Jenna Ortega may be one of the preeminent method dressers of her time, but Vogue’s November cover star has run the gamut of red carpets in her decade-long career.
Ortega cut her teeth on Nickelodeon and Disney step-and-repeats, dressed in sweet and spunky outfits befitting a child actor, but she made her first real foray into capital-F Fashion at the 2022 Met Gala when she strode up the steps in a sequined minidress, tights, and platforms in Pierpaolo Piccioli’s unmistakable shade of Valentino pink. From there, the actor has only ascended.
When she won the role of Wednesday Addams in Netflix’s Wednesday, the actor—with help from her stylist, Enrique Melendez—transformed into a bona fide fashion goth. She made her first impression in a lacy navy Versace dress with a theatrical tulle veil to boot. Together they’ve curated a darkly romantic vision, spanning louche suiting to showstopping gowns. (Best of all? The custom Ashi Studio peplum dress that looked like molted snakeskin.)
These days, ahead of Klara and the Sun, Ortega is looking on the sunnier side of life, arriving at the Rome Film Festival in a 1966 Pierre Cardin minidress from 1966 in the Neoplasticism style. Still, she always maintains her edge, be it in a yellow raglan tee with a severe black satin column skirt or a watercolor gown with a grungy velvet burnout.
In honor of her November 2026 Vogue cover, revisit Jenna Ortega’s best red carpet moments, from a Death Becomes Her homage to a major Dior vintage pull.
