Taylor Swift, Teyana Taylor, and More: The Best Dressed Stars at the 2026 Academy Museum Gala

Monia Barbaro, on screen now in Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, looked every bit the movie star in a sultry Armani Privé gown, as did Alexa Demie in a Chanel dress that invoked the sartorial spirit of Cher. Demie’s aquamarine look, Teyana Taylor’s similarly hued Schiaparelli couture, and Swift’s powdery blue frock were among a handful of disruptors in an evening where black and white dominated the carpet. Kendall Jenner and Hunter Schafer, in Valentino and Prada, respectively, wore two of the evening’s most compelling arguments for black and white evening attire.

Whitney Peak and Sarah Paulson brought some much-welcome texture from the runway to the red carpet, both in looks from the spring-summer 2027 collections. The former was in Diotima by Rachel Scott and the latter in Ferragamo by Maximilian Davis. Kim Kardashian opted for an Old Hollywood look in a vintage Balenciaga dress from 1951.

The Academy Museum gala has quickly become one of the most star-studded events of the second half of the year, serving as a soft opening to the upcoming awards season. This year, the gala was co-chaired by Robert Rodriguez, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, and Tom Ford, and it honored Charlize Theron, Colman Domingo, and John Carpenter. The night ended with a special performance from Swift, the first time her The Life of a Showgirl hit, “The Fate of Ophelia,” was presented live.

Everyone from A$AP Rocky to Connor Storrie, Inde Navarrette, Demi Moore and Andrew Garfield gathered for the annual event.

An array of the most influential Californians were at the pre-opening party for George Lucas and Mellody Hobson’s showcase for their vast collection of illustrated stories.

On the second day of Paris Fashion Week, Dior invited its most loyal friends to the heart of the Tuileries Garden for the presentation of its spring-summer 2027 collection

Singer Céline Dion lit up the Plénitude Arena in Nanterre for the first concert of her Paris residency.

Halle Berry, Emmy Rossum, and Mary Beth Barone (who has a new rom-com greenlit with Joe Alwyn, explaining those Deuxmoi photos) dressed to the Matthieu Blazy nines at Robert De Niro’s Locanda Verde.

Making her debut at Paris Fashion Week, Samuel follows in her mother’s footsteps.

At an event cohosted by VF at the Design Museum in London, guests got a behind-the-scenes look at the costumes, puppets, props, and sets that went into making Wildwood.

When French photojournalist Laffont immigrated to the United States, he began documenting the country’s countercultures. In Rebels With a Cause, a collection of images from the 1960s to the 1980s, Laffont, 91, turns his lens on protests, the women’s liberation movement, early LGBTQ+ culture, street gangs, and trailblazing changes in Black fashion.

At the 2026 Moms for Liberty National Summit, conservative parents were faithful to the theme: “Boots on the Ground.” But as they stood rooted in Dallas to represent their local chapters, they were also leveling up with AI that lets them monitor 13,000 school districts at once.

A new photo book, The Third Eye: Early Photographs, features a selection of intimate photographs of the Beatles, taken between 1963 and 1969—with the band on the brink of causing worldwide pandemonium—through the lens of one of their very own.