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Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo
Say Farewell to Wicked: For Good in
Coordinating Looks
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How to...Find Your Personal Style, Once and For All
The Costumer Who Changed Hollywood for Good Paul Tazewell shares his emancipated vision of Oz.
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by Matthew Velasco
Wicked: For Good has now taken its final bow on the premiere circuit, but stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo saved two of their most magical fashion moments for last. Yesterday, the duo stepped out to the New York premiere—the sequel’s final major event after a series of globe-trotting red carpets—in peak Glinda and Elphaba style.
For Grande and Erivo, the premiere’s New York setting was poetic. “It’s so full circle to be in New York City where the Gershwin [Theatre] is, where Wicked is and to be celebrating tonight together,” Grande told reporters. Erivo echoed, “It’s really beautiful that we’re finishing here, where it started.”
Both Grande and Erivo approached this press tour with a different point of view compared to the first Wicked promotional cycle last year. For Grande, that meant combining darker, moodier color palettes from the 1950s with the standard Glinda pinks and pastels. Erivo ditched the neon Elphaba greens for a wardrobe full of jet black and inky grey.
While Wicked: For Good just celebrated its final premiere, Grande and Erivo are sure to be staples of the 2026 awards season with plenty more themed fashion in store. And with director Jon M. Chu not shutting down the possibility of a third Wicked film, who knows what the future might hold.
Fresh off her Galliano-era Dior moment at the Governors Awards over the weekend, Grande hit the step and repeat in a black-and-white couture number by Schiaparelli. Its fitted black bodice was full of surprises: it had a lace edge along one side of the bust and an upturned hem. Underneath, a white tulle skirt added volume to the look and nodded to Grande’s string of vintage-tinged press looks. Designed by Daniel Roseberry, the look took inspiration from house founder Elsa Schiaparelli’s fantastical 1950s designs.
Erivo, meanwhile, went full Elphaba in a futuristic look by Pierpaolo Piccioli for Balenciaga inspired by the brand’s spring 2026 collection. The star slipped into a floor-length ball gown that featured a drop waist, a trailing maxi skirt, and long sleeves. Over top, she wore an ultra-cropped top with leather and feather embroidery. She paired the monochrome look with bug-eye mask goggles and diamond jewelry.
by ALYSSA GRABINSKI
For years, I felt like I never had anything to wear. Every time I went shopping, I came home convinced, thinking to myself, “This is it. This is the piece of clothing that will make my wardrobe complete, cohesive, and show I’ve mastered my personal style.” The truth? No single shirt, pair of shorts, or skirt could magically solve my problems, and that’s because I didn’t know how to find my personal style. Finding my true personal style took a lot of trial and error (mostly errors) and years to figure out what I actually liked. Now that I’m on the other side though,
Wondering how to find your personal style, once and for all? It doesn’t need to be intimidating—with these 10 tips, you can find yours, too.
The idea of developing your personal style doesn’t need to be complicated. Think of your personal style as a way to express your personality, show your individually, and hopefully, gain a bit of confidence in the meantime.
Personal style is how you express yourself through your clothes and accessories, and how you interpret fashion and incorporate it into your daily life. Trendy, maximalist, minimalist—how you define your style doesn’t matter, as long as it’s a representation of you.
1. Spend a day looking at clothes—but don’t buy anything yet
Set a day aside and commit yourself to not swiping your credit card, but instead spending a no-pressure day getting a better grasp of what you like. Make a list of what you felt best in (regardless of what might be trending at the moment), then go home, think on it, and strategize what pieces you want to actually add to your closet.
Use Pinterest as a mood board
A tool that shouldn’t go underutilized in finding your personal style? Pinterest boards. Having different images of outfits that spoke to me in one place really allowed me to take a look at the bigger picture and analyze their similarities. Another tip? Ignore everything you were taught about “dressing for your body shape” and focus on things you really love instead.
Think of who you would consider your personal style icons to be, pinpoint the things you really like about their choices, and save your favorite outfits of theirs on a Pinterest board. Then, the next time you need some outfit inspiration, you can use the images you saved as a starting point. Using Pinterest as inspiration will help you build a wardrobe that reflects you.
3. Clean out your closet regularly
The easiest way to feel like you
have nothing to wear? Your closet being stuffed to the brim with pieces that are ill-fitting, out of season, or that you just don’t like. If you pull a piece out that you end up not wearing because you don’t like it or it’s stained, there’s no use putting it back in your closet. Rather than letting your closet get out of control and waiting to purge it a couple of times a year, clean it out regularly.
4. Step outside of your comfort zone
While finding your personal style, it’s important to remind yourself that clothes and fashion are both supposed to be fun. You have the ability to play around and try new things. If you try something you don’t love, no sweat; you’re just one step closer to finding what you do like. Remember that personal style is a form of self-expression—it doesn’t need to be taken too seriously, and can continue to evolve over time.
ate your accessories and how you’ve been incorporating them into your outfits, too. After all— sometimes they can pack the hardest punch on the road to personal style.
