“Let the games begin…” Law Roach captioned an Instagram post earlier this week, featuring client and confidante Zendaya in an Olympics-inspired romper plucked from Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s spring2008 collection. For those of us who experienced Roach’s woefully underreported approach to “method dressing” throughout the Dune: Part Two and Challengers press tours earlier in 2024, the caption should have read: “Let the games continue and continue and continue…”
The actor was later photographed signing autographs outside the Hôtel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde, dressed not as a performer in Paris’s opening Thomas Jolly-helmed spectacle, but as a 27-year-old woman who probably knows that Nuovo is the best place to find, say, vintage Miss Sixty in Paris. She wore a simple halter top, Louis Vuitton’s Diane shoulder bag, The Row’s Mary-Jane ballerinas, and an asymmetric skirt that cut across her shins.
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This sort of bookish skirt length should now be considered a good thing, as seen in Miu Miu, 16Arlington, Gucci, and Saint Laurent’s recent collections. While Andy Sachs is its natural poster girl–because that infamous cerulean-blue-jumper-and-check-skirt outfit was quite Prada, no?–Zendaya, fashion’s off-duty Olympian, is just as feaible.
