Dakota Fanning Makes an Angelic Return to the Red Carpet in White Fendi Couture

It's all part of the actress's understated approach to method dressing.

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Dakota Fanning wears a Fendi cloud of tulle at the LA Ripley premiere
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Let it be known, Dakota Fanning is back and white is her color. The actress is making her grand return with press for her new Netflix series Ripley, and her looks have revolved around a thematic color palette coordinating with the black-and-white show: deep reds, blacks, and most recently, heavenly shades of white.

Last night, Fanning hit the red carpet for the Ripley Los Angeles premiere wearing a cloud of tulle. Her sleeveless Fendi gown cascaded into diagonal layers, made to appear like a one-shoulder situation but sneakily held up by a translucent mesh top.

The dress comes from Fendi's Couture Spring 2024 collection, which was inspired by Karl Lagerfeld's forward-thinking design ethos and filled with futuristic shapes and textures.

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Dakota Johnson's looks have been centered around a specific color palette—deep reds, blacks, and most recently, shades of white.

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Fanning's gown was the main character of the ensemble, highlighted by simple accessories. On one finger, she wore a sizable pearl, the Irene Neuwirth Large Gumball Ring in 18 karat yellow gold. Her earrings were Irene Neuwirth's rainbow moonstone Classic Pear Drop Earrings. She kept it classic with her makeup and hair, blush-forward soft glam and a straight middle part, tucked behind her ears with gold bobby pins.

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Dakota Johnson kept it simple with hair and accessories, letting her dress be the star of the show.

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Stylist Samantha McMillen works with both Dakota and her sister, Elle Fanning. While the sisters' styles contrast in many ways, they share an affinity for elevated basics, classic colors, and monochrome.

Dakota Fanning enters a talk show appearance in a white outfit

Dakota Fanning's press tour has included a range of black, red, and all-white looks. Here, she attended Good Morning America in a white dress by Simkhai.

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Dakota Fanning on the Tonight Show

Some of her new palette has included vintage, like this 1991 Galliano gown Fanning wore to appear on The Tonight Show.

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Dakota Fanning's last several looks included a long black gown from The Row, an ivory off-the-shoulder number from Anna Quan, a white long-sleeved Simkhai Samba Dress, a burgundy John Galliano Fall 1999 dress, and a wine-colored Altuzarra Varda skirt. There's definitely a noir color story going on here—fitting for her twisted new series.

Julia Gray
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Julia Gray is a contributing fashion writer at Marie Claire, where she covers runway trends, celebrity style, and shopping. In her six years as a journalist, Julia’s reporting has ranged across style, music, Internet culture, art, retail, tech, and more. In addition to Marie Claire, Julia writes for outlets like the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Ringer, New York Magazine, Pitchfork, Nylon, and Vice, among others. Julia's fashion reporting is led by curiosity. Julia is not only interested in critiquing and covering pop culture, but in understanding what our pop culture says about how we live and modern values. When she’s not writing, Julia hosts a podcast called Girls Room, where she and her co-host revisit shows like Girls and Gossip Girl from the beginning with guests like comedian Cat Cohen and writer Hunter Harris. Girls Room was recently cited in the New York Times.

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