It was bound to happen. Someone was going to turn up naked on the red carpet for the Grammy Awards and somehow Ye (formerly Kanye West) was going to be involved.
In a moment reminiscent of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, a fully dressed Ye escorted his nearly nude wife, Melbourne-born model Bianca Censori, to the celebration of music in Los Angeles.
With Censori wearing a sheer slip and heels, most of the photographs require censorship, but that’s not why this fairytale misses out on a happy ending.
After the statuesque streak Ye and Censori left the event, with rumours that they had not been invited.
Ye’s questionable influence on fashion could also be seen in the outfit choice of his ex-girlfriend, actor and model Julia Fox. In a sheer black mini-dress, with undergarments and washing-up gloves, Fox was comparatively overdressed.
Without Ye standing by like an unsmiling security guard, Fox at least appeared in control of her overexposure.
Fortunately for fabric makers, some singers hit notes of sexiness, sophistication and style in outfits without an R rating.
Dressing for her first Grammy Awards, Chappell Roan did her homework and received an A-plus in a vintage dress from Jean Paul Gaultier’s spring 2005 collection. With make-up that could be appreciated from the back row of the Crypto.com arena in Los Angeles, the opulent gilded age silhouette was as dramatic as Roan’s music.
Gaultier was the flavour of the red carpet, with Charli XCX picking a gown from the label’s haute couture show last week, designed by Ludovic de Saint Sernin. The loosely ruffled dove grey dress with a dramatically cinched bodice showed the recovering brat jumping onto the Wuthering Heights trend early.
With a movie version of Emily Brontë’s romance starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi planned for release next year, Charli couldn’t be bothered waiting for Brontëcore to take off like Barbiecore.
Best rap album winner Doechii offered a stitched-up approach to red carpet dressing in two pin-striped looks from designer Thom Browne. A white shirt with matching tie completed the fitted strapless gown she wore on the red carpet and the pannier silhouette trousers she wore to collect her award.
The polished and preppy look was an evolution from Doechii’s self-described “swamp princess style”, with refined corsetry and beaded braids matching her jacket.
Gracie Abrams showed that you can raise eyebrows in an outfit reminiscent of wedding days rather than nights. The That’s So True singer’s ankle-length bridal dress from Chanel, with a veil attached to an ivory camellia, conjured the romance attached to her rumoured relationship with actor Paul Mescal.
In lavender Prada trousers with a matching scarf, lilac shirt and grey jacket, Australian singer Troye Sivan could have been the Rupert Everett to Abrams’ Julia Roberts in a red carpet remake of My Best Friend’s Wedding.
Sivan stood out in the sea of suits, with the men managing to keep their pants on.
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