We should have known when Teyana Taylor arrived at the 2026 Golden Globes red carpet wearing a custom Schiaparelli couture dress finished with a bedazzled bow atop of a visible thong, that she would become this award’s season’s undeniable breakout fashion star. Not only is Taylor the front runner to win the Academy Award for best supporting actress this Sunday at the 2026 Oscars, but I would also place a hefty bet that she’ll be the best dressed star on the red carpet—again.
Taylor famously styles herself from time to time, for major events like the Globes and key moments like the BAFTAs. Speaking ahead of the Academy Awards, she tells VF that her decision to self-style stems from both her love for fashion and her commitment to realizing the dreams she had before she had access to clothes and designers of the caliber she does now. Whenever she is wearing a custom look, Taylor has worked on it directly with the house. Otherwise, she works with styling duo Wayman Bannerman and Micah McDonald, who also work with Chase Infiniti, Colman Domingo, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, to co-style some of her red carpet looks under her creative direction. Either way, each ofTaylor’s looks has a signature vernacular: Audacious, sharp, and always body-first.
Be that a revealing style, like the steamy Tom Ford dress by Haider Ackermann she wore to the Grammys, or a more modest look like the Burberry trench coat and dress hybrid she wore to the 2026 BAFTA Awards, Taylor knows to fashion herself into the most memorable image of any red carpet.
Think of the Thom Browne trompe l’oeil couture ensemble she chose for the 2026 Actor Awards, or the Saint Laurent menswear look she wore to the Critics Choice Awards. The throughline in her looks is not only that they make for a good conversation topic, even though she does know how to get us talking, but that she always looks good. A great dress may not be able to win you an Oscar, but it can certainly help fashion a breakout actor like Taylor into a proper movie star.