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The 2026 Grammy Awards have been a giant evening for music.
Sunday evening’s awards present was additionally a giant evening for movie star vogue.
Nobody higher embodied that than Chappell Roan.
The spectacular musician wore a sheer customized robe that hung suspended from her nipple piercings. See? Not all the things is horrible.
Music isn’t the one artwork kind
On Sunday, February 1, Roan attended the 2026 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
There, she turned heads and created the present’s first viral second with nothing multiple jaw-dropping look.
Roan wore a vogue assertion by Miguel Castro Freitas, the Mugler artistic director.
The customized negligee costume got here with an identical cape. Each are silk georgette (thus the sheer look) in a daring, deep purple.
That look was already phenomenal. However Roan stepped it off a notch when she shed the cape, leaving solely the barely-there sheer materials suspended from nipple rings.
To be a minimum of as clear as Roan’s costume, she does seem like carrying pasties beneath the costume.
(Pasties should not unusual for cosplay or movie star vogue, however that appears like a fancy accent to put on along side piercings)
Individuals with a extra intimate understanding of the style world than any of us have in contrast the look to Manfred Thierry Mugler’s 1998 spring/summer season assortment.
The label has reported confirmed that this was the inspiration — now reinterpreted in a customized search for Roan.
It was not Roan’s solely search for the night. Nevertheless it was the boldest and most sensational. Good for her!
Grammys clothes have been cultural moments for many years
On the threat of displaying our ages, we right here at THG keep in mind the media buzz over Jennifer Lopez’s inexperienced Versace costume.
(That was additionally for the Grammy Awards — again in 2000, so about 4 days after Roan’s second birthday)
The dialog fixated upon “how” Lopez had stored her costume in place. The thought of double-sided tape retaining material in place had merely by no means occurred to many individuals.
That was when the Twin Towers have been nonetheless up, fascism was one thing that “couldn’t occur right here,” and yeah, folks simply had much less creativeness when it got here to clothes.
However hey, Lopez’s costume bought a lot consideration that Google Picture Search was borne of it. And that was again when Google appeared like an honest, user-friendly firm. It was a very completely different time.
Roan has made daring vogue statements on the purple carpet earlier than.
For instance, she wore a Jean Paul Gaultier costume to the 2025 Grammys that introduced Edgar Degas’ well-known ballerina work to life
Simply days in the past, she wore a mint inexperienced modern-meets-retro nurse ensemble by ILONA to the premiere of Charli XCX’s The Second.
Clearly, that is Roan’s boldest look but.
Along with turning heads, it’s additionally inspiring extra artists. (For those who’re like me, you awoke to see folks drawing their favourite blorbos in the identical robe)
Good issues can occur!
We wouldn’t essentially say that Roan carrying such an exceptional costume is an omen.
Nevertheless it’s a reminder that, regardless of the horrors of our time, good issues can and do occur. Even within the hellscape of 2026.
By the way in which, Roan took to the stage to current a Grammy to Olivia Dean.
Dean was this yr’s Greatest New Artist winner. Roan after all took dwelling the identical award one yr in the past.
We’re actually trying ahead to extra of Roan’s music, by the way in which. “The Subway” remains to be an enormous hit, however we’re grasping for extra.
