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10 Red Carpet Looks The World WAS NOT READY FOR

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Ten looks that broke the internet before the carpet even dried.

TheThings’ “10 Red Carpet Looks The World WAS NOT READY FOR” isn’t another worst-dressed rundown — it’s a countdown of the moments that actually stopped scrolling, the ones that turned into screenshots, memes, and group-chat debates within minutes of hitting the carpet. The video pulls from more than two decades of Hollywood’s boldest gambles, from 1998 up through the 2017 Met Gala, and ranks them by sheer disbelief factor rather than fashion-critic scorecards.

• Mandy Moore returned to the Golden Globes red carpet for the first time since 2011, wearing a sheer navy-blue caped Naeem Khan gown with a plunging neckline that earned near-universal praise.
• Katy Perry co-hosted the 2017 Met Gala in a crimson Maison Margiela “Artisanal” piece by John Galliano — complete with a red tulle veil, chrome headpieces, and embroidered text — that split Twitter down the middle.
• Kendall Jenner wore a sheer La Perla dress made from 85,000 crystals to that same Met Gala, honoring Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo.

Mandy Moore’s Golden Globes Return

Six years is a long time to stay away from a red carpet, especially one as high-profile as the Golden Globes. Moore’s last appearance there was in 2011, so when she showed up at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards in January 2017, the anticipation was real. She delivered with a dramatic Naeem Khan gown — sheer navy-blue, caped, with a plunging neckline — that landed her firmly on the “got it right” side of the video’s countdown rather than the cautionary-tale side.

The Met Gala Gamble: Perry vs. Jenner

The 2017 Met Gala, built around Rei Kawakubo’s avant-garde Comme des Garçons aesthetic, gave the video its most divisive entry. Katy Perry co-hosted the event in a crimson Maison Margiela “Artisanal” creation designed by John Galliano, featuring a red tulle veil emblazoned with chrome headpieces and embroidered text. It was exactly the kind of theme-appropriate risk the Gala invites, and it still ignited a wave of polarized reviews and viral memes across Twitter — a reminder that Perry’s history of headline-grabbing public moments extends well beyond the music charts.

Kendall Jenner’s La Perla gown was reportedly stitched with 85,000 crystals — and still left half the internet convinced she’d forgotten a layer.

Kendall Jenner’s look at that same Gala went a different direction — a sheer La Perla dress covered in roughly 85,000 crystals, a piece so intricate it doubled as a technical showcase and a lightning rod for the “did she or didn’t she wear enough” arguments that flooded social media that night.

Origins of Initial Shock Value

The video traces the lineage of these moments back further than 2017. Rose McGowan’s sheer mesh dress at the 1998 MTV VMAs and Jennifer Lopez’s green jungle-print Versace gown at the 2000 Grammy Awards are cited as the foundational, barrier-breaking looks that set the template every daring red-carpet choice since has been measured against. Both dresses became instant cultural shorthand for “the outfit everyone was talking about the next morning,” decades before anyone coined the term viral.

Safety Pins, Chainmail and Everything In Between

Two more entries round out the countdown’s mix of glamour and improvisation. Chrissy Teigen wore a high-slit black Yousef Akbar gown to the 2016 American Music Awards that was famously held together by a safety pin — a detail that made headlines almost as much as the dress itself. Amber Rose, meanwhile, turned up to the 2014 MTV VMAs in a full chainmail Laura Dewitt outfit, a look that landed her squarely in the video’s “not ready” category alongside the more traditionally polished Met Gala entries.

Bella Hadid also gets a mention in the surrounding coverage of that 2017 Met Gala for her bedazzled skintight catsuit, proof that even in a night built around confusion and controversy, someone usually manages to nail the assignment.

What ties all ten together isn’t taste — it’s reaction speed. Perry’s Galliano veil and Jenner’s crystal dress both hit the same carpet on the same night in 2017, and the split verdict between them is exactly the kind of split TheThings built this whole countdown around.