Miley! Kate! Michelle! Our Top Fashion Scandals of the Decade

In 2008 photographer Annie Leibovitz came under fire after her images of pouty-lipped, tousled-haired, half nekkid 15-year old Disney star Miley Cyrus were published in Vanity Fair. Lebowitz claimed that the shots had artistic merit and that Cyrus’s parents were on the shoot, but this did little to assuage the wrath of the scandalized press and public who viewed the shots an attempt to move some magazines and launch Cyrus into grownup leading lady land. Which she has since joined rather enthusiastically (pole dance, anyone?).

In 2004 when Martha Stewart showed up to court where she was being charged with securities fraud (among other things) it was her bag that made the incriminating statement. Stewart was clutching a Hermes Birken bag which retails for approximately $10,000 and radiates power, elitism, class and privilege. Not necessarily what one wants to project when trying to win the hearts and minds of the jury. But seriously, what was she supposed to do, carry a ‘I Heart Pies’ totebag? She’s Martha fricking Stewart for goshsakes.

In 2007 shares of the Canadian sportswear company Lulu lemon (LULU) tanked after it was reported in the New York Times that the company’s Seacell line that were supposedly made up of special seaweed fibers were shown to have no traces of seaweed at all. The tag claimed that the seaweed “releases marine amino acids, minerals and vitamins into the skin upon contact with moisture.” However, the company eventually managed to bounce back, because after all, even without the use of certain high priced organic fibers, the clothes still make your butt look awesome.

Bjork showed up the the 2001 Academy Awards wearing a swan dress. That’s it. That’s the entire scandal. The now infamous dress was not only panned by Joan and Melissa, it also has made an appearance on pretty much every worst dressed list ever. Bjork donated the dress to Oxfam and it was put up for auction on Ebay in 2005.

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