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This year’s best red carpet looks have had us gawking and gasping, even after 2023’s top-notch red carpet lineup. Overall, the red carpet style themes this year have seemingly continued on from 2023 — bold, barely-there, and dominated by custom and vintage. It also seems like press tours are continuing to be another opportunity for well-executed red carpet looks — starting with Barbie last year and continuing with the Challengers press tour in 2024. This press tour served in many ways – we saw Zendaya rocking archival green looks from Louis Vuitton, tennis-themed Loewe gowns, and net skirts, to name a few.
Teen Vogue revisited some of the most stylish looks that rocked the red carpet, and here are our 10 most memorable of 2024:
Chappell Roan in Y/Project at The MTV VMAs
Chappell Roan’s persona is heavily drag-inspired, and her aesthetic typically includes campy theatrics. As a result, every outfit she wears is a fashion statement. Her Y/Project red carpet look at the MTV VMAs was, of course, no exception. The pop princess walked the carpet in a medieval-inspired sheer chiffon gown featuring a deep neckline. Roan added wrist cuffs adorned with chainmail, an extra-large cross necklace, and an actual sword to accessorize. Later at the VMAs, Roan followed suit (literally in a suit of armor) and cast a fiery arrow into the stage’s castle to open her performance. Hear ye, hear ye — this was most certainly a style slay.
Dua Lipa in Schiaparelli at The Golden Globes
One of the things we know about Dua Lipa is that she isn’t scared to take chances on (and also off) the red carpet. Just this year, we’ve seen her debut a see-through, midnight blue lace gown at the Academy of Country Music Awards, a black and white corset with an ultra-low-rise black lace skirt at the Met Gala, and a glamorous, black skin-tight leather dress for the BRIT Awards. But for 2024, her red carpet standout look was undeniably her incredibly glamorous black Schiaparelli gown at her Golden Globes debut. Synonymous with being simultaneously witty, elegant, and surreal, Schiaparelli experiments with traditional tailoring, highlighting subversive details and using the most extraordinary materials. This dress was no exception – it featured a black velvet bodice with golden skeleton-shaped embroidery and black puffed fabric flaring out at her shins.
Kendall Jenner in Maison Margiela Artisanal at the Vanity Fair Oscars Party
When it comes to the red carpet, sometimes less is actually more. Supermodel Kendall Jenner certainly knows that – after all, she is queen of free-the-nipple fashion! For the Academy Museum Gala, she stepped out in a black strappy black Schiaparelli gown with surrealist straps. At the Met Gala, Jenner brought back a striking black archival Givenchy piece from 1999 with a v-shaped cutout around the lower back.
Nevertheless, her most memorable gown of the year was a fully sheer, corseted black dress by Maison Margiela Artisanal at the Vanity Fair Oscars Party. Sheer bliss!
Olivia Rodrigo in vintage Versace at the Grammys
Gen Z fashion icon and pop-punk it-girl Olivia Rodrigo loves a little 90s inspo (who doesn’t?). For example, she opted for a deep purple 1998 Christian Dior by John Galliano mermaid-shaped gown for the red carpet (or,to be exact, purple carpet) of the world premiere of her GUTS World Tour movie. Fittingly, her best red carpet look this year was also from the 90s: an archival ivory Gianni Versace gown from 1995 that she wore at the Grammys. Deja vu – originally worn by Linda Evangelista, the dress itself is already considered fashion gold. Rodrigo stunned in the skin-tight silhouette gown with a plunging v-neckline and ombre pattern of red beads and sheer sequins. We’re obsessed.
Rosé in custom Saint Laurent at the Vanity Fair Oscars Party
Sunglasses and Saint Laurent? What more could you want from a red carpet look? Enter BLACKPINK’s Rosé at the Vanity Fair Oscars Party. Wait, can we get a playback? Her strapless, camel-colored, flowy Saint Laurent gown featured cutouts with a bow tie waist – hence why we need a second look. Oh, and not everyone can pull off sunglasses on the red carpet, but Rosé sure can – making her our number one girl.
Sabrina Carpenter in vintage Bob Mackie at the MTV VMAs
When we think of Sabrina Carpenter lately, we think of flirty ‘fits featuring bows, platforms and lip prints. We also think of sass and glamour. Fittingly, the singer wore a vintage Bob Mackie gown to the MTV VMAs red carpet – the same dress that Madonna previously wore herself to the Oscars. She gave us the old Hollywood glam we love to see on the red carpet in the white strapless gown that featured an embroidered sweetheart neckline corset and hugged her curves. Good graces!
Stray Kids in Tommy Hilfiger at the Met Gala
Stray Kids have so much style. And they reminded us with their red-hot red carpet look of the year: their debut at the Met Gala wearing custom Tommy Hilfiger overcoats. The eight-member group’s appearance at the Met Gala gave all-American preppy vibes and was the first time a K-pop group attended the prestigious fashion event together. While all eight wore custom red, white and blue Tommy Hilfiger overcoats, they each put their own personal style spins on the suits underneath, which they revealed mid-carpet. The K-pop group did dominATE this year (and even that feels like an understatement). The group just won the Top Global K-Pop Artist award at the Billboard Music Awards, and it seems like they will stay doing so in 2025 with their recent release, 合 (HOP).
Sydney Sweeney in custom Richard Quinn at the Immaculate SXSW Premiere
Sydney Sweeney has cemented herself as a red carpet queen with her full suite of glam gowns last year – most of which were Miu Miu and part of her rom-com Anyone But You press tour. Sweeney’s 2024 red carpet looks were quite the contrast ahead of her horror film Immaculate — mostly LBDs. Her most immaculate look on the red carpet this year was at the film’s SXSW Premiere in an all-white custom lace Richard Quinn gown. Not only was the look angelic, but it was also seemingly a nod to the “final girl” trope in horror thrillers. The look was killer. Accessorizing the white gown, Sweeney wore thigh-high white lace stockings that peeked out of the slit of her skirt. Take stock!
Tom Holland in Prada at the Critics Choice Awards
Pantone just crowned “Mocha Mousse” as the 2025 Color of the Year, but Tom Holland must have already manifested that earlier this year when he arrived at the Critics Choice Awards wearing an all-brown Prada suit. Pairing the slightly darker-than-mocha-mousse-colored suit with its matching brown waistcoat, he accented the look with a pale salmon pink shirt and a tie. He sure knows how to wear brown. And by the way, one thing we are still manifesting for Met Gala 2025 is a Zendaya and Tom joint Met Ball debut.
Zendaya in Bob Mackie for Cher’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction
Who is the most red-carpet-anticipated arrival year after year? It has to be Zendaya. Lest we forget, in 2021, at only 25 years old the actress, received the CFDA Fashion Icon Award – making her the youngest to ever receive it. Following suit over the years, she’s taken sartorial style risks at every event, and there is seemingly nothing stylewise that Z can’t pull off. While it’s hard to choose just one moment for Zendaya, an honorable mention is her legendary homage to Cher at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in October. She wore a vintage Bob Mackie gold, and barely-there gown that was similar to the one Cher wore in 1972.
