One's plans of having this gorgeous outfit all put together, which really had some style, I felt, were just chucked out the window and we went with a rubber suit basically." Plus, the black shoes that finished her look happened to be what she wore to set that day, since the original (red) pair was rejected. "The night before the shoot, I was informed that Britney had hired a guy who did wardrobe for Michael Jackson to come up with a suit that she was going to wear on the day," says director Nigel Dick. According to Bustle, the red outfit was one of Spears' top requests for "Oops… I Did It Again." Miley Cyrus even wore her own homage to the catsuit for her "Mother's Daughter" music video in 2019. ![]() The iconic ensemble has become a pop culture staple, referenced at Halloween for the past two decades and quite possibly one of the most recognizable looks from a time when music videos were at their peak in the early aughts. ![]() The then-19-year-old pop star was gearing up to drop her sophomore album, an edgier follow up to her debut release ".Baby One More Time." To solidify this new era, the video for her first single - one that would top the Billboard charts and garner its own Grammy nomination - was a risky rendition of a space-age romance between an all-American astronaut and Spears as a Mars-based alien vixen with a penchant for red latex jumpsuits. She definitely knew what she wanted and what she liked-that’s what makes her Britney.It was exactly 20 years ago to this day (April 10) when MTV's Making The Video aired a behind-the-scenes episode on filming Britney Spears' "Oops… I Did It Again" music video. She was still young and innocent, and then all of a sudden, she comes out in this vixen-y, sexy, skin-tight outfit. ![]() “Even with her little schoolgirl outfit, she’s really set a precedent for always coming out in something very memorable,” Stanley says. She still admires the singer’s razor-sharp creativity when it comes to her own look and videos and greatly attributes the success of “Oops!” to Spears’s initial vision. More than two decades later, the stylist says working with Spears was one of her wildest, most fun projects. The video was one of Spears’s most acclaimed-bouffant ponytail and all. “But she was a trooper and went right back to work,” recalls Stanley. During a scene where Spears is lying down and the camera is pointed at her from above, a piece of the camera became dislodged and hit her on the back of the head. She had a very intense day, to say the least.” “After one take, I unzipped her, and it literally looked like a bucket of water poured out of this jumpsuit. “I was nervous that she would pass out.” The stylist’s fears were (partially) realized. “If you put a latex outfit on, you’re immediately sweating, and I knew she was going to be dancing all day,” says Stanley. Spears immediately loved it, though Stanley had initial reservations about the piece’s clingy material. Stanley landed the job through that connection and the fact that at the time Spears was dating *NSYNC heartthrob Justin Timberlake.īush had a little longer than two minutes to create something, but not much longer: He ended up creating the red latex suit overnight. (She styled the boy band’s videos “Bye Bye Bye” and “It’s Gonna Be Me.) She had also worked with the music video’s director, Nigel Dick, before. ![]() Stanley had a reputation for styling all of the hottest early-aughts pop artists-think Sugar Ray, Smash Mouth, and *NSYNC. And in honor of the album’s anniversary, Vogue called up Estee Stanley, the video’s stylist, to reminisce about that now famous costume. When you think Spears, you think of that red latex jumpsuit. The track’s space-age music video is downright iconic. On that famed record, the queen of the 2000s churned out some of her biggest hits, such as “Stronger” and “Lucky.” But it’s her lead single, with the same title as the album, that’s lodged most firmly in our memory and not just for its earworm-y chorus. Here’s an anniversary you may have missed: It has now been 20 years since the pop princess Britney Spears released her second studio album, Oops!…I Did It Again.
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