The Oscars are not just about who wins the trophies and goes home with all the awards but it's also about who wins the runway that is the red carpet. The Hollywood Reporter's Artistic and Fashion Direction Alison Edmond breaks down some of the top looks from our leading ladies this awards season.
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00:00Styling on the red carpet this season is very deliberate.
00:03There's obviously a lot of thought and planning
00:06that has gone into it,
00:07and you can see a narrative running through it.
00:10It's very careful.
00:11If you look at the leading ladies this season,
00:14or all of our nominees, you'll see patterns,
00:17you'll see designers that are being repeated,
00:19that keep coming up.
00:20There's certain favorites that are definitely out there.
00:24Zoe Saldana wore Yves Saint Laurent
00:27to the Emilia Perez premiere in L.A.
00:30And of course, Yves Saint Laurent were also producers
00:34of the film, so it's a logical choice for her.
00:36And she's been wearing Saint Laurent to,
00:39I would say 90% of her appearances for Emilia Perez.
00:42And she's so elegant.
00:43Everything she wears is just,
00:45she carries it off beautifully,
00:46and this was just a stunning look for her.
00:49Zoe also wore Saint Laurent for the BAFTAs,
00:52and she wore a slim column dress
00:55with this amazing kind of lace plume around the shoulders,
00:59which looked fantastic.
01:04At the Critics' Choice, Zoe wore Saint Laurent.
01:07Again, this was a beautiful kind of scarlet red satin look,
01:10and she topped it off with a Cartier jacquard.
01:13It's a very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
01:17she topped it off with a Cartier black satin choker
01:20with a little diamond kind of buckle.
01:24For the Golden Globes, Zoe wore Saint Laurent again.
01:27It was a chocolate brown sequin kind of column dress
01:29with this wonderful kind of brown taffeta shawl.
01:34This was my favorite look of the Golden Globes of anybody.
01:37And she just looked amazing.
01:38Again, they all walked in on the red carpet
01:40with this rose backdrop, and she just looked spectacular.
01:44She won the evening for me.
01:45She looked fantastic.
01:47For the Oscars, I guess it's an easy prediction
01:49to predict Saint Laurent for this
01:51because the producers are gonna be there.
01:53They've produced Emilia Perez,
01:55so I'm predicting that she will wear Saint Laurent.
01:58I'm hoping that she wears some kind of color.
02:00I'd almost be disappointed if she's wearing black.
02:03I think she looks so wonderful in kind of jewel colors,
02:06so I'm hoping she wears some kind of jewel tone.
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02:15Demi Moore works with Brad Goreski,
02:18and she's had an incredible season.
02:20She's had a very eclectic mix of looks.
02:24For the Critics' Choice, she wore Schiaparelli couture.
02:27She wore this beautiful navy kind of slashed ribbon gown
02:31with this incredible kind of curved bodice
02:34with the little kind of bauble at the front.
02:36It was just spectacular.
02:38She looks wonderful in navy with her jet black hair.
02:41Navy and black is one of my favorite color combinations,
02:44and she just looks so chic.
02:46I think this was my favorite gown
02:47of her whole campaign, actually.
02:48Ever since 2023 and Barbie,
02:51there's this trend of method dressing,
02:53as they're calling it, on the red carpet
02:55where people take their character
02:58into their red carpet dressing.
02:59And I think, yes, this Schiaparelli dress
03:01for Demi was the same thing.
03:03I think the restrictions, as well,
03:05of being so tightly laced in
03:07and the stitches on the back
03:09resembling Demi's character in the substance.
03:16For the Golden Globes, Demi wore Armani Privé,
03:20and it was completely fitting
03:22because this was the first award
03:24I think she won of the season.
03:26And this was her comeback award.
03:28This was the beginning of, like,
03:29oh, wow, is Demi gonna kill this season?
03:31And she killed in the dress, and she looked fabulous.
03:34She was wearing gold.
03:35She won the Golden Globe.
03:37This was a little bit of a pivotal moment for her.
03:39For Demi, she's a little bit of a wild card.
