The backstory: This song was Madonna’s first number one hit. The bride: Madonna The groom: An older dude The video: “Like a Virgin,” 1984 The lyrics: “Yeah, you made me feel/I’ve nothing to hide” The dress: Fingerless gloves! Lace-up booties! A short-in-front skirt and exposed bustier! Madonna alternates between her street urchin look-spandex, rosaries, Boy Toy belt-and sultry wedding looks. Included on our list is Beyoncé, of course, who is the epitome of the dream bride in her corseted Baracci gown-worth its weight in gold-in “Best Thing I Never Had.” Nicki Minaj transforms herself into a Disney princess and marries Drake in “Moment 4 Life,” while Shakira prefers a barefoot boho vibe in “Empire.” Following in Madonna’s innerwear-as-outerwear “Like a Virgin” steps, Stephanie Seymour (in “November Rain”) and Katy Perry (in “Hot N Cold”) give wedding attire sex appeal with very-short-in-front asymmetric and décolleté dresses. Still, we admit a music video might not be the first place you’d look for bridal inspiration-and yet we’ve turned up some very compelling reasons why you should. And the pervasive model-off-duty style-Perfecto, T-shirt (concert or otherwise), skinny jeans, slept-in hair, and maybe some black nail polish-is certainly an offshoot of the “I’m with the band” looks seen on the channel.
Take grunge, for example: The Seattle look and sound were exported to the masses through videos before they were translated into fashion on Marc Jacobs’s runway.