2025 brought a sense of play back to red carpet dressing – whether it was leaning into their masculine-side for the Met Institute’s Superfine: Tailoring Black Style themed gala, or going full-method dressing for film premieres and album roll-outs. Below, we round-up BRICKS’ best-dressed celebrities of 2025.
Lily Allen
Stylists: Leith Clark, Jessica Gerardi, Marco Capaldo of 16Arlington, Richard Sloan, Tom Van Schelven
The question still very much on fans’ minds since West End Girl dropped in October – an album inspired by her turbulent relationship with Stranger Things’ David Harbour – remains: who the fuck is Madeline? Allen’s styling has since gone viral, with the singer going full method when she appeared at Halloween dressed as the 1939 French orphan Madeline from Ludwig Bemelmans’ beloved children’s books.
Since then, her wardrobe has become a statement in itself. Fans likened her SNL look (her first appearance since 2007) to Princess Diana’s revenge dress, but Allen and her team have launched something closer to a full-scale revenge tour. Her performance of Madeline alongside Dakota Johnson featured a black mini dress with lace-up bows, a custom piece by stylist Colleen Allen. At the CFDA Awards, she appeared in a risqué cream lace two-piece, low-rise skirt and bralette, again by ALlen Allen, while the Hunger Games press circuit saw her in ’90s-era John Galliano for Dior.
With the West End Girl tour kicking off on 2 March and whispers of a stage play on the horizon, Allen’s lyric “Why won’t you beg for me?” is already being answered. As Stranger Things airs its final season and David Harbour fades nto the Upside Down, Lily has emerged as a new style icon.
Emma Chamberlain
Stylist: Jared Ellner
Emma Chamberlain has become the blueprint for the YouTuber‑turned-major celebrity and fashion muse, moving effortlessly from internet fame to Met Gala mainstay, as well as a global ambassador for Stuart Weitzman’s latest Fall campaign. On the Met Gala red carpet, she wore a custom backless look that played with tailoring and exposure, offering a sharp, self-aware take on the evening’s “Tailored for You” theme.
Across the year, Chamberlain’s style has settled into something recognisable but flexible. Her Paris Fashion Week appearances showed a willingness to experiment, exentuated by her new icy blonde pixie cut, a daring heartbreak hair transformation.
But away from the runways and red carpets, Chamberlain has also leveraged her influence in the fashion economy: her vintage and designer wardrobe is now officially available on eBay, allowing fans to buy pieces she’s worn while spotlighting second-hand style in a way few young creators have achieved.
Doechii
Stylist: Sam Woolf
Doechii’s Met Gala debut made headlines before she even hit the carpet. Her exasperated demand – “Give me another fucking umbrella!” – went viral as she attempted to shield her outfit from photographers, a moment later cleverly repurposed during her Glastonbury set to disguise an outfit change. Part fashion-accident, part performance-art, it perfectly captured her instinct for turning scrutiny into spectacle.
Working closely with this year’s Stylist of the Year, Sam Woolf, Doechii has built an aesthetic that pulls from ’90s hip-hop, performance icons, and some more surreal sources. Her custom Louis Vuitton look for the Met Gala was a masterclass in homage dressing, as her monogrammed tuxedo jacket, paired with matching shorts and burgundy accents, nodded to Julius Soubise, a formerly enslaved Afro-Caribbean man and a well-known dandy in late eighteenth-century Britain.
The rising rap star has shared the true breadth of her sartorial taste – in September, she arrived shoeless at Chloé’s AW25 runway show, signalling a refusal to play by front-row rules, before heading to Schiaparelli in a curvaceous two-tone dress paired with a big, bouncy ’90s blowout. Offstage, her wardrobe leans toward baggy trousers, cropped tops, bold logos, and layered streetwear.
From barefoot entrances to couture showstoppers, and following the release of Alligator Bites Never Heal, Doechii’s rise has been as considered as it is meteoric. Going into 2026, she feels less like a breakout star and more like a fully formed fashion force.
Chappell Roan
Stylist: Genesis Webb
Alongside a hugely successful year – marked by Grammy wins, festival headlining slots, and a rapid ascent from cult favourite to bona fide pop star – Chappell Roan has also had an exceptional year in fashion. Her visual identity has evolved equally with her music, becoming more theatrical, more confident, and impossible to ignore. Anchored by her huge red hair (frequently cited as evidence for the Hollywood Hair theory) her style has become instantly recognisable – Halloween 2025, in particular, suffered an epidemic of red wigs and pink cowboy hats. Working with stylist Genesis Webb, Roan has built a wardrobe that pulls from couture history, punk, and theatrical glamour.
At the Grammys, she wore a vintage Jean Paul Gaultier couture gown from the archives — yellow tulle printed with Degas-inspired ballerinas and styled with sheer blue opera gloves — before changing into a blue corset dress later that evening. At Paris Fashion Week, she sat front row at Rick Owens in a metallic Prong dress, paired with stark makeup and white contacts. The look aligned her with the show’s futuristic severity rather than typical street-style logic. Her Met Gala debut followed a similar approach: an all-pink, Bowie-adjacent two-piece suit nodding to glam rock, designed by legendary costume designer Paul Tazewell.
