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Stuart Heritage
ITV has actually pulled off a very minor coup by booking Samson Kayo as one of its pundits. Kayo is a star of F1, which is (bewilderingly) nominated for best picture. This is almost exactly the same as if it had booked Leonardo DiCaprio in the year that Titanic won. Best of all, Kayo doesn’t look furious at all about spending the night sitting next to some bloke from TikTok in a windowless studio rather than actually being in LA.
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Morwenna FerrierBarbie Ferreira Photograph: Jim Ruymen/UPI/Shutterstock
In an industry first, Gap – yes, Gap – has found its way onto the Oscars red carpet. To clarify it’s now called GapStudio and is designed by Zac Posen who you may remember from the 90s for being as famous as the people he dressed. Until he dressed Michelle Obama. This looks like a corset-and-gown, though if I never see this electric blue again it’ll be too soon!
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Lauren Cochrane
Oscars dressing for women is so often about The Gown – so massive props to Odessa A’zion for mixing it up. This Valentino outfit – apparently combined with 55 carats of diamonds – is both lounge-y and louche, adjectives that we’d love to apply to more red carpet outfits.
Odessa A’zion. Photograph: Gilbert Flores/Penske Media/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 23.22 CET
Stuart Heritage
If any other Brits have been driven to a state of horrified catatonia by the unending photocalls of the AP livestream, good news is on the horizon. Actual, real-life television coverage is about to begin on ITV. Obviously the next 45 minutes aren’t going to qualify as quality telly – traditionally, it has consisted of whoever can be dragged to the studio in the middle of the night listlessly filling space with directionless waffle – but right now it’s all we’ve got.
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Updated at 23.23 CET
Lauren Cochrane
Maleficent chic comes to the red carpet! Demi Moore’s dress is pure evil queen, complete with feathered bustier and a feathered skirt with the kind of sheen found on birds of paradise or – twitchers might note – a great-tailed grackle. Expect the birds – apparently found in south-eastern America and Mexico – to be on more moodboards soon.
Demi Moore. Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 23.18 CET
Morwenna FerrierMiles Caton, who stars in Sinners. Photograph: Gilbert Flores/Penske Media/Getty Images
It’s been a relatively sober night for menswear but this Amiri suit and tie (so many ties!) on Sinners star Miles Caton is chic and contemporary and different without clamouring for too much attention. My favourite menswear look so far
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Updated at 23.22 CET
Morwenna FerrierJessie Buckley. Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
Finally some fashion derived from the event itself! Jessie Buckley has gone full throttle in a bespoke Chanel off-shoulder gown which looks somehow both old and new at the same time. She suits red, so it’s rather clever to create something face-framing which will sing when she’s standing in front of the lectern on the podium.
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Updated at 23.08 CET
Lauren Cochrane
Wunmi Mosaku has done award season red carpets while pregnant with her second child – and worn jewel colours throughout. This emerald green dress, by Louis Vuitton, brings the sparkles needed for biggest award ceremony of all. Maybe it’s a sign that at the end of the night she’ll be named best supporting actress.
Wunmi Mosaku. Photograph: Julian Hamilton/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 23.08 CET
Morwenna FerrierWagner Moura Photograph: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images
Begone the penguin suit of old. Enter the main character suit, here on Wagner Moura in Valentino. Styled by Ilaria Urbnati, who has transformed Donald Glover, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Barry Keoghan into red carpet pin ups, I’m told by Urbanati that the brooches are by a Brazilan designer.
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Updated at 22.55 CET
Lauren Cochrane
As the costume designer behind Sinners, Ruth E Carter knows clothes – and knows black and white is always a winner, especially when it comes with a train. The addition of a clutch bag and sparkly platforms bring an endearing dash of “real person on a night out”. Actors never carry stuff or need to think about comfortable shoes, after all.
