September 29, 2026

What Did Celebrities Wear at the 2026 Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards?

At the 2026 Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards, the dress code quietly bent away from the floor-length gown. Model Ashley Haas and Netflix America's Sweethearts personality Faith Ward stepped onto the Rockefeller Center red carpet in 100% mulberry silk sleepwear rather than conventional eveningwear — Ashley in a matching tank-and-wide-leg set, Faith in a floor-skimming high-neck slip dress with a side slit. Both looks are part of the EKOUAER Collection's 2026 high-end silk lineup and share design DNA with the pieces Vanessa Hudgens wears as the brand's ambassador. This article documents what each attendee wore at the September 11 ceremony, the design language that made silk sleepwear red-carpet appropriate, and where these specific pieces sit within EKOUAER's high-end Collection.

Key Takeaways

The 2026 Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards, held on September 11 at Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room, featured silk sleepwear styled onto the red carpet.
Model Ashley Haas wore the matching tank-and-wide-leg silk set YPY000364, a Vanessa Hudgens same-style piece in 100% mulberry silk.
Television personality Faith Ward (@flexi_faith) wore the high-neck, side-slit silk slip dress YPY000370, also a 100% mulberry silk Vanessa Hudgens same-style piece.
Vanessa Hudgens is the EKOUAER brand ambassador; YPY000364 and YPY000370 are her namesake styles from the Collection.
EKOUAER is among the brands that dressed the documented attendee lineup; this report records what each celebrity wore, it is not a ranked red-carpet verdict.

The 2026 Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards: What the Event Is

The Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards is an annual ceremony hosted by Daily Front Row, the publisher behind fashionweekdaily.com and a long-running fashion-industry media outlet that covers designers, editors, and brand work. Each year's ceremony recognises editors, stylists, publicists, and brands at the intersection of fashion publishing and celebrity culture, and gathers a mix of models, on-screen talent, and behind-the-scenes industry figures on its red carpet.

The 2026 ceremony took place on September 11 at the Rainbow Room at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City — the venue Daily Front Row has used for past editions. The event is independent from larger industry bodies such as the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), and Daily Front Row curates its own attendee list and recognitions; for the purposes of this article, the host, sponsor list, and full 2026 award roster should be confirmed against Daily Front Row's official newsroom before publication. What is documented here is the silk sleepwear styling on the documented attendee lineup, captured by photographers covering the event.

Ashley Haas: The Matching Silk Set

Ashley Haas is a model represented by Elite Model Management, one of the largest model agencies in the world, with a roster that has included several decades of Victoria's Secret campaign talent and editorial work for major fashion publications. At the 2026 Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards, Ashley wore a matching tank-and-wide-leg silk set in 100% mulberry silk drawn from the EKOUAER Collection's 2026 high-end lineup.

Public profile: Model, Elite Model Management–represented.

What she wore: A tank-top-and-wide-leg-pant set in 100% mulberry silk, with a soft inner-tie closure at the neckline and a straight, fluid drape through the leg.

SPU: YPY000364 — a Vanessa Hudgens same-style 100% mulberry silk set.

Fabric: 100% mulberry silk, sourced and woven to EKOUAER's high-end Collection specifications; mulberry silk is the long-fibre silk produced by silkworms fed exclusively on mulberry leaves, valued in luxury sleepwear for its drape and skin-feel.

Style details: The set is cut as a relaxed tank and a clean, full-length wide-leg pant, giving the look the silhouette of eveningwear trousers while keeping the fabric language clearly within the silk-sleepwear category. Together with the matching tank, the set has the proportions of a tuxedo and the comfort of 100% mulberry silk pajama set.

Faith Ward: The High-Neck Silk Slip

Faith Ward, who publishes under the handle @flexi_faith on Instagram, is best known from Netflix's America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, where she appeared as one of the focus subjects of the docuseries. Faith's documented outfit at the 2026 Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards was the high-neck slip dress counterpart to Ashley Haas's matching set.

Public profile: Television personality, Netflix docuseries subject, content creator with an Instagram audience in the seven-figure range.

What she wore: A high-neck silk dress with a column silhouette and a side slit at the hem, in 100% mulberry silk.

SPU: YPY000370 — a Vanessa Hudgens same-style high-neck, side-slit silk slip dress.

Fabric: 100% mulberry silk, EKOUAER Collection specification.

Style details: The YPY000370 silhouette pairs a stacked (funnel) neckline with a side slit at the lower hem — a combination that keeps the dress within the silhouette vocabulary of eveningwear while remaining structurally a silk sleepwear dress. See the mulberry silk nightgown anchor piece for the broader satin / silk evening-dress category inside the Collection's catalogue.

Vanessa Hudgens: The Same-Style Connection

Vanessa Hudgens is the EKOUAER brand ambassador; the collaboration page documenting her namesake styles sits at the brand's Vanessa Hudgens × EKOUAER page. Within the 2026 EKOUAER Collection, two styles are flagged as Vanessa Hudgens same-style pieces:

YPY000364 — the matching 100% mulberry silk tank-and-wide-leg set worn by Ashley Haas.
YPY000370 — the high-neck, side-slit 100% mulberry silk slip dress worn by Faith Ward.

