Source:
https://scmp.com/magazines/style/fashion-beauty/article/2070358/grammys-red-carpet-bling-beyonce-red-pantsuit-paris
Style/ Luxury

Grammys red carpet: Bling from Beyonce, a pantsuit from Paris Jackson and... Trump?

Highlights from the red carpet included looks from Adele, Beyonce, Carrie Underwood, Paris Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry, CeeLo Green and Joy Villa

Beyonce performs at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: AFP

The music world’s hottest stars strutted their best stuff down the Grammys red carpet at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday. Here are the top moments from the A-list fashion parade:

Adele, who will do battle with Beyonce for most of the top awards of the night, turned to Givenchy for her Grammys look – a custom pleated live green floor-length gown with a chaste neckline, a criss-cross bodice and a fitted waist.

Adele arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: EPA
Adele arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: EPA

Her hair was swept up, and her signature cat eye makeup was in place.

The British balladeer, who opened the show with her global megahit “Hello,” is nominated for five Grammys, including Album, Record and Song of the year – the top three categories, in which she will face off with Beyonce.

Beyonce performs at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: AFP
Beyonce performs at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: AFP

She won in the other two categories – best pop vocal album and best pop solo performance – which were handed out before the main telecast.

Adele performs at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: REUTERS
Adele performs at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: REUTERS

Nothing makes a statement like fire-engine red.

Country singer Carrie Underwood earned rave reviews for her beaded high-necked Elie Madi gown with a huge diamond cutout that revealed a ton of cleavage.

Carrie Underwood arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: EPA
Carrie Underwood arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: EPA

Fellow country crooner Faith Hill wore a cleavage-baring red keyhole gown from Zuhair Murad. And Britain’s Charli XCX stunned in a sultry strapless Vivienne Westwood gown with a deep sweetheart neckline.

Musician Faith Hill arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: REUTERS
Musician Faith Hill arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: REUTERS

After actress Evan Rachel Wood’s much-adored tux at the Golden Globes, and her pledge to ditch the dresses for all of awards season, the ladies of the music world embraced jumpsuits and pantsuits on Grammys night.

Paris Jackson – yes, the daughter of the King of Pop is now 18 – earned plaudits for her youthful sleeveless multi-colored Balmain jumpsuit, the legs slit high and the bodice cut out at the waist. Her blonde hair was cropped and shaggy.

Paris Jackson arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: AFP
Paris Jackson arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: AFP

Country music singer-songwriter Brandy Clark rocked an all-black pantsuit with flared trousers.

Brandy Clark arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: EPA
Brandy Clark arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: EPA

And R&B singer Mya looked sultry in a red pantsuit with a pussy bow blouse that was anything but innocent, with a naughty cutout bodice.

Mya arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: AFP P
Mya arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: AFP P

Jennifer Lopez may have rocked the Grammys red carpet in 2000 with her plunging barely-there green Versace gown, but on Sunday, she missed the mark in a frothy lilac Ralph & Russo halter gown open down to there and a slit up to there.

Jennifer Lopez arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: EPA
Jennifer Lopez arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: EPA

Katy Perry turned to celeb designer Tom Ford, but the pale pink floor-length feather skirt topped with a somewhat ill-fitting metallic long-sleeve top didn’t really work.

Katy Perry arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: REUTERS
Katy Perry arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: REUTERS

Her message about “purposeful pop” – far better. “That’s what we need more than ever... to listen to one another,” the newly blonde Perry told E! Network on the red carpet.

And CeeLo Green.... looked like a cross between “Star Wars” droid C-3PO and a gilded samurai warrior.

Gnarly Davidson (aka CeeLo Green) arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: AFP
Gnarly Davidson (aka CeeLo Green) arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: AFP

A pro-Trump statement at the Grammys? It seemed unlikely, and yet, there it was.

Singer Joy Villa arrived in a white cape.... which she took off to reveal a tight red, white and blue gown with “Make America Great Again” emblazoned on the front... and a glittering silver “TRUMP” across the bottom of the train.

Joy Villa arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: REUTERS
Joy Villa arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: REUTERS
Joy Villa arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: AFP
Joy Villa arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Photo: AFP

On her Instagram feed, Villa – known more for her red carpet statements than her singing – said: “My whole artistic platform is about LOVE!”

The ensemble earned immediate scorn on Twitter and Instagram.

But Villa – who is not a Grammy nominee – is no stranger to red carpet controversy.

Last year, she wore something that barely qualified as a dress – strips of metallic material that looked like dinosaur bones and left little to the imagination.

The year before? It was an orange plastic lattice dress, again revealing many of her assets.

Want more articles like this? Follow STYLE on Facebook