little black dress

Lady Gaga in Christian Siriano. Photo: Getty
Lady Gaga’s fashion choices are anything but ordinary, so when the pop diva decides to wear a wardrobe staple, it’s not going to be standard. Currently promoting House of Gucci’s awards season run on the late-night circuit, Gaga paid a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. When promoting her film projects, she and stylists Sandra Amador and Tom Eerebout tend to go for glamour, so they pulled out a little black dress from Christian Siriano’s pre-fall collection, Giuseppe Zanotti heels, cat-eye sunglasses by Dita, and a wealth of diamond and gold jewelry from Los Angeles label KatKim. For Gaga, the combination was subdued, but it still projected the right amount of retro attitude.

What separated Siriano’s LBD from the competition were its voluminous tulle sleeves. Sheer, ruffled, and almost the exact length of the look’s hemline, they added movement and a sense of playfulness to the silhouette. Fluttering as Gaga walked across Kimmel’s stage and later when she paused to pose for photographers, the sleeves helped her to create a series of expressive paparazzi snapshots.
Lady Gaga topped her LBD off with glossy black heels and matching sunnies. Photo: Getty
Siriano’s adaptable design allows wearers to remove the garment’s most dramatic element and wear the mini-dress by itself. Still, Gaga’s enjoyment of her outfit made a case for embracing fashion’s theatrical side no matter the occasion. As for her beauty look for the evening, it was all about letting the outfit do all the talking. Gaga kept things simple with glowing skin, a swipe of lip gloss, and breezy blonde locks left open.
Originally published in Vogue.com

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The next instalment of The Crown is currently in production, and if there were any doubts that season five of Peter Morgan’s Netflix drama would tackle Prince Charles’s infidelity, the latest shots of Elizabeth Debicki in character as Diana, Princess of Wales have put them to rest. Paparazzi captured the willowy Tenet star filming the late royal’s grand entrance at a Vanity Fair fundraiser for the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens in 1994, when she wore an off-the-shoulder chiffon dress by Greek designer Christina Stambolian and silk Manolo Blahnik heels, entrancing the media. Making her PR coup even more noteworthy? The fact that it drowned out all coverage of her estranged husband’s ITV documentary, Charles: The Private Man, The Public Role, which aired the same night and included his confession of adultery during their marriage.
Diana accessorized the dress with a pearl necklace featuring a sapphire gifted to her by the Queen Mother. Photo: Princess Diana Archive
According to Stambolian, Diana had originally purchased the so-called revenge dress back in 1991, but had deemed it too risqué to wear up until that point. “[The princess] chose not to play the scene like Odette, innocent in white,” she later reflected. “She was clearly angry. She played it like Odile, in black. She wore bright red nail enamel, which we had never seen her do before. She was saying, ‘Let’s be wicked tonight!’” The late Vogue editor Anna Harvey, who styled Diana for years, put it more succinctly: “She wanted to look a million dollars–and she did.”
A pair of silk Manolo heels completed the look. Photo: Tim Graham
Lending further credence to the theory that Diana intentionally blotted out coverage of Charles’s documentary with Jonathan Dimbleby? The fact that the princess originally turned down Vanity Fair. “She had declined the invitation until two days before the event until news of the adultery quote began to leak in promotions for the broadcast,” Tina Brown writes in The Diana Chronicles. “That’s when one of the gala’s organizers, an old family friend of Diana’s, got a surprise phone call: “She said she wanted to come after all. I said, ‘What are you up to?’ And she said, ‘You’ll see.’” According to reports, the princess actually had a different Valentino gown lined up for the evening, but sketches got leaked to the press–triggering the last-minute, headline-grabbing switch.

Originally published on Vogue.co.uk
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