For the “She Came to Me” premiere at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival, Anne Hathway wore a sheer mesh Valentino dress with a 3D bow motif. She accessorized with black opera-length gloves, and underneath her gown, she wore a nude bodysuit. Tom + Lorenzo observed that the bodysuit gave Hathaway an unfortunate case of “Barbie crotch.” “At this point, why not just line the dress?” they asked. The bodysuit also flattened her chest, creating an odd disconnect between her visible legs and the lack of definition up top.
However, Hathaway has learned that there’s something to be said about the value of flesh-colored undergarments. In a 2022 piece for Interview, she told Marc Jacobs that one of her biggest fashion regrets is skipping her bra for an event. “[I] did not know my dress was see-through … It was a very long carpet, and at no point did any of the people in that wall of photographers stop to give me a heads-up or offer me a jacket,” she said. Hathaway was likely talking about the black dress she wore to the “School of Rock” premiere in 2003; most photos of it are NSFW.
Perhaps Hathaway’s naked dress missed the mark, but it does fit with the style aesthetic she has adopted. She told The Hollywood Reporter, “I was introduced to the world as a teenaged princess, but I never actually connected to things that are ‘sweet’ and ‘pretty’ — no shade at all for those wonderful options. I love the right risk.”
