British pop star Rita Ora shows local celebrities how it’s done

Visiting British chanteuse Rita Ora, one of the hottest singers in the world right now thanks to a growing list of global hits, gave her local counterparts a serious sartorial lesson as to how a red carpet event should be done.

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And that, Aussie pop stars, is how you create a sense of Ora.

Visiting British chanteuse Rita Ora, one of the hottest singers in the world right now thanks to a growing list of global hits, gave her local counterparts a serious sartorial lesson as to how a red carpet event should be done.

Stepping out for Australian music’s biggest night, the ­annual ARIA Awards on Wednesday, the 28-year-old wore not one but four different outfits throughout the night.

British pop star Rita Ora was easily one of the best dressed on the ARIA red carpet wearing a Marchesa gown. Picture: Matrix

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Not afraid to take a risk at a big event — she wore a bathrobe to the MTV Europe Music Awards last year — Ora’s presence was a shockwave through the industry’s most glamorous names.

Surrounded by her glam squad, Michael Brennan on hair, Gillian Campbell doing make-up and styling by Jason Rembert, Ora launched on to the red carpet at The Star in a showstopping pastel coloured Marchesa gown.

She’s not afraid to take risks, last year she wore a bathrobe to the MTV Europe Music Awards. Picture: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images

Then, once inside the event just over an hour later, Ora donned a figure hugging, red sequined dress from ­British designer Julien Macdonald with Christian Louboutin heels. But Ora wasn’t settled yet.

By the time she hit the stage a couple of hours later, Ora had changed again, performing her new single Let You Love Me in a yellow Ashton Michael bodysuit with detachable pants and sleeves.

Just an hour later she quickly changed into a red sequined gown to present an award alongside host Keith Urban. Picture: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images

A couple of hours later she changed into a detachable yellow Ashton Michael bodysuit. Picture: AAP Image/Joel Carrett

And in a cordoned-off VIP area of The Establishment for Warner Music’s official after-party, Ora paid tribute to Aussie fashion by choosing local designer Michael Lo Sordo for her final look of the night, a see-through black dress she accessorised with Saint Laurent boots and a black beanie.

It was a fitting costume as she received three plaques to recognise her success Down Under: gold sales of her new single Let You Love Me, ­double platinum for her hit Anywhere and three times platinum for Your Song.

She later wore a sheer ensemble to collect three plaques which recognised her success in Australia. Picture: Supplied

“You want to impress, you want to be here and to adapt to the incredible culture and the music that is coming out of Australia so I kind of think it is more pressure,” Ora told The Daily Telegraph.

As for her fashion choices, and that bathrobe last year, Ora, who returns for a full tour in March, was just being authentically herself.

“I just wanted to show ­people you could be yourself, and I guess a robe and a towel on my head is me being myself. There was a subconscious message, which was I can take the piss out of a red carpet and it is not that serious,” Ora said.