When 25-year old Mikey Madison stepped on the Oscars red-carpet wearing Prada’s high heels in crystal, Hollywood watched with bated breathe – this was not just a fashion display during the awards season but an aesthetic revolution that belongs to Generation Z.
Mikey Madison has shattered the red carpet safety card with a series visual feasts. From Chanel couture to the Schiaparelli fake nails dress at the New York premiere. While veteran stars still reproduce classic dresses, “Anora’s” heroine redefines the boundaries between’sexiness and power’ with Rodarte’s black tulle and Saint Laurent’s metallic suit.
- The Bottega Veneta dress she wore to the Golden Globe Awards was searched for 370% more on second-hand luxury platforms.
Schiaparelli’s ‘nail dress’ sparked 120,000,000 discussions on social media across the globe, becoming the most controversial moment in fashion in 2025.
The ‘Loewe Home Look’, on which she collaborated stylist Jamie Mizrahi, caused the stock price of the brand to rise by 4.8% in just one week.
Madison, in the fashion battleground where’millennial minimalism and Y2K retro-style’ are fighting each other, used Chanel’s tweed suit to fight gender stereotypes and reshaped Old Hollywood’s decadent aesthetics with Mugler suede jumpsuits under the paparazzi’s lens. She asks the same question every time she appears: When the red-carpet is no longer a Vanity Fair one-man show, who will be the real icon?
Madison’s performance in “Anora” – which won the Golden Palm Award for “Anora” – has blown the label “traffic actress” out of the water. After the awards season, Madison chose to work with independent designers on the ‘Anora joint series’. This is not just a commercial crossover but also a deconstruction of the relationship of art and capital.
“Mikey is not wearing clothes but using needles, threads and other materials to mend the cracks in the time.” “When she left the red carpet and turned around, we saw not a flying skirt but the foundation of the fashion industry being shaken.”
