The Most Scandalous Dresses in History

The right dress can make a career. The wrong one can make headlines. But a scandalous dress can do both. The Cut team proves that there's often more to scandal than sex - and that there's more than one way to leave a lasting impression.

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Lady Gaga
In the first (and hopefully last) appearance of raw meat on the red carpet, Lady Gaga's 2010 VMA dress had animal-rights activists and vegetarian groups seeing red. While shocking, the flank-steak gown was not technically an original; it borrowed heavily from Canadian artist Jana Sterbak's 1987 installation Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic. When Ellen DeGeneres later asked Gaga about the dress's ... more
Photo by: Kevin Winter
Lady Gaga
In the first (and hopefully last) appearance of raw meat on the red carpet, Lady Gaga's 2010 VMA dress had animal-rights activists and vegetarian groups seeing red. While shocking, the flank-steak gown was not technically an original; it borrowed heavily from Canadian artist Jana Sterbak's 1987 installation Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic. When Ellen DeGeneres later asked Gaga about the dress's message, Gaga explained that it was about "standing up for what we believe in … pretty soon we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our own bones." Furthermore, said Gaga, "I am not a piece of meat."

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