Tracee Ellis Ross's WWD Honors Look: Ivory Celine — Plus Rebecca Hall's Cut-Out Tom Ford and François Arnaud's Saint Laurent Suiting

Fashion's own industry party brought out tailored eveningwear over gowns at Cipriani South Street in New York

The 2026 WWD Honors brought fashion's own industry crowd to Cipriani South Street in New York on October 27, with a red carpet that leaned toward sharp tailoring over traditional gowns. The night doubles as an awards ceremony: Haider Ackermann took home Womenswear Designer of the Year for his work at Tom Ford, presented to him by Susie Cave.

Tracee Ellis Ross led the arrivals in an ivory Celine look from the label's Fall 2026 collection — a crushed-viscose satin top paired with wide-leg trousers in the same fabric, worn with oversized metallic gold Jude Date mules featuring geometric peep-toe cutouts. The monochrome styling and liquid sheen of the fabric gave the outfit a fluid, minimalist edge rather than a conventional eveningwear look.

Rebecca Hall also chose Tom Ford for the night, in a black two-piece from the Fall 2026 collection: a high-neck top and wide-leg trousers with a cut-out at the waist, cinched with a leather belt. She paired it with a KATKIM earring and a black clutch, styled by Bailey Moon — a classic all-black ensemble with one deliberately unexpected detail at the midsection.

A handful of other looks stood out on the same carpet. François Arnaud wore a tailored Saint Laurent suit by Anthony Vaccarello, with a striped shirt and tie tucked in rather than knotted loose — a vintage-leaning silhouette. Louisa Jacobson arrived in an ivory Tom Ford pinstripe suit, worn open as a blazer over a top, finished with a black floral brooch and brown snakeskin pumps with silver metal toe caps. Michelle Monaghan wore a distressed Altuzarra Spring 2027 dress in black with a nude floral underlay beneath sheer, deconstructed panels, paired with statement earrings she kept on straight off the runway.

Stylist Karla Welch had two clients on the carpet: besides Monaghan, she also dressed Hannah Einbinder in a 2D mini dress from Celine's Fall 2026 collection, worn with oversized pearl earrings — two very different silhouettes from the same stylist in one night.

The common thread across the carpet wasn't a single trend so much as a shared instinct: at an event thrown by the people who cover fashion for a living, tailoring and texture did more work than sequins did. Suiting worn as eveningwear, deconstructed panels instead of full embellishment, and one statement accessory per look rather than head-to-toe sparkle — all of it reads as dressing for an audience that notices the details, not just the silhouette from across the room.

Original coverage: WWD Honors 2026 red carpet: tailoring over gowns