For Katie Holmes, It’s Always Been About the Work
12.04.2023 - 12:29
/ glamour.com
By Photography by Let’s get this out of the way: The navy blue dress Katie Holmes wore over jeans last December——wasn’t even a dress. It was a bustier, which, by definition, is a shirt. Didn’t anyone bother to notice how short it was? Anyway, it was given to her by her stylist as a cool piece to go out in, and Holmes chose to toss it on with some jeans and sneakers to attend the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball on a Friday night in New York City.
That’s it; that’s the story. Except, of course, that’s not the story. What happened next is the story. The look unearthed a type of collective hysteria that bordered on satire with its earnestness.
Twitter almost broke. Seasoned fashion journalists weighed in. The “ ran rampant.
The outfit was called , , . The New York Times whether we were, in fact, ready for the return of dresses over jeans. The stylist in question, Brie Welch, had to publicly explain the look for those of us who lacked the cognitive tools to process it. Someone thought Holmes Gabriela Hearst .
Ariana Boussard-Reifel “I mean…wow,” Holmes says when I read her some headlines about the outfit over coffee on a sunny March morning. “That's powerful language,” her voice heavy with sarcasm. She gamely throws me a few bones—she says girls in her neighborhood wear stuff like that all the time, the bustier covered only “half her behind,” so it couldn’t be a dress, and yeah, the vitriol was shocking—but it’s obvious that litigating a three-month-old outfit isn’t of interest to her, especially when she says, “Come on, women, let's hold each other up here.
Let's look a little bit past what we're wearing. That’s our duty amongst each other. I feel like the woman's journey is deeper.” And with that, the book is closed on
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