1. Lizzo

Lizzo walked gingerly as she navigated her heavy Dolce & Gabbana coat with a long train. Then, she dropped the coat to her shoulders to reveal a busty sequin corset gown underneath in a softer orange. The coat was entirely embroidered with handmade silk flowers, and the gown was silk with crystal mesh Swarovski details. She accessorised with crystal embellished heels and sheer fingerless gloves.

“Lizzo is a floral garden fantasy in her ruffle orange 3D dressing gown and matching corset dress underneath,” said Holly Katz, a stylist and host of the Fashion Crimes podcast. “And we love to hear her roar!”

2. Taylor Swift

Swift channelled her Midnights era by wearing a long sparkly skirt with a high-neck, long-sleeve crop top, all by Roberto Cavalli. They were, yes, midnight blue. She added statement diamond earrings by Lorraine Schwartz and wore her hair up.

3. Harry Styles

Fashion lover Harry Styles walked the carpet in a rainbow harlequin-pattern jumpsuit adorned with Swarovski crystals. He was shirtless underneath. His low-cut, multicoloured Egonlab look drew cheers. Egonlab is a young brand out of Paris.

“The man seems like he’s having an enormous amount of fun with fashion, and even if that doesn’t mean wearing harlequin overalls for most of us, the end result – the sheer joy of it – is something we should all aim for,” said Esquire’s style director, Jonathan Evans.

4. Cardi B

Cardi B wore a bombshell, sculptural electric-blue gown. The dress had huge shoulders and a headpiece over one eye. “I’m trying, I’m trying,” she told photographers as she carefully walked down the carpet.

Cardi’s look was from Gaurav Gupta’s latest collection, “continuing to prove she intrinsically understands the delicate style dynamics of the Grammys carpet. It’s not about being silly, but rather making a statement”, said Bianca Betancourt, digital culture editor for Harper’s Bazaar.

To present the award for best rap album, Cardi donned a silver metallic assemblage from the archive of Paco Rabanne. Rabanne died Friday, February 3, in France at age 88. The top and skirt were done by Julien Dossena in 2021. The matching hood that covered her eyes dates to 2020.

5. Anitta

Anitta also made a splash in black Versace from 2003.

“She went toward a more gothic aesthetic,” Betancourt said. “The flowing gown was sublimely tailored and showed the global star doing red carpet elegance in her own way. It was still sexy, still youthful, but still elevated. It didn’t look obviously vintage, which is a testament to Donatella’s artistry.”

6. Machine Gun Kelly

Machine Gun Kelly was in a silver double-breasted laminated foil suit with a Swarovski crystal harness. It was custom Dolce & Gabbana. He was accompanied by his fiancée Megan Fox in creamy Zuhair Murad whose gown had a corset bodice and heart-embroidered appliqué.

7. Sam Smith

They were accompanied by Kim Petras, and drag queens Violet Chachki and Gottmik in the same colour. Smith wore a top hat with a veil. They, too, wore matching gloves, a trend of the night.

Monochrome was a major theme, Betancourt said. “It’s a great way to experiment with more avant-garde looks while still maintaining a sense of stylistic structure,” she said.

8. Bebe Rexha

Bebe Rexha proved Barbiecore is going strong, sizzling in hot pink with twists from head to toe and a va-va-voom halter bodice. The look was Moschino by Jeremy Scott.

9. Kacey Musgraves

Musgraves, in Valentino, also took the Barbie note with a feathery cape in a lighter pink hue over a catsuit.

10 & 11. Jack Harlow and Scott Evans

“While there weren’t any giant, unmissable, overwhelmingly popular red-carpet trends on the men’s fashion front, that actually proved to be a positive this year. It gave the smaller trends a little bit more room to shine,” Evans said.

His most compelling? The double-breasted suit, or jacket.

“It’s not just a 2023 thing, of course, but the popularity of the DB tends to ebb and flow, and it seems like this year could be a very good one for the silhouette. LL Cool J, Jack Harlow, Saint JHN and Scott Evans all wore a version of it. They all looked fantastic, and the really great thing is that men in all walks of life can emulate their outfits and look equally fantastic,” he said.

12. Miguel

“Miguel was decked out in denim. Benny Blanco, too. The looks were seemingly made with the word ‘divisive’ in mind, but they smacked of a sort of youth-culture cool that embraces that word instead of shying away from it. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, those outfits seem like a bellwether of a more denim-forward world in the near future, so take note,” Evans said.

13. Doja Cat

“Who can’t stop talking about Doja Cat donning 30,000 red Swarovski crystals for Paris Fashion Week? Well, she certainly doesn’t disappoint at the Grammys as she totally channelled the queen of darkness,” Katz said. “The Mia Farrow 60’s haircut was a perfect match for this look.”

Betancourt was also a Doja fan.

“The look was gritty, sexy and much like Doja herself, forward-thinking. Her make-up also deserves a notable mention. It was an exquisite cat eye (pun intended) by Ernesto Casillas with a juicy metallic glossed lip that echoed the early aughts, but done without the kitsch most 2000s-inspired looks often perpetuate,” she said.

14. Viola Davis

Viola Davis, meanwhile, completed her EGOT by winning a Grammy. She wore a Naeem Kahn sequinned, short-sleeved gown at the Grammys pre-telecast ceremony.

15. Shania Twain

Shania Twain wasn’t up for a Grammy. That, she said, freed her to have fun with fashion. Her hair was red and her Harris Reed wide-belled pantsuit was adorned with huge black polka dots against white. She topped it off with a towering, matching wide-brim hat.

“Here I am with all my new fun things to wear,” she said. Reed is a young British American designer she wanted to support. Her goal: “I just wanted to add some pop and cheer.”

Twain, said Katz, “definitely scored in the avant-garde category but does sort of look like she just stepped out of Alice in Wonderland”.

16. Laverne Cox

Laverne Cox was Wakanda Forever in her custom strapless leather Kim Kassas embellished warrior figure dress and African-inspired jewellery, Katz said. “Paying homage to the African culture through fashion is always in style.”

17. Kelsea Ballerini

Prabal Gurung whipped up a custom sunny yellow chiffon look for Kelsea Ballerini with light-as-air back pieces she unfurled on the carpet. Ballerini’s look, Katz said, was “so ethereal and dreamy on the red carpet”.

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