Zendaya is the queen of method dressing.
After rewriting the rules of press tour fashion with her tennis-themed “Challengers” tour and futuristic “Dune” run, the actress and longtime collaborator Law Roach are back.
And while Zendaya has yet to confirm she’s married to Tom Holland, wedding bells are ringing on the red carpet as she promotes “The Drama,” in which she and Robert Pattinson play a couple whose relationship takes a turn one week before their nuptials.
At the film’s LA premiere on March 17, the Emmy winner revealed she’s dressing to reflect the Victorian rhyme said to bring brides good luck on their big day: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue (and a sixpence in her shoe).
Below, see how the actress is giving the age-old wedding advice a modern spin on the step-and-repeat.
March 12
She kicked off her run with “something borrowed” — from Whitney Houston and Carrie Bradshaw, no less. Zendaya attended the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards in a white minidress with an oversized flower famously worn by Houston on the cover of Life magazine in 1987. Sarah Jessica Parker later modeled a shortened version for the 2008 “Sex and the City” movie.
March 14
For a surprise appearance at a wedding chapel in Las Vegas where a real-life couple got hitched, she wore a gold Louis Vuitton corset top and ruffled miniskirt from the brand’s 2004 spring collection.
March 15
To present an award at the Oscars alongside “The Drama” co-star Pattinson, Zendaya wore a diamond-encrusted Rolex and a brown draped Louis Vuitton gown cut low enough on the side to show off her “T” tattoo dedicated to Holland.
March 16
Leave it to Zendaya to combine both a bridal bouquet and “something blue.” She arrived at “Live! With Jimmy Kimmel” in a Moschino fall 2026 look that featured long, ruffled sleeves and a hint of midriff. For her interview, she slipped into a blue floral McQueen gown and addressed the AI-generated images of her wedding to Holland that’ve been circulating online.
March 17
While Z had already worn something old, new, borrowed and blue in the lead-up to her new movie’s release, she dipped into her own fashion archives for the LA premiere of “The Drama.”
The star “gave new life” to the white strapless Vivienne Westwood gown that made endless headlines at the 2015 Oscars, when Giuliana Rancic infamously said Zendaya looked like she “smelled like patchouli oil or weed.” (The backlash was swift, and at the time, the actress called Rancic’s comment — which referred to her dreadlocks — “outrageously offensive.”)
