Let’s get right down to business, shall we? The 90th Academy Awards were held last night and while the accolades were mostly predictable (except, shoutout to JORDAN PEELE for his Best Original Screenplay!), the fashion was less so. With women, #metoo, #timesup and inclusiveness at the forefront of everyone’s minds, somber dress was definitely not the order of the night. Rather, the explosion of color seemed to indicate a celebration of this moment in time, when Hollywood’s not-so-hidden inequalities and abuses have begun to be exposed and the call for change — #inclusionrider — continues to ring out. So, let’s join in cheering the Oscars’ fabulous finery … and having a little fun with the highly subjective less-than-successfully-dressed.
It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This:
GTFO of Rita Moreno’s way, because this amazing actress has been working for over seven decades, and she is wearing her (slightly modified) 1962 Oscar gown — the very one she donned to take home the Best Supporting Actress award for West Side Story —
and once again, she won the night.
Best Dressed:
Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot in Givenchy — I love everything about this gown.
Lupita Nyong’o in Versace — Lupita never misses, and this golden gown reflects her inner luminosity.
Allison Janney in Reem Acra
Jennifer Garner in Versace
Zendaya in Giambattista Valli
Frances McDormand
If There Were an Award Solely for Posing:
Danai Gurira in Gabriela Hearst
Doug Jones
Queen:
Tiffany Haddish in traditional Eritrean dress (zuria)
Fine. These Dresses Are All Just Fine (The Women Wearing Them Are Beyond … ):
Jennifer Lawrence in Dior
Helen Mirren in Reem Acra
Octavia Spencer in Brandon Maxwell
Meryl Streep in Dior
Kelly Marie Tran in Jenny Packham
Viola Davis in Michael Kors (I love this color on her. Kept thinking her hair was in pigtails!)
Sandra Bullock in Louis Vuitton
Mary J. Blige in Versace
Greta Gerwig in Rodarte
Taraji P. Henson in Vera Wang
Phoebe Waller Bridge in Vionnet
We Don’t Get It, But You Do You:
Salma Hayek in Gucci
Nicole Kidman in Armani Privé
Whoopi Goldberg in Christian Siriano
Margot Robbie in Chanel
Betty Gabriel in Tony Ward
Lesley Manville in Anna Valentine
Adam Rippon (Moschino harness) with Mirai Nagasu
We Fell Asleep Whilst Looking, aka You Can Wear So Much Better Than This:
Sally Hawkins in Armani Privé
Saoirse Ronan in Calvin Klein
Allison Williams in Armani Privé
Elisabeth Moss in Dior
Laura Dern in Calvin Klein
Laurie Metcalf in Christian Siriano
Gina Rodriguez in Zuhair Murad
Color Us Disappointed:
Emma Stone in Louis Vuitton (No gown is fine; bad cocktail party attire is … not so good.)
Um … Worst Dressed, No Contest:
Saint Vincent Saint Laurent
Best of the Boys:
Tom Holland Hermès — Dead, I am.
Fiercely Fine Fellas:
Mahershala Ali
Common in Giorgio Armani
Lakeith Stanfield in Ermenegildo Zegna
Winston Duke
Michael Stuhlbarg
Armie Hammer
Jordan Peele
Timothée Chalamet in Berluti
Christopher Plummer
Not Our Favorites:
Gael Garcia Bernal in Dior Homme (Sleeves too short?)
Daniel Kaluuya (These pants are short and that jacket color is just not good.)
Power Pairings:
Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino
Daniel Kaluuya and Timothée Chalamet
Jordan Peele and Chelsea Peretti
Dee Rees and Sarah Broom
Sam Rockwell and Leslie Bibb
Tiffany Haddish in Alexander McQueen and Maya Rudolph in Valentino (who I might nominate for next-to-worst outfit if I didn’t love her so much)
Maya and Paul Thomas Anderson (the way he’s looking at her!)
Timothée and Armie
Andy Serkis and Lorraine Ashbourne
Gary Oldman and Gisèle Schmidt
Kobe Bryant and Vanessa Laine Bryant
BJ Novak and Mindy Kahling
Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon
Richard Jenkins and Sharon R. Friedrick
Patrick Stewart and Sunny Ozell
WHY DIDN’T WE SEE YOU AT THE OSCARS??? YOU BOTH WOULD HAVE WON IT ALL (after-party):
Angela Bassett
Janelle Monáe
