Vogue’s Best Dressed and Biggest Wins From the 2026 Oscars

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2:29Good morning, everyone. We are at the Condé Nast podcast studios bright and early morning after the 98th Academy Awards. Welcome Christian Allaire, Taylor Antrim, Chomanati, our morning after award season crew, night owls and early birds. Early birds. Good morning. Good morning. How late were you up, Chloe? 12.30. Yeah. Sounds right. After party at 222. Yeah. Lloyd was raging. This morning, we are joined by our colleagues, Taylor Andrew and Christian Allaire, who I already just welcomed. Yes. We're still very happy to be here. Happy to be here. Yeah. Yeah, we're excited about the Oscars, right?

3:15We are. We are. We're also excited for a climactic crescendo end to awards season. Okay. Are you going to correct my use of crescendo? Yeah. I'm like, that's future tense? So what's still to happen? Well, I think of the Met as like something coming. Oh, in May. Okay, I'm just fixing because I used crescendo wrong. But this was a very exciting awards show, I thought. All season long, we've been waiting for this big moment. We've been obviously robustly covering each and every awards show. There seemed to be more every season. But first, Choma, I have to say it is my favorite litmus test to check in with you since you were sleeping peacefully when this was all going down and hear what made it through to you this morning.

4:06What were the highlights on the other side of the pond? Well, I think everybody's been thinking about this Oscar race between Sinners and Whambuttal After Another. And I think Michael B. Jordan winning really came through my feed really strongly. I also feel that Jessie Buckley from all angles, from the fashion perspective of the moment she hit the red carpet, that beautiful, romantic, ethereal Chanel dress that she wore was just perfect and just fit for an Oscar winner. And then her beautiful speech and talking about the chaos that exists inside a mother's heart, I thought it was really moving and gorgeous.

4:47And I hope, Chloe, that resonated with you because I thought it was beautiful. chaos exists for me in all areas just exuding chaos it looked like a really fun night it looked like a fun exciting awards show I mean I could go on about best dressed but we'll get into that a little bit later I'm sort of curious best dressed Choma yeah who was your best dressed from the night there were so so many beautifully dressed people there for me it had to be Wumi Musaku. I think she just looked incredible in Vuitton. I think it's so difficult to dress when you're expecting because your body is changing so rapidly.

5:28I imagine that she's probably changed size over the course of this award season. So shout out to all the tailors who've had to readjust these dresses as she's going along. I love that, Shoma. Shout out to the tailors. Yeah, she hasn't had a misstep yet. And I thought that beautiful green, emerald green, sparkling Vuitton dress was just perfection. I also thought Renate Rinsve looked amazing in that very simple Louis Vuitton column that had a long slit up to her thigh on the side, but was just incredibly elegant. And she was all in red, red lip, red shoe, red dress. She looked stunning. Oh, my favorite of the season, Odessa Zion in Valentino.

6:10Oh my God, she is the best. She just does what she wants. Yeah, she shows up as herself. And I think that very few actors get that kind of license, creative license to just be themselves. And she looked incredible in this. I don't know whether it was pants or it was a robe, but it was an embroidered black velvet look from Valentino that just looked stunning. And she just looked so comfortable and cool. and then she wore this quite insane Harris Reed number to the Vanity Fair after party. It looked incredible. She was corseted with these very high, I don't know what to call them, like exaggerated epaulettes because they were literally like wings.

6:53They looked like parts of a spaceship. They looked like parts of a spaceship. If I were her, I would have done the inverse. I would have been comfortable at the after party. No, no, no, no. Okay, all right. I think the after party, you can go wild. You can go crazy. You want to show up because, I mean, it must be so intimidating going to the Oscars for the first time as a new actor. Don't you think? I'd want to be absolutely comfortable. And then you can let your hair down and let your inner freak flag fly at the after party. So I thought she made the right choice in dressing that way. But, yeah, those are some of the standouts for me.

7:29But how about you guys? Well, we started a new best dress rubric or awards rubric that we all sort of workshopped together called the Vogue Awards. And we they're really fun. We have the Gwyneth Paltrow Award for leading lady, which goes to sort of the ingenue who's about to win an award, which Jesse Buckley really nailed that. I thought she looked amazing in her Chanel. we had the Cher Award for Best Showgirl Moment which for us went to Demi Moore in her feathered incredible Gucci dress which I absolutely love Feathers Christian were a big trend now Huge trend Who else were there? Nicole Kidman Moore Feathers Tiana Both Nicole and Tiana in Chanel Tiana's Feathered was the best one I have to say the most most innovative use of feathers gorgeous and effortless Amy Madigan Oh, and Amy Madigan was avian-like.

