The 12 Wildest Red Carpet Looks of the Decade

Lady Gaga

Few dresses in modern history will be so remembered as Lady Gaga's infamous meat dress from the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, designed by Franc Fernandez. Now turned into jerky, the dress was put on display at Gaga's Engima residency in Las Vegas in May.

Nicki Minaj

Minaj went into the woods for the Grammy Awards, donning a Little Red Riding Hood Versace cape and bringing a fake Pope as an escort — perhaps to protect her from the Big Bad Wolf? 

Sacha Baron Cohen

Cohen dressed as his uniformed character from The Dictator at the Academy Awards, even bringing "Kim Jong-il's ashes" in a golden urn, which he dumped on Ryan Seacrest during a red carpet interview. The actor was flanked by two olive-clad cadets and claimed his own garb was by John Galliano "but the socks are from Kmart."

Rihanna

Rihanna donned her so-called naked dress while accepting the CFDA Fashion Icon Award in 2014. She said on the carpet at the time, "You will never be stylish if you don’t take risks." The sheer look was created by her costumer Adam Selman with Swarovski crystals — flash forward five years and she has her own Fenty fashion house. 

Miley Cyrus

Two years after that performance with Robin Thicke at the VMAs, Cyrus again shocked her Disney audience in a skimpy chandelier skirt and silver suspenders (sans shirt) by Versace. Pulling her blonde dreadlocks up into a ponytail, Cyrus chose the outfit that THR called "outrageous" at the time and went on to speak about empowering women to embrace their sexuality. 

Madonna

Madonna bared all at the 2016 Met Gala in a lacey Givenchy ensemble. That year, "Madonna's butt" dominated the social media conversation. 

Katy Perry

Always one to dress on-theme, Perry transformed into a gilded angel for the "Heavenly Bodies" Met Gala with six-foot-wide Versace angel wings (that inspired Internet memes about her knocking into other A-listers and her stylist Jamie Mizrahi).

Rihanna

Met Gala queen Rihanna converted fashionistas into believers by transforming into a metallic pope for the pious 2018 Met Gala. Her embellished minidress, robe and headpiece were all designed by John Galliano, creative director of Maison Margiela, and were worn with Louboutin heels and a 1934 Cartier pendant necklace. 

Ezra Miller

"I don’t identify as a man. I don’t identify as a woman. I barely identify as a human," Miller told THR. That statement seemed fitting for Miller's other-worldly puffer coat gown for the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in Paris. The black hooded piece was by Moncler in collaboration with Valentino's creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli (Miller added black lipstick, too).

Joy Villa

For the 2019 Grammys, singer Joy Villa continued to show her support for President Donald Trump by wearing a "Build the Wall" dress in reference to his immigration policies at the U.S.-Mexico border. The gown, with a brick motif and barbed wire shoulders, was designed by L.A.-based Desi Lee Allinger-Nelson of Desi Designs Couture. The political statement was completed with a "Make America Great Again" handbag. 

Cardi B

The rapper embodied the "birth of Venus" in a vintage 1995-era Thierry Mugler seashell dress with a sequined top and pearl accents at her waist, neck, navel and hair. She needed five people to help her out of the car, natch.

Billy Porter