Lindsay Lohan's Best Red Carpet Moments From The Mid-Aughts

Nylon Nights Low-rise jeans! Going-out tops! Slingback pumps! She's got it all. by Erika Harwood Updated: Feb. 20, 2024 Originally Published: July 2, 2020

Lindsay Lohan was a tabloid mainstay during the early and mid-2000s, thanks to her cult classic film Mean Girls and frequent cameos on the red carpet. Because of that, we have been blessed with an archive of peak 2000s fashion. Ahead, trucker hats, low-rise jeans, bodycon dresses, and more.

Stephen Lovekin/FilmMagic/Getty Images 2003, Pre-VMA party A trucker hat and choker on the red carpet, proving that these accessories are indeed 2000s-era fashion artifacts.

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic/Getty Images 2003, MTV VMAs The lightwash jeans and ombré sunglasses are a time capsule of the early aughts.

Stephen Lovekin/FilmMagic/Getty Images 2004, Teen People Party The jeans, somehow, went even lower and finished off with a sparkling belly button-piercing charm.

Photo by Scott Gries/Getty Images 2004, MTV Spring Break Nothing says spring break in 2004 like a going-out top and denim cutoffs.

Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic/Getty Images 2004, Mean Girls Premiere Her bright blue dress with cap sleeves and a sweetheart neckline likely inspired many prom and graduation day outfits.

Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images 2004, Sidekick II Party Yes, that is a (bedazzled!) Sidekick she is holding.

Jean-Paul Aussenard/WireImage/Getty Images 2005, Herbie Fully Loaded Premiere Now a blonde, she wore a strappy maxi dress to the Herbie Fully Loaded premiere.

KMazur/WireImage/Getty Images 2006, Kids' Choice Awards Blonde is out, ruffles are in.

Jamie McCarthy/WireImage/Getty Images 2007, Georgia Rule premiere A strapless dress with slingback, peeptoe shoes, which have still stayed put since the 2000s.

Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage for Bragman Nyman Cafarelli 2007, Maxim 's Annual Hot 100 Party It wouldn't be 2007 without a bodycon dress on a celebrity-studded red carpet.

Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage 2008, MTV Movie Awards Strapless dress? Check. Leather belt cinched at the waist? You better believe it.

Photo by Scott Wintrow/Getty Images 2008, Sephora 10th Anniversary Event A going-out top as a dress with a fedora. Thank you, Lindsay.

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