Fashion Hits And Total Misses From The 2025 Academy Museum Gala

Cara Delevingne’s outfit speaks to an apparent theme of half-ways (halfway classy and halfway “what on earth is that thing?”) seen at the Academy Museum Gala.

She sported a glitzy number that was classy yet sensible enough to pass on any debutante. It was above the waistline that the trouble started.

We assume that the front did not have much to offer (by her standards), and so she turned her back to the camera.

Photographers snapped her looking over her shoulder to make sure they were getting the angle she wanted from them too—which was likely what appeared to be a representation of forest fungi crisscrossing her back and a rose-like appendage behind her neck.

She completed the look by Tamara Ralph with towering heels and Chopard jewelry.

Actress, Michelle Monaghan, went in the direction of fairy tale land maybe trying to show Disney what they out on missed casting Gal Gadot as the evil Queen in Snow White and not her.

The dress that was described as being inspired by “giant floral floats” came from Carolina Herrera’s 2025/2026 Spring Collection.

And aptly so, because so floral was it that it looked like it should be paired with antihistamines lest the wearer succumb to a full-on pollen allergy paroxysm.

Maybe it did; we noticed it has pockets.

The Kiss Kiss Bang Bang alum rounded off the look with conservative jewelry from Tiffany & Co. 

We think Naomi Watts’ smile when she posed for the photo matched her outfit. 

But we are also wondering if Doctor Hoffman’s “Bicycle Day” experiment would have rendered the same image had he not climbed on his two wheeler after dosing lysergic acid diethylamide, and instead explored the broom cupboard and stared at the mop.

Getty Images credits the long flowing plain one piece that is visually safe (until it gets to a place below the knees) to Balenciaga. 

We credit said area below the knees to a magical contraption out of the movie Avatar.

Also Watts’ pose makes it terribly difficult to take the image seriously.

A Complete Unknown actress, Monica Barbaro, showed face (and a lot of linen) at the Academy Museum Gala.

She was snapped amid-stride in what may have been a two-piece garment in which the top and bottom sections appeared interchangeable.

It came with two trailing black bows and bouquets of white flowers just below her middle.

She tied off the flowing white Dior ensemble with black suede heels matching her hair and De Beers jewelry.

Taylour Paige showed up at the event wearing a lace. The bodice part took on the appearance of a Cold War era bikini, but it may have been a separate garment from the outfit's bra—its all very confusing.

Then around the Zola actresses neck was a floral thing, matching in color, that may or may not have been intended as a bow. Or necklace.

The outfit has what appeared to be bolts of black lace redundant in their function (as a supposed garment) of covering the body, and leaves little at the mercy of the imagination.

Sources say the garment was from Balenciaga’s Spring/Summer 2008 ready-to-wear collection.

Elle Fanning went classy with her power bun and plain, swanky pastel pink dress-type-thingy.

We believe it was a full dress until James Patrick “Sulley” Sullivan’s little crimson-colored cousin, whom she may or may not have taken with her as a date to the event that night, got hungry and ate the front of her dress.

The photo shows the little “scarer” still cowering between her legs, likely camera shy.

An alternative explanation is that the red fluffy thing adorning her front is actually part of her outfit, and if one were to strain one’s imagination really hard, one could think that it was something designed by a fashion house like Balenciaga.

But fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and so, to go with the jewelry from Cartier, the dress is actually a Balenciaga contrivance.

Kim Kardashian was present, dressed by Maison Margiela. She opted for the skin-colored gown with a very strange-looking corset.

She topped it off with a heavy-looking spinel gemstone necklace and rings to match.

And then she gave her face the brown paper bag treatment.

So we’re here wondering: did she forget to do her makeup or get fashion tips from Ye?

Was it even her, or are we just going to have to take Getty at their word?

Also, the Louvre in Paris was just robbed and jewels went missing…

We are not accusing anyone, but there she was at a(nother) museum, with (a lot of) jewelry and a mask covering her face.