The “ Say So ” singer ‘s creative director and stylist, Brett Alan Nelson, spoke with ET ‘s Marisa Runyon on Monday, giving us all the details on collaborating with Doja on her head-turning looks. The headliner wore six outfits in sum last night. Each costume was a subject of conversation, but two looks in particular stole the show — the “ worm ” Thom Browne attire and claw shoes by AVAVAV.
Doja hilariously quipped, “ I look like a worm. That ‘s dope, ” as she accepted the prize for Best Collaboration with SZA on “ Kiss Me More. ” Nelson shared the shapely, statement-making full-dress about did n’t make it onstage .
“ well, it ‘s funny ’cause [ Doja ] at first base was alike, ‘I ‘m obsessed with this. I want to wear it. ‘ And then the day before the show, she got a little aflutter and she was like, ‘I do n’t know if it ‘s right, ‘ ” Nelson told ET. “ And then we got to show sidereal day and I was like, ‘We have to do this spirit. ‘ And she ‘s like, ‘I know, it ‘s perfective. ‘ And this is another one of those looks like the president hat. Like Thom Browne is another couturier that can do such beautiful art as clothing. ”
Jeff Kravitz/MTV VMAs 2021/Getty Images for MTV/ViacomCBS public speaking of the chair hat, Doja rocked the Vivienne Westwood accessory from the spring/summer 2019 solicitation. Doja besides wore an archival corset look on the red rug and a gorgeous bustier strapless gown for the hatchway look from the british label. “ I remembered that collection and I remember there being a professorship on a hat and I did n’t honestly know what it was. I do n’t know if it was, you know, some chairs she pulled out of her front man yard and cut a hole into it, or if it was something made into a hat, but I visually remembered it and I was like, this is the time for it, ” Nelson said .
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back to the hook shoes. Doja closed the show in possibly the wackiest and coolest fashion item of the night. The one-of-a-kind, outsize hook horseshoe designed by AVAVAV was the centerpiece. She styled the singular footwear with a boxlike pale pink jacket and a tall Mad Hatter-style dress hat. “ She ‘s young and she ‘s playfulness and she is funny story and she can be very aphrodisiac. But for me, going to the VMAs and looking sexy is safe, ” the hairdresser explained. “ I ‘m in no set in my career to be playing it safe. I want to have playfulness. That ‘s the solid reason why I wanted to do this occupation as a career. ”
“ We were walking up the stage and we walked by Megan Fox, [ who ] obviously look knock-out in Mugler. She looked thus sexy and beautiful, but then you have Doja like wobbling next to her in these chicken feet going to stage. It was a courteous short juxtaposition of the VMAs, ” Nelson added .
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Doja and Nelson delivered the unexpected again with her gravity-defying performance of “ Been Like This ” and “ You right. ” The musician rocked a crimson equal bent of a strappy, cut-out top and flowy wide-leg pants as she was suspended 40 feet in the publicize surrounded by an orbiting light. “ I knew I wanted to do something in the world of concert, dance and contemporaneous lyric bowel movement, ” Nelson said. “ I in truth was pushing for her to do this on “ Been Like This ” because it ‘s such a beautiful track and it ‘s not one of her, like, highest-charting songs, but it ‘s thus reasonably. And we have n’t actually been able to see Doja do a performance like this. ”
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