Gwen Stefani always turns out a unique look on the red carpet, but even she’ll never top some of the outfits she wore in the ’90s and early aughts.

While the No Doubt frontwoman favors a sleeker look these days, she was once the queen of mismatched patterns, neon hair dye and ʙικιɴι tops as evening wear. While she eventually started incorporating designer pieces into her outfits, Stefani has said that her style was originally born out of the DIY ethos of the music scene.

“Growing up in Orange County, I would look at magazines and I’d be, like, anti-magazine: ‘Oh, my God, you can’t get those clothes, they’re so expensive!’ she recalled to Vogue in 2016. “I would just be all about getting a pair of old men’s pajamas and pegging them, making my own stuff. I just wanted to dress different from everyone else, and I don’t know why.”

Stefani also intentionally blended inspiration from different eras, often mixing Old Hollywood glam with punk accents.

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“I really liked the idea of mashing time periods together, so my face and hair would be inspired by a glamorous screen siren from the olden days, and from my chin down, I was quite masculine in the way that I dressed,” she explained in a 2020 Vogue interview. ‘But then it would be fun to find one girly thing to add, like, I’d let my bra straps show and let them be a contrasting color or put diamonds on the bra straps. I was really into this whole sort of masculine and feminine thing at the same time.”

Keep scrolling for a look back at Stefani’s most memorable throwback looks: