The 2025 Oscars Red Carpet Proved Pink Will Dominate This Spring

As the shining jewel in the award season’s crown, the annual Academy Awards warrants an experience like no other as the industry’s stars gather to fete the best and brightest in film. The dress code usually includes references to Old Hollywood (see: Elle Fanning’s custom Sarah Burton for Givenchy gown that references a 1952 design) or has the attendees wear metallic and gilded tones (like Emma Stone in Louis Vuitton) as they’re wearing the covetable gold statue itself.

However, not since Gwyenth Paltrow won Best Actress in 1999 wearing an iconic bubblegum pink Ralph Lauren dress have we seen the saccharine pale pink dominate the red carpet.

Indeed, even after the furore of Valentino’s magenta-style Pink PP prompted the oft neglected shade to come back into fashion’s favour—a movement that was subsequently backed up by the rise of #Barbiecore in 2023 after Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s blockbuster-defying film adaptation of the beloved doll—pink still feels as stylish and relevant as ever.

In fact, even after we dubbed powdered pink as the colour trend to watch in 2025, this paler hue feels like the saturated reset we needed to shake us out from our dark winter wardrobe and into a fresh, spring energy.

Leading the charge was none other than the Good Witch herself, Ariana Grande. The multi-hyphante earned her first-ever Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Glinda in the movie musical Wicked, with the actor firmly cementing herself as a movie star by method dressing as her character and enthusiastically devoting herself to exhibiting the hue on every stop of the press tour.