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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Craziest Past Grammy Getups

The Grammy Awards are all about glamour and who could get their hands on the coolest outfit. Unlike the Oscars, the Grammys isn't all about ball gowns, but there's a certain level of chic required to stay out of the worst fashion pages in the tabloids.

Some celebs are praised for their risk taking and innovation (Lady Gaga pre-meat dress), but others are clearly just sartorially blind. So in preparation for Grammy night this Sunday, check out our gallery of the craziest red-carpet looks of yesteryear.

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Craziest Past Grammy Fashions

Before Mary J. Blige was the trendsetting star she is today, her personal fashion choices could only be called "original." Always a fan of jungle prints, the singer took animal admiration a few steps too far at the 1996 awards.

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Craziest Past Grammy Fashions

M.I.A.'s off-the-wall fashion sense usually works, but underdressed and over-layered is best reserved for the VMAs, not the Grammys. This outfit makes us wonder if M.I.A. stands for Made In Art class!

Craziest Past Grammy Fashions

For Chris Brown's age, this 2008 getup is fun and semi-formal. However, he also looks a little like Colonel Sanders' grandson. Two-piece original, anyone?

Craziest Past Grammy Fashions

Perhaps Toni Braxton's dress got caught in the limo door just as she arrived to the show in 2001, and her stylist saved the day with packing tape from his kit. Or, more realistically, she knew she was about to hit a downswing and wanted to make some extra cash by giving the cameramen a show. Either way, that's a lot of red carpet cheek!

Craziest Past Grammy Fashions

Who picked Whitney Houston's dress in 2000? Bobbi Kristina? This elementary hue of pink will never fly for formal.

Craziest Past Grammy Fashions

Did Tracy Bingham learn nothing from Lil Kim? The Grammys is no time to live out your dreams of being a topless Solid Gold dancer. She will now be remembered as the chick who went topless to the Grammys instead of whatever she was known for before. Great body though, girl!

Craziest Past Grammy Fashions

Kim, Kim, Kim. The rapper has always been prone to taking things too far, and we could publish an entire book filled with her fashion flubs at the Grammys alone. In this gallery, however, she gets two honorable mentions. This 1998 look appears as if she grabbed glittery fabric scraps from the cutting room floor of a very tacky fashion house. No comment on the tights.

Craziest Past Grammy Fashions

The 2002 Grammys has kim looking like the queen of Black Bike Week. Not a horrible look for Myrtle Beach, but downright wrong for the Grammy Awards. However, she never ceases to amaze us, and we love her for it...even though an ensemble made entirely of burnt-orange leather will forever be beyond us.

Craziest Past Grammy Fashions

Alicia Keys' sense of personal style has always been... unique. But one badly bejeweled piece of fabric thrown over a white tank and an awful pair of embroidered jeans left the singer looking like a genie from a very cheap bottle at the 2002 awards.

Craziest Past Grammy Fashions

In 2008, Nas and Kelis really wanted to make a statement. What statement that was, we will never really know. The jaw-dropping sartorial promotion of Nas' 2008 album 'Nigger' didn't exactly have the effect they intended, but cheers to Kelis for at least being a supportive wife.

Craziest Past Grammy Fashions

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