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While those still trying to find their personal style footing might spend their spare time scouring their closet to uncover their trademark, Kirsten Dunst is staunchly unwavering to hers: Little black dress. Indeed, the actress has made the perpetually elegant ‘LBD’ an inherent part of her uniform, with her latest outing proving her loyalty to the silhouette.
Dunst, 42, presented an award to the cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race at the Critics Choice Real TV Awards in Los Angeles on June 15. To do so, she plucked a new season slip from Givenchy’s Fall/Winter 2024 collection, presented during Paris Fashion Week.
The collection was the first without creative director Matthew M. Williams at the helm, with the atelier looking to the French Maison’s perennial muse, Audrey Hepburn, for sartorial inspiration. Of course, Hubert de Givenchy (and therefore the house by extension) is the designer of the most famous ‘LBDs’ in fashion history—the charmeuse satin cocktail dress worn in 1961’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
From the moment Hepburn—or in this case, Holly Golightly—stepped out of a New York City taxi with a tiara in her bouffant updo and clutching a black coffee and croissant to longingly stare into the windows of Tiffany & Co’s 5th Avenue boutique, Givenchy cemented their legacy as one of the prime Maison’s to forever peddle the LBD. (The other being Chanel, the luxuriate that invented the design as you might recall).
But 63 years later and on the West Coast, Dunst’s contemporary version is indisputably holding a candle to Hepburn’s flame.
Given the actor’s recent spin celebrating the release of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds Of Kindness at the Cannes Film Festival with her husband Jesse Plemons, it should come as no surprise that the silver screen veteran is paying homage to Old Hollywood glamour.
The piece is wistful, yes, but also fresh in combining two of the biggest seasonal trends. The dress, which is Look 41 should you be curious, features a delicate evening shape made from gossamer sheer fabric. Spiderweb-thin straps and a satin scoop neck flow into a body-grazing gown emblazoned with embroidery crafted with iridescent thread. An asymmetrical train completes the look.