6. Keep a clothing rack of pieces you want to style
If you have the space, a clothing rack can be your best friend when curating your personal style. Keep it full of new pieces, or ones that you already own that you want to remember to wear soon. Then, not only will they be top of mind, but you can plan how you’ll style each piece by hanging the rest of the outfit around it to be ready to wear when the opportunity arises.
Utilize the three-word method
5. Mimic the looks of people whose fashion you love Wondering how to find your personal style? Start by turning to people whose fashion you know you love. Take time to sit and scroll through their Instagrams and think of outfits of theirs you can replicate with pieces you already own. Despite what TikTok is telling you, don’t feel the need to define your aesthetic—in reality, personal style is much more nuanced than “coastal grandma” or “mob wife.” Instead, find outfits and pieces that you’ve seen and made you think “that’s so me!”
You can also gain outfit inspiration that you might not have thought of on your own, and might even discover you already have pieces you love—you just haven’t been styling them in ways that fit your style. Evalu-
Created by New York-based fashion stylist Allison Bornstein, the three-word method took social media by storm. The three-word method is as simple as it sounds: identifying your personal style with three adjectives. Maybe your style is cool, elevated, and comfortable, or maybe it’s colorful, classic, and bold. The three-word method can help you figure out:
• The style you currently have
• The style you want to have
Once you have your three words down, ask yourself if the new pieces you buy fit into them. Of course, they don’t always have to fit to a T, but it’ll help guide you toward pieces you like wearing most. If you’re struggling to idenfity your three words, start by taking note of your favorite celebrities’ style.
By Soraya Nadia McDonald
The Oscar-, Emmy-, and Tony-winning costume designer Paul Tazewell has mastered the practice of developing memorable sartorial articulations of freedom and the pursuit thereof. It’s a feat most recently recognized in his work on Jon M. Chu’s Wicked (and its sequel, Wicked: For Good), but the 61-year-old designer has been thoughtfully transforming characters through clothing for more than half his life.
Liberation is a theme in your work, from Hamilton to Harriet to The Wiz and Wicked. Is there an aesthetic of freedom, and if so, what is it?
It is viscerally felt for me, and it has different faces. The vision of freedom for Harriet is different than it is for Wicked, although those primary characters are played by the same person. Cynthia Erivo and I developed a relationship through Harriet, and then we were able to maximize that into Wicked, partially because it was breaking reality. Some of that early work on Harriet was the intimacy of getting to know each other, establishing our
trust in each other, establishing a language of how we see clothing and how we can communicate with depth.
With that in mind, tell me about Elphaba’s coat in Wicked: For Good. It’s got these wide lapels, it’s extremely textured, nipping in at the waist and then this voluminous bottom. The beginning thought of that costume was to establish her silhouette as nostalgic of the 1939 Wicked Witch of the West. It’s an 1890s silhouette that has been used for that charac-
ter we know and love from The Wizard of Oz, played by Margaret Hamilton. You’ve got the pointed hat with a wide brim, the dress, a cinched waist, a full skirt, and then a cape. But that’s been upcycled by Elphaba. We’ve seen it originally in the first film when Fiyero and Elphaba take the cub to the forest, and we see that it’s a raincoat hanging over the bicycle. I wanted to establish that she already has this as part of her wardrobe, so that we understand that she’s collected all of her things and moved into exile into the tree-
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house, her home.
Did you split the design work for each individual film?
I designed Elphaba’s whole rack of clothing for both films. We didn’t know that we were going to be shooting two different films. We didn’t know that it was going to be broken up until we were well into production. I needed to figure out what the whole costume story was going to be.
The way you work with black made me think of Kerry James Marshall and how this one color can be rendered so differently across paint formulations, brands, and pigments. You do something similar with black fabric, creating various textures. Even with all that black, Elphaba never disappears into a shadow.
I love the medium of fabric and what that brings to a design, the difference that it makes, and then also fabrication techniques,
whether it’s pleating or creating interesting applications for a specific fabric. Silk chiffon versus a silk organza versus a silk satin … they each have sculptural specificities that allow them to operate in certain ways. In our preproduction period, we did screen tests.
Let’s talk about Galinda’s bubble dress and the transformation that she undergoes. It hints at a mermaid color motif. It was trying to capture the idea of the iridescence of a bubble when it’s moving through space, and just how the color shifts and changes that kind of rainbow effect that a soap bubble has. This is the first time that we see her in this lavender-pink. There’s a pink quality in there as well as a soft blue. It was acknowledging the original Wicked Galinda dress, the bubble dress from the musical. It was also, silhouette wise, acknowledging the Billie Burke Glinda dress from The Wizard of Oz, the 1939 film. So all of those elements together are creating this vision, which is, it’s her first bubble dress when she’s gifted the bubble machine from the Wizard.
How has winning an Oscar changed your relationship to your work?
Every day when I’m working with different characters, it’s not a costume that’s going to hang on a hanger. It has to come to life on a person’s body, and it is informed by how they’re playing the role. I’m in that kind of creative space. I just want to focus it in a different direction that will be inclusive of lifestyle.
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