Zendaya’s Odyssey Look Is a Fashion Deep Cut

Apparently, the Alexander McQueen-era Givenchy couture pull that Zendaya wore to stunt at the Eiffel Tower yesterday was just a warm-up for the actor in an already prodigious string of fashion wins. Today, her fashion odyssey (heh) continues in full force.

For the Paris premiere of The Odyssey, Zendaya and Law Roach put her Louis Vuitton contract to work, with the pair tapping creative director Nicolas Ghesquière to create a dress worthy of the gods. The designer met the brief by diving back into his own archive—just not from Vuitton.

Zendaya in custom Louis Vuitton at the premiere of The Odyssey. Aurore Marechal/Getty Images

Balenciaga spring 2006 Photo: Marcio Madeira

Instead, Ghesquière’s latest custom creation called back to his spring 2006 collection for Balenciaga. Twenty years later, though, Ghesquière revisited the moment for Zendaya, fashioning a white-and-ivory empire waist dress with lace panels, an ab-baring cutout, a thigh-high slit, and a train. Atop the slinky gown, Zendaya wore an operatic bolero, its structured ruffles more reminiscent of a Renaissance collar than a Greek peplos.

Ghesquière, for his part, told Vogue’s Sarah Mower that the looks were his take on a “baroque rock star.” These days, it’s fit for a goddess.

This article was originally published on Vogue.com.

Hannah Jackson

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Hannah Jackson is a fashion writer at Vogue. Prior to working full-time with the publication, she previously did freelance writing and was a social media manager at TheLi.st. Her work has been published in ELLE, Architectural Digest, The Cut/New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, W Magazine, Cosmopolitan, NYLON, InStyle, Bustle, and more. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Santa Barbara where she studied political science. She also has a Master of Science degree from Northwestern University where she studied journalism along with a specialization in magazines.

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