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Taylor Swift was among the many many stars to channel ’90s style on the MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday, carrying a classy taffeta bustier and skirt by Dior.
The yellow tartan was a well-recognized, evoking one of many decade’s most iconic seems to be: The preppy Dolce and Gabbana blazer and pleated skirt worn by fictional character Cher Horowitz (performed by Alicia Silverstone) within the 1995 hit film “Clueless.” However this isn’t the primary time Dior has nodded to the timeless on-screen outfit. In 2022, Natalie Portman donned a near-identical two piece for a Halloween costume, whereas Blackpink’s Jisoo, wore a model for the Dior Fall-Winter 2022 present in Paris.
However with its punk-accented stylings, within the type of black buckles, collar and zipped fitted entrance, Swift’s model is, by far, the edgiest. Finishing the look with velvet shorts, thigh-high boots and gloves, the look was straight from Dior’s 2025 Cruise assortment, which drew inspiration from Scottish craft traditions and Mary, Queen of Scots. Quoting its founder Christian Dior, the model referred to as tartan “the one fancy cloth that resists fashions” within the present notes. Fashions clad in gothic plaid items walked via the grand gardens of Drummond Fort, Perthshire in Scotland.
The look on Wednesday night time was a departure from Swift’s typical purple carpet type. The megastar is normally by no means with no smattering of crystals, diamonds or sequins, usually sticking to traditional silhouettes and extra overtly glamorous robes. She even traded in her signature purple lipstick for a dramatic black smokey eye.
Swift received huge on the Video Music Awards, nabbing seven of the ceremony’s “Moon Particular person” trophies, together with its marquee prize: Video of the Yr, for “Fortnight” with Submit Malone.
The pair additionally received Greatest Collaboration, and Swift used that acceptance speech to commemorate the September 11 assaults.
“I’ve simply been eager about what occurred 23 years in the past, everybody who misplaced a beloved one and everybody that we we misplaced,” she stated on stage. The star’s attendance on the VMAs got here a day after she endorsed Kamala Harris for the US presidency, a transfer that made headlines around the globe.