Olivia Wilde brought the sartorial drama at the 2022 Women in Film Honors: Forging Forward Gala in Beverly Hills on Thursday evening.
The Don’t Worry Darling director arrived at the event in appropriately theatrical fashion. Wilde donned a hooded black floor-length Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello evening dress with long sleeves and a triangular torso cutout.
Styled by Karla Welch, Wilde teamed her look with stacked gold and black bangles on both wrists, and tucked her caramel-colored waves into the hood, revealing a peek at her gold and black statement earrings. The Book Smart director amped up her glam with a dramatic eye.
Wilde is not the first to spearhead the hooded trend. Michaela Coel recently wore a shimmering chocolate-colored hooded custom Ferragamo design to the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever premiere. Bella Hadid also just chose a hooded vintage Alaïa look to the 2022 Fashion Trust Arabia, while Jodie Turner-Smith wore a hooded Gucci creation to the same event. Beyoncé also adorned a hooded dress for her Tiffany & Co. Renaissance party.
During New York Fashion Week, Katie Holmes donned a hooded black floor-length evening dress with long sleeves from Tom Ford when she attended the designer’s runway presentation.
Wilde spoke during a panel at the event about the state of women in the film industry. In a quote acquired by People, Wilde stated she believed women in film to “need that community because sometimes it’s really difficult, so difficult to be heard.” She said, “It’s really difficult to keep going.”
Joined on the panel by director and cinematographer Reed Morano, Wilde recalled making the 2015 movie Meadowland with the filmmaker. “I saw how that set did have a fair amount of men who I witnessed worshipping you and just in the most respectful sense of that word, really standing up for you,” Wilde said to Morano. “And I was like, ‘I want that. I want to not say, you know, this is a process of fighting for only women on sets. I want women in positions of leadership so that men can learn from women. Look at all these men learning from Reed.'”
