Everyone is dressing like a hot snake, including Gigi Hadid. The pendulum hath swung! After Valentino pink led the Barbiecore revolution for the last six months, the dark side is on the rise. Hollywood is in her villain era. Her Disney villain era.
Look at Gigi Hadid in Mugler in Times Square the other day. I think she's going for motorcycle chic, but take off the jacket and you've got Maleficent at the club. Don't she and Tan France look like they should be standing on the shoulders of a dashing but naive young prince? France urges the prince to do the right thing; Hadid tempts him with a walk on the wild side.
Then there's Kylie Jenner at the Mugler exhibit last November. The gloves say “rich widow,” the neckline says “femme fatale,” but the headdress? The headdress is pure Disney evil stepmother queen. Swear to Hades, Susan Sarandon wore the same thing in Enchanted.
Jenner has also straddled the line between bad girl and evil woman in her own version of the hot snake look, wearing it both as a bandage dress:
And an all-leather ensemble:
But okay, picture for me if you will a wicked Hercules, but he's a girl. Does she maybe look a little something like this?
Mm-hmm.
And obviously, Wednesday star and scream queen Jenna Ortega would never be caught dead in frills or florals. No, she's fully aboard the villain train. She may be its conductor. Her archival Versace SAG Awards gown was positively devious.
This fit at YSL? Do not drink her potions! Do not sign her contracts! Do not eat her apples! Her magic comes at the highest price!
Like, I'm sure she's a total sweetheart in real life, but this is giving headmistress at a ballet academy for the dark arts.
What's that line? Lately I've been dressing for revenge….
Not sure what this eastern wind portends for the fashion universe, but I'm intrigued. Has the national mood soured? Gotten sick of the sticky-sweet styles of Emily in Paris? Or did one particularly influential stylist get dumped over the holidays?