The "same-style" designation means the construction, fabric, and silhouette are equivalent to the pieces Vanessa Hudgens wears in the brand's ambassador shoots; the runway-as-red-carpet styling seen at the 2026 Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards is therefore directly traceable to the brand's ambassador-aligned high-end Collection. Vanessa Hudgens does not appear in this article as a documented attendee of the 2026 ceremony; her role here is that of the design and brand anchor for the two pieces Ashley and Faith wore.

What "Sleepwear-Meets-Fashion" Means at Awards Season

"Sleepwear-meets-fashion" is the styling language that takes garments constructed as sleepwear — silk pajama sets, silk slip dresses, robes — and dresses them for public-facing occasions through cut, fit, and accessorising rather than through changing the underlying garment category. In the documented 2026 Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards lineup, the language shows up in three distinct design choices:

Tailoring inside the silhouette. A tank-and-wide-leg-pant set in silk reads as eveningwear-adjacent when the pant is full-length and the tank is clean at the shoulder; the construction is still sleepwear, but the proportions are red-carpet proportions.
Eveningwear necklines and hems inside sleepwear pieces. A funnel neckline and a side slit are formalwear features; placing them on a silk slip dress keeps the dress within sleepwear while moving it onto the formal side of the dressing line.
Fabric authority. 100% mulberry silk carries the visual weight of eveningwear — a soft sheen, fluid drape, and the kind of movement that photographers expect from long gowns — without the structure of a constructed bodice.

The collective category — high-end silk sleepwear — sits within EKOUAER's broader high-end pajama sets collection. The 2026 lineup is part of a broader quiet-luxury turn in loungewear, where 100% mulberry silk replaces heavy beading and structured construction as the eveningwear-adjacent material.

Style Decision	Sleepwear Anchor	Eveningwear Surface
Tank + wide-leg pant set	Two-piece silk pajama construction	Full-leg trouser drape
Funnel neckline + side slit	Silk slip dress structure	Formalwear collar + leg-reveal slit
100% mulberry silk throughout	Sleepwear fabric category	Sheen and drape of eveningwear textiles

EKOUAER Collection: The Brand Behind the Looks

The EKOUAER Collection is the brand's high-end sleepwear line, launching in 2026 and built around the idea that the hours between work and the next morning are a category of time worth outfitting deliberately. The Collection's 2026 line-up counts nine styles in total, of which:

Six styles are in 100% mulberry silk.
Two styles use a 47% modal / 47% cotton / 6% elastane knit.
One style uses a 92% lyocell / 8% elastane blend.

Vanessa Hudgens has three namesake same-style pieces inside this Collection, two of which (YPY000364 and YPY000370) were the documented 2026 Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards looks. The Collection pairs silk sleepwear with the brand's broader identity of "comfort without compromise," and positions silk as an everyday eveningwear textile rather than a once-a-year special-occasion textile. For readers interested in the full high-end line-up, the brand's Vanessa Hudgens × EKOUAER collaboration page documents every Vanessa same-style piece currently in the Collection.

FAQ

Q: Were celebrities actually wearing silk pajamas to the 2026 Daily Front Row awards?

A: Yes — the documented attendee look report places at least two named guests in 100% mulberry silk sleepwear: Ashley Haas in a matching tank-and-wide-leg set, and Faith Ward in a high-neck, side-slit silk slip dress. Both are explicitly identified as EKOUAER Collection pieces in 100% mulberry silk.

Q: Is Ashley Haas an Elite Model?

A: Ashley Haas is a model represented by Elite Model Management, an agency long associated with major fashion-campaign and editorial-booking talent.

Q: Is Faith Ward the Netflix cheerleader?

A: Faith Ward is one of the focus subjects of Netflix's America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders docuseries. Her public profile has expanded from the docuseries into the broader television-personality category under the @flexi_faith brand.

Q: What's the difference between silk sleepwear and a satin evening gown?

A: Silk sleepwear here is a construction category — the garment is structurally a pajama set or slip dress, even when styled as eveningwear. A satin evening gown is a constructed eveningwear garment built around a bodice. The 2026 DFR looks are silk sleepwear styled onto the red carpet, not converted eveningwear.

Q: Where can I find Vanessa Hudgens's same-style pieces from the 2026 Collection?

A: The brand's Vanessa Hudgens × EKOUAER page documents her namesake styles. YPY000364 (matching silk set) and YPY000370 (high-neck silk slip dress) are both her same-style pieces from the 2026 Collection.

About Ekouaer

EKOUAER is a global sleepwear and loungewear brand guided by the mantra “Comfort. No Compromise.” It explores the fusion of everyday comfort and elevated fashion through its premium collection, with Vanessa Hudgens serving as brand ambassador. Serving customers across over 180 countries, EKOUAER’s designs have been recognized by leading lifestyle and fashion media outlets.