Rooney Mara’s Goes Sheer for the Gentle Monster’s NYC Launch

Rooney Mara and her fiancé Joaquin Phoenix attended Gentle Monster’s Intelligent Eyewear Collection launch in New York City on Tuesday.

There is a fitting connection here. The couple first met while filming Her, the 2013 film in which Joaquin played a man who falls in love with an AI operating system, while Rooney played his ex-wife. Thirteen years later, Joaquin is fronting Gentle Monster’s campaign for its AI-powered eyewear collection. Talk about coming full circle.

Are you noticing what I’m noticing? Between Sarah Paulson, Bella Maclean, Ana de Armas and now Rooney Mara, ’tis the season for sheer skirts, apparently, and they seem to becoming less opaque with each appearance

We started with embellished versions, but now we’ve reached the point where the skirts are so sheer that I have to ask: why bother wearing one at all?

Rooney’s look takes things even further. The black sheer skirt, finished with a contrasting hem, leaves little to the imagination, while the top half isn’t offering much more coverage. A lace bra sits beneath a strapless top, with the straps slipping off her shoulders.

For me, the whole thing looks thrown together. I appreciate that Rooney has never been one for conventional red carpet dressing, but between the exposed underwear, the barely-there top and that rather random hemline, I’m struggling to find anything about this combination that works.

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