From the quirky, to the outright bizarre. 

It&#39;s&nbsp;unsual times we live in, no less so for this year&#39;s MTV Video Music Awards. The VMAs makes for the first major awards broadcast to air since the pandemic hit the United States, and consisted of a hybrid programme of video acceptances and performances with no audiences. Keke Palmer, as host, kicked off the ceremony honouring Black Panther star <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/Culture/black-panther-boseman-death">Chadwick Boseman, who died on Friday from colon cancer</a>, and addressed the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests.

But of course, we welcomed some familiarity in the unfamiliar: Lady Gaga stunned in social distancing-appropriate couture, continually raising the bar for outlandish, and eyebrow raising fashion.

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But she&#39;s not the first, and will certainly not be the last. Ahead, we sieved&nbsp;through our archives for some of the most outlandish red carpet looks at the VMAs in history.

Madonna&#39;s famed &quot;Like A Virgin&quot; performance at the first-ever Video Music Awards in 1984 was perhaps one of the most unforgettable VMA performances in history. She wore&nbsp; a white wedding dress when she experienced a wardrobe malfunction, with her white stiletto accidentally slipping off, and as she reached for the shoe,&nbsp;her dress went up.&nbsp;The performance set the VMAs as a houeshold name and raised the bar for every performer coming after her.

Madonna in a wedding dress, 1984

Courtney Love dressed like Marilyn Monroe, Kurt Cobain in the image of a grunge star - yes, there is nothing shocking in this picture.&nbsp;But this is one of their last ever family snapshots in public, and that&#39;s why this photo is cemented as one of the most unforgettable moments in VMA history.

Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain with baby Frances Bean Cobain, 1993

Dennis Rodman is a famous NBA basketball player. He now wears mostly pink pantsuits, but in the 1990s he was not one to&nbsp;shy away from rhinestones and crystal jewelry.

Dennis Rodman, 1995

Perhaps the &quot;naked&quot; outfit worn by Rose McGowan is one of the most talked about outfits from the red carpets, ever.

Somehow, her choice of companion, Marilyn Manson, looks a little more normal in comparison -&nbsp; we&#39;re totally digging his sweet&nbsp;acid leopard look.

Marilyn Manson and Rose McGowan, 1998

Certainly a moment to remember by&nbsp;from the heyday of No Doubt.&nbsp;Gwen Stefani was a&nbsp;cool punk princess, dressed in a flying saucer-like dress over trousers, a fur bikini and a matching blue hairstyle.

Gwen Stefani, 1998

The media, who had not yet recovered from Rose McGowan&#39;s revealing outfit, wrote the following year that Lil Kim, with her&nbsp;purple jumpsuit and a&nbsp;shell-nipple, was very well covered.

Lil Kim, 1999

Soul singer Macy Gray is an unrecognized queen of self promotion. She came to the award in 2001 in a dress with a print in the form of the release date of her new album. &#39;Buy It&#39; was written on the back.&nbsp;

Macy Gray, 2001

Lady Gaga has stunned, and will continue to stun.&nbsp;Hat, clutch, dress - for the VMAs in 2010 Lady Gaga, came in a&nbsp;total meat look.&nbsp;As she later explained, this was her statement against the policies of the American army.&nbsp;For those who are worried: the dress was preserved by taxidermists that came in&nbsp;dried form.&nbsp;

Lady Gaga, 2010

Every first appearance of Nicki Minaj on the VMAs should be in the most shocking outfits list, somewhere.&nbsp;But we chose only this harajuku outfit to leave you with.

Nicki Minaj, 2011

Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake&#39;s&nbsp;total denim look from the 2001 American Music Awards still haunts us all to this day.&nbsp;Thirteen years after their original appeareance, it was&nbsp;parodied by Katy Perry and Riff Ruff.&nbsp;

Katy Perry, 2014

Call this the most powerful red carpet anti-slut shaming look ever: Amber Rose and Black China came to the VMAs in bodysuits adorned&nbsp;with the words &quot;prostitute&quot;, &quot;whore&quot; and their synonyms.&nbsp;

Amber Rose and Black China, 2015

Want to look for a surefire way to stand out?&nbsp;Ask Jared Leto (correct answer: choose Gucci).&nbsp;

The Most Outlandish Red Carpet VMA Outfits We Are Still Talking About

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