Sarah Paulson brought a bridal-adjacent silhouette to the red carpet on September 12, stepping out at the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of "Closing Night" in a Danielle Frankel cocoon coat worn as a standalone dress. The premiere took place at the Princess of Wales Theatre, where Paulson was joined by co-stars Naomi Watts and Dianne Wiest for the film's world debut.
The coat, an ivory tulle piece with a structured, off-the-shoulder silhouette, is notable in part because of who made it. Danielle Frankel has built her reputation primarily as a bridal designer, and the choice to dress Paulson for a film premiere rather than a wedding puts the label's signature volume and texture in front of a different audience. According to Marie Claire's roundup of the festival's early red carpet arrivals, the coat-as-dress reflects Frankel's "cool-girl" approach to bridal design, translated here into eveningwear.
Sarah Paulson has never been afraid of volume, and this Danielle Frankel cocoon coat shows exactly why unusual silhouettes work so well for herhttps://t.co/wqgruKMfVu pic.twitter.com/eF1VcUnbpn
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