Addison Rae in Christopher Esber
Addison here started as a TikTok dancer (you may recall her from a recent controversy where she did several dances on The Tonight Show without crediting their Black creators) and is now starring in the gender-flipped remake of She's All That, which ... I mean, technically, Grease 2 already did that but by having the already-hot guy put on motorcycle goggles (rather than simply remove glasses). So, hard pass. Anyway, this is giving me major Carmen Electra throwback vibes. If it does not want to pretend to be a shirt then I cannot even pretend to take it seriously, but if anyone paid ANYTHING more for it than they would for a roll of painter's tape, then they got swindled.
Madison Bailey in Versace
Madison Bailey, of Netflix's Outer Banks, is NOT to be confused with Bailee Madison (fairly prolific child actor/singer who is still bridging the transition into adulthood but pops up at stuff occasionally). Just in case you were wondering. I personally thought this was a Rita Ora impersonator for a hot second. She looks like the scene in a movie where the girl leaves her mother's house in a twin set and floor-length skirt, and emerges from the Prom bathroom after completing some quick shenanigans.
Victoria Pedretti in Louis Vuitton
Victoria, you may well have seen -- she's on You, and was in both the Haunting series (of Hill House and Bly Manor, respectively). When this was on the runway, I said, "I don't think we agree on how clothes work," in part because this also had MASSIVE pockets on the knees. So that's a positive change. But this still looks like a caricature of an outfit that someone drew on a beach boardwalk for donated change.
Sierra Capri
Sierra spent the last four years on a show called On My Block that actually sounds kind of good. Unlike her suit, which looks like it shrank AFTER she put it on.
Taylour Paige in Gucci
Taylour had a big fame surge this year with Zola and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and she's also dating Jesse Williams of Grey's Anatomy, AND was the subject of a sudden but ultimately I think false rumor that she'd broken up with him for Zoe Kravitz. Are we caught up? GOOD. She's in a black jumpsuit version of an outfit Dakota Johnson wore, which means TWO people at this event (one is Riley Keough, coming later) are in things Dakota Johnson wore first. It is absurd, like if Victoria's Secret tried to go couture on us, and it is the kind of dated and nutty fashion mistake for which the MTV Movie Awards -- once a parody, now self-serious -- were born. In other words, this is hilariously hideous, and for that I say an honest THANK YOU, Taylour.