Last Week, Stars Rewrote the Rules About Glamour

As summer progresses, stars continue to reset conventional notions of glamour. Sure, one can still turn up to a premiere in an elegant dress and look divine—Margot Robbie’s lovely turn in flowing Chanel at Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood’s Los Angeles premiere is proof of that—but the unexpected red carpet turn can be equally sublime. When Robbie’s co-star Margaret Qualley arrived at the very same event in a crystal mesh Prada tabard, periwinkle shorts, and a crop top, she walked into fashion history in the night’s most talked-about outfit.

Conversation pieces were causing chatter coast to coast last week. At her 50th birthday party in Miami, Jennifer Lopez doubled down on her love of Versace in a new chainmail design: lots of skin, lots of gold, endless slink. This custom dress by Donatella signaled that Jenny from the Block would not be trading in her dare-to-bare wardrobe anytime soon, age be damned—and thank heaven for that.

Elsewhere, the world’s most stylish were entranced by corsets, taffeta, and romantic puffery that nods to history and zeitgeist hotness. At a Los Angeles screening for The Politician Lucy Boynton and Zoey Deutsch wore voluminous floral party frocks by Nicolas Ghesquiere for Louis Vuitton and Miu Miu respectively. On her press tour for Euphoria, Barbie Ferreira paired a vintage lace corset by Vivienne Westwood with a lilac floral pencil skirt from LA-based Unif and a bewitching choker. The look was past, present, everything.