NEW YORK --
Jessica Chastain hit the Oscars purple carpet in a purple and copper sparkle robe, whereas the 15-year-old Saniyya Sidney twirled and beamed in a floral-adorned princess look and her "King Richard" castmate Demi Singleton lit up in tender purple Sunday.
Chastain's Gucci ombre robe included a ruffle hem. The color of her hair, in a excessive ponytail, matched the burnished bodice of her robe completely. Nicole Kidman smooched along with her husband, Keith City, in a subdued blue grey Armani Prive strapless column robe with a waist ruffle and prepare.
"This gown, they really made this color," Kidman informed E!. "I used to be, like, I actually need to put on blue. I really like the color."
Nominee Kristen Stewart, her platinum hair swept to at least one facet, posed shortly for cameras in tiny, rock star black shorts from Chanel. The buttons on her white high opened all the way down to her bellybutton. Penelope Cruz in Chanel went for black in a basic silhouette with a bow glowing at her neck.
"As a substitute of a parade of the same old suspects carrying variations on the identical theme, the purple carpet was stuffed with individualism, private model and a way of play," mentioned style director Zoey Washington, who works with a variety of luxurious manufacturers.
"There was one thing downright refreshing about seeing how younger Hollywood introduced a way of caprice, from Kristen Stewart's bespoke Chanel and Zendaya's naked midriff to Lupita Nyong'o's kinetic, gold Prada that made her appear to be a residing Oscar," she mentioned.
Sidney wore a lightweight teal, strapless Armani Prive robe as one of many early arrivals to the 94th Academy Awards. It wasn't her first Oscars. She attended at age 10 for "Fences" and "Hidden Figures." Singleton portrayed Serena Williams to Sidney's Venus.
Because the movie trade's glamorous return to the Dolby Theatre unfolded, touches of the actual world seeped in.
Jamie Lee Curtis wore a ribbon as a hoop in Ukrainian blue, wearing a midnight blue look by Stella McCartney. Nicholas Britell, nominated for his "Do not Look Up" rating, wore a blue ribbon on one lapel in help of Ukraine, and Diane Warren in an Emerald inexperienced tuxedo go well with, wore a blue lapel ribbon of her personal on behalf of Ukraine refugees. Others donned Ukraine blue ribbons as properly.
Presenter Lily James, in the meantime, went with child pink Versace with a excessive facet slit and Piaget jewels as she posed for selfies with just a few followers on the purple carpet. Smooth pastels like her outfit combined with metallic appears to be like (Lupita Nyong'o in gold Prada) and black statements (Billie Eilish in an enormous tiered customized Gucci robe) in a 12 months nonetheless fighting the pandemic and the horrors of Russia's warfare in Ukraine.
The reds took it within the development division.
Style icon Tracee Ellis Ross went with Carolina Herrera: a vibrant tea-length strapless purple robe with a daring bodice and a single diamond choker. Rosie Perez wore a basic Hollywood Christian Siriano customized robe in purple with a dainty cape. Sonia Yuan of "Drive My Automotive," Marlee Matlin of "CODA" and Ariana DeBose of "West Aspect Story" additionally selected vibrant purple, DeBose in trousers and a cropped high. Kirsten Dunst obtained the purple memo as properly.
Aunjanue Ellis, in a extra delicate purple, had "Jack's Child" sewn into her Donatella Versace robe in honour of her mom. Jennifer Garner went basic in a Brandon Maxwell purple off-shoulder robe.
As for the boys, style lover and nominee Kodi Smit-McPhee of "The Energy of the Canine" selected a tone-on-tone child blue go well with from Bottega Veneta, an 18-carat Cartier diamond choker over his collared (no-tie) gown shirt. He confirmed off his Cartier watch, which included cascading diamonds on its face.
"I am gonna miss that when it is not on my wrist," he joked.
Erik Maza, govt model director for City & Nation journal, praised Smit-McPhee's style dangers.
"He is run away with Timothee Chalamet's title for greatest dressed younger actor this season," Maza informed The Related Press.
Aspect be aware: Chalamet went with no shirt and a cropped sequin and fringe jacket in black from Louis Vuitton.