Ruth E Carter. Photograph: Gilbert Flores/Penske Media/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 22.53 CET
Stuart Heritage
I wasn’t around much last week, and so the story of Jessie Buckley pulling a Chalamet by publicly disregarding cats is new to me, and has me in stitches. It’s interesting that Chalemet was mean about ballet and dominated the news cycle for days, but Buckley trashed an entire species of animal and seems to have got away with it. One can only conclude that the consensus sides with her, and cats are terrible animals.
ShareMorwenna FerrierHudson Williams Photograph: Michael Buckner/Penske Media/Getty Images
Here’s Hudson Williams of Heated Rivalry fame wearing a Balenciaga suit and tie, Bulgari watch and handheld fan. To be fair it is 27C and they’re mostly in black tie
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Updated at 22.44 CET
Morwenna FerrierSissy Spacek
Photograph: Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock
Can anyone outflank Sissy Spacek for low-key swagger? The veteran actor is in a chic Loewe suit with a popped collar and some chic sunglasses.
Truly a sparkling display that subverted old stereotypes about who should wear what and how and when
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While we pass away the 90 remaining minutes before the Oscars actually starts, here’s a list of some of this year’s choice Oscars coverage from the super soaraway Guardian:
Peter Bradshaw’s Oscars 2026 predictions: who will win, who should win, who should’ve been in the running?
‘I’m wearing the tree fibre undies right now!’ An audience with the organisers of the Oscar goodie bags
Your Oscars questions answered: ‘The best film of the year hasn’t actually won best picture since 12 Years a Slave’
Academy wars: how did this season’s Oscars discourse get so toxic?
Oscars 2026 class photo: can you spot the tallest nominee – and a camouflaged Diane Warren?
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Spike Lee can always be relied on for a bit of a look – and he’s got one here. right down to the bag covered in gold cassette tapes. But really he’s outshone by his wife Tonya Lewis Lee. Her gold dress is like an Oscar statuette – with extra cut-out detail. Both apt and also elegant.
Spike Lee,Tonya Lewis Lee
Spike Lee, left, and Tonya Lewis Lee arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/APShare
Chloe Mac DonnellJoel Edgerton Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
Here’s Joel Edgerton in Louis Vuitton, tinted shades and a natty brooch.
A jazzy tie used to be a go-to for men who didn’t want to go full peacock on the red carpet but did want to show a bit more personality. Now it’s being trumped by a jazzy brooch. Forget Connell’s chain or the slutty little earring, tonight it is all about the bouji brooch.
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Brown is a big colour in menswear atm – but it doesn’t usually make it to the red carpet. Kieran Culkin’s brown jacket is a refreshing change from all the black tuxedos, and is perhaps a bit more relatable to non-red carpet men, who might wear a Carhartt Michigan jacket, for example. Looks like this might become a trend – Domhnall Gleeson has also been spotted in a brown shirt.
Kieran Culkin. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/WireImageShare
Updated at 22.29 CET
Morwenna FerrierKumail Nanjiani and his watch Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
Contemporary twists on ye olde tux continue to hold fort with Kumail Nanjiani looking dapper.
By the way, have you ever wondered: why all the watches? Well wonder no more. We’ve spoken to Ilaria Urbinati, one of the biggest menswear stylists in the biz and this year, a stylist in residence at pre-owned watch specialist, Watchfinder & Co.
“I think it’s simply the best accessory a man has. My clients have also become much more knowledgable about watches, a lot of them have a genuine interest in watches and have brands they’re passionate about. I’ve [also] seen more of a ‘watch nerd’ culture now, that maybe didn’t exist in the same way before. Many of the men I dress already own watches or have their own collections that they’re proud of. For me, it’s the accessory that really seals the outfit.”
So there you have it.
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Updated at 22.28 CET
Morwenna FerrierJayme Lawson Photograph: David Fisher/Shutterstock
Texture is truly coursing through the red carpet tonight! Here’s Sinners star Jayme Lawson in a dress by Loewe which appears to be made of electric blue straws.
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Updated at 23.02 CET