Oscars red carpet: Emma Stone’s Liquid Dress Leads Coolest Looks, Timothée Chalamet in Head-to-Toe White


By Tyson Beckett
NZ Herald
Emma Stone's sparkling dress is by Louis Vuitton. Photo /Getty

All the fashion of note from the red carpet at the 98th Academy Awards.

The 2026 awards circuit reaches a crescendo with the Oscars, taking place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Before the winners walk onstage to accept their golden statuettes and accolade as Hollywood’s best they

Here’s who wore what to the Oscars 2026.

Kirsten Dunst

Kirsten Dunst is here for the tier. Photo / Getty
Kirsten Dunst is here for the tier. Photo / Getty

Clean lines, an architectural silhouette and a grounded palette? Kirsten Dunst is obviously in Celine.

Pedro Pascal

Pedro Pascal is proud of this look. Photo / Getty Images
Pedro Pascal is proud of this look. Photo / Getty Images

Pedro Pascal got the floral memo, in a giant silk and feather brooch from Chanel.

Jacob Elordi

Jacob Elordi is 6'5" Photo / Getty Images
Jacob Elordi is 6'5" Photo / Getty Images

Get a piece of Jacob Elordi in this three-piece Bottega Veneta suit.

Anne Hathaway

Florals for the Oscars, groundbreaking. Photo/ Getty Images
Florals for the Oscars, groundbreaking. Photo/ Getty Images

Valentino lover Anne Hathaway is playing right into the (gloved) hands of caption writers with this gown. Hathaway is a presenter at the awards today, alongside Anna Wintour. Both are fans of a blingy necklace, today Hathaway wears a Bulgari Neoclassical Starlight High Jewelry necklace with an 8.02 carat pear-cut yellow diamond.

Timothée Chalamet

Timothée Chalamet looks fresh and clean in crisp white. Photo /Getty Images
Timothée Chalamet looks fresh and clean in crisp white. Photo /Getty Images

Timothée Chalamet wore all white Givenchy, and a goatee.

Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson

Goldie Hawn accompanied daughter Kate Hudson to the 98th Oscars. Photo / Getty
Goldie Hawn accompanied daughter Kate Hudson to the 98th Oscars. Photo / Getty

It was a Hollywood mother-daughter date for Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson. Hudson, who is a Best Actress nominee tonight, for the musical romance drama Song Sung Blue is in custom jade Giorgio Armani Privé gown.

Paul Mescal

Paul Mescal. Photo /Getty Images
Paul Mescal. Photo /Getty Images

Hamnet star Paul Mescal loves a double-breasted suit, he’s wearing a slight twist today in a cardigan style blazer from Celine.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow has arrived at the Dolby Theatre. Photo /Getty Images
Gwyneth Paltrow has arrived at the Dolby Theatre. Photo /Getty Images

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Armani Prive dress is austere, but very beautiful.

Mia Goth

Frankenstein star Mia Goth wore Dior. Photo / Getty
Frankenstein star Mia Goth wore Dior. Photo / Getty

This light, frilly, floral number is by Dior.

Renate Reinsve

Dressing for the red carpet, or dressing as the red carpet? Photo /Getty Images
Dressing for the red carpet, or dressing as the red carpet? Photo /Getty Images

Sentimental Value’s Renate Reinsve is nominated for Best Actress and is wearing Louis Vuitton.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio looks not too shab-bee. Photo /Getty
Leonardo DiCaprio looks not too shab-bee. Photo /Getty

Longtime environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio is a passionate beekeeper and advocate for bee conservation, and is flying the flag for pollinators tonight, with his buzzy lapel pin.

Teyana Taylor

Teyana Taylor is in Chanel. Photo /Getty Images
Teyana Taylor is in Chanel. Photo /Getty Images

T is for texture, and Teyana Taylor. These fabulous feathers are by Chanel.

Chloe Zhao

Chloé Zhao kills at the 98th Oscars. Photo / Getty Images
Chloé Zhao kills at the 98th Oscars. Photo / Getty Images

In case this outfit didn’t clue you in - Hamnet director Chloe Zhao recently trained as a death doula.

Emma Stone

Emma Stone in a gasp-worthy liquid dress gown that pools at the hem. Photo / Getty
Emma Stone in a gasp-worthy liquid dress gown that pools at the hem. Photo / Getty

Drooling over Bugonia star Emma Stone’s cap sleeved pearlescent silver dress. It’s Louis Vuitton.

Demi Moore

Demi Moore in Gucci at the 98th Oscars. Photo /Getty
Demi Moore in Gucci at the 98th Oscars. Photo /Getty

Helloooo Demi. The actor might ruffle a few feathers with this Gucci gown.

Elle Fanning

Elle Fanning's Givenchy dress olds sentimental value. Photo / Getty
Elle Fanning's Givenchy dress olds sentimental value. Photo / Getty

Sentimental Value star Elle Fanning is a Best Supporting Actress nominee today. For the special moment she’s wearing a custom Givenchy dress by Sarah Burton, telling Vogue the dress is hand embroidered with wisteria designs to symbolise a vine that grew at Fanning’s childhood home.

