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The ballet flat has long maintained its status as an essential wardrobe staple and yesterday, Katie Holmes took the slippers for a spin on the red carpet for none other than… the ballet.
The actress stepped out at the 2023 American Ballet Theater’s summer season opening night performance of Like Water for Chocolate at the Metropolitan Opera House and the annual June Gala at Lincoln Center in New York City on Thursday evening wearing a black distressed knit Chloé dress from the Fall/Winter 2023 ready-to-wear collection. It featured a plunging scoop neckline and a floor-length hem with sheer sections where the knitting was more deconstructed, like across her torso.
The Batman Begins actress straightened her mid-length brunette tresses, styled parted down the middle, and kept her makeup minimal, with a bronzed glow and a soft smokey eye.
Holmes accessorized with a black leather envelope bag, her signature nose ring and two layered gold necklaces — one, a shorter dainty bar necklace and the other, a longer gold medallion.
But it was her footwear of choice that stole the show. Thanks to the “indie sleaze” style resurgence and the satin ballet-slippers from Miu Miu’s Fall/Winter 2022 collection, the classic footwear has been having a moment which went viral with the hit fashion craze known as balletcore.
Holmes chose a glossy black leather Miu Miu pair for the evening tied with a dainty bow and topped with a riveted buckle strap across the top of her foot. She previously wore the It-shoe to the Theater World Awards in New York on June 5 and was photographed in the streets of New York City’s NoHo neighborhood wearing the shoes back in May.
Her date for the evening was her mother, Kathleen A. Stothers-Holmes, who wore a marigold and blue paisley-printed Ulla Johnson dress and matched her daughter with her footwear. Stothers-Holmes sported a pair of black leather ballet flats with two criss-crossing strings across the top.
The Wanderers star took to her Instagram Stories to commemorate the night and express her gratitude. “We had such a wonderful night celebrating @abtofficial Thank you @mcarfrae and @jwattiker for our annual night at the ballet!!! I love you mom,” she wrote.
The evening’s champagne reception and black-tie dinner were also attended by Mick Jagger, Julianne Hough, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Sulcer, Candace Bushnell, Prabal Gurang and more.
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