quite literally statuesque in a mock neck gown with a sculptural silver skirt by Tamara Ralph.
Model Madisin Rian has some hide in this head-to-toe ensemble.
Also in leather, masked country musician Orville Peck; with a ‘cool’ Keith Haring t-shirt.
She’s making rock music. Charli xcx wears black velvet with Morticia Addams hair for autumn/winter 26.
Kpop star and actor Lisa is big – very big – on red in an enormous Quine Li coat and corset dress by The Attico.Sinners star Miles Caton makes a call for peace in a white dove printed leather jacket by KidSuper.
Grunge grown-ups: Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear of Foo Fighters.
British singer-songwriter Raye on the lookout for that pesky husband, while wearing a silvery cowl neck dress
Multi-hyphenate musician and film star Teyana Taylor wears a beaded robe with floor sweeping feather trim.
Best new artist nominee Magnus Ferrell harks back to the golden age of nudie suits in this 1970s-style baby blue ensemble.
Australian musician Troye Sivan wears a business at the top, party at the bottom ostrich feather ensemble by Erdem.
There’s no mistaking Adam Lambert, who’s wearing a fascinator spelling his own name. We wonder if that cloak will come off for an outfit reveal later in the evening.
DJ and perfume entrepreneur Paris Hilton wears a pallet of paillette in a Barbarella-esque ensemble.
Kpop demon hunter Rei Ami wears lasercut leather and chains.
Emma Bunton is presenting tonight, in platforms just as high as in her Spice Girls era. She’s wearing a black velvet playsuit by Annie’s Ibiza.
Nominated for six awards tonight, Pinkpantheress has things wrapped in ribbon in a ruffled, polkadot gown by Nina Ricci.
Sabrina Carpenter skipped the red carpet and stepped straight onto the stage in a Chicago-inspired tap set.
