Nicole Kidman’s Chanel LBD Gets the Pearl Treatment

Nicole Kidman joined Sandra Bullock for the Practical Magic 2 London photocall, held inside the Ballroom at Claridge’s this morning.

Wearing her second Chanel look of the press tour, Nicole kept things considerably simpler in this black LBD.

The pearl straps are the defining detail, and one that immediately connects the dress to the house. Pearls have been part of the Chanel vocabulary since Coco Chanel began layering ropes of faux pearls with her clothes in the 1920s, and they remain one of the label’s most recognisable signatures. Here, they give an otherwise straightforward black dress its Chanel identity.

And then we come to the shoes. You know Chanel footwear and I don’t always see eye to eye, but I have no complaints about these two-tone slingbacks as they give the simple LBD the graphic punch it needed.

After the drama of her premiere look, this was a much quieter outing for Nicole, but between the pearl straps and those slingbacks, there was no mistaking who she was wearing.

Stylist: Jason Bolden. Hair Stylist: Sam McKnight.

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