The Red Carpet’s Big Six
Sizing up awards season'sseason s first designer de derby.
After d dual labor strikes last year, the Hollywood Hollywo awards show red carpet roared back to life Sunday at the Golden Globes, which drew d 9.4 million viewers on CBS, 50 percent more than the 6.3 million in 2023, according accordi to Nielsen. Luxury sales may be seeing a slowdown, but deep-pocketed fashion houses still ruled, with Dior alone dressing dressin 19 stars. Here's a scorecard of the six bran brands that led with style and numbers.
Dior Dominates
Luxury market leader LVMH Moët Hennessy Hennes Louis Vuitton‘s fashion brand juggernaut, juggern which has tripled in size in less than seven sev years, was front-and-center, dressing dressin 19 celebrities on Sunday night.
Natalie Natal Portman nabbed WWD's Style Award for f Best-Dressed in a Dior Haute Couture evening dress that was a garden of delights with black tulle embroidered with an impr impressionist landscape of microflowers and vermicelli. “It's like hundreds of hours hour of work, so it's really lucky to get to wear it,” the “May December” actress told WW WWD on the red carpet.
Rosamund Rosam Pike was a best-dressed close second, channeling her character in
“Saltbu Saltburn” in a Dior Haute Couture tea-leng length lace bustier dress from fall-winter 2019 with wi a tattoo effect on black mesh sleeves, and a Philip Treacy face mask, which she s added to disguise an injured chin from a holiday h skiing accident. “We talked about a filter that wasn't on an iPhone,” the Golden Globe winner explained on the red carpet of o coming up with the mask.
“‘Saltbu Saltburn' gives you license to be a little extreme and not play by the rules.”
Showing Show a more minimalist side of Dior women's women artistic director Maria Grazia Chiuri's oeuvre, “Beef” Golden Globe winner Ali Wong chose a goddess-like, long, draped white silk crepe dress held up by a braid in the back.
Dior men's artistic director Kim Jones dressed 12 guests, including “Succession” winner Kieran Culkin in a black silk wool peak-lapel tuxedo and black embroidered shirt. “I very much like it a lot. Any excuse not to wear a tie is great for me,” he told WWD, adding humorously of his colorful beaded friendship bracelets, “I like to steal bracelets from my kids and other peoples' kids.” Working the creative black tie trend, he also rocked mismatched pink and purple socks.