Where has the color of the Goya Awards gone?

At the end of 2025, Pantone proclaimed the Color of the Year to be cloud dancerAn off-white that, under a poetic evocation of lightness and calm, was nonetheless an unusual choice: for the first time, white assumed the annual spotlight. The decision generated controversy. Not only because white remains, for many, more of an absence than a color, but also because, in a political context marked by the resurgence of identity politics and conservative discourses, some interpreted it as unsettling symbolism.

Perhaps in harmony with this chromatic climate, or perhaps by pure coincidence, the 2026 Goya Awards red carpet was almost entirely dominated by white and its opposite, black. A deliberate chromatic restraint that works as a safe bet—hard to go wrong, extremely photogenic—but that also projects control, propriety, and a certain institutional will. Outfits of such impeccable correctness that, just as they are difficult to dislike, they are equally difficult to move.

The white evening gown maintains a clear connection with cinema, especially with 1930s Hollywood, when films offered escapism amidst the Great Depression and the light transformed light fabrics into symbols of glamour. At the Goya Awards, however, white hasn't served as an escapist fantasy. Far from those heights of splendor, the red carpet has opted for a sobriety closer to quiet luxury than ostentation. An apparent neutrality that is never entirely innocent.