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By Karli Poliziani

Best Dressed Celebrities at the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards: Red Carpet Highlights & Fashion Trends

From A-list arrivals to designer moments, the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards red carpet showcased bold trends, major celebrity style, and the most talked-about looks of the night

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky at the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards held at The American Museum of Natural History on November 03, 2025 in New York, New York. (Photo by Stephanie Augello/WWD via Getty Images)

New York’s fashion crowd showed up and dressed up on Monday night as the industry gathered for the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards, honoring the designers, tastemakers, and cultural forces shaping style right now.

The red carpet delivered a masterclass in modern glamour, with celebrities and fashion elites turning out in directional silhouettes, sculptural gowns, experimental menswear, and Americana-tinged tailoring — all punctuated by micro-trends like liquid metallics, elevated neutrals, and couture-level corsetry.

This year’s ceremony awarded some of the biggest names in the business, with A$AP Rocky earning the coveted Fashion Icon title (and sparking a collective gasp when he arrived hand-in-hand with Rihanna), while Donatella Versace was celebrated for her standout contributions to positive change across the industry. Host Teyana Taylor set the tone in high-octane glam, and the energy on the step-and-repeat was matched by an A-list guest list that included Julianne Moore, Naomi Watts, Laura Harrier, Lily Allen, Michelle Williams, Naomi Campbell, Olivia Dean, Addison Rae, and more.

From avant-garde experimentation to Old Hollywood sparkle, the 2025 CFDA carpet proved once again that American style doesn’t follow the rules — it reinvents them.

Ahead, we’re rounding up our favorite looks of the night, the designers behind them, the trends everyone’s talking about, and the moments already dominating fashion group chats. Scroll through — and don’t be surprised if a few of these ensembles end up on your 2026 mood board.