Natalie Portman is back on the market, and she’s dressing the part.
Mere days after a stoge-fueled hangout with Normal People’s breakout heartthrob Paul Mescal sent the internet (and the Vogue Slack) into a tizzy, Portman made another statement—this time with fashion. The newly single actor opted for her own interpretation of revenge dressing.
Portman joined a friend for dinner at the see-and-be-seen Chiltern Firehouse in London. She looked the part of a femme fatale in a red taffeta off-the-shoulder minidress from Jacquemus, complete with puffed, long sleeves, which she styled with black tights and black pointy-toe pumps. A longtime friend of Dior, she toted a bone-colored leather shoulder bag–the House’s Montaigne bag.
Portman’s red hot ensemble is a far cry from Princess Diana’s Christina Stambolian dress that begot the term “Revenge Dress” altogether, but it’s got the same spirit. While Diana opted for a black, body-hugging midi dress, Natalie Portman is expressing her agency in a different way. With a dramatic sleeve, a short hemline, and décolletage on display, it’s a subtly sexy approach to dressing as a single woman. Add it to the annals of revenge dressing!