The 2025 ARIAs red carpet has officially kicked off!!! The who’s who of the Australian music industry (and, for some absurd but delicious reason, Tyra Banks) are descending on Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion as we speak. Who will take out ARIA Album of the Year? Who will do a shooey on stage? And WHO, I ask you, will kick on to the early hours of dawn this sweet November eve?
We’ll find out soon, but in the meantime, we’re all about the red carpet. Fashion slays, fashion nays, and fashion who-are-theys coming up, served ice cold.
Want to watch the ARIAs live? It’s streaming from 5pm AEDT on Paramount+.
The Best, Worst & Most Unexpected ARIAs Red Carpet Fashion Moments 2025
Kita Alexander
This look is exactly what fashion mags were calling a “beach to bar” outfit in the 2000s. I love it. No notes, except that next time someone please get the gal a pair of shoes that fit.
Charley
And now for someone who looks equally fierce but like they’re going to a totally different event, it’s Charley! 10/10 for the look, and 1000/10 for bravery to wear tights on a 27 degree day.
Dylan Alcott
Love the blazer, love the shirt, love the loafers. Would I have put brown and black together without an accessory to seal it all together? Probably not, but Dylan is a cutie-patootie so gets away with anything. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. (Wait, I’m writing this, I definitely make the rules.)
Bella Mackenzie
This feels like the type of outfit designed to be “controversial” but they could never make me hate it. It’s giving “when you have the ARIAs at 6 but the hoe-down at 8”. It’s giving Nashville meets Moranbah. It’s giving “no picnic blanket? No problem!”. The point is, it’s giving.
Olivia Dean
Ugh this look is so perfect. Olivia Dean looks gorgeous. If I’m honest, she looks too good to be at the ARIAs. Send this girl to the steps of the Met.
Froomes
Sweet angel Lucinda ‘Froomes’ Price (author, creator and P.TV alumn) looking flawless and just the right side of kooky, as per usj! She looks like she stepped off someone’s luxury yacht in Sicily. Perhaps her soon-to-die-mysteriously ex-husband’s. Can do no wrong, forever.
Tsehay Hawkins
It’s yee-haw o’clock at the 2025 ARIAs, it seems. I’m going to need Tsehay Hawkins to link up with Bella Mackenzie for a line dance, or at the very least, a bathroom selfie. Give the girlies what we need!
Fashion Critical
If anyone else was wearing this fit, I’d say they had too many bevs at the Melbourne Cup (boo) and only woke up on the couch, like, an hour ago. HOWEVER, it is the ever fabulous (and ever anonymous) Fashion Critical, who is nothing but on-brand. It’s not on-brand for the ARIAs, you must understand, but it is on-brand for her. Shantay, you stay.
Cat & Calmell
My time machine worked! It’s 2003! Social media didn’t exist, the rental crisis was unheard of, and I can vote Guy Sebastian to win Australian Idol from my Nokia 3315 for the low, low price of $87.50, charged to my family phone plan.
Sorry, Cat & Calmell‘s beauty looks distracted me there. We’re back in the much more depressing year of 2025. At least we have good moments, like Cat & Calmell’s perfect Live A Version cover of The Veronica’s “Untouched”.
Do I love this look? No. But do I hate it? Also no. It just… is.
Vera Blue
The optical illusion of Vera Blue‘s dress is that I didn’t realise at first which were her legs and which were her black strandy dress bits. We love an outfit with a hint of fuck you to the space-time continuum!
Isabella Manfredi
Another optical illusion dress, although I think this is less about the dress and more about Isabella Manfredi‘s pose. She looks like a beautiful flamingo, one that I’m not sure is going to eat me or invite me to meet all her cool flamingo friends.
KYE
It’s giving cool girl bride in the BEST way. The socks make the outfit for me, it feels very intentionally hyper-feminine and I’m very into it. Perfect jewellery, too, which is not easy to nail.
