Simu Liu

Simu hosted the event, and all the TV ads billed him as "international sensation Simu Liu," which feels accurate to me. He looks great in this pink.

Shawn Mendes

I'm into this '70s vibe on him.

Mod Sun and Avril Lavigne

Avril has found a partner who shares her love of day-glo hair.

Deborah Cox

She was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame during the show, I gather. She looks super (this is, I think, not as sheer as it might want you to believe).

Deborah Cox

She was definitely feeling a theme on this night.

Charlotte Cardin

Charlotte is clearly their Next Big Thing, as she walked away with four Junos (but did not walk the red carpet first). I don't know what this even is. Her album is called Phoenix, so maybe... the top is... and then the red... nope, I can't get there.

Bilal Baig

Bilal is, and I'm quoting their Wiki here, "first queer South Asian Muslim actor to lead a Canadian primetime television series" (it is Sort/Of, about a genderfluid main character). I love the dress, but the wrapped shoes like that always feel like a circulatory mistake.

Savannah RZ

She looks like pile of coats on a guest bed when the varsity soccer team captain has a party, and everyone dumps their jackets in there.

Frank Evans, Ben Plotnick

These two are a bluegrass duo, although the dude on the right looks more like he's someone's chaperone. (I haven't watched yet; I hope I get to see him stomp.) Man on Left really tried it with that shirt, but it doesn't work with the pants. Maybe dark-wash blue jeans?

Torri Webster

It really looks like she picked her dress BEFORE she went for her spray tan, and forgot how much of her torso was showing.

Kairo Mclean

Hold the phone. He's THIRTEEN, and he won a Juno for Best Reggae Recording. That's incredible?!?

Exco Levi

"I lost to that kid! Look at him! How can I possibly be mad?" (He, too, is a snappy dresser.)

Manitou Mkwa

They're a band from the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation -- "part of the Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) Nation, one of the largest Aboriginal Nations in North America." You can learn more about that here. (Missisauga is in Ontario so I assume that's where they are?) They were up for Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year, and they didn't win, but in many ways I think they did.

Hannah Georges

She was up for Adult Alternative Album of the Year, and I think she needed an outfit alternative. She might even agree.

Jesse Gold

He's a Toronto musician who MAY have drawn on his pants with a Sharpie while he waited in the limo line.

Maestro Fresh Wes

He did not win for Children's Album of the Year, but he DOES win at having a career where people call him Maestro. I really should rethink my life.

Jayli Wolf

YOU GUYS. Her story is INTERESTING: "Wolf was born in Creston, British Columbia, to a teen mother of Danish descent and raised in a trailer with her maternal family. She was told she was half-Mexican growing up, only to learn she was First Nations at the age of eight. Her father reached out to her with the discovery that he had been unwittingly taken in the Sixties Scoop and had his ethnicity covered up on his adoption papers. He found his family in the Saulteau community near Chetwynd." AND she grew up in a Doomsday Cult?!? (She escaped.)(Obviously.) Where is the movie???

Nimkii and the Niniis

They are an indigenous group from Wiikwemkoong, Ontario, and got nominated for their first-ever album. I don't have much great to say about her dress, but I am obsessed with his sweatshirt, and I THINK the jacket she's not really wearing is very similar. She should really show it off.

Jessia

She won Breakthrough Artist. (I think she got her start on TikTok?) I think Billie Eilish would like to borrow her coat.

347 Aidan

Billie might not hate this, either, frankly.

Moonshine

This is a lot of flowy semi-formal loungewear. I am confused about her pants, but -- other than the sleeves -- I'm into the rainbow coat.

The Reklaws

They're a brother-sister country group who were nominated for their second album, Sophomore Slump. Given the name, it's kind of apt that they didn't win. Also the cut of her dress made me do a double-take to ensure it's not a saggy sparkle diaper (it is not).

Arkells

They're a pretty big deal; they played the Grey Cup halftime show this past year (that's the CFL Super Bowl, and yes, in addition to curling, I am hot for the CFL now; I am so predictable). The dinosaur shirt is charming, and I'm into the fire jacket.

Fawn Wood

She won for Indigenous Artist of the Year. Her tribal lineage is Salish and Cree, the languages of which she apparently incorporates jointly into her work. It's her first nomination, and I love that she went all-out.

Tia Wood

Tia is a Cree and Salish singer, too. They both went big and bright. You almost don't notice the sheer part because of all the flowers.

Andrea Jin

I saw her open for Ivan Decker last fall, before Omicron, and she was really funny; I'm so excited that she won for her comedy album. I am not excited by her outfit, but whatever, she won a Juno, she'll get a better stylist next time.

JP Saxe

You might recognize JP from that "If The World Was Ending You'd Come Over, Right? song with Julia Michaels. The world ending is the only explanation I have for his outfit. Perhaps he's on his way over.

Alex Cuba

He didn't win for his global music album, but that is a contender for Best Suit.

Jon Vinyl

If your last name is Vinyl, you SHOULD be in music.

Grandson

I don't know. Something about the outfit and the expression and the fact that his name is "Grandson" just gave me the giggles.

Karl Wolf

This is the even MORE dangerous version of Machine Gun Kelly's outfit.

Certainly not with THOSE quills.

Monowhales

They won Best Breakthrough. Her top looks like someone told her, "You can rewear your bridesmaid dress," and she's really trying. Right Monowhale's shirt is 80s in a way that I find hilarious.

Mathew V

What a jaunty kerchief.

BBNO$

He is a rapper who was nominated for his song "Edamame" on an album called Eat Your Veggies. Between this and Latvia's Eurovision song, vegetables are having a surprise music moment. The skirt is basically every rug any parent has ever had in their playroom.

Romeo Eats X Walk Off The Earth

Speaking of vegetables.

Ceréna

Our photo service put their name in as CerZna, and it took me a while to figure out that this was wrong (the Z happened on someone else's name, too). They make dance music, and are dressed like an intergalactic envoy.

Korea Town Acid

Reinventing the jean jacket, I guess?

K-OS

Wait, that's a Budweiser can, methinks. Isn't that against Canadian law?!?

Oh, but then he's got a Tragically Hip lyric on his jacket, so all is forgiven. RIP, Gord. Still so missed.

Desirée Dawson

She plays the Baritone ukulele, a thing I did not know existed.

SATE

"SATE" is a stage name... but possibly also an order? I DO feel like I need to make an offering.

Jennifer Lewin

She's a gospel singer. I kind of want to buy that chunk of her dress as an apron.

Storry

Storry has quite a story, too, and so blah blah blah sheers, etc.; it's really just great that she's free of a bad situation and doing what she loves.

Jose Mar

They had a Saturday event, too -- pre-Juno Junos -- and this is from that. It's SO lively and bright.

Desiree Dawson

I wasn't sure I liked her puffy floral outfit from a few slides ago, but I will take a hundred of them over this.

Ann Pornel

Ann is a comic who hosts The Great Canadian Bake-Off. And she had me right up until the tulle waterfall.

Tafari Anthony

And we have a winner for Most Gigantic Suit. Congrats to everyone!

The Juno Awards Had Its Share of Wacky Fashion

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