Fashion Report

2009: A Year For Daring Looks On the Carpet

December 15, 2009

Celebrity style reached a new level of obscurity in 2009.....

2009 a year for daring outfitsWhile Lady Gaga led the way in outrageousness, wearing everything from her signature no-pants outfits, to face-obscuring headgear, to dresses constructed entirely out of Kermit the Frog dolls, R&B chanteuse Rihanna was hot on her tails with some inventive wardrobe choices of her own. She looked like a walking origami paper sculpture in a black and white laser cut dress at the American Music Awards, while her penchant for exaggerated sleeves and shoulders was fully realized in a Viktor & Rolf tuxedo she wore earlier in the year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Ball.

The Costume Institute Ball was the site of other creative couture, like Madonna, who proved that age isn’t an obstacle to wearing over-the-knee boots or floppy bunny ears, as long as they’re designed by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton.

Other stars used footwear to make a statement. 2009 was the year of the skyscraper heel, which Shakira boldly embraced at the American Music Awards in November, donning crystal encrusted sandals with towering wooden platforms.

Whether the audacious red carpet moments of 2009 were more question marks than exclamation points, it was nonetheless fitting that so many stars pushed the fashion envelope in a year that saw Sacha Baron Cohen do his own shocking send up of fashion and celebrity in “Bruno.” As shocking as his character Bruno’s fashion choices might be, there were plenty of real-life fashion plates like Lady Gaga already one step ahead.

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