Barbie Ferreira

What’s buttoned, corseted and blue all over? Barbie Ferreira’s custom GapStudio gown. Photo / Getty
What’s buttoned, corseted and blue all over? Barbie Ferreira’s custom GapStudio gown. Photo / Getty

Gap was good enough for Sharon Stone at the Academy Awards in 1998, her humble white button-up shirt is one of the most memorable Oscars outfits of all time, and Barbie Ferreira is in Gap tonight as well. This ultramarine dress is custom designed by Zac Posen for GapStudio.

Odessa A’zion

Odessa A'zion brings some rock 'n roll glamour to the red carpet. Photo /Getty Images
Odessa A'zion brings some rock 'n roll glamour to the red carpet. Photo /Getty Images

Marty Supreme’s Odessa A’zion is in a matching two-piece look by Valentino. Her jewels, all 55 carats of them, are from Pandora, including that plunging necklace that was previously worn to the Met Gala in 2024 by Pamela Anderson.

Jessie Buckley

Nominee Jessie Buckley matched her red lipstick and pink nails to her Chanel gown.  Photo /Getty
Nominee Jessie Buckley matched her red lipstick and pink nails to her Chanel gown. Photo /Getty

Hamnet star Jessie Buckley looks very pleased with this colour blocked pink and red off the shoulder number. The feminine Chanel gown is a stark contrast to the strikingly gothic (but equally beautiful) Rodarte dress she wore to the 2023 ceremony. She does it all huh?

Audrey Nuna

Black and gold is emerging as a theme on the carpet this year. Photo /Getty Images
Black and gold is emerging as a theme on the carpet this year. Photo /Getty Images

This opulent ensemble is by Thom Browne.

Law Roach

Law Roach has arrived. Photo/Getty Images
Law Roach has arrived. Photo/Getty Images

Super-stylist Law Roach looks very regal.

Heidi Klum

Heidi Klum's column gown is dotted with white detailing. Photo /Getty Images
Heidi Klum's column gown is dotted with white detailing. Photo /Getty Images

No surprise that Heidi Klum knows how to pose on the red carpet. She’s in Chrome Hearts.

Rose Byrne

Rose Byrne, who works with stylist Kate Young, is wearing a voluminous trumpet gown. Photo /Getty
Rose Byrne, who works with stylist Kate Young, is wearing a voluminous trumpet gown. Photo /Getty

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You star and Best Actress nominee Rose Byrne has chosen a gorgeously gothic Dior gown with 3D floral appliqué.

Chase Infiniti

Chase Infiniti paired the Louis Vuitton dress with a De Beers London diamond choker necklace with a total of 57.15 carats. Photo/Getty
Chase Infiniti paired the Louis Vuitton dress with a De Beers London diamond choker necklace with a total of 57.15 carats. Photo/Getty

One Battle After Another star Chase Infiniti makes her Oscars debut one to remember in a lilac Louis Vuitton dress with 18 tiers of asymmetric ruffles.

Adam Pearson

Adam Pearson's double breasted suit is by Los Angeles-based brand Amiri. Photo /Getty
Adam Pearson's double breasted suit is by Los Angeles-based brand Amiri. Photo /Getty

A lot of great details to check out in Adam Pearson’s outfit. His stylist Sarah-Rose Harrison helped pick out a suit by Amiri, a Mont Blanc brooch, and Jimmy Choo shoes.

Felicity Jones

A scattering of crystals decorates the tulle train that overlays Felicity Jones's Prada column dress. Photo / Getty
A scattering of crystals decorates the tulle train that overlays Felicity Jones's Prada column dress. Photo / Getty

There’s an elegant, 1950s feel to Felicity Jones’ buttercup yellow Prada gown.

Arden Cho

Arden Cho arrived promptly and came to play. Photo / Getty
Arden Cho arrived promptly and came to play. Photo / Getty

The KPop Demon Hunters voice actor was an early arrival, and standout.

Charithra Chandran

Charithra Chandran chose a jewel green tone. Photo/Getty
Charithra Chandran chose a jewel green tone. Photo/Getty

Bridgerton and One Piece star Charithra Chandran looks a vision in an emerald Miss Sohee creation.

Beca Michie

A "super snatched" Beca Michie. Photo /Getty
A "super snatched" Beca Michie. Photo /Getty

Model and influencer Beca Michie was amongst the first enthusiastic attendees on the red carpet. In a Get Ready With Me video posted earlier they said had the Georges Chakra SS05 Couture gown had been tailored to look “super snatched” on the carpet.

Amelia Dimoldenberg

Amelia Dimoldenberg has gone for a classic black column dress for her third Academy Awards. It's from Ralph Lauren’s autumn/winter 2007 collection. Photo /Getty
Amelia Dimoldenberg has gone for a classic black column dress for her third Academy Awards. It's from Ralph Lauren’s autumn/winter 2007 collection. Photo /Getty

2026 is the third year Chicken Shop Date host Amelia Dimoldenberg will be the Oscar Social Media Ambassador, and Red-Carpet Correspondent.

Alice Carvalho

From the looks of it, Alice Carvalho has already bagged a golden statue today. Photo /Getty
From the looks of it, Alice Carvalho has already bagged a golden statue today. Photo /Getty

Alice Carvalho arrived with a suitable tonal ensemble. Carvalho stars in The Secret Agent, which is nominated in four categories tonight: Best Picture, Best International Feature Film, Best Actor (Wagner Moura), and Best Ensemble Cast.

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