Just last week, Emma Stone stepped out in the same spring 1996 Donna Karan skirt set that costume designer Judianna Makovsky once sourced for Gwyneth Paltrow’s Estella in Great Expectations. That rare crossover between screen costume and real-life fashion was exactly the kind of moment Vogue World: Hollywood set out to celebrate last night, as it turned Paramount Studios into a catwalk, with Paltrow watching from the front row beside Anthony Vaccarello and Sandy Powell.
As if she was ever going to not be there: forged in the golden era of ’90s Los Angeles, and now a working movie star again (soon to star alongside Timothée Chalamet in A24’s £50 million Marty Supreme), Paltrow feels as much a part of Hollywood’s landscape as that sign on the hills. She wore a sleeveless cowl-neck column dress in an off-white silk (from Gwyn, naturally) with what I thought was a coordinating fringed shawl, but was in fact the blanket provided on her seat. What was it she told Giles Hattersley about course-correcting the red carpet in British Vogue’s November issue? Ah, yes: “I think it’s going in a bit of a funny direction these days, so I’ll bring back my old school,” she explained. “The thing about me is my style doesn’t really change that much. I believe in tailoring and a certain restraint, but always with a little bit of a twist to it. You know?” The Gwyneth Paltrow compendium for style, laid out as simply as you’re ever going to get. You’re welcome.
While fellow Hollywood progenies Dakota Johnson, Maude Apatow, and Tracee Ellis Ross joined Paltrow in the audience, Vogue World: Hollywood 2025 put many of the actor’s peers to work. Nicole Kidman, for one, opened the show in custom Chanel, performing a Baz Luhrmann-directed musical homage to Rita Hayworth’s Gilda. Then along came Angela Bassett, Greta Lee, LaKeith Stanfield, Ayo Edebiri, Jeff Goldblum, Damson Idris, and Kyle MacLachlan, among others, in original costumes, and custom looks inspired by them, as the show traveled through seven different chapters representing seven different genres of film. Get an exclusive look inside Vogue World: Hollywood 2025 here.
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