Zendaya and Her Plunging Vintage Cavalli Gown Were So on Theme at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards
glamour.comand Josephine Baker led glamorous lifestyles in the 1920s, the term “the roaring twenties” has become one of the most unbecoming of the English language.
Not least because culture writers thought we’d all exit lockdown and be thrust into a debauched ’20s of our own, but mainly because of the phenomena of prohibition bars, where “in-the-know-drinkers” wear feathered headbands and sip gin and tonics from mismatched chinaware.I’d suggest that most recent dress—a spring/summer 2011 Roberto Cavalli number, which pulled from the year 2010—is the closest thing culture will have to recreating a true 1920s fantasia.
That is because the gown had been constructed with a jungle of fringing, which had, in turn, been suspended from a décolletage neckline.
Zendaya wore that reptilian-printed design to the 2024 Green Carpet Fashion Awards on March 6. (Roach has never met a theme he didn’t immediately hitch himself to.)Zendaya at the 2024 Green Carpet Fashion Awards.The actor was joined on the “red” carpet by the Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate, who authored a 2021 memoir-slash-manifesto titled A Bigger Picture: My Fight To Bring A New African Voice To The Climate Crisis.
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