![image: Nicki Minaj arrives at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on August 28, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.](https://style.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2013/01/122732928.jpg?w=260)
This is less “outfit” than it is “Terminator’s concubine girlfriend after a bad acid trip.” That aside, she deserves props for joining cross-dressed Lady Gaga and pregnant Beyoncé on their level at that year’s fête. That’s the only explanation for her structural metallic corset, pink tutu, single slipper, face mask, pink and yellow beehive, sewn-together chain of stuffed animals, and we’re sensory overloading from even describing it.