Katie Holmes's dress for the 2024 CFDA Awards was almost as unexpected, and welcome, as her appearance on the Natural History Museum's white-carpeted step-and-repeat.
My years of covering Katie Holmes's gowns has taught me that her infrequent red carpet sightings will almost always come with something elegant and black. There's no permutation of an LBD she and stylist Brie Welch haven't tried. This year, she's attended an American Ballet Theatre Gala in a beaded black caftan dress by Emilio Pucci and showed out at her Our Town Broadway premiere in a silky satin number. But on Oct. 28, Holmes decided her red carpet pattern was meant to be broken in honor of New York City's reigning design talents.
