The 19 Most Scandalous Red Carpet Dresses Of The Past 30 Years

Rihanna's longtime stylist Adam Selman is now a fashion designer, but he's still dressing her - and ensuring that she remains the sauciest red carpet fixture. There was no underwear in the building - or on the body - with this Swarovski-encrusted frock. Let the headlines roll, eh Ri Ri.

Lady Gaga's raw meat dress made by Franc Fernandez for 2010's MTV Video Music Awards had everyone desperately yearning for some carpaccio. Not really. It had everyone really hoping she didn't sweat and thus begin to smell like an abbattoir.

Miley liked Lil Kim's glittery one-titty jumpsuit - worn at 1999's Kim MTV Music Awards in New York - so much, that she copied it last Halloween, complete with nipple pasty. Long live the 90s, long live Lil K.

Her dress might have made the Worst Dressed list at the 1986 Oscars. But Cher actually went on to pick up a Best Actress statute that night for her role as Loretta Castorini in 'Moonstruck' believe it or not.

If you thought Rihanna's dress was sheer, actress Rose McGowan's butt chain (?) shredded dress at The University City MTV Awards was nudity on another level. She was going out with Marilyn Manson at the time. We wish we could show you what he was wearing.

Who'd have thought Carmen Electra would be riffing on Liz Hurley? But she did. Saftey pins and all.

Nobody did Versace better. Nobody will ever do Versace better. Here she arrives with Hugh Grant for the Four Weddings and a Funeral premiere in London, in 1994. We want to watch that film, now. And we really wish they were still a couple.

Britney loves a saucy baker boy hat. Do you think she has a whole wall of them at home? Classic.

Is it any surprise that Ben Affleck started dating Jenny from the Block after she wore a strand of plunging Versace seaweed? The dress is currently on display at the Grammy Museum in LA. Like the piece of art that it is.

So much going on here, Cinds! We're trying to highlight the best bits of the 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' singer's outfit, but our eyes keep getting distracted by another beautiful detail.

Surely the rite of passage of every millennial was puzzling over an on screen Bjork as a kid and trying to work out the method behind her madness. There probably wasn't. Other than that she likes feathers.

The ever whimsical Queen Madge decided to dress up like a red lipstick at The Grammy Awards. We're not sure why. But we like it.

There's no doubt that if modern day Pharrell had met 1984 Grammy attending Grace Jones that they'd have had a 'hat off'. Question is, who would have won?

No, you are not seeing triple. Destiny's Child just did that co-ordinating popstar thing that girlbands don't seem to do anymore (sob.)

Full length furry coat, jumpsuit, lace-up decolletage, knee-length boots, suede: Sheryl combines oh so many killer early noughties trends here we can't complain.

No-one bats an eyelid anymore when someone dons a bra as a top. But back in 1998, it was the domain of hard-bodied popstars like Gwen Stefani, only - as seen at the MTV Awards.

We couldn't help but sneak her in twice. She's done a lot of what some killjoys would refer to as 'red carpet fails' but what we merely see as the sartorial output of an ever creative mind. Here she wears white lace lingerie, pearls and a 'Boy Toy' (apt) belt buckle for the 1984 MTV Awards.

Courtney keeps her boobies under about as much wrap as her secrets. Who doesn't love a Courtney spill though? (Like when she revealed that Russell Brand was musky. Particularly after yoga.)

In line with her activist work, M.I.A. wore a burkha to Spike TV's 'SCREAM 2010' event in LA. Although she refused to discuss her outfit and instead posed as if she were a ghost.