Chappell Roan took home the Grammy for Best New Artist in a dress festooned with bows from spring/summer '25 collection
If there’s one thing to know about Chappell Roan, it’s that she loves a reference.
Tonight at the 2025 Grammys, the pop superstar tried her hand at balletcore. But don’t expect any pink satin here: For her inaugural Grammys, Chappell Roan and her stylist Genesis Webb met the moment in a tulle-heavy couture rendition of the famous Edgar Degas painting 'Dancer with a Bouquet'.
Chappell dug into the archives for the occasion, pulling one of the finale looks from Jean Paul Gaultier’s spring 2003 couture collection, originally worn on the runway by Mariacarla Boscono. The show-stopping number featured painterly streaks of canary yellow and robin’s egg blue tulle across the bodice, which was also adorned with three-dimensional berry and flower embellishments and black velvet straps. The skirt fanned out into an asymmetrical silhouette printed with Degas’s famous ballerinas.
Chappell Roan at the 2025 Grammys. . Photo: Getty Images
Mariacarla Boscono, Jean Paul Gaultier spring 2003 couture. Photo: Style.com
While Chappell placed the original runway headpiece in her signature red hair, she swapped the original black velvet ribbon choker for a diaphanous blue one that coordinated with the dress. She added a pair of matching opera gloves with the fingertips cut off to allow her gold-tipped manicure a moment to shine. Chappell also eschewed the yellow button heels for a pair of round-toed yellow and black boots with turquoise detailing from John Fluevog.
Chappell Roan at the 2025 Grammys. Photo: Johnny Nunez/Getty Images
Thom Browne fall 2024 couture, look 8. Photo: Umberto Fratini / Gorunway.com
Inside the ceremony, Chappell changed into her second couture look of the evening. Inspired by look 8 from his fall 2024 couture collection, Thom Browne fashioned the singer a blue wool and silk cropped jacket with exposed shoulder pads, a blue corded lace corset, and a tiered, hand-pleated asymmetrical petticoat.
Chappell, who earned six Grammy nominations – including for album of the year and best new artist – also hit the stage in custom Zana Bayne for a rodeo clown-inspired performance of 'Pink Pony Club'. “For this Grammy performance look I combined aspects of all the silhouettes we’ve done on her in the last year and make a ‘super Chappell’ look,” Bayne tells Vogue. “Throughout the costume are special details to bring the rodeo clown princess fantasy into reality, with everything crafted in my downtown Los Angeles studio.”
Chappell Roan took home the Grammy for Best New Artist wearing the bow-festooned ready-to-wear look.
Acne Studios SS25 collection, look 35.
Her only ready-to-wear look of the night, Chappell took home the Grammy for Best New Artist in a gray Acne Studios dress festooned with bows from the spring/summer '25 collection. She kept up the princess theme from her performance in a yellow hennin, which promptly fell off during her acceptance speech. But who needs a hat when you have a Grammy?
Chappell Roan kept up the princess theme from her performance in a yellow hennin, .