8:21Yes. She won the best suit, in my opinion. She looked fab. I'm surprised there weren't more suits last night. I know. I thought so, too. She was one of the few. We also have the Angelina Jolie Award for best slit, which Renata won in spades. So that was very exciting. Gwyneth Paltrow also had a huge high slit. Oh, yeah. She had a crazy slit, but it was a secret slit. Yes. That was cool. What was that, Armani? That was Armani, yep. When was the famous Angelina Jolie high slit? When was that? What year was that? I was Versace. And I want to say 2012. I remember that moment. That was just, it broke the internet.

8:58And ever since then, I think we've just been calling it the Angelina Jolie Slit. I know, it's amazing. But Christian, who else were your best dressed of the night? I loved a lot of the men. I loved Pedro Pascal's Chanel. I think men often just wear... Oh, I know, with that beautiful flower. Yeah, they just wear like a blazer 99 % of the time. It was fun to see someone throw out the blazer, wear just a shirt, but a huge fabulous brooch. It was fab. Just shirt. So fab. And those sexy little glasses. Ugh, love. Joe Alwyn, too, in Valentino, his little loose bow tie. It was these little details. There's a lot of floppy bows.

9:32A lot of floppy bows. Jesse Buckley, for me, is also my fave best dressed. I feel like there's never enough color on the red carpet. Like, people are really afraid of color these days. It reminded me of that Lupita moment. I think that was like an appropriate dress to wear for someone who's going to win the Oscar. For me, it's like a Disney princess, but make it fashion. It was exactly like that. I don't think we've seen a moment like that since Lupita's blue Prada dress. Loved. I also loved Elle Fanning and Givenchy by Sarah Burton. It was very Grace Kelly, the white strapless full skirt. And she wore a necklace from 1904, which I thought was fab.

10:11We love an archival. Yep. So fab. Speaking of accessories, I loved Jacob Elordi's jazz shoes. It was a little botega. It was kind of like, I'm going to do whatever I want. I also loved the K-pop Demon Hunter girls in their coordinated gold dresses. Dior, Tom Brown. And they looked fabulous. I loved their performance, obviously. Blessedly, my children were already asleep, but it would have been a big moment. Were you pleased that the world had finally caught up with your enthusiasm for K-pop? Yes! Trust me, the world caught up. That was my joke. I loved EJ's speech, though, and how she was saying how she used to be made fun of for loving K-pop, and now she won an Oscar for it.

10:52I thought that was cool. Little did she know, she was gobbling up all the time allotted for her speech. And the minute she passed the mic, they were like, lights down, music up. It was not a great night for being played off. Christian, tell us about all of your favorite jewels, because they were big jewelry moments. Oh, my God. There were so many diamonds last night. I was like aghast, but also pleased. Clutching your pearls? Clutching my pearls. My favorite was Kate Hudson. She wore garotti, which I'm not too familiar with, but she wore over$35 million worth of diamonds. What? Yeah, but they were rare green diamonds.

11:28Now Taylor's interested. Very rare green diamonds, I guess. Did you say$35 million worth? Over$35 million, yes. I'd be curious on the logistics of guards at the Oscars. Me too. Were they under the table? Yes. They're close by. I think they all have a date. So they just sort of like... Linger around. And they're incognito in the audience. Yeah. Wow. What do they wear? They're like feet away. That's a Vogue business article. What do they wear? Yeah. Who dressed the guards? Yes! Do you have to rent a tuxedo if you're a$35 million diamond guard? Probably. One imagines Cartier gets you a tuxedo. Oh, good point.

12:03Good point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. All right. It's in their rider. It's in their rider. We need to do a get ready with me with one of the guards. That's what it's called. Literally. Oh, my God, what a missed opportunity. All right, doing it right now. 2027 is all ready to go. Love. But I feel like for the past few award seasons, like, people haven't been wearing, like, hefty diamonds. It's been very simple on the jewelry side, I feel. And this Oscars, like, everyone was wearing a huge diamond necklace. Like, I think of Anne Hathaway in Bulgari, Priyanka Chopra Jonas in Bulgari. These were huge.

12:32My favorite, Rose Byrne, was wearing a taffin cognac-colored diamond. Yes. She looked great. A little more subdued, that diamond. I love Rose. She looked so fab, friend of the pod. Friend of the pod, yeah, exactly. My favorite jury of the night was Javier Bardem, who rewore his No To War badge that he wore in 2003. I love that he did that. Oh, I didn't know it was his badge in 2003. Yeah, yeah. Christian, I also loved your piece on all the costume designers who a lot of them made their own outfits for the Oscars, and that felt like a nice off-piste from everyone who has very elaborate deals with big brands.

