Almost as brilliant getting Brandon Flowers, a Mormon, to duet on It’s a Sin. Big up to Neil Tennant’s Gareth Pugh conical coat. Rumours that Brandon had just returned from a pheasant hunt, possibly with the Ferry boys, have yet to be confirmed, and OMG! Andy Warhol lives! Photograph: MJ Kim/AP
“Guys, we need an image. Everyone thinks we’re dull poshos who write incomprehensible ballads. But if we start dressing a bit Sergeant Pepper, a bit Libertines, everyone will see how frightfully original we are!” Photograph: David Fisher / Rex Features/David Fisher / Rex Features
This is the moment Estelle realises she has appeared on stage without her trousers or a decent top beneath her jacket. “Grace Jones-lite!” comes a cry from the audience. Exit Estelle and her rubber leggings Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images
This outfit has everything going for it: a crystal-studded corset, which everyone needs, a traffic warden-style cross-body wrap and a handy bumbag in which to keep one’s keys and phone. The one thing it doesn’t have is trousers. Or socks. Or taste Photograph: Joel Ryan/AP
You don’t see enough American popstars expressing sympathy for the troubled Wedgwood factory via their hotpants and inexplicable arm wear. Well played, Gaga Photograph: David Fisher / Rex Features/David Fisher / Rex Features
Take That? Take this: Take some Will Young glasses, an attempt at campness without actually scaring the middle road with some (trompe l’oeil) slash-front shirts, a big ol’ spaceship and you have the perfect boyband pudding of a Brits moment Photograph: MJ Kim/AP
Calvin Harris attempts to channel one part Mark Ronson to two parts Kanye West, and ends up tripping over his geezer trainers because he can’t actually see a damn thing Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty Images
