And just like that—Jenna Ortega has her Carrie Bradshaw moment, stepping out on the red carpet wearing a piece of fashion and pop culture history. Extra, extra, read all about it!
The actor appeared on the red carpet in New York for the premiere of her latest film, Hurry Up Tomorrow, yesterday (May 13), wearing the always-iconic newspaper print, cowl-necked dress from John Galliano’s Dior fall winter 2000 collection. Famously, as seen on Sarah Jessica Parker’s character Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City.
Ortega wore the cowl-necked, arpeggiated hemmed Dior dress as it comes, accessorizing with super delicate, gold stiletto sandals, a thin gold bracelet, and pendant necklace. She wore her raven hair straight, with her signature gothic glam and tightly ringed kohl eyes. The actor posed on the carpet with co-stars The Weeknd and Barry Keoghan.
The fashion space loves to move with the times, and the obsession with newspaper print persists: From Emilia Wickstead’s fall 2025 runway show models toting The Wickstead Times and Stella McCartney’s own The Stella Times, and Matthieu Blazy’s spring 2024 dispatch for Bottega Veneta. Celebrities too, from Emily Ratajkowski to Kendall Jenner and Sarah Jessica Parker herself in more recent times, have tried to channel the best of Bradshaw’s eclectic, label-filled “investment piece” wardrobe. “I spent $40,000 dollars on shoes?” I’d spend my first born and then some for this dress.
Our first glimpse of Carrie’s newspaper dress moment came in season 3, episode 17 of Sex and the City, when she painfully ambushes Mr. Big’s wife, Natasha, to admit to and apologize for her affair with Big. It’s one of the most memorable scenes of the entire series not just for the scandal, but for the newspaper couture. The apology went up in flames of course, but the look? Fashion history phoenixes from its ashes.
Jenna Ortega has been having quite a storied fashion moment. She’s still fresh from the 2025 Met Gala, where her custom Balmain ruler dress spoke to the theme in one of the most considered, thoughtful ways of the affair.
Designed by Olivier Rousteing, the look took the “Tailored For You” theme and found inspiration from art, couture, and craftsmanship, referencing the tailor’s humble instrument, the measuring ruler. The silver gown acted like one shimmering sheath with hundreds of rulers joining together to create a plunging bustier and form-fitting dress. It was a poetic, feminine, and reverential take on the theme.
Later on in the evening, Ortega slipped into a maxi faux fur greige coat and an archival DKNY, Barbie pink mini-dress—how very Carrie.
But this artful, narrative-deep era of Galliano for Dior? It’s perfect for Jenna Ortega. Don’t stop the press!
