Grammys 2015: It's a bumper crop of varied bow ties on the red carpet

Grammys 2015: It’s a bumper crop of varied bow ties on the red carpet

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Multiple nominee Sam Smith is wearing an ivory bow tie on a white tux shirt. MORE: Show updates | Show highlights | Quotes | Red carpet (Larry Busacca / Getty Images for NARAS)

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Hit-Boy was a hit in a white tux jacket with a print bow tie at the Grammys. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Nominee Pharrell Williams also opted for a bow tie at the Grammys. (Valerie Macon / AFP / Getty Images)

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Weird Al Yankovic with bow tie at the 2015 Grammys. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Rapper Childish Gambino (a.k.a. Donald Glover) wears a traditional tux -- minus the socks. (Jordan Strauss / Invision / Associated Press)

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Bow-tie-clad Jonathan Martin, center, of the Christian music vocal trio the Martins, with Judy Martin Hess, left, and Joyce Martin Sanders. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

By Adam Tschorn

Senior Features Writer

Feb. 8, 2015 3:50 PM PT

There’s already a winner at the 57th Grammy Awards – the bow tie – which is turning up in all kinds of novel incarnations tonight.

Nominee Sam Smith paired a white one with a white tuxedo shirt and dark jacket. Hip hop artist Hit-Boy went with a white jacket and shirt -- but with a print bow tie and pocket square combination -- and the Martins’ Jonathan Martin hit the red carpet in a natty–looking number that appeared to be polka-dotted but, in reality, was handmade out of pheasant feathers by a Charleston, S.C., company called Brackish.

We don’t know what’s behind the proliferation (maybe it’s an easier neck knot for musicians to wear while they perform) but we’re sure enjoying the bumper crop of bows that are coming down the red carpet ranging from butterfly big to gum-stick skinny.

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Adam Tschorn

Senior features writer Adam Tschorn is a former small-town newspaper editor, game-show question-and-answer man and fashion scribe who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2007. He currently covers a wide range of pop-culture topics with a focus on cannabis culture. Holding a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in journalism, he feels perfectly suited to looking at things, asking “why?” and writing down the answers.

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