Calling an under-30-year-old runway look “vintage” began many a heated web debate final award season. But nobody might argue with Ariana Grande’s circa-Fifties selects on the Wicked: For Good press tour. On January 9, nonetheless, she acquired everybody speaking in one in every of her youngest classic seems but, courtesy of a 2000s Vivienne Westwood line.
With the 2026 Golden Globes approaching on Jan. 11, Grande rehearsed her step-and-repeat on the AFI Awards Luncheon. Everyone from Gwyneth Paltrow and Teyana Taylor to Mia Goth and Laura Dern RSVP’d “yes,” whereas Grande held down the Wicked: For Good style fort. (Cynthia Erivo is not predicted to attendas a result of she’s making ready to painting 23 roles in London’s Dracula.)
Stylist Law Roach started Grande’s Globes weekend with a strapless Vivienne Westwood skirt set, crafted completely from pink Chantilly lace. A near-invisible corset added construction to the peplum high, which coated the skirt’s waistline. Pleats atop both aspect of the layered, silk-and-tulle maxi added additional quantity. Kerry Taylor Auctions styled the skirt the identical approach throughout its Dec. 2024 bidding, when the set offered for £2,470.
Ariana Grande seemed each bit her on-screen alter-ego on the 2026 AFI Awards.
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In true Grande type, she restricted her jewellery stack to $7,610 pearl earrings from Irene Neuwirth. She bookended the studs with pointy ivory pumps—her solely different accent.
A second, please, for her not-vintage pearl earrings.
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Technically, Grande remains to be in her Glinda stage. Wicked: For Good will quickly compete for the Award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement at the Golden Globes, whereas Grande is up for Best Supporting Actress–Motion Picture. Those nominations might quickly be adopted by extra nods on the BAFTAs and, finally, the Academy Awards. That means Grande’s press tour classic collection is constant in spades. Even so, she’s not trying to find the oldest look within the ebook. Grande in early-aughts Vivienne Westwood proves something that matches Glinda’s glamour is up for grabs, regardless of how previous (or younger).
Her newest discover got here two months after the 2025 Governors Awards, the place she arrived in one other not-quite-archival 2000s quantity. The one-shoulder, asymmetrical satin robe hailed from Dior by John Galliano’s Fall 2007 assortment. Perhaps Grande and Roach have been drawn to the bodice’s botanical embroidery, in all its Glinda-coded glory.
Grande’s Dior by John Galliano robe on the Governors Awards was comparatively younger, too.
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Both the Dior and Vivienne Westwood robes could possibly be grand-dresses to her Wicked: For Good London premiere look, designed by Gilbert Adrien, the costumer behind The Wizard of Oz. The all-black, one-shoulder ballgown dated again to 1952, and but, its bubble-hem skirt and oversize sequins did not look a day over 50. (It’s 72 years previous, if you happen to’re curious).
Now that Grande’s classic repertoire has expanded to earlier a long time and aesthetics, there is no predicting her 2026 Golden Globes look. Whether she goes 2000s-level classic, or hidden-in-an-estate-sale-vintage, you higher reserve her a spot in your best-dressed listing.
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