The MTV Video Music Awards are a notorious fashion free-for-all, but this year’s red carpet really upped the ante. (Think skin, sparkle, slurs … even a rainbow suit!) Let’s have a look at the best and worst style moments of the night:

Nothing communicates “I’m sexy but I do have a brain” quite like Altuzarra.

This model-slash-actress isn’t a flop, she’s a star! The Saint Laurent dress says so.

OK, she almost seems overdressed for the VMAs. But you’ve got to give props to 18-year-old Steinfeld, who pulled this Stella McCartney ensemble straight out of Solange Knowles’s minimalist playbook to prove she has more class and common sense than others twice her age.

It’s Alexandre Vauthier couture now, a cat o’ nine tails later …

Victoria’s Secret? Please. If you’re going to wear as little as possible, stick to Atelier Versace.

We don’t know who the hell she is either, but this is throwback Dior haute couture by John Galliano and it’s both crazy and kind of cool.

Someone rip. That. Off. Right. Now.

It’s as if the dress, hair and makeup are all competing to ruin what little is left of her career.

She should leave the bouffants and ’60s wardrobe flavoring to people who are fabulous enough to pull them off.

The tux is fine, considering the event and the fact that outlandish is his thing. But Jeremy, babe, put on a shirt.

For some reason, the words “stripper,” “gold digger” and “whore” work much better on a jumpsuit.

This is trite — and terribly unhygienic.