Olivia Dean has never been one to do fashion by halves. For some artists, red-carpet glamour is a delightful by-product of fame; for Dean, it’s an odyssey.
Touching down in Sydney for the ARIA Awards, the British singer floated onto the red carpet in a black Richard Quinn gown—an extravagant puffball silhouette crowned with sculptural white floral appliqué. Ethereal yet commanding, the piece looked as though it had stepped straight off Quinn’s runway and into a dream sequence. With the drama handled by the dress, Dean kept her styling deliberately spare, punctuating the look only with stacks of Cartier glinting across her shoulders and wrists.
Earlier that day, she embraced a far more grounded (and distinctly British) uniform: a Burberry scarf, a leather bomber jacket, and the unmistakable energy of someone freshly disembarked after a long-haul flight. London may have been far behind her, but its spirit travelled with her.
If 2025 has belonged to anyone, it’s Olivia Dean. Between touring with Sabrina Carpenter, crafting a rom-com-ready earworm in “It Isn’t Perfect But It Might Be,” releasing her sophomore album The Art of Loving, and now securing a 2026 Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, she has spent the year weaving her name into pop culture’s fabric.
