Tate McRae brought a sensual spin on ethereal energy to the MTV Video Music Awards red carpet in a custom Ludovic de Saint Sernin on Sunday in New York City.
The “Greedy” singer wore a sleeveless white dress with wrapped straps and ruched fabric on the bust, featuring a defined bustline and coordinating undergarments. At the bustline of the dress, the sheer white fabric of the custom Ludovic de Saint Sernin dress cascaded down McRae’s frame to the red carpet.
Tate McRae at the MTV Video Music Awards 2025 on Sept. 7, 2025 in New York City.
Gilbert Flores
The dress included a statement train that flowed behind McRae as she walked the red carpet. McRae coordinated the dress with strappy white sandal heels and wore a pair of statement drop pearl and diamond earrings by Marli New York to complete her attire. The singer’s look was curated by stylists Chloe and Chenelle Delgadillo.
McRae’s dress nodded to some elements featured in de Saint Sernin’s spring 2025 ready-to-wear collection, in which the eponymous designer explored the balletcore trend.
Through the collection, the designer “wanted to explore the duality of the innocence and the erotic of ballet, and how beautiful that tension is between looking for perfection and achieving high performance, but also at the same time, wanting to live your life and experience life, so that you can show on stage something unique about who you are as a performer,” de Saint Sernin said, per Tianwei Zhang’s WWD review of the collection.
Tate McRae wears Ludovic de Saint Sernin at the MTV Video Music Awards 2025 on Sept. 7, 2025 in New York City.
Christopher Polk
McRae’s custom look wholly embodied the marriage between that duality of innocence and erotic de Saint Sernin gestured to in his spring 2025 collection, which debuted as part of Paris Fashion Week in September 2024.
The singer is no stranger to Ludovic de Saint Sernin’s designs. McRae previously wore a shimmering, liquid metallic silver dress by the Brussels-born, Paris-raised designer for the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in March.
Tate McRae
Gilbert Flores
The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards take place live at the UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, hosted by LL Cool J. This year’s show features performances from Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Doja Cat, Katseye and other artists, celebrating music’s biggest names and electrifying cultural moments worldwide.
‘ The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties ’
‘ Some details of this article were extracted from the following source wwd.com ’
