Kylie Minogue Wears Custom Dolce & Gabbana and Bared Footwear for AFL Grand Final

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Kylie Minogue performed at the 2026 Toyota Australian Football League Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday in her hometown of Melbourne. She wore a series of custom-made ensembles from Dolce and Gabbana for the show, marking a continued three-decades-long collaboration with the Italian fashion house.

The performance took place before a crowd of 100,000 at the MCG, ahead of the match between the Brisbane Lions and Fremantle Dockers. Minogue sang a medley of 11 of her biggest hits, including Confide In Me from 1994, Can't Get You Out of My Head from 2001 and Padam Padam from 2023. Padam Padam became the anthem of the European summer and won Minogue the Best Pop Dance Recording category at the 2024 Grammy Awards.

Her opening look was a cotton mesh tank top with rib trims and an appliqué printed image of Minogue, embellished with her name in red and clear hotfix crystals. It was worn with a custom belt and fringes made from ribbons, Swarovski crystals and shoelaces.

Show notes from the label said the look was completed with a custom belt crafted from a safety belt, featuring the iconic lace-up detail and fringes made from ribbons, Swarovski crystals and shoelaces, with details referencing football. Minogue then changed into a minidress made from a vintage jersey T-shirt with a lace-up detail down the side, finished with leather piping, corsetry ribbon and gold hotfix crystals.

The dress referenced Kylie's iconic looks from 2002 and was sport-inspired thanks to the lettering made with gold hotfix crystals. Her closing look was a chiffon and Chantilly lace gown featuring crystal mesh details, worn with a pair of the brand's DG Devotion sunglasses. The brand's founders, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, personally created the high-fashion looks. Dolce and Gabbana's showgirl looks were teamed with three custom iterations of Bared Footwear's knee-high Pandion boot in gold, silver and patent black.

One of the brand's best-sellers, the boot retails for 489 Australian dollars or 344 dollars at current exchange. To ensure safe delivery for the Grand Final, Bared Footwear founder Anna Baird personally escorted Minogue's custom boots back to Melbourne from her factory in China. Baird founded Bared Footwear in Melbourne in 2008. She said, We are big Kylie fans.

She is such an important part of Melbourne and Australian culture, so knowing she performed at the MCG in a pair of boots we created especially for her is quite the moment for us. The company reports sales have spiked 80 percent over the past six months in the U.S., which now accounts for nearly 15 percent of total sales, up 51 percent on 2025.

Earlier this year influencer Alix Earle wore the brand's Hillstar boots to Coachella, while Blackpink's Jennie Kim wore the Softtail style while performing solo at a Polish music festival. Minogue's AFL performance caps off a banner year for Bared Footwear. Kylie may have looked a million dollars, and earned three million for the gig, but the public response to her set was less than enthusiastic.

Many viewers at home were left feeling let down by the hitmaker's show, which opened with Love At First Sight. One person wrote, So far Kylie isn't really doing it for me, while another added, Kylie doing karaoke versions of her own songs. A third person added, Kylie is an Aussie icon but this well this has been horrendously bad. Another wrote, This Kylie halftime performance is bloody shocking she's not even singing.

One user commented, This pre show is very very ordinary. Band not playing at all and not sure if Kylie is a great choice. Someone else added, Like Kylie but sound not good, while one wrote, People have rose coloured glasses on. This isn't very good at all. Others appeared to have issues with the Padam Padam hitmaker's audio.

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