At the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards, held in Los Angeles, actor-singer-style maven Teyana Taylor brought one of the most striking outfits of the night.
Taylor took to the red carpet as the evening’s host, a role that placed her firmly under the fashion spotlight. She arrived in a custom look from Thom Browne: an oversized white blazer with exaggerated rounded shoulders and thick sleeves that nearly concealed her hands, paired with a sleek black velvet pencil skirt and a matching hat resembling a newsboy cap with a feathery, frayed edge. The ensemble was drenched in drama. What drew the eye most were the flowing trails of silver rhinestones sweeping across the blazer and skirt—an eye-catching flourish elevating the whole silhouette.
Taylor’s red-carpet entry was more than a fashion moment—it was a declaration. After a year in which her performance work (including the Ryan Murphy series All’s Fair and the Paul Thomas Anderson film One Battle After Another) has placed her in the spotlight, this appearance reinforced her status as a force not only in entertainment but in style. Her self-styled background (she has long had a hand in choreographing, producing and styling her own look) meant that this show-stopping outfit was entirely in her control.
For the Los Angeles fashion scene, Taylor’s look is a marker of a trend: celebrities in SoCal are increasingly using red-carpets and major fashion events not just as backdrops for brands, but as platforms to assert identity, artistry, and personal narrative. Taylor’s rhinestone-laden suit didn’t just follow a black-tie dress code—it bent the rules in favour of layered meaning and theatricality.
