Hailey Bieber, Rosé and Zoë Kravitz turned the 2026 CFDA Fashion Awards into a golden tribute, arriving in matching metallic looks from Anthony Vaccarello’s final Saint Laurent collection. The coordinated moment, at the ceremony on Monday 2 November at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, has been ranked among the best-dressed looks of the night in reports published in the days since.
Vaccarello was honoured as International Designer of the Year at the 45th edition of the awards, recognising his decade-long tenure at Saint Laurent. To celebrate, the designer gathered four of his favourite muses and dipped them in gold, with Bieber, Rosé, Kravitz and supermodel Anja Rubik all wearing gilded looks fresh from his spring 2027 runway. Vaccarello stepped down as Saint Laurent’s creative director in October after ten years at the French fashion house, making the ceremony feel like a closing chapter as well as an awards night.
One palette, four distinct silhouettes
The coordination worked because it stopped at colour. Bieber wore an embellished high-neck design with a pencil skirt and thigh-high slit, finished with faux fur cuffs and brocade lace. Rosé paired a cropped sleeveless top with a matching skirt and thigh-high slit, while Kravitz chose a sleeveless, textured gold look with oversized earrings and slingback heels. Rubik brought a cropped blazer and below-the-knee skirt into the mix, layering a shimmering lurex lamé bomber jacket over her gown.
The looks came straight from Vaccarello’s final collection for Saint Laurent, which he presented beneath the Eiffel Tower on 29 September. The collection opened with 49 looks in shades of gold before closing with ten in black, and the CFDA red carpet became part of the tribute, not merely its backdrop. Inside the ceremony, Kravitz, Rosé and Bieber took to the stage to present Vaccarello with his award, a golden moment in every sense.
A night that rewarded personal style
The 2026 CFDA Awards, hosted by Keke Palmer, brought together Hollywood talent, industry leaders and notable style statements, from liquid gold metallics to innovative denim and archival pieces. Rachel Scott won American Womenswear Designer of the Year for Diotima, while New York-based Colleen Allen received the Google American Emerging Designer of the Year award. Lupita Nyong’o and Demi Moore both wore GapStudio, while polka dots proved the evening’s most surprising shared motif, embraced by Naomi Osaka, Rose Byrne and Becky G.
But it was the Saint Laurent gold trio that defined the night. Each of the women has worked with the house for years, and their coordinated appearance was both a fashion statement and a farewell, honouring a designer whose ten-year tenure shaped the modern Saint Laurent. For fashion watchers, the message was clear: gold was the colour of the night, and Vaccarello’s muses wore it best.
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