24 of the most daring looks contestants wore to compete in the 71st annual Miss Universe pageant
- The 71st annual Miss Universe pageant took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Saturday.
- The contestants embraced daring fashion as they competed for the crown.
Miss Albania Deta Kokomani's gown featured a skirt that was almost entirely sheer.
Kokomani embraced sparkles for her evening attire, choosing a bedazzled dress with a high neckline and chest cutout that plunged down the bodice.
Only a sheer layer of fabric embellished with sparkles covered her legs.
Miss Angola Swelia Da Silva Antonio's gold gown had a bold slit.
Antonio's dress was covered from head to toe in gold embellishments.
The sleeves flowed past her arms to create sleeves, and the skirt had a train, which was accented by a thigh-high slit.
The built-in hood on Miss Bahrain Evlin Khalifa's gown was stunning.
Khalifa walked the pageant stage in a long-sleeve, silver dress that was covered in a layer of chain mail.
A sparkly hood was attached to the gown, creating a seamless and standout look.
Bold cutouts covered Miss Belize Ashley Lightburn's gown.
Lightburn popped in a bright-yellow gown that featured an off-the-shoulder, scalloped neckline.
Fringed fabric flowed from the bodice, which then flowed into a skirt made of thin strips of sparkly fabric.
The bodice also featured side cutouts, making it even more daring.
Miss Brazil Mia Mamede's form-fitting dress had stomach cutouts.
Mamede's textured gown featured curved strips of fabric that followed the shape of her body.
The bodice also had cutouts on the sides, sparkly embellishments, and fringed fabric pooled down from the sleeves to create a train.
Miss Cameroon Mouketey Lynette Monalisa Jelly showed off her legs with a slit.
Like many contestants, Jelly chose a sparkly, gold gown for the evening-wear competition.
The textured dress had subtle stripes and a long skirt, and a dramatic slit cut all the way up Jelly's thigh.
Miss France Floriane Bascou's gown was made entirely of strands of pearls.
Bascou walked the pageant stage in a form-fitting dress with a high neckline and a delicate train.
Rather than fabric, strands upon strands of pearls created the gown, so Bascou's skin peeked through.
Miss Ghana Engracia Afua K. Mofuman's gown featured a netted skirt.
Moufman chose a gold dress for the pageant. The bodice was covered in intricate patterns, and the sleeves had three-dimensional, floral detailing.
A netted, floor-length skirt with a thigh-high slit flowed out from the gown, adding drama to the look.
Miss Haiti Mideline Phelizor's gown had not only a stomach cutout but a slit as well.
Phelizor's dress had a high neckline, which flowed into a crop-top style bodice.
Thin strips of fabric attached the top to the skirt, so there was a daring stomach cutout.
The strips attached to one side of the floor-length skirt, creating a bold slit on one side of the gown.
Miss Laos Payengxa Lor's off-the-shoulder gown had sheer detailing.
Lor chose a red dress embroidered with crystals from head to toe, and its bodice had a diamond-shaped panel of sheer fabric.
The skirt was made of semi-sheer, red fabric, and it included a slit in the center.
Miss Lebanon Yasmina Zaytoun's gown had a daring neckline.
Zaytoun's form-fitting, embellished dress had a high-low skirt thanks to a dramatic slit that flowed out from the center of the gown.
The bodice had a halter-style top, as well as a chest cutout that dipped low.
Sheer detailing made Miss Malaysia Cheam Wei Yeng's gown stand out.
The top of Yeng's gown was heavily embroidered with silver jewels, and it featured cutouts on the side.
The embellishments faded with the length of the skirt, exposing textured, sheer fabric.
Sheer fabric created the illusion of cutouts on Miss Malta Maxine Formosa Gruppetta's dress.
Much of the bodice of Gruppetta's bright-yellow dress was sheer, with only a collar and bra-style top providing coverage.
The sheer fabric created a diamond on her lower waist, which then flowed into an embellished skirt with a daring slit.
Miss Mexico Irma Cristina Miranda Valenzuela brought drama to her look with a cape.
Valenzuela's strapless dress had a sheer base, and it was heavily embroidered with crystals from head to toe.
She added a white cape to the look that attached at her arms, bringing Hollywood glamour to the ensemble.
Miss Namibia Cassia Sharpley also had semi-sheer fabric on her evening gown.
Green embellishments brought color to Sharpley's semi-sheer black dress.
The fitted gown had a high neckline, which was created by thick layers of jewels, and a thigh-high slit added to the look.
Miss Nepal Sophiya Bhujel's one-shoulder dress created angles.
Bhujel's purple gown had an asymmetrical neckline with one long sleeve, which was balanced out by a diamond-shaped stomach cutout that cinched at the opposite side.
The gown's skirt was form-fitting, and it had a slit on one side. A purple flower attached on the other side, with a train flowing out from the floral attachment.
The bodice of Miss Netherlands Ona Moody's gown was almost entirely made of cutouts.
Moody's shiny gown had a bra-style top with a one-shoulder sleeve heavily embroidered with gold embellishments.
A thin strip of black fabric attached the top to the long skirt, which featured subtle stripes.
Miss Philippines Celeste Cortesi's strapless gown featured two sheer panels on the skirt.
Cortesi shimmered from head to toe in a silver-blue dress that had vertical stripes from head to toe.
Two panels of sheer fabric took the skirt to another level.
Miss Puerto Rico Ashley Cariño shimmered in silver on the Miss Universe stage.
Cariño's gown featured a plunging neckline and a sheer skirt that was covered in shimmering fringe details.
Miss Thailand Anna Sueangam-iam's dress was made of soda tabs.
Sueangam-iam's upcycled ensemble — which was designed by the brand Manirat and is known as the "Hidden Precious Diamond Dress" — combines the aluminum pull-tabs of soda cans with Swarovski crystals.
There's also a hidden meaning in the dress. The soda tabs pay tribute to Sueangam-iam's upbringing.
"This gown was inspired by the familiar surroundings of my childhood," she wrote on Instagram. "Growing up with garbage collector parents, my life as a child was among piles of garbage and recyclables. This unique gown was purposefully tailor-made with discarded and recycled materials, namely the 'Can Tab' to present to the UNIVERSE that what's considered worthless by many actually possesses its own value and beauty."
Miss Trinidad and Tobago Tya Jané Ramey's olive-green dress featured a sheer skirt.
Ramey's metallic dress had a plunging neckline, while the sheer skirt was covered with a sparkling design that ran down her legs.
Miss Spain Alicia Faubel dazzled in an off-the-shoulder gown that was covered in sparkles.
The sparkles on Faubel's gown were arranged in a dazzling ombré effect that trickled from the bodice down to the skirt.
Miss USA R'bonney Gabriel, who was crowned Miss Universe, had multiple semi-sheer cutouts on her gown.
The 71st Miss Universe chose a bold, blue dress for her final look at the pageant.
The gown featured a fringed skirt with a cutout, a neckline that plunged all the way to her waist, panels of sheer fabric along the bodice and arms, and textured shoulder pads.
Miss Vietnam Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Châu embodied the spirit of a butterfly with her evening gown.
Châu's structured dress, which featured the colors and design of a Monarch butterfly, had a thigh-high split and plenty of volume.
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