The 2026 Golden Globes red carpet delivered one of the more talked-about fashion nights of the season, led by Ariana Grande’s Vivienne Westwood gown, widely read by style writers as a deliberate nod to her Wicked character Elphaba — the kind of costume-referencing red carpet choice that turns a single look into its own dedicated news cycle separate from the ceremony itself.
Teyana Taylor and Colman Domingo were also repeatedly named among the night’s best-dressed, part of a broader carpet that outlets described as blending bold color choices with more daring, architecturally structured silhouettes than a typical Globes carpet — reinforcing the ceremony’s reputation as one of award season’s more fashion-forward stops, helped along by its relatively relaxed, dinner-style format compared to the more rigid formality of other major ceremonies.
The Globes’ position as one of the earliest major ceremonies on the award-season calendar gave its looks an outsized early influence on the rest of the season’s style conversation, with several outlets already referencing Grande’s Westwood gown and Taylor’s look as early benchmarks for what the rest of the season’s carpets would need to match.
With the SAG Awards and Oscars still to come on the same season’s calendar, the Globes’ fashion moments set a genuinely high bar for the ceremonies that followed.
