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, 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.
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