Overview
- On Monday night Mendes arrived at a New York screening in a chocolate-brown Donna Karan halter gown with a plunging neckline, gold hardware at the waist, a flowing train, and a thigh-high slit.
- Stylist Molly Dickson kept accessories minimal and paired the dress with metallic gold sandals and matching jewelry while Danielle Priano styled Mendes’s hair and Lisa Aharon handled her makeup.
- The look continues a pattern from the film’s press tour that included a vintage Roberto Cavalli in Berlin, and comes as red carpet events have wrapped and the cast shifts to interviews and late-night appearances before the June 5 release.
- W Magazine and WWD report the gown is an archival Donna Karan piece traced to Karan’s fall 2004 collection, a provenance cited by coverage documenting Mendes’s vintage choices.
- Mendes’s repeated use of archival pieces reflects a broader industry trend that can boost visibility and market interest in designer archives and resale markets as high-profile actors wear labeled vintage on major press stops.