When Amal Clooney stepped onto the red carpet in Cannes on Thursday wearing a one-shoulder Atelier Versace dress, there was no doubt a Fashion Event had occurred. But these don't just spontaneously generate—here, a miniature, completely biased history lesson on all the other, equally memorable moments that culminated with this one.
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2nd Century
The one that started it all. Not this statue of Athena, specifically, but the classical drapery depicted here.
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1952
Meet Madame Grès, the French couturier known for her intricately wrapped and pleated dresses.
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1956
Grace Kelly in High Society. See the resemblance?
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1962
Jackie Kennedy in Oleg Cassini...
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1962
Seen in detail here.
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1963
Yeah, you can rag on this movie all you want, but Liz Taylor's Cleopatra costumes—all 65 of them—were *flawless.*
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1963
This one too.
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2003
Amal's dress = definitely a direct descendant from this vintage number Kate Moss wore to a birthday party, then replicated for her Topshop collaboration later on.
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2012
This Giambattista Valli checks all the boxes: one shoulder, yards and yards of fabric, made for an epic entrance.
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2014
Prada's interpretation, made even better by Lupita Nyong'o's expert twirling.
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2014
What a goddess. (Jessica Chastain in Elie Saab Couture.)
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2016
And that brings us up to today, with this gorgeousness.
