Before "tradwife" had a hashtag and dedicated aesthetic, Stepford Wives was the blueprint of homemaker style.
The 2004 comedy-thriller starred Nicole Kidman as Joanna Eberhart, a high-powered executive who moves to the suburbs and finds herself in a nightmarish utopia populated by brain-washed housewives. Stepford Wives was an embodiment of 1950s style; The hair was big, the skirts were long, the heels were unnaturally high—and it's this very look that Kidman tapped for her latest red carpet appearance.
While at the Venice International Film Festival on Aug. 30, Kidman attended a photocall for her newest project, Babygirl. The actor walked the red carpet in style—'50s style, to be exact—wearing a fitted A-line dress with puff sleeves and tea-length skirt.
Nicole Kidman attends a photocall for "Babygirl" in a '50s-inspired black dress.
Kidman's Bottega Veneta gown acted as a perfect tribute to her former character, with a prim and proper design and an all-black colorway (the metropolitan girlboss' hue of choice). She styled it with white heeled mules, also from Bottega Veneta, and a pair of $5,640 diamond earrings from Roberto Coin.
Nicole Kidman wears $5,640 diamond earrings on the red carpet.
Her hairdo, meanwhile, was the spitting image of her character's. In the film, Joanna typically wore her long blonde hair pinned half-up, with soft curls (a major contrast to her pre-brainwash brunette bob).
Kidman's character undergoes a tradwife transformation in "The Stepford Wives."
Kidman's red carpet version, featured a similar style, with the addition of a bouncy, 1950s-era ponytail.
Nicole Kidman shows a '50s-inspired hairstyle reminiscent of her "Stepford Wives" character.
Twenty years later, Kidman is still nailing the look.
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