Miley Cyrus' Giant Grammys Hair Was Inspired by a '70s Icon

Few people live to see themselves described as music royalty, but Miley Cyrus isn't just anyone. Ever since her iconic role as Hannah Montana, Cyrus has become a permanent fixture in pop culture, and at the 2024 Grammy Awards, she proved she's not going anywhere.

Since the early 2000s it feels like she's been nominated for something at least once a year—Teen Choice Awards, People's Choice Awards, Golden Globes, Billboard Music Awards, American Music Awards, just to name a few. However, her name has never been in the mix as much as it is at this year's Grammys, where she's up for six nominations.

Cyrus' nominations cover all the biggest categories of the night for her work on her latest album Endless Summer Vacation, including Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, and Best Pop Vocal Album.

For such a milestone, she had to show up to the ceremony in a fitting ensemble, which she did, walking the red carpet in an avant-garde, all metal Maison Margiela dress. However, despite the gown being as shiny and gold as a Grammy, it was her voluminous hairstyle that stole the show.

A blowout with the most extreme proportions, Miley's dark brown, heavily highlighted hair was styled in a a pushed back, voluminous style that many are comparing to Jane Fonda's Barbarella look. Completely swept out of her face, her hair was flowing in various different directions, every strand with its own texture, volume, and flow. Some pieces shot up in a curl, others back with wave, even more flowing into and through each other—somehow, altogether forming a mullet shape. Which, gave us all the mob wife vibes, well, if New Jersey royalty were known for their mullets.

However, Cyrus's hairstylist of eight years, Bob Recine, says the inspiration for the look wasn't Fonda, but a "a punk, Raquel Welch from the '70s." Continuing, "We wanted it dry and big through teasing, but not like the old way where it would be coiffed. We wanted it to be a little messy where you could see some of the teasing." Which, it most certainly was.

To get the look, Recine started by applying an anti-humidity spray and heat protectant onto her damp hair. Then, he blew it dry section by section while spraying her hair with a volume hairspray to get all the voluminous curls you saw on the red carpet. Once it was quaffed and curled to perfection, the finishing touch was a few drops of nourishing hair oil for extra shine and volume. That, and what Recine says is the most important part of the look: "confidence."

From the neck down, the dress only added to the drama. Made completely out of thin gold safety pins, the metal pieces formed circles around her chest, a faux belt around her waist, and the finest of trains covering her rear—also, somehow, despite being metal, looking to be flowy knitted fabric as she walked. The superstar finished off the look with Margiela tabs shoes in a velvet yellow high heel variety and glowing skin with a wisp of black eyeliner.