13:09Yes, I'm going to butcher this name. Malgosia Terzanska. Did I say that right? Wow. You're asking the wrong people. You guys know that. Well, the fabulous hamnet costume designer. Oh, who won? Yes, who won. Sort of spent the whole weekend safety pinning her own dress. And I thought that was fab. Like just, she had a vision, she executed it. And yes, you're right. Like in a time where people can easily get things from designers, I think it's really fab that she took the time, executed her vision, and went for it. I mean, also speaking of the business of dressing for Oscars, Vogue Business did a really good deep dive on all the business of brand ambassadorships and the different it was I thought it was really interesting.

13:50Maddie Schultz wrote it on the different tiers of ambassadorship. It's like ambassador, face of, friend of the house, and they each have different qualifications and obligations attached to them. I posted it on my Instagram and a friend who's a writer wrote back, she goes, this article was my Pentagon Papers.

14:13Christian, any favorite vintage moments? Yes. Another costume designer actually, Miyako Bellizzi wore Dior Galliano from Spring 99. I thought that was fab. Miyako's so cool. She's been around for a long time in New York. She was the costume designer for Marty Supreme, and she just looked fab. I loved her, like, goth glam. I think she's, like, the breakout award season star. She just always looks fab on the red carpet and has interesting choices as far as designers and who she wore. I love that she wore—I think at one point she wore one of the Versace looks from Dario's collection. Mmm, taste. Yes.

14:53I love a woman with taste. Yes, she has it in spades. There really wasn't that much vintage last night, actually. Like aside from Al Fanning and like her archival necklace, like even jewelry, there wasn't a lot of vintage either. I was surprised. Oh, but let's talk about Kylie, not vintage, but wearing her Schiaparelli keyhole dress in Jessica Rabbit red. But then it was a rewear-ish of she wore the pink version a few years ago. I guess it's like the version of getting the same look in every color because Timothy did the same thing. Timothy has been wearing the same suit. It just had it done in a million different colors.

15:29Yes. Didn't work. Poor Timmy. Ouch. Poor Timmy. I mean. He'll get his at some point. But the ballet gate was after the voting enclosures. That was a big moment for, we put that to AI last night because I was like, how am I going to get an answer to this? I was like, hey, Claude, were Timothy's ballet comments before or after the voting enclosures? And there was an answer right there for me. Oh, wow. It was after. Even still. There's life with Claude. I like to call it Claude around the house. Speaking of ballet, I loved Lila's story on Misty Copeland's wearing a costume. Oh, I know. The original Firebird costume.

16:11It was gorgeous. That was amazing. That performance was, I think, my favorite of the night. Liam was so excited. He was slacking me. Liam, who works in the London office, he was like, the Oscars are two hours earlier than usual here in the UK. He said two because of daylight savings. So starting at 11 a.m. instead of 1 a.m., 11 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. So, Jomi, you have no excuse. You're still awake at 11 p.m. I'm willing to bet. I wasn't asleep. That's a good girl. That's what you need. That's what you need.

16:47The Run-Thru will be back in just a moment. The happy chaos of the Run-Thru. The chaos of the Run-Thru's heart.

17:04This week on Critics at Large, we're talking about Love Story, the new Ryan Murphy show about the 90s id couple, JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bissett. I think the show has a very ambivalent relationship to its own participation in the continued paparazzi spectacle around these two people. That's a great point. I think it holds it close and it also pushes it away, and it tries to give you both that paparazzi, slavering, panting, let's get close, let's get the outfits, let's take you inside their famous fight. And to raise an eyebrow at that at the same time and say, but of course, we're fiction. And we ask if our hunger for all things Kennedy will ever end.

17:45I'm Nomi Fry. Join me and my co-hosts on Critics At Large from The New Yorker. Find us every Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts. Okay guys, it's finally spring. I'm so excited. I've been wearing my Penny Lane coat all winter and while I do love it, I am so ready to be wearing layers and more fun outfits this season. I think Macy's is the perfect place to find all of my spring wardrobe essentials. They have great brands from Steve Madden and BCBG where I could probably find some of those fun sheer layers I'm looking for. And I've really been into loose fitting jeans, so I'm going to definitely take a look at what Macy's has in store there too.

18:31I know a lot of people are into barrel cut. I'm more into a relaxed fit jean, so I definitely will check that out at Macy's. I'm so ready to make the switch to spring and so glad that Macy's is here for it.

18:51And we're back. Now, Choma, we have divided opinions on Conan O 'Brien. I thought he was charming as ever. He can do no wrong in my book. I thought his intro dressed as Amy Madigan's character from Weapons was fantastic. Oh, I, you know, I'm in the bag for Conan O 'Brien. I love Conan O 'Brien. So I was very excited. And I thought he killed it last year. And I'm sure he, I mean, there was a joke about how he's going to be Oscar's, you know, presenter for life at the end. No, I thought his jokes were sort of fine. You know, I was like when the bridesmaids bit came up and I was like genuinely laughing, I thought, OK, well, this is this is funny.