03:42I'm not sure if I can predict what she's gonna wear.
03:44My only instinct would be
03:46maybe she would go back to Armani
03:48because it brought her luck on the Golden Globe stage.
03:51So it might be a little bit of a talisman for her,
03:54but let's see.
03:58For the wicked premiere in LA,
04:00Cynthia Erivo wore a custom Louis Vuitton
04:03in patent green leather.
04:05This was the beginning of the crazy green moment
04:08for Cynthia.
04:11It was fantastic.
04:13I love what her and her stylist, Jason Bolden,
04:15have done throughout this whole Wicked tour.
04:18And the nails, the jewelry,
04:21everything has just been incredible.
04:24She's such a character.
04:25She's such a fashion lover,
04:27and I think that's what,
04:28for people like me in the fashion industry,
04:31I think that's what comes across,
04:32that she appreciates every single tiny detail.
04:40And then in Mexico,
04:42she wore this incredible Tom Brown custom look,
04:46which had these almost like sort of claws on the shoulder,
04:50which were, they evoked memories of Margaret Hamilton,
04:55the original actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West
04:57in the 1939 film.
04:59There were those shadows of the posters
05:03of these claws of the witch.
05:10And for the Golden Globe,
05:11she wore a custom Louis Vuitton dress,
05:13which was like a sort of black and silver
05:16overlay lace look with a peplum.
05:18This was quite divisive.
05:19Some people didn't like it.
05:20I personally loved it.
05:21I thought this was beautiful.
05:23And again, she can carry it off.
05:24Some people, it tends to wear them,
05:26but Cynthia knows she can carry anything off,
05:29and I thought this was stunning.
05:30I thought it was fantastic.
05:33For the Oscars, I would imagine,
05:35because Cynthia is a Louis Vuitton ambassador,
05:38I would imagine she's going to do something spectacular
05:40in Louis Vuitton.
05:42And of course they have to also do the Vanity Fair party.
05:46They have to do, you know, the after party.
05:49So I would expect we're going to see
05:51two or three amazing Louis Vuitton looks.
05:54So Ariana Grande, with her stylist Mimi Coutrelle,
05:57has just done, she's totally been channeling
06:02her Dorothy character, her, you know, her Glinda character.
06:06It's all of the good people in the Wizard of Oz
06:09all kind of rolled into one.
06:10And her outfit at the Wicked premiere in LA
06:13by Tom Brown was, it was Dorothy's little gingham dress.
06:17It was Glinda in the Wizard of Oz.
06:20And it was just, you know,
06:21And in Europe, it was really nice to see
06:24a little change from the pink and see her wear lemon.
06:27This was a Ralph Lauren design
06:29and she had the very cute little glasses as well.
06:32And another ode to Glinda,
06:36but I think it's just,
06:38it's just a very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
06:42very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
06:46very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
06:50but she's very, Arianna is very ethereal
06:54and she has that kind of mystical way about her,
07:00which just works with all these light fabrics,
07:02with all these kind of tools and all the chiffons.
07:05And she's very light and airy in herself.
07:14And in Palm Springs, a little bit of a departure.
07:17Arianna went for something a little bit more structured
07:21in Louis Vuitton, like a silver kind of bubble.
07:24But again, it's Glinda's bubble.
07:25It's the thing that she kind of floats away in.
07:27For the Oscars, I feel like,
07:29I feel like she's going a little bit sculptural.
07:32I feel like she's working,
07:34she's looking towards all these kind of shapes
07:36and corsets, so I wouldn't be surprised
07:39if she returns to Schiaparelli.
07:41We shot her in the most extraordinary Schiaparelli dress
07:44for our cover of Hollywood Reporter.
07:46So I'd be excited if she wore something
07:48by Schiaparelli for the Oscars.
07:50So I'm crossing fingers.
07:51It's been a great season on the red carpet.
07:54The acting nominees this season
07:56are some of the most stylish ladies in the acting business.
08:00So it's been a wonderful red carpet season.
08:03I expect nothing less at the Oscars.
08:16I expect nothing less at the Oscars.