After the last statuette is handed out at the Academy Awards, it’s time to party — and for the evening’s winners and disappointed nominees alike, the most coveted invite in town is the annual Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Returning on Sunday night to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., hosted by the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Radhika Jones, the event’s red carpet once again drew well-known names from across the worlds of entertainment, fashion, politics, sports and more. Serving as a stylish sequel to the Oscars, fashion lovers were treated to a second, more robust round of red-carpet looks in one star-studded evening.
Among Sunday night’s stunning transformations was Gabrielle Union, who gave her silvery Oscars ensemble a sexier second act in a slinky, sheer, silver-beaded halter-necked gown. Similarly, Ryan Michelle Bathe switched from an ethereal, white goddess-like gown into a fiery red, skin-baring one-shouldered dress alongside her husband, Best Supporting Actor nominee Sterling K. Brown. And Best Supporting Actress winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph traded the pale blue sequinned gown and voluminous cape worn to the ceremony for a sparkling strapless black column dress, coordinated with sheer, opera-length gloves and a dramatic black lip.
The afterparty also brought a fresh yet familiar crop of faces to this year’s festivities; Danai Gurira (above) channeled old Hollywood glamour in a chic, deep coral gown reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe‘s iconic look in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (a reference coincidentally also made earlier in the evening during Ryan Gosling’s show-stopping performance of “I’m Just Ken”). Vanity Fair Oscar Party regulars John Legend and Chrissy Teigen and Ciara and Russell Wilson also glamorously reemerged, as did a power couple of another sort, Chloe and Halle Bailey. Trends on the red carpet included sexy sheer looks — as seen on Randolph,…
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