Zendaya returned to the archives with her Atelier Versace gown for Friday’s premiere of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” in Shanghai, China.
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Styled by longtime collaborator Law Roach, the Emmy Award-winning “Euphoria” actress wore a dress from the Italian luxury fashion label’s spring 2016 couture collection. The gown was crafted with contrasting off-white and sheer fabric with a web-like motif that continued Zendaya’s method dressing approach to her latest 2026 press tour.
Fabric draping at the bust and on one shoulder gave way to asymmetric angles and panels of the white fabric contrasted by see through, caged material, giving the look a deconstructed bent. A rope element also featured on the opposing shoulder and a thigh-high slit continued the asymmetric, angular elements.
Atelier Versace’s spring 2016 couture collection.
As for accessories, Zendaya sported a Rolex timepiece and jewelry courtesy of Chopard. Her hair was coiffed straight and worn cascading down her back with fringe to frame her face. Makeup highlights included smokey, winged eyes with a glossy lip to contrast.
Zendaya’s latest archival look made its runway debut as part of Paris Couture Week in January 2016. The curation was “dubbed ‘athletic couture,’” per Miles Socha’s WWD review of the collection, which pulled inspiration from Donatella Versace’s own exercise clothing.
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“Save for white bomber jackets that opened the show teamed with couture stirrup pants, almost every dress hugged the body as tightly as sport leggings. Some were little more than tulle sheaths with swirling rows of sequins worn over brightly colored bodysuits,” Socha wrote of the collection.
“Backstage, the techniques employed were impressive, and unusual for couture: silicon gel worked into cagelike panels hugging the ribcage; leather-backed velvet cut with a jet of water into intricate cobwebs and tacked onto crinoline, and those sparkling shoe-lace strands snaking around figure-hugging gowns.”
Tom Holland and Zendaya
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Zendaya returns as MJ in “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” which follows Peter Parker’s Spider-Man, played by Tom Holland, in an alternate reality where he’s completely forgotten and forced to face a new adversary. The film hits theaters July 31.
