Since announcing her second pregnancy in Vogue in October, Jennifer Lawrence has embraced maternity dressing with aplomb, wearing everything from a plain white tee to a custom Bottega Veneta dress. But for the second time in a month, the actor and producer is embracing the little black dress.
Today at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment gala in Los Angeles, Lawrence wore a black Dior dress with elbow-length sleeves and a plunging V-neck that draped over her shoulders. She accentuated her burgeoning baby bump—her second child with husband Cooke Maroney—with an empire waist, cinched with a skinny black leather belt. Lawrence stuck to simplicity and the all-black color palette with her accessories, wearing a pair of pointy black Manolo Blahnik pumps, and eschewing all jewelry aside from a pair of black matte teardrop earrings.
Last month, Lawrence offered a very different take on the LBD at the premiere of Bread & Roses—a documentary about women in Kabul, Afghanistan under Taliban rule that she co-produced with Malala Yousafzai. For that occasion, she opted to flex her fashion muscles in an ethereal, draped piece of archival Christian Lacroix couture from 2006, which she and her stylist Jamie Mizrahi sourced from Shrimpton Couture.
While the Lacroix dress was radically different from her pared-back THR look, Jennifer Lawrence reminded us that, whether you’re dressing for one or for two, you can’t go wrong with a little black dress.
