The lacy black off-the-shoulder Alexander Wang crop top and matching black high-waisted slacks she wore to the MTV Video Music Awards were a sᴀssy approach to business-casual.
Ariana Grande at the MTV VMA’s.
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Straying away from gowns and тιԍнт-fitting dresses, Grande popped up at the 2016 MTV VMAs celebrity carpet in a classy two-piece look that managed to balance both the sophisticated slacks and the on-trend tiny crop top.
At the American Music Awards, Grande’s red carpet look consisted of a lacy spaghetti-strap bustier and white Alexander McQueen slacks.
The ruffled trench coat gown and diamond choker that Grande wore during the closing sequence of her 2017 “Dangerous Woman” tour is simply iconic.
Ariana Grande during the opener of her “Dangerous Woman” tour.
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An edgier side of Grande was displayed during her “Dangerous Woman” tour.
Grande’s tour fashion designer and stylist, Bryan Hearns and Law Roach, produced looks for her that were an amalgamation of street fashion and haute couture, taking Grande’s style to a new level.
Taking a futuristic approach to her fashion, Grande went to the MTV Video Music Awards dressed in a Wonder Woman-inspired metallic minidress and gunmetal-gray thigh-high boots.
Ariana Grande posing at the MTV VMA’s.
Grande’s warrior-like MTV VMAs look consisted of a silver strapless bustier, a pair of metallic biker shorts (which were under her metallic miniskirt), and thigh-high Le Silla boots. She looked ready for combat.
At the Billboard Women in Music Awards Ariana Grande glowed in a lavender dress with a bubble skirt with matching over-the-knee suede boots.
Ariana Grande accepts her Billboard Women in Music award in lavender.
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The Christian Siriano dress worn by Grande at the Billboard Women in Music Awards was a more mature version of looks Grande used to wear when she was still coming up the ranks as a Nickelodeon star.
Grande is great at conveying innocent beauty in her looks, and the ultra-short, ultra-feminine pink dress she wore on a episode of “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” adorably proved that.
Ariana Grande on an episode of the “Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon”.
Grande’s spaghetti-strapped cotton-candy-colored Cecilie Bahnsen babydoll dress and her signature suede thigh-high Le Silla boots is one of her most standout styles.
One of Ariana Grande’s most ethereal and adventurous looks is her Met Gala gown, which paid homage to the Catholic church and its influence on fashion.
Ariana Grande stuns at the Met Gala.
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Grande did the custom Vera Wang dress so much justice that it’s one of her best and most daring looks to date, given the structure and design of the Met Gala gown.
Although Grande’s stylist Law Roach kept her aligned with the Met Gala theme, he also intentionally made the overall look still Grande-appropriate.
“It was just all about romance with her,” Law Roach told Women’s Wear Daily. “There is a bit of drama there, there is a silhouette that we are used to seeing her in but, of course, more elevated and more appropriate for the event. It is very recognizably Ariana Grande, for sure.”
Stepping onto the world stage during her “Sweetener” tour, Grande wore a monochromatic red bondage-inspired two-piece with matching platform boots.
Ariana Grande backstage at her “Sweetener” tour.
With input from famed celebrity stylist Law Roach, Grande was able to wear some of her best ensembles on her 2019 “Sweetener” world tour.
“I always like to say if you put anyone behind a screen with a long pony, an A-line skirt, an over-the-knee boot, the first thing that comes to everybody’s mind is now Ariana Grande,” Roach told People. “I really do think that one of her ponytails will end up in the Smithsonian one day, that’s how iconic I believe that ponytail is.”
This look specifically consisted of a belted crop top with puffy sleeves, a studded leather skirt, and thigh-high patent leather boots and, of course, her ponytail.
The pretty-in-pink cowgirl outfit that Grande wore for a performance on season 21 “The Voice” would definitely make Dolly Parton proud.
Grande stunned on the Grammys red carpet in a custom Giambattista Valli ruffled gray ball gown.
At the Grammys, Grande reached peak excellence in her fashion journey — Insider even named her one of the best-dressed of the night. She looked like total fashion royalty in this gray gown, paired with her signature high ponytail and opera-length gray gloves, styled by Law Roach.
During E!’s Grammys coverage, correspondent Zanna Roberts Rᴀssi shared that Grande’s frequent fashion collaborator and stylist Roach told her that “the moment [Ariana] tried this on, he burst into tears and [Grande] was like, ‘well, this is the dress then.'”