Few singers have reached the iconic status ofMariah Carey.
that they’re guaranteed to make us exclaim,“I don’t know her.
“You get photographed everywhere,” she toldWWD.
She may be the Xmas queen, but she’s also the extra queen.
But Carey, unsure of herself at the time, was still figuring out her individual aesthetic.
She also noted that stylists often dressed her in all black: “They did.
It was just like, ahhh, such a long story.
You don’t even wanna know.”
In 1991, Carey, then only 20 years old, won two Grammys.
Carey continued with the Christmas slays (or sleighs) in the coming years.
At the 1997 VMAs, she wowed in a black bandeau-and-slit skirt ensemble.
“you’re able to tell that I’m actually happy,” she said.
“It was a new moment; it was freedom.
It was not being controlled by anybody.”
There was no escaping denim at the dawn of the millennium, and Carey happily embraced the trend.
I’m not taking total credit.”
The star continued to don denim in the early days of Y2K.
In2000 and 2001, she wore a number of camisole-and-denim combos.
Two years later, she wore another figure-hugging shiny gown for her appearance at the Golden Globes.
“Satin is a very unforgiving fabric,” she reflected in an interview withRolling Stone.
“And what was I gonna do?
But she added that she loved her curves and had no intention of diminishing them.
“The weight-obsessed workout monger is not my role model as a singer,” she stated.
“I looked so damn ugly!
I’ve always been very insecure about my looks, anyway,” she explained.
“Having led such a public life.”
In an interview withThe Telegraph, she discussed how disparate the character’s wardrobe was from her own.
“The hair was disgusting, and the clothes were horrible,” she said.
I had to strip down everything I am and become a completely different woman.”
Throughout her pregnancy, Carey wore chic ensembles that were far simpler than her signature extra outfits.
Without a doubt, this was not the OTT songbird we had come to expect.
For instance, the self-proclaimed stiletto lover could only wear flats when she was expecting.
“When I was pregnant that’s all I could wear.”
She walks even in her home on her …
The latter looked straight out of Marilyn Monroe’s wardrobe.
Later in the 2010s, she embraced yet more fun looks and career milestones.
“They say, ‘Oh, they want her to be grand .
They want her to have glamorous clothes,” she said.
“‘They don’t want her to have glamorous clothes.’
Can people make up their minds!”
Throughout the painful performance, the singer struggled with sound difficulties and an apparent lip-syncing nightmare.
Eventually, she walked off stage after making several awkward recommendations to the sound team.
She later blamed the slip-up on not using her usual team.
As calamitous as the night was, Carey’s outfit nonetheless stole the show.
In 2019, Carey was honored with the Icon accolade at the Billboard Music Awards.
Though so often dubbed a diva, Carey was strikingly modest in her acceptance speech.
I really don’t think of myself in that way," she admitted, perPeople.
Not Mariah Carey, however.
Trust Mimi to still come out dressed in her finery during a worldwide pandemic.
In March 2020, Carey posted a video about the importance of handwashing on herInstagram.
She was also decked out in diamonds,obviously.
“We’re just here and the kids wanted to go to McDonald’s.
I just need a cheeseburger,” said the elegant star, perPage Six.
Fittingly, she chatted toThe Guardianduring the pandemic to address longstanding claims that she’s a high-maintenance diva.
“I deserve to be at this point,” she mused.
“That may sound arrogant, but I hope you frame it within the context of coming from nothing.
Hell, no!”
The collaboration also features children’s clothing, which Carey had fun modeling with her two kids.
“The twins and I had the best time … when we shot the campaign.
TIME!!!”
And, yes, she did wear her “All I Want for Christmas is You” Santa jumpsuit.
In December, she continued with the immaculate celebratory wardrobe.
