Fashion Focus: Doechii, Chappell Roan, and trends of the 2025 Grammy Awards

On February 2 2025, the 67th Annual Grammy Awards was held at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The Grammys are one of the most prestigious awards ceremonies being a quarter of the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards), and as always, sparked discourse on social media centred around the celebration and snubbing of the artists involved. The Boar has already written about the nominations, the awards, and the performances in the Music section, but an element of the ceremony which has not been reported on is the outfits that graced the red carpet and the stage.

Within her fashion, Doechii has demonstrated an unwavering ability to play with gender, unafraid to engage with hyper-femininity and hyper-masculinity

My favourite array of outfits was sported by Doechii, who had one of the most impactful performances at the Grammys and by receiving the Best Rap Album award, she became the third female artist to attain this achievement. Doechii, styled by Sam Woolf, sported custom Thom Browne, who is known for challenging and modernising the traditional suit. In the designs from the nominations announcement, the sketches, as drawn up by Browne, were chosen by Woolf to be in shades of grey in an effort to present this every day, bordering on mundane colour, into something high fashion, and was defined in three words by Woolf as ‘severe, sexy, and boss’. Within her fashion, Doechii has demonstrated an unwavering ability to play with gender, unafraid to engage with hyper-femininity and hyper-masculinity, and her outfits at the Grammy’s reinforced this image of duality.

Her red-carpet look featured an off-the-shoulder corset suit dress, with exaggerated hips, paired with a white button-down shirt and grey tie. It was sleek, simple yet impactful, and described by Doechii as ”light-years ahead“. Contrastingly, her acceptance outfit and the winner’s walk look were both defined by drama. For her acceptance outfit, she wore a custom piece of Browne, originally featured on the runway but was reconstructed for her measurements. The outfit involved only nine pieces, with the most important being the structured cropped jacket, corset, and occultic hooped trousers, with exaggerated hips – more overstated than her red-carpet look. Encapsulating the aesthetic Doechii presented throughout the night, the winner’s walk look was consistent with a white button down, tie, and grey colour scheme but became more playful with embellishments of bell-ringing heels – to match the award she paraded – and a braid crown to emphasise her status as a winner.

Doechii performed ‘CATFISH’ and ‘DENIAL IS A RIVER’ from her mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal. Supported by 30 backup dancers sporting Thom Browne, Doechii opened the performance in a multi-toned grey blazer, school-boy shorts, and below-the-knee grey socks – to conceptualise the story that Doechii wanted to tell “That being a student of hip hop and studying brought me to where I am”. This outfit acted as a tear-away, ripped away by her dancers, to reveal a contrasting white two-piece which allowed her to execute her choreography unrestricted and flawlessly.

Chappel Roan, awarded Best New Artist, unsurprisingly served theatrics and drama with her looks, definitely taking inspiration from the art form of drag. On the red carpet, she wore a stunning archival gown from Jean Paul Gaultier’s 2003 spring/summer couture collection. The yellow gown, paired with a feather headpiece, and baby blue gloves, featured Edgard Degas’ 1877 pastel ‘Dancer with a Bouquet’ printed on the gown. Roan performed her hit ‘Pink Pony Club’ as it approaches its five-year anniversary and wore custom Zana Bayne. This was ‘created with five different jewel-toned metallic leathers, pink pony appliques, fringe, and crystal studding’ for the image of ’Rodeo Clown’. For all her outfits, she was painted by artist Andrew Dahling, who also did Roan’s make-up for her appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and for her timeless Statue of Liberty look at the Governors Ball Music Festival.

The looks at the Grammys were exquisite and were much more impactful than those which appeared at the Golden Globes

The baby blue featured in Roan’s gloves and gowns was a dominant colour for the 2025 Grammys, which marks baby blue as the biggest colour trend of this spring. Notably, Sabrina Carpenter, who won Best Pop Vocal Album, wore a baby blue Dolce and Gabbana for her performance and baby blue Versace for the ceremony. However, it is not just Carpenter, who is recently loving baby blue as demonstrated by her recent cover for Vogue, who opted for this colour. Charli XCX, styled by Chris Horan, wore a matching baby blue lace-up corset bra and panty set, jacket and belt, from Dior’s 2022 spring/summer collection. Horan previously styled Charli XCX for her Converse photoshoot in which she also sported baby blue.

The looks at the Grammys were exquisite and were much more impactful than those which appeared at the Golden Globes. In terms of trends, baby blue is emerging as the colour trend of this spring – with the popularity of the colour increasing by almost 200% following the award show. Importantly, inspiration for artists’ style is rooted in the early 2000s, with looks being unarchived from 2003 and stylists using looks from 2005. For instance, Clairo’s polka dot gown by Miss Clair Sullivan was inspired by a Vivienne Westwood gown worn by Krysten Ritter in 2005 as it had had “this shipwrecked-doll energy that spoke to both of us” according to stylist Nancy Kote. To avoid chasing trends, we should look towards this era to inspire a new sense of style.