Wesley Snipes sported a shorts go well with in darkish purple. Sebastian Yatra, chosen to carry out, wore a pink tuxedo with tails from Moschino, designed by Jeremy Scott. He wore Cartier diamonds. Jason Momoa, a presenter, saved cool with an extended braid tied with a small pink scrunchie. He wore a black Henry Poole go well with as he towered over the remainder of the purple carpet.
Naomi Scott was all-the-way coated in an edgy high-neck, deep purple look. Anna Dzieduszycka of the nominated brief movie "The Gown" wore an emerald inexperienced robe with spare feather embellishment. Jada Pinkett Smith additionally went with inexperienced, a deeper shade with an enormous ruched prepare completed by Glenn Martens for Gaultier.
Jewels made the assertion for some. Vanessa Hudgens, in a black form-hugging sequin robe, had greater than 23 carats of Bulgari emeralds round her neck.
"Licorice Pizza" Star Alana Haim and her sisters wore customized Louis Vuitton in a scallop design. Haim posed for a photograph with Denis Villeneuve.
"It is for the Hanukkah card," Haim mentioned.
A lot of pores and skin, color and jewellery took the evening.
"The unofficial theme of the evening was extra is extra, with daring colours, over-the-top glam and in-your-face particulars dominating the purple carpet," mentioned Irina Grechko, style director for the millennial-focused Refinery29.com model web site. "It is good to see celebrities embrace shade after taking part in it secure in neutrals for much too lengthy."
There have been some standout moments in hair and sweetness as properly: Regina Corridor's "magical swap from lengthy Hollywood waves on the purple carpet to a brief stylish bob on stage," mentioned Cosmopolitan magnificence director Julee Wilson. "I am obsessive about Lupita's fake loc beehive coiffure. It is regal with a twist, fairly actually."
Given the information local weather, it wasn't stunning that some attendees saved it low key and low wattage in black.
"I am particularly happy with Rita Moreno's look tonight as a result of she wore her Adrienne Landau hat for the primary time for the duvet story I wrote for City & Nation's March difficulty," Maza mentioned. "The primary Latina to win an Oscar for performing honored her heritage with a gown bearing the identify of one other Latina OG, Carolina Herrera. Has 90 ever seemed this good?"
Maza additionally lauded James' powdery pink Atelier Versace look and Chastain's Gucci robe "that telegraphed her confidence going into the ceremony."
Andrea Lavinthal, model and sweetness director for Folks, was a fan of Zendaya's two-piece beaded silver Valentino skirt paired with a white cropped button down that was paying homage to Sharon Stone's lengthy skirt and white Hole shirt on the 1996 Oscars.
"It is very younger and really trendy but in addition applicable for the Oscars," she mentioned. "It was an actual present stopper. There was plenty of actually daring style. You do not normally see this a lot pores and skin and dangers on the Oscars."
Whereas Zendaya channeled Stone, Zoe Kravitz evoked Audrey Hepburn in a pale pink Saint Laurent Anthony Vaccarello strapless look with a easy bodice half bow, her bangs worn properly above her eyebrows as Hepburn did.
An abundance of stars put their decolletage entrance and middle, mentioned Blake Newby, model and sweetness editor for Essence.
"Stars embraced plunging necklines greater than ever earlier than this 12 months. From Serena and Venus Williams in Gucci and Elie Saab, to Jessica Chastain, additionally in Gucci, to Niecy Nash in Monsoori, the women performed with totally different silhouettes to point out off their busts," she mentioned.
Lavinthal famous the most popular matters on social media when it got here to Oscars style have been Stewart and Chalamet.
"If you are going to do shorts on the Oscars it is obtained to be Chanel," she mentioned. "It isn't for everybody but it surely's very a lot her. Individuals are loving each of them or not loving each of them."
Melissa Rivers, a purple carpet veteran and co-creator of the outdated "Style Police" starring her late mom, Joan, wasn't a fan.
"It is the Oscars. It is like going to the home of your grandparents, who're wealthy and also you're undecided in case you're within the will but," she joked. "It is simply, cease. We get who you might be, however that is the Oscars."
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Related Press writers Lindsey Bahr and Brooke Lefferts contributed to this story
Correction:
This story has been up to date to right the spelling of Penelope Cruz's final identify.
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