Three- some looks

Miley Cyrus in Jean Paul Gaultier. ’18.

Miley Cyrus and flowers. Here, she’s performance art: pre-empting her hit single’s floral theme in a wrap of black tux.

The look incorporates requisite Grammy artifice: those chunky disco heels play perfectly to a deconstructed collar, itself all circus brocade.

Her collar barely attaches to that sleek jumpsuit: added to the uniform hotch-potch are tassels, which fall, lopsided from the neckline.

Miley is after all, a seasoned Grammy player, out for fun and the win.

Kim Gordon in Marc Jacobs. ’09.

Kim Gordon is OG rock chick; securing her position long before Miley’s reign.

Here she plays into Marc Jacobs as thrift: those black sequins plastered on an embroidered, kittenish mini give 90s glam: grunge-y, basement-find.

Thrift, to this extent, is rock chick fashion: real, everyday femininity, conscious of its accessibility, and so, of its very materialism.

A perfect statement from the girls with a unique voice.

Michael B. Jordon in Yohji Yamamoto. ’25.

Yohji Yamamoto is usually dubbed too subtle for red carpets.

And yet, he seamlessly blends his clothes to character; menswear is comfortably repetitive tailoring, which Yohji manipulates to glamorous advantage.

Here, he stretches the trad tuxedo jacket down on a vertical seam, adding pinstripes and clunky jewellery to literally pimp ubiquitious male tailoring.

The look both subtle and overt powerplay, a man subverting the system, totally confident in his individuality, all the while, indulging a dapper pimp characterisation.