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DURST DRESSES FOR A GRAY MOOD, AVRIL GETS HIDEOUS, RAPPERS TURN PINK ON GRAMMY RED CARPET
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You can tell Fred Durst's been kind of down lately by the way he's all agitated when responding to the have-you-and-Britney-been-dating questions and, more importantly, the fact that he's not sporting his usual jaunty red baseball cap.
At the 45th annual Grammy Awards in New York he wore a brown cap, an olive T-shirt over a gray long-sleeve top, and a sour though resolved expression when he admitted that he and Britney were seeing each other for a while, before she "played him out."
Durst was pretty much alone in his dressed-down look at the event, however. The men, everyone from Fat Joe to the Foo Fighters and Nelly, were all spiffed up in suits . Fat Joe wore his best Godfather gear — a black fedora, a black fur coat draped over his shoulders, and a black suit with a pink shirt for some color. Scruffy Dave Grohl cleaned up and got himself into a black suit without a tie and fellow Foo Fighter Taylor Hawkins channeled his inner Don Johnson by wearing a gray suit with a blue T-shirt underneath.
A Band-Aid-less Nelly, winner of two awards before he got to the end of the red carpet , hooked up with Cedric the Entertainer and Steve Harvey's tailor, who made the rapper a khaki suit with a matching checked vest, tie and hanky.
The five boys of 'N-"We're whole tonight"-SYNC all wore black suits, while Raphael Saadiq looked sharp in a brown suit with salmon accents and matching fedora. He was attended to by the outfit's designer and P. Diddy's personal valet, Farnsworth Bentley.
P. Diddy was his usual fashion-plate self in a black suit with a white tie and, starting to walk in Daddy's shoes already, was his son Justin in a matching outfit. Meanwhile, Usher wore a white suit with a tie-dye tie and John Mayer sported a black pinstripe suit with a silvery-gray tie.
T-Boz and Chilli of TLC tribute-dressed by wearing leather jackets over sparkly bra tops with homages to their late group member, Left Eye — the ladies accented their outfits with the word "Left" on Chilli's necklace and T-Boz's belt, and pictures of eyes on their clothes.
Rowdy and rag-tag Avril Lavigne and her band all wore the ugliest tuxedos they could find. On purpose. Lavigne wore a tux with studs and skull-and-crossbones because, she said, "There's no friggin' way I was going to wear a dress." The rest of her bandmates wore clashing tuxes with gaggy water-squirting flowers and light-up bow ties.
No Doubt's fashion frontman is usually and reliably Gwen Stefani, who didn't disappoint Sunday night, though she was slightly upstaged by drummer Adrian Young. Stefani wore a black-and-white polka-dot dress with an asymmetrical neckline and a white boa, while Young paraded around in a plaid skirt — not a kilt — and maroon Doc Martens.
Missy Elliott and Cam'ron were tickled pink to be there, literally, as they both wore rose from head to toe. Missy wore a "Gossip Folks"-type sweatsuit with a fuzzy pink Kangol cap, and Cam'ron dressed to match his pink cell phone. The real Pink, meanwhile, was rocking a cranberry mohawk and black shredded dress, cut high enough to let the new dragon tattoo on her left thigh peek out.
And Foxy Brown, as is her way, let a little more peek out. She wore a teal micro-micro minidress, slit all the way down the front to reveal a matching bra and a belly button.
While some other girls also opted for the minidress, like Kelly Rowland and Kylie Minogue, India.Arie wore a long white dress to complement her new buzz cut, and Ashanti wore a long Roberto Cavalli dress with a train to offset her new Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album.
Finally, what would an awards show fashion round-up be without a proper thrashing of the disastrous duds? Unfortunately, Christina Aguilera couldn't make it to the ceremony. ...
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