8 times celebrities have talked about what it's really like to wear daring fashion

Her Alexandre Vauthier gown was sleeveless and backless with a plunging neckline. It also had a deep slit in its skirt that reached her hip.

But as the model told Vogue during a 2021 interview, she felt "nervous" while wearing it — even if the look is now "apparently a very iconic red dress moment."

"I look very sexual and all these things," Hadid told Vogue. "I was still nervous about cameras and nervous about having a lot of makeup on."

She went on to note that the dress didn't exactly match her style, and gave people a false perception of who she is.

"I kind of get embarrassed of this moment still, even though the dress is gorgeous," she said. "It just, again, doesn't feel so much like me, and I think that this was the start of the 'Bella' persona that everyone sees of me. That's my alter ego. That's Belinda."

"I'm just so the opposite of her," she continued. "She's very va-va-voom. You know, bless her. Love her. She was very nervous."

She wore a sheer, V-neck top on a Marc Jacobs runway in 2014. The model also donned brown trousers, matching tights, and ankle boots.

Jenner reflected on the look while speaking with Vogue in 2022, saying she "actually could not believe" she was featured on the runway. Still, she said she wasn't nervous.

"I was pretty chill — even though my boobies were out," she joked.

Jenner, who had just turned 18 ahead of the show, said she remembers getting a call from her agent who relayed the message that Jacobs wanted her to wear a sheer top.

"I was like, 'I'm game. Like I don't mind. I'm all good with the nipple,'" she said. "It didn't make me any more nervous. I genuinely was just like, 'Dope. Whatever they want. It's their vision, so let's do it.' I was completely comfortable."

The famous gown she wore to the Grammy Awards in 2000 had a green leaf print and a neckline that plunged to her navel. It became so iconic that the dress helped inspire the launch of Google Images.

Lopez then wore another version of the dress to close a 2019 Versace fashion show.

"The second time I wore it and walked out there, it was such an empowering thing," Lopez told Vanity Fair.

"Twenty years had gone by, and I think for women, knowing you can put on a dress 20 years later — it resonated," she said. "It was like, 'Yes, you know, life is not over at 20!'"

Versace designed her dress, which was sleeveless and crafted from rows of metal chains and crystals. The rapper also wore matching gloves and thick, layered necklaces.

"This is what I wanted to give: I wanted to give woman," Cardi B told Vogue on the red carpet. "And Donatella brings that woman."

"No lipo-surgery can bring this body that my son gave me," she then joked, referencing her recent pregnancy.

"I had no idea what a scene this would cause," she said of the dress while speaking to Harper's Bazaar. "Somebody called it extremely vulgar, and it became this huge controversy on the internet."

"Some of my agents were mad at me because they thought it was too sexy," she continued. "I know this sounds whatever, but I was in my 20s and I just hadn't registered that it was so sexy because there is a panel in the middle, but it looks like there isn't."

Her dress, designed by Julien Macdonald, was sleeveless with a deep-V neckline that reached her stomach. It also had wide cutouts at her sides.

Ratajkowski said she still "stands behind" the dress and thinks she looked "great" while wearing it.

"I was basically called out for wanting attention, which I think is interesting because you go to red carpets for attention basically — essentially it's part of your job as a celebrity," she said.

Her Dundas gown had long sleeves, a plunging neckline with crisscross straps, and matching cutouts at her sides. It was also covered in crystals from top to bottom.

Though it was daring, Fox told Vogue that she was more inspired by its similarities to one she'd seen in Bram Stoker's "Dracula."

"I'm very into gothic things and vampires and such," she said on the red carpet.

Fox also argued that, though Peter Dundas is a Norwegian fashion designer, the look still matched the night's "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" theme because she's "an American girl."

"I'm not afraid to be sexy," Fox said. "A woman who is intelligent and also knows how to weaponize her beauty, there's nothing more dangerous than that. There's nothing more powerful than that."

"Instead of rejecting it, I'm happy to embrace it and go for the sexy," she added.

At the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards that year, Aguilera wore a pink velvet gown that was covered in rips. It had shredded sleeves, a matching skirt, and thin slits across her stomach, waist, and chest.

"She was so bold for this one," Aguilera said of her younger self while speaking with Vogue. "It's one of my favorites just because it was so rebellious at the time."

The look, which also included heavy makeup and gold jewelry, would have been perfect for an early-2000s magazine, as Aguilera noted — but it wasn't acceptable on the red carpet at the time.

"I really wanted to start expressing myself, and it was almost my way of visually telling people to back off and I'm gonna do my thing now," she said.

While appearing on "The Johnathan Ross" show in 2015, Hurley said it's "ridiculous" that the dress she wore to the "Four Weddings and a Funeral" premiere still gets attention years later.

"The funny thing is I hadn't really seen that dress full-length because at the time I was living with my ex-boyfriend Hugh in a very small, humble flat. We actually didn't have a full-length mirror," she said.

"So I hadn't seen it at all until I saw it in the newspapers," Hurley added.