Chappel Roan, Gracie Abrams, Doechii, Taylor Swift

Awards present trend tends to be thematic, as if all of the stylists to the celebrities are pulling from the identical cultural inspiration. There are all the time a number of notable exceptions, in fact, however it is smart: these pink carpets are annual alternatives to summarize latest trend developments in a (normally, hopefully) avant-garde method.

Perhaps it’s the Gladiator impact, however this yr, I’ve seen a variety of seems to be that will really feel at residence in an Arthurian court docket (I do know I’m mixing timelines right here, however stick with me). I’m pondering particularly of Chappell Roan on the VMA’s, the place, on the pink carpet, she was giving The Mists of Avalon, and through her efficiency of “Good Luck, Babe!” channeled Joan of Arc.

As goes the Greatest New Artist of the Yr, so goes the tradition. Chappell took it extra up to date for the 2025 Grammys pink carpet in a gauzy, French impressionist ballerina-inspired robe by Jean Paul Gaultier, with feathers in her hair and on her eyelashes.

It’s a bit of extra Les Miserables than Mists of Avalon, however her “Pink Pony Membership” efficiency and acceptance speech seems to be have been full-on court docket jester in one of the simplest ways.

My different favourite pop girly of the yr, Charli XCX, took residence the award for Greatest Dance/Digital Album, and she or he additionally acquired the Jean Paul Gaultier gladiator stylish memo.

As for the opposite members of court docket, Woman Gaga was the solemn Hand of the King…

…and Gracie Abrams, in Chanel, the virginal inheritor. A bit too virginal when you ask me.

Alicia Keys was like a visiting Empress from a distant land…

…and Cardi B was the legendary creature known as upon to avoid wasting the dominion from warfare and famine.

And now for the exceptions to my overly stretched metaphor (no less than I’m self-aware):

Sabrina Carpenter remains to be in her Marilyn Monroe period.

Though her fellow Greatest Pop Album nominee, Ariana Grande, skipped the ceremony, she’s been main the cost in paying homage to the Outdated Hollywood starlets currently together with her Audrey Hepburn technique dressing. Methinks we haven’t seen the final of that theme.

Then there’s Doechii, who gained the very nicely deserved award for Greatest Rap Album. I am keen on Doechii, however I believe she’s higher than this Thom Browne outfit.

It’s simply nothing I haven’t seen earlier than, in contrast to her face tape, which is iconic.

And although I used to be tempted to go away Taylor Swift out of this like she was neglected of the ceremony, for as soon as I truly like what she wore.

Taylor is one one that shares my appreciation for a theme, and normally attire in honor of the album she’s been nominated for or is about to launch. This one isn’t an apparent reference to The Tortured Poets Division aside from the “T” chain on the leg, which could have been impressed by that line from “Responsible As Sin?” off the album—“What if he’s written mine on my higher thigh solely in my thoughts?”—since “T” is each her’s and her boyfriend’s preliminary (duh). However with 2025 being the yr of the snake, most Swifties assume she’ll rerelease Repute this yr, and this look may completely reside within the Rep-verse.

After which, in fact, the Queen of a court docket all her personal, Beyoncé, who gained Greatest Nation Album and Album of the Yr for Cowboy Carter, in a shocking bejeweled paisley robe.

I believe I converse for all of us after I say: lastly.