

Her ensemble even came equipped with a built-in whale tail, giving the illusion of exposed underwear straps. Adding even more spice to the look, the bottoms were completely sheer, save for the thong-shaped smattering of crystals. It included a crystal-encrusted bra and matching flare pants blinged-out with Swarovski crystals. The saucy set by David Dalrymple mimicked a glimmering birthday suit. I Did It Again.” She wore a bedazzled black suit, white button-down, and a fedora hat à la Michael Jackson, before ripping off the outfit to reveal a whole second look underneath: a glimmering flesh-toned co-ord set. The princess of pop debuted her first whale tail-style ‘fit at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, where she performed a medley of Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” and her hit “Oops!.

But before these contemporary style queens helped the early aughts exposed-thong look boomerang right back on trend, there was first the OG: Britney Spears. I Did It Again Costumes / Cosplays - Women Shiny Metallic Unitard Long Sleeve Catsuit. In Britney Spears has one of the most successful. This story previously appeared on Vogue.Thanks to the likes of Dua Lipa, Bella Hadid, Kim Kardashian, and countless others, the uber-controversial whale tail is back in the zeitgeist and, for better or worse, affixed on the behinds of fashion girlies across the globe. The red jumpsuit worn by Britney Spears in her music video Oops. did something rather daring and wore the controversial outfit again on Wednesday morning. She definitely knew what she wanted and what she liked-that’s what makes her Britney.” She was still young and innocent, and then all of a sudden she comes out in this vixeny, sexy, skin-tight outfit.

“Even with her little schoolgirl outfit she's really set like a precedent for always coming out in something very memorable,” Stanley says. She still admires the singer’s razor-sharp creativity when it comes to her own look and videos, and greatly attributes the success of “Oops!” to Spears’s initial vision. More than two decades later, the stylist says working with Spears was one of her wildest, most fun projects. Still, the video was completed, and ended up birthing one of Spears's most acclaimed videos-bouffant ponytail and all. “But she was a trooper and went right back to work,” recall Stanley. During a scene where Spears is lying down and the camera is pointed at her from above, a piece of the camera got dislodged and hit her on the back of the head. “She had a very intense day, to say the least.” “After one take, I unzipped her, and it literally looked like a bucket of water poured out of this jumpsuit,” she says. The stylist’s fears were (partially) realised. I was nervous that she would pass out,” says Stanley. “If you put a latex outfit on, you're immediately sweating, and I knew she was going to be dancing all day. Spears immediately loved it, though Stanley had initial reservations about the piece’s clingy material. And he did.”īush had a little longer than two minutes to create something, but not much longer: he ended up creating the red latex suit overnight. “In world, everybody has to do everything in two minutes, so we knew he could pull it off. The schoolgirl skirt The fluffy crop tops Now, Urban Outfitters is paying tribute to one of Spears' most iconic looks with a Halloween costume that Britney stans will want to wear all year round. “It was a last-minute thing to go to him and see if he could make something for us,” Stanley says. In the late '90s and early aughts, there was no style icon greater than Britney Spears. 'First glance I thought this was Britney,' she wrote, confirming just how real the deja vu is. They turned to Michael Bush, a costume designer that was doing all of Spears’s custom tour looks at the time, to make something exciting for Spears. Britney hasnt commented on the photo (yet), but her little sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, did. The red catsuit was barely a glimmer in their eyes. But they couldn’t settle on anything for Spears’s main outfit.
