An Industry Insider Weighs In While any red carpet for a formal event can summon beautiful ... sartorial risks like no other. The night's dress code is determined by a theme inspired by the ...

An early pioneer of sheer dressing was Cher, who wore two barely-there Bob Mackie dresses at both the Met Gala in 1974 and the Oscars in 1988. The two ensembles broke red-carpet boundaries forever.