Summary
- Zendaya recreated Halle Berry’s two-piece look from the 2000 ‘X-Men’ premiere for Halloween — geometric-print top, matching flares, tiny shades, all of it.
- The @complex / @complexstyle post is the day’s number one style moment: 43,608 likes and climbing at last check — it had already tripled since this morning.
- Berry wore the original in 2000, the year she debuted as Storm. Twenty-five years later, the recreation is the Halloween fit everyone else gets measured against.
Some Halloween costumes are references. This one is a citation. Zendaya stepped out in a recreation of the exact two-piece Halle Berry wore to the ‘X-Men’ premiere in 2000 — the geometric yellow-and-silver print, the low-rise flares, the tiny tinted shades — and the internet did the rest: the post ran up the biggest style numbers of the day across the Complex family feeds.
The original look is deep-cut fashion history: Berry, fresh off being cast as Storm, wearing the print that defined early-2000s red-carpet energy. Zendaya’s version is faithful down to the silhouette — no modernizing, no irony — which is exactly why it works. On a day when every feed is a costume contest, the winner was a 25-year-old premiere look, worn perfectly.
Halloween verdict: the assignment was understood. Full marks.
Source: @complex / @complexstyle (photo via @complexstyle), likes checked October 31 evening.
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