Helen Hunt and Jeffrey Nordling

This photo makes me laugh; they're both so rumpled and she's wearing a sheet. Good for you two crazy kids!!

Colman Domingo in Jacquemus

PERFECTION. (And it's fun to see him a label he doesn't wear that often.) Colman ALWAYS needs to be invited; without him, the men's sartorial average plummets.

Chloe Kim

This color might not be doing for her all that a color could do AND I think the fit is a little big. HOWEVER...

Chloe Kim

...overall, it IS fun.

Sarah Paulson in Matieres Fecales

This is wholly bonkers and I support that for Sarah. It is cool but also it is weird, and that's the direction we should probably keep going here.

Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor

Holland looks very cool and also very amused. This is like an updated American Gothic, but at the Vanity Fair party instead of with American farmers.

Camille Razat

On the other end of the spectrum: Wut. This literally looks like refried 2004 Forever 21. YOU ARE FRENCH. WE EXPECT MORE!

Lana Condor

This dress sort of looks like she's in costume as a taper candle.

Brooklyn Peltz Beckham and Nicola Peltz Beckham in 1998 Valentino

They look great and also I am SHOCKED that they did not go to Vanity Fair. Is VF Team Posh and Becks THAT ardently?!

Jessica Alba in Tamara Ralph

We are all sad about Catherine O'Hara and the best way to work through that IS via The Crows Have Eyes cosplay. (I kid, obviously, all that aside I also think she looks good??)

PinkPantheress

Well, now what joke am I supposed to make?!!? (This is more like Moira Rose in the Crows Have Eyes Goes to Royal Ascot in My Fair Lady.)

Paul Anthony Kelly

Yes, this man IS handsome.

Eva Victor

This dress is objectively fine but I think they need like a VERY cool and slightly weird cuff bracelet.

Kris Jenner in 1995 Valentino

Ah! Behold! The widow Jenner arriveth at the gala! Who shall benefit from her favor this eve?

Lola Young

Ah, yes! The Widow Jenner's Victorian Ghost Friend has ALSO arrived -- her constant companion! Who shall they haunt this eve?

Iris Law

I didn't think I'd be making so many jokes about GHOSTS in this post.

Caterina Scorsone

SOMEONE give this woman an infusion of IRON she looks so WAN. (Also why a cream bag with a white gown?! Come on, guys.)

Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos

Meh.

Amber Riley

Now this? This is fun.

Mindy Kaling

I suspect the fit on this is PERFECT and it probably looks great in the room, but imagine it in...well, basically any other color.

Maria Sharapova

This is VERY elegant.

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu in Balenciaga

She looks amazing in this and also that necklace is INSANE. Somewhere, Emily is shaking!

François Arnaud

He is SO handsome and the length of that coat also slightly makes him look like a really really goth dentist.

Bella Hadid in Prada

This is...fine.

Bella Hadid in Prada

But the back is very good.

Ashley Graham

This is dramatically understated for Ashley and, honestly, she looks amazing in it.

Zoey Deutch

She has NEVER looked more like her mother than she does with this hair. Tell me this isn't Lorraine McFly (in the future where they've got money and are thriving).

Rachel Sennott in custom Balenciaga

...I will say that I think this is a personal best for her.

Kyle MacLachlan

God bless this man, he is a CHARMER.

Ciara

This is terrifically dramatic and I do not know why I picked a photo where she looks distracted. Maybe it's because I was, respectfully...

Ciara

...distracted. By the gem!!

Tracee Ellis Ross in Marine Serre

This is, honestly, real cute.

Louisa Jacobson in Khaite

Real talk: This is SO GOOD on her and she should give this stylist a raise. She looks incredibly cool.

Lake Bell in custom Harbison Studio

And this is fun. She looks like she should have been in Feud, wandering around talking shit about Truman Capote at his black and white ball. (A compliment.)

Paloma Elsesser

No one will remember this but also no one will remember it, you know what I mean?

Regé-Jean Page

Standard issue handsome!

Simu Liu

Also so handsome!

Nicholas Hoult

This is not the best photo of Nick Hoult I've ever pulled and for that, I apologize. I love his watch. (He's currently filming the new Tom Ford movie, which sounds lightly insane and also has a writing credit for Anne Rice.)

Adam Scott

Why does Adam Scott always look like he's dressing like a louche turn-of-the-century French rabble-rouser lately?

Marisa Abela in custom Revolve

I did not know Revolve had a custom option! This is....not.....great for advertising it, although I like the VIBE.

Jeremy Allen White

"I can't believe I spent all that time learning to sing like Springsteen FOR NOTHING."

Pam Grier

Still foxy!

Oscars Post-Parties 2026: The Neutrals

...people got kinda weird.