Christina Aguilera: Cray or Ridiculed Genius?

Remember when Xtina wore this to the VMAs?

And everyone made fun of her for looking like a deranged flamingo?  Well now this has been happening on the runways:

So here's the question.  Was she a crazy fashion DON'T, or just a fashion GENIUS predicting the trends for ten years in the future?  And now she is sitting whirling around in her big red chair laughing manically at us because we didn't know dresses made completely out of feathers would just be so in.