When Jessie James Decker graced the crimson rug on the American Nation Music Awards on Thursday, Could 8, she hit a sartorial excessive notice in a gold-sequinned showstopper by Retrofête.
Earlier than the nation pop celebrity and the New York Instances best-selling creator hosted the crimson carpet, she spoke to Us Weekly solely as she acquired gussied up for nation music’s huge night time.
“[This is] a lot enjoyable!” she gushed to Us. “I haven’t been to an awards present in a sizzling minute. The final time I used to be early-on pregnant with Denver, (her cute 15-month-old, who she shares along with her husband, Eric, together with their three older youngsters: Vivianne, 10, Eric Jr., 8, and Forrest, 6). “So that is my first one again shortly. We’re glamming up, preparing.”
Whereas sitting fairly in her suite on the Corridor Park Lodge, Decker, 37, sipped on Mountain Valley Spring Water (a.okay.a. the official water of the 2025 Academy of Nation Music Awards). The enhance of hydration added to her lit-from-within glow as she chatted up chart-topping artists, together with the award nominees, earlier than the ceremony aired dwell by way of Amazon Prime on Thursday.
She additionally revealed that the aforementioned gold gown she donned on Thursday was truly her second alternative, because the one she had chosen (a inexperienced Alex Perry design) broke on the final minute.
Decker took it in stride. “It’s humorous; I had a cute inexperienced gown to match Mountain Valley Water, and it busted. My boobies are too huge, I assume, in order that was superior,” she mentioned in her signature deadpan humorousness. “So I at all times, it doesn’t matter what, deliver a backup outfit.”
“I’ve been by means of manner too many situations the place I want I had,” she continued. “The zipper busted within the again as a result of it match my waist and my hips rather well. It was simply, like, my boobs are huge.”
This was hardly Decker’s first crimson carpet rodeo, and even essentially the most seasoned celebrities have suffered a wardrobe malfunction mere hours earlier than high-profile occasions, just like the ACM Awards.
“I at all times prefer to be tremendous ready for these situations!” Decker mentioned with amusing.
Simply ask the singer herself, who was fast to confess: “So, I’ve truly had that occur as soon as the place the again busted. [Eric] needed to give me his coat, and I needed to put on it the remainder of the night time.”

It might have been her second alternative, however the metallic Retrofête column was a 2025 ACM Awards red-carpet fashion win, full with intricate gildings and sheer panels, a daring again slit and barely-theres straps. It match like a glove and hugged her enviable determine in all the best locations.
“The backup gown is fairly and really traditional,” she mentioned as her crew put the ending touches on her awards night time magnificence look, which was admittedly flawless. “I feel [the gold] will look fairly with the carpet setting. It’s going to pop rather well. And I’m a gold lady. I like gold.”
Given the high-shine garb, Decker was smart to go for low-key glam. “As a result of the gown is gold, there’s loads happening,” she defined. “I needed to maintain every thing very easy. I didn’t need an intense updo. I needed to really feel tremendous pure and the make-up to really feel like that, too.” (Suppose: gentle, finger-raked waves, invisible basis and a wholesome swirl of peach-toned blush.)
Or as Decker put it, a model of red-carpet glam that’s “tremendous relaxed and form of like we rolled off the bed.” She had legendary magnificence references in thoughts, too. “I like a Nineteen Nineties Cindy Crawford, bronzy J. Lo look,” the nation pop singer shared. “That’s at all times my go-to. It simply works for me.”



