These Fans Predicted Ariana Grande’s Oscars Dress 1 Month Ago

While Ariana Grande may not have descended from the sky in a bubble, she definitely rocked the Glinda spirit at the 2025 Oscars, sporting a dress seemingly inspired by the character.

Throughout the “Wicked” press tour and award season, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo have been sticking consistently to their characters’ signature colors — Glinda’s pink and Elphaba’s green, respectively.

Looking ahead to the Oscars, where “Wicked” was up for 10 awards, fans guessed at what the duo might wear to the red carpet — and at least two got it right.

Content creator Abbey Bonadies said in a Jan. 28 TikTok that if Grande wore one standout dress from Schiaparelli’s Spring 2025 Couture Collection to the Oscars, “she would be, hands down, the best dressed at the Oscars.”

Writer and actor Christian Weissmann also tweeted his guess on Feb. 1. “Need ariana grande to wear this to the oscars or else,” he said, along with a picture of the same Schiaparelli gown.

Grande affirmed both predictions on March 2, when she showed up to the Oscars red carpet in what seemed to be a custom piece modeled off of Look 3 from the Schiaparelli 2025 Spring Couture Collection.

Grande’s dress was slightly different than the one originally modeled, which was more orange than pick and missing the sparkles on Grande’s.

“I’m guessing they made this custom for her. The fit on this bodice is almost impossible to do,” designer Christian Siriano said on the E! red carpet on March 2.

Schiaparelli’s website described the garment as a bustier dress made in alternating duchess satin and nude tulle, and partially inspired by a lamp designed by Alberto Giacometti.

Speaking to TODAY.com, Bonadies said that when she first saw the Schiaparelli collection on the Vogue Runway, “something about it just screamed Ariana.”

“Knowing the Oscars is the most formal of awards shows and that it was such a big deal for Ariana, I knew this look had to be special,” she told TODAY.com over email. After following Grande’s entire “Wicked” awards show circuit, Bonadies said the Schiaparelli dress fit into the pattern.

“Ariana has been wearing tons of muted, neutral tones lately, and the majority of her dresses are strapless tops with full skirts,” Bonadies said.

Bonadies had observed the evolution of Grande’s looks from the “Wicked” press tour in November into awards season in 2025, noticing she and her stylist Mimi Cuttrell used different color palettes for different situations. 

Bonadies said that for “Wicked”-centric events, like the premiere, Grande opted to lean “much further into her Glinda character — wearing more pinks and sparkles.” 

During awards shows, where Grande was being individually recognized as an artist, she leaned more into her own personal styles, which Bonadies called “less obviously Glinda-inspired but still aligned.”

“I thought this Oscars look was the perfect finale to the press tour part one — it had all the elements that made both Ariana as an actress and as her character shine,” she said.

Grande has worn Schiaparelli multiple times, so this particular dress felt like a “match made in heaven.”

When Bonadies realized she got her prediction about Grande’s dress right, she said she “felt so excited.”

“I was watching the carpet with my husband and two best friends and literally screamed — sorry to our apartment neighbors! I felt really proud of myself for nailing it, but I also felt so excited for Ariana and Mimi knowing she’d easily be the best dressed of the evening,” she said.

Awards season is over, but Grande’s Glinda inspired looks are far from done. Since “Wicked” was only a Part 1, there’s still another movie, press tour and potential awards season for Grande to pull out more looks relating to the Good Witch.

Bonadies said she has “ideas flowing” for what Grande might wear.

“Since Glinda and the rest of the cast are older in the second act of the musical, I definitely think we’ll see some more mature looks as the tour goes on,” she said.

“In terms of color palette, I’d imagine she will start weaving in some more white dresses (as a nod to the wedding dress Glinda wears) and some more blue looks,” she said, perhaps as a nod to the blue dress Glinda wears in the musical.

Now, one can only wait and see to see if Bonadies is, once again, correct.