Where Roan’s style has really shone, though, is on stage. It’s there that she and Webb have leaned fully into increasingly surreal references, treating live performance as a kind of fantasy world-building exercise. Webb has begun sharing these moodboards on Instagram — collages spanning forest fairies, medieval princesses, and rosy maple moths — offering a rare glimpse into the thinking behind the looks. Each typically translates into multi-layered, tearaway costumes designed for maximum transformation mid-performance, adding drama, surprise, and a sense that the clothes are as much part of the show as the music itself.
JADE
Stylist: Zack Tate
The release of JADE’s “Angel of My Dreams” music video set a new standard for her maximalist style: cobalt blue bleach-blonde wigs that channel the 2007 musical Hairspray’s Tracey Turnbull-on-crack energy, crashing into a red-haired distressed angel, performing till she goes insane. In 2025, she has developed this sensibility in her recently-released “Church” music video, appearing in a whitehigh-neck gown, along with all other wardrobe pieces, designed and styled by Maximilian Raynor.
Off stage, Jade oscillates between girly-cool Vivienne Westwood and Chopova Lowena-inspired streetwear, effortlessly blending oversized Acne Studios hoodies with her boyfriend Jordan Stephen’s Competition Is for Losers merch.
Julia Fox
Stylist: Brianna Andalore
Julia Fox remains fashion’s most committed agent of chaos; styled largely by her bestie Brianna or by herself, and seemingly immune to the idea that clothes should ever be sensible. A contender for this year’s best red carpet look, she attended the Vanity Fair Oscars Party in a sheer Dilara Findikoglu cowl-neck dress worn with nude heels and waist-length extensions, a look that offered equal parts mythological nymph and erotic art reference.
That refusal to be boring runs through everything she wears. One day it’s sculptural tailoring (oversized blazers layered over low-slung jeans, pencil skirts paired with collared shirts and graphic ties), the next, it’s lingerie as outerwear, humorously sheer catsuits and Edward Scissorhands references.
At the Los Angeles premiere of Him, she wore a polka-dot Erik Charlotte corset with a plunging neckline. Eklsewhere, she stepped out in Robert Wun’s AW25 Couture — optical-illusion panels, cone-bra detailing, and hyper-engineered proportions — embracing fashion’s more surreal instincts. At amfAR London, she channelled dark, sculptural glamour in Marc Jacobs, while the Grammys delivered one of her most talked-about looks: a thong-style ensemble paired with bright yellow dish gloves, a choice that felt deliberately ridiculous yet strangely chic.
What makes Julia Fox such a compelling dresser isn’t just her willingness to go there — it’s her refusal to explain herself once she arrives. In a landscape increasingly obsessed with “good taste,” she treats fashion as a sandbox rather than a system. Dressing for fun, for reaction, for herself — and reminding everyone else that clothes don’t have to mean anything to be worth wearing.
Alexander Skarsgård
Stylist: Harry Lambert
We don’t make a habit of praising men here (and we make even fewer exceptions for straight, cis, white men) but Alexander Skarsgård has left us with no choice. His wardrobe for the Pillion press tour has been too playful, committed and deeply unserious to ignore.
It all began when he stepped out at the Cannes Film Festival screening of the actor’s latest movie, Pillion, where he was seen sporting thigh-high leather boots over his traditional black-tie ensemble. Then, at the BFI London Film Festival, Skarsgård arrived in a white, backless halterneck shirt paired with black lace-up leather trousers. Both looks felt genuinely unexpected, but styled by Harry Lambert, they immediately set the tone for the rest of the press tour. On Lorraine, Skarsgård appeared in cheeky Burberry short-shorts and long socks, explaining he “wanted to feel sexy” and that “there’s nothing sexier than a middle-aged man in a British schoolboy uniform.” On The Graham Norton Show, he dialled it down (sort of) wearing a plain black T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase: Hot Buffet, Available All Day.
Olivia Dean
Stylist: Simone Beyene
“Olivia Dean’s stylist literally loves her,” runs the consensus across Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter — and it shows. Working with stylist Simone Beyene, Dean has quietly built one of the most coherent and flattering wardrobes in pop this year, and her fans have been quick to take notice. Her style leans ethereal, favouring jewel tones and silhouettes that float rather than cling.
Across awards season, her style mirrors the gentle charm of her music: At the CFDA Awards, she wore a custom Thom Browne butter-yellow column dress, perfectly fitted and disarmingly elegant, while the ARIAs saw her in a sweeping black-and-white Richard Quinn ballgown bursting with romance.
That restraint loosens when she hits the stage. Festival season is where Dean has allowed colour and silhouette to do the talking, turning her wardrobe into a showcase for the best of Britain’s new generation of designers. She wore Chopova Lowena at ACL, a pink Conner Ives look at Forwards Festival, and KNWLS at Lollapalooza. The standout came on The Tonight Show, where a shaggy white Feben dress balanced texture and lightness so precisely it felt effortless. Alongside appearances in 16Arlington on Jools Holland, these looks show a willingness to experiment without ever losing her sense of self.
