Each year, the Oscars red carpet comes with a few key fashion trends that not only set the tone for the evening (and the way we look at it in posterity), but also inform how regular people dress for a big night out. In the late ’90s, Sharon Stone inspired women to pair ballgowns with white button downs, and a whole slew of spaghetti-strap dresses informed what high schoolers would wear to their proms (think Gwyneth Paltrow in a pink Ralph Lauren number in 1999, or Julia Roberts in vintage Valentino in 2001, both of which spawned countless knock-offs). More recently, the red carpet has taken to using fashion as activism, such as when a group of actresses wore black at the 2018 Golden Globes as a statement of solidarity on the Me Too movement. More often than not, however, a fashion statement on the Oscars red carpet is less explicit, and more implicit on a collective vibe or sign of the times. For this year’s Academy Awards, the red carpet was swapped out for a “Champagne” hue, as a way of providing a bit of variation on the evening. And while there may or may not have been a correlation,
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