Great Outfits In Fashion History: Miley Cyrus’ 2010 Grunge Look

There are perfectly good celebrity style moments, and then there are the looks that really stick with you, the ones you try desperately to recreate at home. In ‘Great Outfits in Fashion History,’ Fashionista editors are revisiting their all-time favorite lewks.

There once was a time when Miley Cyrus wearing hot pants and crop tops was the edgiest thing on planet earth. Once her infamous relationship with Nick Jonas came to its final end, a darker-haired, smokier makeup-ed and grungier Miley was born; in a 2009 interview with Seventeen, she said: “On the day we broke up, I was like, I want to make my hair black now — I don’t want to look pretty; I want to look hard-core. I was rebelling against everything Nick wanted me to be. And then I was like, I’ve got to be by myself for now, and just figure out who I really am.” And so she did.