7 celebrities that are fashionably insane

It used to be that back in the olden days of entertainment, one needed only talent and opportunity in order to make a name for themselves in show business. But in today’s world of “look at me” reality stars and Disney produced pop princesses, the best way for someone in the entertainment industry to ensure some camera time is to dress in a manner that cannot be ignored. And while it isn’t always pretty, some celebrities have turned their wardrobes into extensions of their persona.

I know I’m not cool enough to pull of any of these outfits and chances are you aren’t either; however, in hindsight, maybe these folks could think about turning the crazy dial down just a bit when getting dressed in the morning. I mean, there is dressing the part and then there is dressing like a third-rate magician at a color-blind child’s birthday party. Maybe they aren’t insane. Maybe they’re so far ahead of the curve that we simply cannot comprehend their style choices because we are too creatively inept. I dunno; decide for yourself…

1 Don Cherry
The joke, “What? I can’t hear you over your jacket,” was tailor-made for Don Cherry. Who knew that Tommy Bahama even had a men’s suit section. Sometimes all you need in order to dress like a color-blind Bond villain is the ability to sell it. And Don seems to have the knowledge and the attitude to rock some of the out-and-out craziest outfits to ever appear on Canadian television. How you would even broach the subject of a Hawaiian business suit without getting laughed out of a tailor’s shop is beyond me. Cherry dresses like an antagonist you’d have to defeat at the end of some insane Japanese video game. Oh Canada…so similar, yet, still so far apart.

2 Bootsy Collins
He’d be the lovechild of Elton John and Slash if it weren’t for the fact that he was already jamming with James Brown before Elton ever wore a feather boa and Slash could recite the alphabet. You couldn’t expect someone with the nickname “Bootsy” to become an accountant; you’d expect someone named Bootsy to look like, well, to look like the guy in the picture. You don’t just become roll out of bed and become funk; especially when you are part of the self-proclaimed funkiest band on the planet and possibly the outlying solar system. You gotta dress like an interplanetary funk machine, and that’s why some of the outfits Bootsy pulls off are nothing you’ll see any Earthling rocking in 2010 or the foreseeable future.

3 Andre 3000
3000 sometimes dresses like a crazy person and some days he looks like a stone cold pimp. Andre Benjamin seems to walk the line between cool and absurd (I’m leaning towards coolest motherf#%*er on the planet), but no matter the outfit, dude always looks pimp. It shows that if you have extraordinary talent and a chill attitude to back it up, you can wear whatever you want and people won’t bat an eye…even when you dress crazy and shake-it like a Polaroid picture.

4 Elton John
The man who pretty much started it all. Reginald Kenneth Dwight took a page from old vaudeville acts and a page from an old-time honky-tonk blues pianist and threw them together to create the starred-out sunglass wearing artist, Elton John. Some days he dresses like a schizophrenic that dropped acid and dug through the trunk of a 1930’s German burlesque dancer and others he looks like someone that got drunk and couldn’t decide whether he wanted to look like Liberace and or one of Jim Henson‘s Muppets. Either way, he made crazy fashion crazy fashionable for some of today’s most outlandish musical acts. Oh, and he’s one of the greatest piano players the world has ever seen.

5 Katy Perry
Katy Perry used to be a gospel singer, but no one seemed to notice. So she did what any woman with a great voice and an even better set of…lungs would do: she dyed her hair, changed her image and found some of the craziest outfits on the planet to show off her…lungs. Some days she looks like something a Japanese school girl would make at a Build-A-Bear; except instead of extra stuffing in the paws, there would be extra stuffing in the…it’d be top heavy, probably. Katy Perry has magnificent breasts. There I said it. And she shows them off in eccentric outfits and I speak for most males when I say thank you Katy Perry. Even though I can’t name one song of your album, feel free to wear whatever you want.

6 Bjork
Some people are just born a bit strange. Bjork seems to be one of those people. From her sometimes bizarre music videos and performances to some strange fashion decisions, she has become known for being one of the most eclectic performers that the world has ever seen. Nothing wrong with being someone with a knack for the eccentric and the talent to back-up their eccentricity; Bjork is probably an artist in the truest sense of the word. Maybe tone down the aquatic bird themes when going to the Oscars though…it just kinda makes you look like the crazy cat lady that lives at the end of the block.

7 Lady Gaga
There are certain people that set the bar for things and then there are people who see the bar, decide it’s not tacky enough, and bedazzle the living hell out of it.When someone asks, “How many Muppets did you have to kill to make that outfit?”, the answer should never be 50 Kermits. I’m sorry, no matter how talented Lady Gaga is, she will always be the girl that cried out for attention like a match at a fireworks stand. I think even Andy Warhol would have told her to tone it down. Is it performance art? Sure. Does it give me a headache every time I see her on TV? Yes. Is her shtick working? Yes. Are we all a little bit epileptic because of it? Yeah, and I don’t care how great her music is, I’m tired of swallowing my tongue when I watch the Grammys.

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