Melissa Rivers on the Golden Globes 2026’s best and worst looks

The Golden Globes 2026 kicked off red carpet season with a bang Sunday night, delivering a duo of jaw-dropping naked dresses (on Jennifer Lopez and, more surprisingly, Jennifer Lawrence) along with a slew of much more subdued, sophisticated looks in classic black and white.

“I think there’s a good possibility that leading up to the granddaddy of them all, the Oscars, we’re going to see color starting to walk back down the carpet,” Melissa Rivers tells Page Six Style.

And while many of the “Fashion Police” alum’s “clear-cut” favorites of the night — like Ariana Grande, Emily Blunt, Selena Gomez and Colman Domingo — were dressed in black, white or a combination of the two, so were several of the looks that left her scratching her head, such as Teyana Taylor in her thong-baring Schiaparelli gown and Jenna Ortega in fringed Dilara Findikoglu.

Below, Rivers walks us through her best- and worst-dressed picks from the Globes.

Ariana Grande

“This was one of my first big ‘wow’ moments, because she still wore a very Ariana dress (and still had the ponytail), but in black. That sent a sartorial message. I loved that she was like, ‘Still me, in black. Let’s go.’”

Emily Blunt

“It’s what I refer to as ‘painfully chic.’ Just beyond chic.”

Selena Gomez

“She’s been looking great; the Chanel, which was very vintage-looking, with the white and the black and the red lip. The entire package! Not a hair out of place.”

Amanda Seyfried

“Very modern Grace Kelly, very movie star. Easy and pretty, [with] so little jewelry. It just worked.”

Kate Hudson

“She brought me vintage Kate Hudson — it was like, ‘Welcome back!’ Just perfect. And Kate makes everything look like it’s actually comfortable. She’s one of those women that wears the dress; the dress doesn’t wear her.”

Dakota Fanning

“We had the battle of the Fanning sisters. Elle is a fashion darling; she pulls off fashion, and has since she was very young, but Dakota took the win last night. In photographs, you don’t necessarily see it — but when she moved, the fabric, the beading, the fit was breathtaking. It was a masterpiece.”

Colman Domingo

“He never looks like he’s trying; it just makes sense on him, and that’s because he has a sense of style and what works on him. If you’re not gonna go traditional, he’s now, I think, the men’s standard of how to do fashion-forward [looks] correctly.”

Jennifer Lawrence

“I am so sick of the naked dress. It never seems to go away, and it needs to be retired for a while. But I loved that we all went, ‘Holy s—t, that’s Jennifer Lawrence?’ It’s so different for her that I kind of loved that she went the opposite [direction].”

Jennifer Lopez

“She and Beyoncé do the naked dress better than anybody, [but this] just didn’t work for me. Sometimes a dress just doesn’t work! I thought the embroidery was really heavy, and that exaggerated mermaid [hem] … I felt like she just went, ‘Oh, I’ll put this on.’”

Teyana Taylor

“From the front, when she walked in, I’m like, ‘done.’ Then when she turned around and had added the bow, I’m like, ‘no.’ I can’t imagine that Schiaparelli sent it that way. That felt like a stylist said, ‘Let’s put a little pin here.’ Like, let’s put some lipstick on the Mona Lisa, it might look a little better!”

Parker Posey

“I just don’t understand. It was too much! There was so much going on.”

Jenna Ortega

“The goth thing … I don’t get it. I don’t like it. I want to see her in something different. I want her to surprise me in a good way.”

Walton Goggins

“Walton Goggins, who I have met — so lovely, so nice, so real — last night, [that gold shirt] literally hurt me in my soul. I bought socks that color for the holidays thinking they’d be cute with my loafers; I still haven’t worn them.”