Katie Holmes Kicks Off New York Fashion Week in a Little Black Dress, Slingback Heels, and Sheer Tights
Needless to say, she nailed the dress code. The star rarely dresses up, but when she does, it's party perfection.

Katie Holmes kicked off New York Fashion Week in style at a star-studded cocktail party thrown by Michael Kors. Held at Bemelmans Bar inside the Carlyle Hotel on Feb. 3, the evening was filled with dirty martinis, slinky ensembles, and a live performance by Alan Cumming.
In a nod to the signature all-black outfits Kors has worn daily throughout his career, Holmes wore a monochromatic look of her own. Upon arriving at the soirée, she slid out of her car wearing a longline black coat draped around her shoulders. Inside the event, though, the Dawson's Creek alum quickly shrugged off her outerwear to reveal a strapless black dress with a folded bow-topped neckline.
Katie Holmes dresses up for pre-NYFW cocktail party hosted by Michael Kors.
The mother of one (and her stylist, Brie Welch) accessorized the party dress with a tubular black shoulder bag, sheer black tights, and black patent slingback heels. With an eye toward comfort, the street style icon chose to forgo towering pumps in favor of a delicate kitten heel.
To keep the focus on her little black dress, Holmes kept her chest free of any distracting jewelry. She did, however, don a pair of dangling gold and pearl statement earrings. Her hair, meanwhile, was styled in a romantic updo with wavy face-framing tendrils. Black eyeliner and raspberry-colored lipstick finished the look.
Katie Holmes wears head-to-toe black in a strapless dress, a matching coat, slingback heels, and sheer tights.
Having just wrapped up a stint on Broadway, where she played Mrs. Webb in a revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Katie Holmes was in good company at the shindig. Notably, the guest list included fellow stars of the screen and stage like The Penguin's Cristin Milioti, Sunset Blvd. standout Nicole Scherzinger, 30 Rock veteran Jane Krakowski, and Younger actor Sutton Foster. Maybe the Batman Begins heroine will decide to make her pivot to plays and musicals permanent.
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Hanna Lustig is a staff writer at Marie Claire, where she gets to gab every day about the topics she holds most dear: fashion, beauty, and celebrity. Hanna’s editorial journey began with formative internships at Elle and InStyle, where she was lucky enough to work for some of the smartest women in media while she was still in college at the University of Tennessee. Hanna then accepted a digital culture reporting fellowship at Insider, where she helped carve out a new beat dedicated to covering influencers. Those experiences later served her well as a staff writer at Glamour, where she developed a knack for spinning quick turnaround celebrity news and trend reporting into juicy feature stories. Some of her greatest hits include an earnest ode to the no-pants trend, this meticulously reported feature exploring the rise of endoscopic facelifts, this snappy take on the Chanel-designed fantasy of Sofia Richie’s wedding, this tribute to WAGs past and present, and this timeline of Katie Holmes’s life and career as told through her denim collection.
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