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What’s Old Is New Again: Old Hollywood Glamour Glitters at the 2024 Oscars

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | March 11, 2024 |

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | March 11, 2024 |


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Last month, I told you about the fashion of the Grammys, where I saw a trend emerging that I dubbed New Romanticism: soft and supple silhouettes, long flowing lines, glitz and glitter, etc. Last night’s Oscars were a continuation of that theme with the glamour amplified 100 times. Add to that the recent French bob frenzy and we’d be in the roaring twenties all over again. However, the general sense of impending doom that colors our very existence in the 2020s doesn’t quite match the optimism of the 1920s, so let’s just call it Old Hollywood. Here are my favorites in no particular order:

It really isn’t fair to make anyone else walk the red carpet after Zendaya, who could wrap herself in a shower curtain and make it look chic. This glittering gown by Armani Privé in a palm tree print paired with a voluminous long bob (lob if you’re nasty) could be a poster for classic Los Angeles allure, like if Hollywood had its own Statue of Liberty.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph in Louis Vuitton is ready for her close-up as the next Marilyn Monroe when they remake Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

…and Lily Gladstone in Gucci (twice) is her Jane Russell.

Meanwhile, Carey Mulligan was a Grace Kelly dream in an archival 1950s Balenciaga gown recreated just for her.

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And then there was America Ferrara, who glowed in pink Versace (because someone had to wear pink), with the bob that hair stylists across the nation will no doubt be shown as reference this week, my own included.

Greta Lee wore Loewe to both the ceremony and the Vanity Fair after-party, both with slinky silhouettes and dropped waists.

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You can picture her in either gown in a smoky jazz-age lounge, where Lupita Nyong’o would be dazzling onstage in feathery Giorgio Armani.

Speaking of dropped waists, Emma Stone wore bejeweled Louis Vuitton for a vintage party frock feel, accentuated by her brand-new trophy.

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But let’s not forget the perfectly tailored Tiffany Blue gown she wore to the ceremony before breaking it by dancing too hard.

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And while Jennifer Lawrence’s diamonds may have been Swarovski, the polka-dot Dior was very Audrey Hepburn.

Also in Dior was Anya Taylor-Joy as a flapper with a more modest hemline (she just needs Ferrera’s haircut to complete the look).

And Cillian Murphy was the picture of gentlemanly elegance in Versace. I’ll probably get hate mail for this, but Murphy to me has the face of Gregory Peck and the body/dancerly posture of Fred Astaire.

Knowing him, though, I doubt we’ll ever see him dance. But we have Ryan Gosling for that.