Gwyneth Paltrow Had A Hollywood Homecoming At Vogue World 2025

Just last week, Emma Stone stepped out in the same spring/summer 1996 Donna Karan skirt set that costume designer Judianna Makovsky once sourced for Gwyneth Paltrow’s Estella in Great Expectations. That rare crossover between screen costume and real-life fashion was exactly the kind of moment Vogue World: Hollywood set out to celebrate last night, as it turned Paramount Studios into a catwalk, with Paltrow watching from the front row beside Anthony Vaccarello and Sandy Powell.

As if she was ever going to not be there: forged in the fires of ’90s Los Angeles, and now a working movie star again, soon to star alongside Timothée Chalamet in A24’s £50 million Marty Supreme, Paltrow feels as much a part of Hollywood’s landscape as that sign on the hills. She wore a sleeveless cowl-neck column dress in an off-white silk (from Gwyn, naturally) with what I thought was a coordinating fringed shawl, but was in fact the blanket provided on her seat. What was it she told Giles Hattersley about course-correcting the red carpet in British Vogue’s November issue? Ah, yes: “I think it’s going in a bit of a funny direction these days, so I’ll bring back my old school,” she explained. “The thing about me is my style doesn’t really change that much. I believe in tailoring and a certain restraint, but always with a little bit of a twist to it. You know?”