Vera Wang put a subtly surreal spin on the reemerging opera glove pattern to the 2026 BAFTA Movie Awards on Sunday, arriving at London’s Royal Competition Corridor in a black-and-white look with mitten-finished sleeves.
The bridal designer’s robe got here in a vivid white cloth with a straight, strapless neckline that hit just under the collarbone. Vertical ruching ran down the entrance, gathering by the bodice and hips earlier than falling right into a slim skirt that resulted in a brief practice.
Wang added a cropped black bolero with pronounced, rounded shoulders over the ruched robe. She completed it with what regarded like opera-length black gloves — although they could have been constructed into the jacket — giving the look its long-sleeve impact. The black protection ran previous the wrist and lined the arms in a closed, mitten-like form. She accomplished the look together with her signature black sun shades and straight platinum-blonde hair.
Wang retains coming again to BAFTA week with the identical black-and-white standpoint, often in her personal work. On the 2025 BAFTAs, she wore a Vera Wang two-piece with an upside-down black bandeau prime and a high-waisted black-and-white color-block skirt constructed with a peplum and smooth pleating, then completed it off with an outsized leather-based jacket and darkish sun shades. In 2024, she hit the BAFTA Gala in a draped white hooded robe with indifferent black sleeves. And simply final evening on the nominees’ occasion, she wore a midriff-baring co-ord from her namesake model that she additionally accessorized with opera-length gloves — this time in leather-based, with full fingers.
Vera Wang on the 2026 BAFTA Awards crimson carpet on Sunday.
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Opera gloves have been a recurring awards season element. They confirmed up throughout the 2025 Golden Globes crimson carpet, and by late 2025 and early 2026 they began popping up once more in new iterations. On the 2026 Grammy Awards, Tate McRae wore a structured strapless black Balenciaga robe with black leather-based opera gloves and a diamond necklace. On the 98th Oscars Nominees Luncheon a number of days later, Kate Hudson paired a crimson sleeveless draped Lanvin pre-fall 2026 gown with black leather-based gloves and two-tone slingback pumps. And at Michael Kors’ fall 2026 runway present earlier in February, Mary J. Blige arrived in head-to-toe brown suede, together with knee-high boots and lengthy gloves in the identical shade.
Off the carpet, Wang has been targeted on increasing entry to her bridal designs. In November, she and David’s Bridal launched an archival “White by Vera Wang” capsule of 10 robes and bridesmaid clothes, reviving early-2010s bestsellers as a restricted, made-to-order run forward of a broader Vera Wang Bride assortment that may roll out completely on the retailer starting in spring 2026.
