Cynthia Erivo meant business at the 2025 NAACP Image Awards on Saturday in Los Angeles. The “Wicked” star selected a pinstriped Dolce & Gabbana suit consisting of a double-breasted blazer and wide-leg trousers, as well as a crisp white button-up and black necktie.
Platform heels and Tiffany & Co. jewelry, including diamond-encrusted brooches and rings, completed Erivo’s look. The actress also added on a pair of oval-shaped sunnies.
Stylist Jason Bolden, who also counts Nicole Kidman and Cara Delevigne as clients, dressed Erivo for the occasion.
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On Sunday, the Broadway star attended the 2025 BAFTA Awards in London, where she wore a three-dimensional look by Louis Vuitton. Her custom white frock featured a short train and a tea-length hemline.
Erivo accessorized with strappy round-toe heels, completing her look with emerald and diamond jewelry by Tiffany & Co., including rings, vintage earrings and a matching bracelet.
“Wicked” won two awards, including Best Costume Design for Paul Tazewell.
Speaking to WWD last fall, Tazewell discussed how natural elements informed the costumes in “Wicked.” The peppy, effervescent Glinda, who descends into Munchkinland via bubble, represents air. Elphaba, whose dresses feature fungus-inspired micropleats and embroidered fiddlehead ferns, is earth. Several of Erivo’s looks also include felting, which Tazewell said gave them an organic quality.
Spirals were another key motif. They can be found all throughout Oz, from the beginning of the yellow brick road to the tornado that sweeps Dorothy out of Kansas.
“I realized that I was attracted to images of kaleidoscopes and swirling staircases,” Tazewell explained. “This spiral imagery was something that was just pulling me in. I was looking at bisected shells, which reference the Fibonacci spiral, a formula that appears in nature.”
The 2025 NAACP Image Awards, held on Feb. 22 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium and hosted by Dean Cole, honor the Black entertainers who left an indelible impact on arts and culture in 2024. The Wayans family will be inducted into the NAACP Hall of Fame and former Vice President Kamala Harris will receive the Chairman’s Award.
