Oscar fashion: Stars make individual statements on red carpet

Jessica Chastain hit the Oscars crimson carpet in a purple and copper sparkle gown, though the 15-calendar year-old Saniyya Sidney twirled and beamed in a floral-adorned princess glimpse and her “King Richard” castmate Demi Singleton lit up in soft purple Sunday.

Chastain’s Gucci ombre seem incorporated a ruffle hem. The shade of her hair, in a superior ponytail, matched the burnished bodice of her gown perfectly. Nicole Kidman smooched with her spouse, Keith Urban, in a subdued blue gray Armani Prive strapless column gown with a midsection ruffle and educate.

“This costume, they in fact built this shade,” Kidman informed E!. “I was, like, I genuinely want to put on blue. I love the shade.”

Nominee Kristen Stewart, her platinum hair swept to 1 side, posed immediately for cameras in tiny, rock-star black shorts from Chanel. The buttons on her white major opened down to her bellybutton. Penelope Cruise in Chanel went for black in a common silhouette with a bow glowing at her neck.

“Instead of a parade of the regular suspects sporting variants on the exact theme, the red carpet was loaded with individualism, own fashion and a perception of engage in,” claimed trend director Zoey Washington, who will work with a array of luxurious brands.

“There was something downright refreshing about seeing how youthful Hollywood brought a sense of whimsy, from Kristen Stewart’s bespoke Chanel and Zendaya’s bare midriff to Lupita Nyong’o’s kinetic, gold Prada that produced her seem like a living Oscar,” she claimed.

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Sidney wore a gentle teal, strapless Armani Prive robe as one particular of the early arrivals to the 94th Academy Awards. It was not her initial Oscars. She attended at age 10 for “Fences” and “Hidden Figures.” Singleton portrayed Serena Williams to Sidney’s Venus.

As the movie industry’s glamorous return to the Dolby Theatre unfolded, touches of the authentic globe seeped in.

Jamie Lee Curtis wore a ribbon as a ring in Ukrainian blue, dressed in a midnight blue search by Stella McCartney. Nicholas Britell, nominated for his “Don’t Glimpse Up” rating, wore a blue ribbon on one lapel in guidance of Ukraine, and Diane Warren in an Emerald inexperienced tuxedo accommodate, wore a blue lapel ribbon of her very own on behalf of Ukraine refugees. Others donned Ukraine blue ribbons as well.

Presenter Lily James, meanwhile, went with little one pink Versace with a large side slit and Piaget jewels as she posed for selfies with a handful of admirers on the pink carpet. Gentle pastels like her outfit mixed with metallic appears to be (Lupita Nyong’o in gold Prada) and black statements (Billie Eilish in a large tiered customized Gucci gown) in a year still struggling with the pandemic and the horrors of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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The reds took it in the trend section.

Vogue icon Tracee Ellis Ross went with Carolina Herrera: a shiny tea-length strapless pink gown with a daring bodice and a one diamond choker. Rosie Perez wore a typical Hollywood Christian Siriano custom gown in crimson with a dainty cape. Sonia Yuan of “Drive My Car,” Marlee Matlin of “CODA” and Ariana DeBose of “West Side Story” also selected shiny crimson, DeBose in trousers and a cropped best. Kirsten Dunst received the red memo as perfectly.

Aunjanue Ellis, in a additional subtle purple, experienced “Jack’s Baby” sewn into her Donatella Versace gown.

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As for the men, manner lover and nominee Kodi Smit-McPhee of “The Energy of the Dog” chose a tone-on-tone little one blue match from Bottega Veneta, an 18-carat Cartier diamond choker around his collared (no-tie) gown shirt. He showed off his Cartier look at, which included cascading diamonds on its encounter.

“I’m gonna overlook that when it’s not on my wrist,” he joked.

Erik Maza, government design and style director for Town & Nation magazine, praised Smit-McPhee’s trend hazards.

“He’s run absent with Timothée Chalamet’s title for greatest dressed younger actor this period,” Maza advised The Linked Push.

Side notice: Chalamet went with no shirt and a cropped sequin and fringe jacket in black from Louis Vuitton.

Wesley Snipes sported a shorts fit in dark purple. Sebastian Yatra, chosen to execute, wore a pink tuxedo with tails from Moschino, developed by Jeremy Scott. He wore Cartier diamonds. Jason Momoa, a presenter, kept great with a very long braid tied with a small pink scrunchie. He wore a black Henry Poole match as he towered in excess of the relaxation of the red carpet.

Naomi Scott was all-the-way lined in an edgy superior-neck, deep purple appear. Anna Dzieduszycka of the nominated shorter movie “The Dress” wore an emerald green gown with spare feather embellishment. Jada Pinkett Smith also went with green, a deeper shade with a huge ruched teach performed by Glenn Martens for Gaultier.

Jewels built the statement for some. Vanessa Hudgens, in a black sort-hugging sequin gown, had far more than 23 carats of Bulgari emeralds close to her neck.

“Licorice Pizza” Star Alana Haim and her sisters wore custom made Louis Vuitton in a scallop style. Haim posed for a photograph with Denis Villeneuve.

“It’s for the Hanukkah card,” Haim said.

A lot of pores and skin, color and jewelry took the night time.

“The unofficial concept of the night was a lot more is extra, with bold hues, more than-the-top glam and in-your-confront information dominating the crimson carpet,” claimed Irina Grechko, vogue director for the millennial-concentrated Refinery29.com style web-site. “It’s good to see celebs embrace color soon after taking part in it safe in neutrals for far as well very long.”

Provided the news local climate, it wasn’t astonishing that some attendees saved it very low vital and very low wattage in black.

“I’m specifically happy of Rita Moreno’s appear tonight mainly because she wore her Adrienne Landau hat for the initial time for the include story I wrote for Town & Country’s March challenge,” Maza reported. “The first Latina to get an Oscar for performing honored her heritage with a dress bearing the name of yet another Latina OG, Carolina Herrera. Has 90 ever seemed this very good?”

Maza also lauded James’ powdery pink Atelier Versace glance and Chastain’s Gucci robe “that telegraphed her self-assurance heading into the ceremony.”

Andrea Lavinthal, fashion and natural beauty director for Folks, was a supporter of Zendaya’s two-piece beaded silver Valentino skirt paired with a white button that was reminiscent of Sharon Stone’s long skirt and white Gap shirt at the 1996 Oscars.

“It’s very young and quite modern but also acceptable for the Oscars,” she mentioned. “It was a real exhibit stopper. There was a ton of really daring fashion. You never ordinarily see this a lot pores and skin and hazards at the Oscars.”

Lavinthal noted the hottest matters on social media when it came to Oscars trend had been Stewart and Chalamet.

“If you’re likely to do shorts at the Oscars it is got to be Chanel,” she reported. “It’s not for everybody but it’s really a great deal her. People are loving the two of them or not loving both of them.”

Melissa Rivers, a red carpet veteran and co-creator of the old “Fashion Police” starring her late mother, Joan, was not a admirer.

“It’s the Oscars. It’s like likely to the property of your grandparents, who are wealthy and you are not sure if you’re in the will yet,” she joked. “It’s just, halt. We get who you are, but this is the Oscars.”