The 2024 Grammys flopped — fashion-wise at least. Between the bland neutral colors, unflattering metallic fabrics, and Miley Cyrus’s hair, there have been better demonstrations of fashion at Hollywood awards shows.
Gen Z and millennials’ obsession with neutrals showed on the red carpet. White and black dominated, as if designers “Grammy-fied” the white and cream shades of the sad, beige mom TikTok aesthetic.
Content creator and fashion critic HauteLeMode, otherwise known as Luke Meagher, also said the fashion at the Grammys was underwhelming.
“The Grammy is this beautiful, weird, crazy, over-the-top experience usually, and then at the same time you have nice moments that come in and they are more classic and clean, but overall there was not that fun, wonderful, wacky, DIY-crafitness, nor was there a whole lot of beautiful, clean, classic styles that made one say, ‘Oh! Amazing!’” Meagher said.
White and black are classic colors, and if the designer incorporates them into a dress that fits well with the celebrity’s body type, then white and black can yield that classic and clean look. But in most cases at the Grammys, the black and white looks were not memorable.
Taylor Swift would have stunned in her white Schiaparelli corset dress with black gloves, for instance, if she had styled her hair differently and dropped the necklaces. But her hair didn’t match the drama of the outfit, and her necklaces distracted from the clean lines of her dress.
The metallic gold and silver dresses were another fashion faux pas at the Grammys this year. Singer Dua Lipa, model Alessandra Ambrosio, and others graced the red carpet in dresses with metallic fabrics. But the looks underwhelmed — they were neither flattering nor memorable.
Miley Cyrus’ hair was the most memorable part of the Grammys. Heralding back to the 1980s, Cyrus’s hair was long, curled, and teased — which according to news outlets and tabloids such as the BBC and Cosmopolitan — was a nod to her godmother Dolly Parton.
But Cyrus’ hair should not have been the most memorable part of fashion at the Grammys, and yet it was.
One can only hope that the next big fashion event of the year, the MET, will be better.
