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And Sweeney isn't the only one. This summer, Blake Lively showed up for her film It Ends With Us in a reimagining of the Versace dress Britney Spears wore in 2002. Alexa Chung attended the Serpentine Summer Party in London in a reimagining of the iconic blue dress Keira Knightley wore in Atonement. At the most recent VMAs, Tate McRae recreated the outfit Britney Spears wore to the 2001 ceremony, and at the same event, Sabrina Carpenter paid homage to Madonna in a Bob Mackie dress Madonna originally wore—ironically, in 1991—as a tribute to Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. At this rate, I can't wait to see Khai Malik pay homage to Sabrina Carpenter pay homage to Madonna pay homage to Marilyn Monroe.
It's certainly for the best that we as a society have moved past the "Who Wore It Better?" era of the early 2000s, when you'd rather be caught dead than be photographed in the same dress as someone else (especially someone hotter than you). Now we're living in a whole new era: These days, if you wear the same outfit that another celebrity wore, it's no longer considered a red herring; it's considered a tribute. And lately, everyone's been paying homage, a fact that I first noticed after seeing a headline like "Sydney Sweeney Remembers Angelina Jolie." For a minute, I thought Angelina Jolie was dead until I saw that they were referring to her Marc Bouwer dress, which Jolie wore to the 2004 Oscars.
Many of these looks, when placed in a new context, are undeniably chic, as if the ghost of the celebrity who once inhabited them were on the red carpet alongside the new celebrity, shouting, “I approve!” However, this isn’t always the case. In 2022, Kim Kardashian wore to the Met Gala the Bob Mackie dress that Marilyn Monroe originally wore to sing “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy—a moment that may or may not have actually opened the floodgates for the trend. The move was widely criticized, not least by Mackie himself, who was concerned about the legacy of a dress he designed for an icon and an icon alone, and (more importantly) the structural integrity of the archival garment. Despite protests from designers, fashion conservators, and the public, Kardashian continues—and seemingly with no end in sight.
