Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In the midst of a billionaire-directed assault on the U.S. government via a team of Nazi-adjacent youths, the 2025 Oscars red carpet had the potential to be an evening of longed-for distraction. Fashions can and do engage with current events—the current naked dressing trend, for one, seems to be grasping for the bodily autonomy Republican legislators have taken away—but it can also provide an aesthetic and artistic escape. Unfortunately, this year’s red-carpet fashion skewed traditional and tame, endlessly referencing...
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