Navigating a life spent in the public eye can be difficult when it comes to wardrobe choices, but then again, Selena Gomez is no ordinary style star.
Between her transition from youth fame to becoming one of the best-known performers in the world, Gomez’s fashion has evidently grown up just as much as she has. Once favouring the self-styled trends of the 2000s (something many millennials were privy to as young teenagers, and would probably prefer to forget), Gomez has graduated to become a bona-fide style star, with help along the way from renowned Hollywood stylist and Vogue alumnus Kate Young.
Retrospectively looking back at her wardrobe choices in 2021, Gomez’s ease when it comes to fashion choices can’t be denied—from classic, Audrey Hepburn-inspired Prada, to sleek, sensual Versace and avant-garde Louis Vuitton. She’s even been one to bring new designers to the fore; take her early-days affinity for Simon Porte’s Jacquemus in 2017, who’s gone on to become one of fashion’s most celebrated new designers.
For those who want to take a look back at Gomez’s tribute-worthy fashion evolution, keep scrolling for 21 of her most memorable style moments.
2010: Wearing Reem Acra at the 2010 MTV VMAs.
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2013: Pivoting to more grown-up, statement-making looks, Gomez wore this partially sheer-bodice Versace number at the 2013 MTV VMAs. Speaking to American Vogue, Gomez said: “[Wearing this dress], I remember for the first time feeling like a woman.”
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2013: Gomez again chose Versace at the 2013 Venice Film Festival to promote Spring Breakers, a film role that signified her shift into more adult roles after years of Disney success.
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2014: Gomez has graduated to becoming a red carpet darling at each year’s Met Gala, but at her debutante Met in 2014, she opted for understated—wearing a demure ruffled-neckline Diane Von Furstenberg dress and earrings by famed jeweller Lorraine Schwartz.
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2015: Gomez has admitted this sequin Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci number, worn at the 2015 American Music Awards, is one of her all-time favourite looks.
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2015: At the 2015 Met, Gomez wore ethereal cut-out Vera Wang with a floral arrangement of orchids in her hair. Explaining how her weight was fluctuating at the time, Gomez told American Vogue that Wang’s team allowed her to be involved in the design of the dress, culminating in a piece that fit perfectly.
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2015: After performing at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Gomez wore a daring cut-out dress by Mugler.
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2016: Attending the Grammys with her close friend Taylor Swift, Gomez wore glittery purple Calvin Klein. The gown featured spaghetti straps and cut-outs at the waist, and her gently-curled hair and hoop earrings gave off ’70s vibes.
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2016: 2016 marked the start of a Louis Vuitton ambassadorship for Gomez, and she became a muse of creative director Nicolas Ghesquière. At the Vanity Fair Oscars Party, she stunned in a bespoke silver LV gown that fit like a glove.
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2016: Attending Louis Vuitton’s autumn/winter ‘15/‘16 show in Paris was the precursor for Gomez starring in an advertising campaign for the iconic French maison.
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2016: After taking a hiatus from public events, Gomez channelled Old Hollywood glamour in this lipstick-red Prada gown, which she told American Vogue is “probably my all-time favourite look”.
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2016: Gomez memorably wore this flowy Louis Vuitton dress, heeled combat boots and leather bodice at the 2016 Met Gala, with her hair tied back in a slick, futuristic pony. She carried one of Vuitton’s Petit Malle clutches, which are basically miniaturised versions of the brand’s iconic hard-edged luggage.
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2017: For the 2017 Met, Gomez wore Coach. The undeniably classic look was modernised by light purple eyeshadow, a slick bob haircut and a choker.
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2017: Gomez was pretty in pink at New York Fashion Week in ’60s-reminiscent Valentino, paired with a standout green clutch.
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2017: Often ahead-of-the-curve, Gomez became one of the first major celebrities to embrace French brand Jacquemus and their distinct Côte D’Azur-reminiscent aesthetic. Here, she wears one of the brand’s lithe summer dresses, accompanied by their asymmetrical object heels.
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2017: Gomez gave all kinds of street style inspiration in this blue broad-shouldered Jacquemus dress, with its round-buckled belt providing the perfect modernist touch.
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2017: Once again embracing a sexier edge, Gomez once again gravitated towards Versace for this off-the-runway bodice at the 2017 Billboard Women In Music Awards, paired with cutout trousers. The look’s gold elements worked in tandem with her newly dyed blonde hair, a style she’d eventually become more privy to adapting.
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2019: Attending the Cannes Film Festival to promote her film The Dead Don’t Die, Gomez wore a modern cut of Chanel’s iconic tweed, with her signature slicked-back hairstyle.
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2019: The same year at Cannes, Gomez was a vision in light-pink Louis Vuitton, custom-designed by Ghesquière with references to the brand’s Cruise 2020 collection.
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2019: The look Gomez chose for her American Music Awards red carpet return was demure and classic, aside from the eye-catching fluorescent hue of her Versace dress. The wrap-effect piece was held together by a gold Medusa-head stud, and the diamond necklace she wore added another layer of sparkle.
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2020: For one of her final red carpet moments before Covid-19 lockdown, Gomez wore off-the-runway Givenchy Haute Couture by Clare Waight Keller at the premiere of Dolittle.
Source: vogue.com.au
