“Is this a courthouse or the Film Festival in Cannes?” Mopped one guardian At the entrance of the Paris court, when Kim Kardashian made her entrance there on 13 May. She wore a black suit from John Galliano with dramatic shoulders and hips, large black sunglasses and giant diamonds in her ears, around her neck and fingers.
She had to testify in the lawsuit against the robbers who would have robbed her in her Paris hotel room in 2016 of about nine million dollars of jewelry. Eighty diamonds were incorporated in the chain of three million dollars that she now wore. One of her rings looked like her stolen engagement ring – to allegedly bought with the insurance money from the robbery. With its 22 carat, it was just slightly larger than the original ring (20 carat). You don’t get me small – they seemed to want to say. The photos went viral.
Earlier this year, the court outfits of rapper A $ AP Rocky, suspected of involvement in a shooting in Hollywood, were eagerly shared online. He wore a different one to each court session in February packin most cases of Saint Laurent: flamboyant jackets with extra wide shoulders, wide trousers and artfully cut scarves. “He was so well dressed that his morning walks to the courthouse could just as well have been an advertising campaign,” wrote the American Vogue. Who knows, it might influence the verdict: he was acquitted.
Paparazzi
Voyeuristic scrolling along photos of celebrities in court is a popular pastime. And that is celebrities. They are the entrance to the court, where paparazzi are always set up row, start seeing as a red carpet. A PR moment to influence public opinion with their appearance. With a team of stylists, hairdressers and make -up artists, their appearance is thought out to perfection.
Scrolling along photos of celebrities in court is a popular pastime
Then Anna Sorokin-the originally Russian scammer about whom the Netflix series Inventing Anna was made-had to prevent in 2019, someone dedicated a special Instagram account to her outfits, @Annadelvey Courtlooks [Sorokin opereerde onder naam Anna Delvey, red]that had more than 50,000 followers within a few days. Sorokins Stylist proudly gave an interview Elle (“I tried to focus on classic silhouettes”).
Already in 2002 all gossip and fashion magazines wrote about actress Winona Ryder, who had to prevent because she had stolen thousands of dollars in designer clothes at a department store in Beverly Hills. That she showed up in one dress Van Marc Jacobs, a designer of whom she had stolen many clothes, was labeled as brutal. But Jacobs himself apparently saw it as a compliment, because less than a year later she could be seen as a model in his advertising campaign.
Cardigans
In most cases, celebrities in the court opt for subdued, decent clothes – high -tight blouses, black trousers, cardigans – hoping to come across as exemplary and above all innocent citizens. Singer Justin Timberlake known to be debt under the influence last year (ninety days driving exemption, 25 hours of community service and a fine of $ 500) and did his utmost to clean up his image with his clothing. He looked impeccable in a MerinoWollen Cardigan and brown trousers. Surprisingly combined with a pearl necklacewith which he seemed to radiate that he is a gentle, friendly young man.
Sometimes the contrast with their normal appearance is so great that the neat clothes are more likely to think of a dress -up party than credible. Hip-hop star Lil ‘Kim, for example, known for her love for tiny pants, loeistrakke jumpsuits and nipple stickers, looked in the tweed suit and sandy suits she in 2005 carried out to sessions as if she was going to a role in lawyer series Ally McBeal applied. She was sentenced to a year in prison for lying under oath about the involvement of friends in a shooting. Between 2006 and 2010, Paris Hilton had to prevent several times for driving under the influence, drug possession and violating conditions during her probationary period. At that time you could draw her in pink velor tracksuits and iniminirokes, but she wore in the judge pencil skirt to her knees and gray jackets.
Rapper Cardi B came up in, among other things, a long black firm cape dramatically dragged over the ground
Cardi B had to appear in court in 2022 and 2023 because of a fight in a strip club and did not make any effort to do more nicer than she is. She came up in a gigantic white one fur coat and a long black feather cape That dramatically dragged over the ground. Once inside, she immediately pulled out those hysterical jackets – the judge never saw the jackets. Which seems to confirm again that stars mainly dress for the media.
Ski accident
Then there are the celebrities who use their actions in court to promote something else than their innocence. Kim Kardashian launched one less than 24 hours after her first performance in court trailer for the series All’s Fairin which she plays next to Glenn Close and Sarah Paulson. A court series.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow saw an opportunity during a lawsuit her own clothing line under the attention to bring. In 2023 she was charged because of a ski accident. When she submitted (and won) her counterclaim, she wore chic, sober clothes: a cream -colored turtleneck, a gray men’s suit, a long black pleated smell – largely from her own brand G. Label. A few days after A $ AP Rocky came to the courtroom with a Ray-Ban glasses, the sunglasses brand announced that he is their new creative director. He wore the same glasses on the corresponding photos as during the sessions.
Occasionally, the legal action of a celebrity outside the courtroom produces a fashion trend. In 2010, top model Naomi Campbell in The Hague had to testify in the trial against the former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, about the rough diamonds she reportedly received from him in 1997. She started her statement of: “This is a big incidentience for me.Fifteen years later there are still T-shirts Sold with that text on it.