19:28And I felt like there hadn't been enough quite sort of like real ha ha moments. Yeah, it was a guffaw light evening for me. It was, you know, it felt like the world is so complicated and the industry is so complicated that people were sort of like a little bit careful maybe with the humor. Like the thing about hamnet sounding like lunch meat, I was like, I'm not sure this is funny. Oh, God. I thought about that. Yeah. OK. See? I liked his Timmy Oprigate joke. I feel like he could have been really mean about that. But it was like just a bit of a roast, but not too much. Like I thought he handled it well.

20:02I feel like Timmy was like on beta bloggers. He was just so sanguine when he made that joke. It was like he'd been prepping for that all day long. Oh, see, I thought the laughter, the forced laughter coming out of Timmy and Kylie was just like rage laughter. It's like we are ready to do this and laugh and have smiles on our face, but we are not. We are dead inside right now. I can't wait for the lip reading, like the breakdown. What people are saying, what they're actually saying at the tables. Well, people were saying last night that the whole crowd in general seemed like they were on beta blockers.

20:36Like, all the celebrities seemed nervous. I don't know if you guys caught that, but I felt like they were in the crowd. Like, they were almost afraid to laugh at jokes. It was bizarre, I found. These things are such big business and so important for the personal branding campaigns of these celebrities that it's hard to imagine anyone even having a drink, you know? Like, when Paul Thomas Anderson was like, let's have a martini, I thought, like, you have not had one to this point for sure. And you are genuinely looking forward to all of this being over so you can relax. But good job for Paul Thomas Anderson.

21:06You love PTA. Well, I do. I do. And I was like, I thought it was a nice moment for someone who's like been in the business for so long and has had so many movies nominated. I was surprised it was his first Oscar. And getting one finally. No, I know. I agree. It was exciting. at what obviously for those who aren't following Taylor's quick patter one battle after another was the triumphant best picture winner at the end of the night first and last time Chloe ever remarks on me having quick patter quick patter the big moment Choma we haven't talked about the big moment of the night yet I didn't find out about until Sunday morning of course she didn't I She did a great job.

21:49She did a great job. We all know what we're talking about here. Anna Wintour presented Best Costume Designer with Anne Hathaway. And we were all so proud of her. We thought she did great. I thought she was very funny. Anna's very good at being in on the joke. Yes. Yes. She's funny. Anna's funny. And she was genuinely on trend in black and white Dior skirt suit that was amazing. I thought there was so much black and white on the red carpet. Yeah. And a lot of Dior. Yeah. Tell our listening audience what she did. So she came out with Anne Hathaway. She came out with Anne Hathaway to present the award for Best Costume Designer.

22:25No sunglasses on. That was part of the gag. No sunglasses on, which I sort of gasped at that. I mean, nobody wears sunglasses on the Oscar stage. So you gasping, it's like, oh, my gosh, she's breaking protocol. It's like nighttime indoors. But anyway, go on. And she and Anne had a very cute repartee where Anne asked her if she liked her dress and then Anna slipped the sunglasses on and said no comment. But then Anna had to read very long names that I was impressed with her. She workshopped those. She's a good student. It was a very well-received bit. And then they went off stage and then you saw the camera pan to them backstage and it's Anna and Anne laughing.

23:13and then between them is Anna's assistant Emily. And Emily looked fantastic, but it was a perfect Devil Wears Prada meta moment. Oh my goodness. The real Emily between Anne Hathaway and Anna. And Emily looked fabulous, so I'm really happy for her. Send me that. I missed that bit. I didn't see that picture. I posted it last night. I was so excited. I'm checking your stories right now. Other favorite presenters? And Bridesmaids mentioned them. They were great. You know, I was – it was funny. There was Jesse Buckley's wonderful speech that Joma already mentioned and was great. And I guess my stream was on a lag or whatever.

23:56So I was following along with the staff Slack channel. And our beloved Marlee Marius was like, I am so uncomfortable. She was writing it. I was like, I'm such a cynic, so dead at heart. The earnestness of Jesse Buckley, who we love. I was like, same Marlee. But actually what she was referring to was Cole Kidman and Ewan McGregor coming out for some kind of like low-key Moulin Rouge reunion. 25 years. But they started sort of kind of singing, but not really singing. Didn't commit to it. And it was so awkward. Yes. And Marley was just squirming. Totally, totally, totally. Ewan McGregor looks great, though.

24:31I'd forgotten about him. I was like, what a man he is. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson was very exciting. Zendaya was, you know, in her full bridal moment because the drama is about getting married and she just got married. And she joined as part of promo for the drama a real couple who got married in Las Vegas. And that was a really fun article that Anna Cofolla did this weekend. That was such good marketing. I know. I'm annoyed at this trend that stars skipping the carpet, though. Both Zendaya and Robert Pattinson skipped carpet. Doesn't make Christian Chauvin easier. Just give us a moment. Come on now.