Katie Holmes is arguably having the most elegant year of her life, but just like the majority of fantastic success tales, her makeover was birthed from a reasonable amount of experimentation.
First came the throwbacks. We took a trip back in time with the actress, returning to the Old Hollywood visual of the ’50s and shoulder-padded happiness of the ’80s, but now it appears Katie’s directly concentrated on 2018.
In New York City on Wednesday, Katie carried not Marilyn Monroe or Jackie Kennedy, yet an icon of our times: Ariana Grande.
Before you ask, no, she didn’t wear her hair in a half-pony or add a set of rabbit ears– instead, Holmes took on a trend used by the Sweetener vocalist on a practically daily basis: Lampshading.
For those of you living in the past (or someplace around 2015), lampshading is the really advanced act of layering a big sweatshirt or tee shirt over a pair of thigh-high boots, like so:
And of course, retro-obsessed Katie actually did this. During a recent outing she paired an oatmeal-colored sweatshirt bearing an eye-grabbing red and mahogany design across the chest with a collection of slouchy black over-the-knee boots.
