Grammys 2021 best dressed: Megan Thee Stallion, Dua Lipa, Harry Styles and more – in pictures (2024)

We’ll make no bones about it: Phoebe Bridgers’ skeleton dress was a best dressed moment we’ll never forget. The singer-songwriter has worn skeleton outfits before but this Thom Browne number was 2021’s equivalent of Gaga’s egg: strange and surprisingly emotive

If you thought you had mastered waist-up dressing by this point here’s Beyonce to show you how pedestrian you are. Yes, she’s got a Zoom-friendly neckline but also doorknocker earrings fashioned after human fingers and trompe l’oeil leather gloves incorporating gold fingernails.The dress’s designer, Schiaparelli, has owned the few major fashion moments of the last 12 months (see also Lady Gaga’s inauguration gown with its giant gold bird motif). The house is known for its surrealism – it was founded by the Salvador Dali collaborator Elsa Schiaparelli in 1927 – so that makes sense for now

And the dress most likely to become a meme is ... of course, this one. After a year in which the duvet coat has been omnipresent it was probably time for duvet haute couture. This look, part work-from-bed, part Botticelli’s Venus, is also by Schiaparelli. The woman inside it turns out to be Miley Cyrus’s sister (Yes! There are more of them.) Her stylist, Brett Nelson, says: ‘She’s a cool little art kid, so I want to show that.’ Twitter said: ‘Now we know where all the toilet paper went during the pandemic’

Post-Molly Goddard, Jhené Aiko’s pink and fluffy dress from Monsoori was both fabulously OTT and reminded us of a pre-pandemic red carpet time

Sunflower as an accessory? Sure! Bad Bunny’s cottagecore-element stood out, in an outfit which married cartoon quirk with gothic drama. The black Burberry suit and bovver boots were a bit ‘spoilt Victorian child’ while the animal-beanie was pure comedy

This very 21 June vajazzled chainmail number is by Versace. (Another strong Versace look came from John Legend who popped into the ceremony remotely to accept the award for best album of the year wearing a gold-trimmed Versace bathrobe)

Twinning is winning: and the Haim sisters do it with effortless grace here in custom-made Prada in baby blue. Shout out to Este’s long sleeved chemise dress which gives us 60s Vogue cover vibes

Here she is: roaring 20s realness has arrived. Lizzo wore two ruched, high shine numbers by Balmain for her red carpet moment. Apparently this colour is called sea foam green. More low necklines, more matchy-matchy shoes that feel both 1980s and 00s at the same time. Her stylist said that Diana Ross was on the mood board

From elevated hoodies to oversize suit jackets and XXL flower lapels, BTS showed us how to be a male celebrity on the red carpet in 2021. Bringing Virgil Abloh’s post-pandemic looks alive at the virtual ceremony, the band showed that the suit isn’t quite dead yet

More Lizzo matchy-matchimalism in this candy-wrapper pink version with shoes and oversized hairclips in the same hue

When nothing else in life makes sense: match your clothing. Every aspect of Billie Eilish’s two Gucci looks matched, including her pink red carpet face mask and bucket hat. She also changed her nail art three times, and joined Beyonce in a fingernail-based micro-trend, wearing sequinned gloves that incorporated her 3in manicure. She accepted the award remotely with her older brother, Finneas Baird O’Connell, and sort of matched to him as well, in pink frilly Gucci

Giving us vintage Missy Elliot energy, the rapper Chika wore a custom-made pastel-toned Nike athleisure suit with a matching bag and flower-shaped face mask. It was the perfect ‘sweatpants to luxury’ pivot

My colleague Jess Cartner-Morley has been talking, for some time, about the likely return of the miniskirt post-pandemic (see: 19th-century germ theory for details), and this look certainly supports that hypothesis. Window box chic is also quite Mother’s Day, very spring, and also the logical conclusion of the cottagecore trend

Dressed in a burnt orange Dolce & Gabbana dress, Megan exuded old Hollywood glamour in her bow-featuring evening gown. Although she likened herself to a ratched Beyonce, this look was pure Big Knowles Energy

It was no big surprise that Harry would wear custom-made Gucci on the red carpet (pink and yellow sweater vest with a yellow houndstooth suit). But what will be a talking point is the fuzzy purple boa which aligned him with Ziggy Stardust era David Bowie and T Rex’s Marc Bolan (both boa lovers)