The Best Looks From the 2020 Grammys Red Carpet

The show needed to go on.

The Grammys red carpet took place in Los Angeles, with many attendees responding to the death of Kobe Bryant who died in a helicopter accident just hours before.

Mr. Bryant, who was 41, played 20 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers — his only team — and so has been a fixture of Southern Californian lives for decades.

The Grammys was already struggling with internal chaos — the chief executive was ousted, and has said she was forced out for complaining about sexual harassment and irregularities in the nominating process — and the show was already prepared to go on anyway. Here’s what we saw — and here’s our favorite moments in video on the red carpet all night, and here’s all about the show.

Lil Nas X led the charge West.

“Urban cowboy” has been real for a while and this Grammys made it official. Lil Nas X as shocking pink dominatrix Versace cowboy. Diplo as cool-tuxedo cowboy. Orville Peck as leather-masked, white-hat cowboy. And Billy Porter as fringe-glam-disco cowboy. Home, home, on the red carpet.