The Worst Golden Globes Fashion Trend

Hollywood may be a famously liberal town, but it is starting to look increasingly conservative. Or so it seemed at the Golden Globes, the first official red carpet and communal fashion pageant of the year — and thus theoretically the pacesetter for 2025, or at least the 2025 award season.

The biggest trend of the night wasn’t the usual stars dressing like statuettes, though there was a lot of that (hello, Mindy Kaling in Ashi Studio and Mikey Madison in Bottega Veneta) or stars dressing to match the carpet (see Dakota Fanning in Tony Ward and Emma Stone in Louis Vuitton). Rather the most notable trend was a retro classicism that made the event look like a cosplay convention for Olde Tinsel Town. Forget throwback Thursday; think send-me-back Sunday.

Ariana Grande set the tone by doing her best Audrey Hepburn impression in a buttery silk 1966 Givenchy couture column (the 1960s being the height of the Hepburn-Hubert fashion partnership).

Then there was Selena Gomez channeling Jackie Kennedy in ice blue Prada and a stylized bob; Nicole Kidman and Margaret Qualley with enormous Catherine Deneuve bouffant ponytails, the better to set off their Balenciaga and Chanel gowns; and Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro in newfangled Balmain and Dior versions of oldfangled 1950s ball gowns. Not to mention Pamela Anderson in a very Madame X Oscar de la Renta and matching black opera gloves, opera gloves being one of the most popular accessories of the night.