This is The Close-Up, where the biggest names in entertainment explain the story behind their latest personal style statement.
KPop Demon Hunters star Arden Cho has spent all of award season reimagining her character's signature colors. Her lavender Vivienne Westwood dress at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards, she tells Marie Claire from her Oscars glam chair, was "very Rumi-coded." Once the 2026 Academy Awards finally arrived, Cho gravitated away from the Best Animated Feature-winner's palette and toward "something more for myself."