Tessa Thompson
Stylist: Karla Welch
This year on the red carpet, Tessa Thompson continued to prove she is one of the most consistent best-dressers working today. For the Hedda Gabler premiere, Thompson was among the first to step out in Pierpaolo Piccioli’s debut work for Balenciaga, while at the Academy Museum Gala, she wore a breathtaking sculptural yellow Balenciaga gown with three-dimensional floral appliqué.
At Sundance, Thompson switched her style with an ultra-baggy, futuristic grey suit that rejected conventional red-carpet polish in favour of an easier silhouette that didn’t skimp on drama. Elsewhere, at the 2025 Met Gala, Thompson delivered one of the night’s sharpest interpretations of the theme in an ultra-tailored Prabal Gurung suit dress.
Rosalía
Stylist: Samantha Burkhart
Rosalía has long moved between light and dark on the red carpet, largely favouring monochrome looks for her public appearances. This year, as she built toward her Lux album era, that duality intensified. Her fashion began to mirror the record’s high-art ambition, drawing on historical form while sharpening it into something distinctly forward-looking — lending her a presence that felt almost otherworldly.
At the 2025 Met Gala, she embodied that vision in a custom white sculpted gown by Olivier Rousteing for Balmain. The structured bodice and fluid silhouette nodded to the night’s tailoring-inspired theme, but the effect was severe and statuesque rather than romantic. The same sensibility surfaced at the Los40 Music Awards, where she marked Lux’s release in a custom Balenciaga ensemble, a feather-embellished crop top and dramatic skirt styled with avant-garde accessories.
Away from the red carpet, Rosalía’s style drops to near-anonymous practicality, making the transformation all the more satisfying. It’s a 0-to-100 switch we love to see: off-duty minimalism giving way to full ceremonial commitment, proof that when Rosalía dresses up, it’s never just an outfit… it’s world-building.
Jenna Ortega
Stylist: Enrique Melendez
Since stepping fully into the shadowy world of Wednesday, Jenna Ortega’s style has matured with notable ease. The gothic sensibility, shaped by the Tim Burton–crafted universe, has not stayed confined to the screen; instead, it has subtly informed her personal wardrobe, refining her taste for moody palettes, menacing tailoring, and eerie silhouettes, resulting in an evolution that doesn’t skew too juvenile nor prematurely polished.
At the 2025 Met Gala, Ortega appeared in a metallic armoured gown by Balmain, leaning into severity without sacrificing elegance, and reinforcing her preference for structure and mood over ornate prettiness. Elsewhere, the same sensibility carried through her press appearances: for Wednesday season two events in Paris, she wore a gothic-romantic Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood look. Even in softer moments, such as a lilac Amiri look at the Imagemaker Awards, featuring intricate embroidery, a plunging neckline, and a thigh-high slit, she grounded the delicacy with a fur stole, undone hair, and smudged eyeliner, ensuring the look still felt unmistakably her.
Charli XCX
Stylist: Chris Horan
After the momentum of two consecutive Brat summers, 2025 still belonged to Charli XCX. If anything, the year marked a subtle expansion rather than a pivot. Alongside the start of her acting career, her wardrobe began to stretch beyond pure club-girl chaos, hinting at a performer thinking carefully about range – on screen as much as on the red carpet. When she wasn’t on stage in hot pants and a cigarette cloud, a deliberately elegant Charli started to emerge.
That shift was clearest in her relationship with Ann Demeulemeester. Charli wore custom looks by the house to both the Met Gala and the Grammy Awards this year, becoming the first person ever to wear Ann Demeulemeester to the Met Gala (a quietly significant fashion-history footnote) with feathered drama while still keeping to her signature look: all-black, slightly feral, and allergic to conventional glamour.
Ashnikko
Stylist: Suzie Walsh
Ashnikko is one of the few artists who treat fashion like character design. Her most convincing looks land when they feel like they’ve crawled out of her own mythology: part pop star, part comic-book villain, part sci-fi creature with a sense of humour about being perceived. Her photoshoot for her BRICKS Voices digital cover this year leaned fully into that mode, showing that her style is deliberate and high-concept, not just chaotic for effect.
She also brought that energy into fashion week. In Paris for Matières Fécales, she leaned into extreme styling — platform proportions, fetish-adjacent detailing, and a silhouette that was never meant to blend in.
Paloma Elsesser
Stylists: Carlos Nazario & Danielle Goldberg
Paloma Elsesser has consistently dressed with confidence and intention, favouring looks that make a statement. She understands scale, proportion, and when drama works best – never letting the look take over. At the 2025 Met Gala, she looked re-dhot in a custom Ferragamo by Maximilian tailored look with feathered detailing. Meanwhile, at the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards, Elsesser wore a custom Simkhai look featuring a halter top made of shells.
Fashion fans love Paloma for her fluency in fashion history: over the same Met Gala weekend, she also wore an archival Maison Margiela “mannequin” bodice from the 1997 season – an insider reference that nods to fashion’s past without feeling trapped in it, a balance she strikes repeatedly.
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