Kacey Musgraves
I admire Kacey Musgraves‘ ability to know exactly what works for her: the booty short cut. The lace / corset / embellishments / hair / jewellery combo here is perfect, and is perfect for her. The sort of outfit where you go, “Love this for you, but sadly could never be for me.” And that’s okay!
MAY-A
We needed front AND back for MAY-A, because this hair!!! Incredible! It would have done numbers on Tumblr in 2014, so I can only hope it does numbers on BeautyTok. It’s what her hair stylist deserves.
Chrishell Stause
I love that now former Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause fell in love with an Aussie and is now an honorary one herself. It’s still one of those storylines that blows my mind a bit. One minute, we were watching her date Jason Oppenheim and show off $20 million Los Angeles mansions, the next minute she’s dating G Flip and being a Melbourne girlie.
Okay, the outfit. At first I thought “yawn, she looks like she’s back on Selling Sunset“, but that was a mistake. Look closer! The lacing on the dress is giving it the edge both she and the ARIAs red carpet deserve. Yes, the giant bow and cape thing is a little black tie wedding, but still — she looks good.
Barkaa
I need to know immediately which designer is behind this fit, it is beyond! The beaded heart, especially so. No notes for Barkaa, the look is fierce and the representation is perfection.
Larissa Lambert
This is less ARIAs red carpet, and more an audition for Dune 3. That does not mean I hate it (although all peep toe shoes should be burned). It looks ethereal, and the movement is exactly what I imagine all brides who opt for a veil are going for. Lose the shoes and let’s talk.
Emma Watkins
Look. I love former Wiggle Emma Watkins as much as the next person… but this is giving renaissance fair (and don’t even get me started on the shoes). Emma, I’m sorry, I love you, but I pray thee findest a new stylish next ARIA Awards, post haste.
Vv Pete
Vv Pete looks like she just came from the diva-off and won (d’uh). I also need a behind-the-scenes video of getting those nails through the fishnet gloves asap! And who doesn’t love a little special events nose ring. (As a former nose ring haver, I can confirm it’s a horrible piercing to change, so kudos to Vv for doing it for the serve.)
Keli Holiday and Abbie Chatfield
Abbie Chatfield‘s look feels like another one that’s meant to be controversial and yet, I love it?! It’s SO WEIRD (especially that neckline snake thing) and yet the cut pulls it all together. The matching shoes with spikes then sent me into orbit.
Also, Adam Hyde (aka Keli Holiday) is there, too. He looks nice. Abbie’s dress is distracting me from even the extreme levels of chest hair on display. Perfect levels of chaos for the ARIAs, tbqh.
REDD.
Okay this diva!!!! I did not know this person, but looked them up and they are REDD., a 19-year-old musician from Melbourne blending punk, hip-hop and pop, and released their first single ‘FUGH SHI’ (pronounced “fuck shit”) this year. REDD., you have my attention.
Charlie Pittman
Yes, yes, one thousand times yes. It’s giving Year 12 muck up day in the best possible way. If I was a bit cooler, I’d be stealing this look in a second. Just thrift it from your favourite op shop within a 5km radius of a private school.
Marney McQueen
The skinny tie thrown over the shoulder is giving me 2000s skinny scarf flashbacks, but it kind of… works? Maybe? If it was up to me, I’d lose the tie, open a button, roll up the sleeves and add a really sculptural necklace. The suit is fab though, and the sunnies are perfect.
Tyra Banks
Tyra Banks wore a better outfit on Bondi Beach to promote her hot ice cream store. I wish we had that look on the ARIAs red carpet, instead of this. I also wish I understood what hot ice cream is. Much to ponder.
Ninajirachi
Spooky season, but make it award winner. All eyes will be on Ninajirachi tonight!
Ash McGregor & Tait McGregor
These two are the epitome of coming together to maximise their joint slay.
That’s a wrap! Check out all the 2025 ARIA winners here.
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