Jenna Ortega’s Champagne Slip is Goth-Glam Whiplash

The look is a slip dress, a silhouette so classic and so simple it feels almost radical in a red carpet context. But what I love here are the details. The dress, a soft champagne gold, is a study in texture: the contrast between the silky body and the delicate, frilled chiffon along the scoop neckline and the hem. It’s elegant, but not so precious you couldn’t imagine wearing it to a chic cocktail party or, as the source material so astutely points out, a fall wedding. This isn’t a look for the cameras so much as it is a look for a room full of people she actually knows—an intimate, effortless kind of glamour.

She keeps the gothy glam she debuted on the carpet, but in a more subtle way. Her hair, still in that sleek, alien-queen braid, gives the delicate dress a bit of an edge. Her makeup, wine-red lip and all, is perfectly on theme. The accessories are minimal and perfect: a singular, delicate silver pendant and her black Santoni slingback pumps with the red heel. These are the same shoes you’d wear with a tailored suit, a classic LBD, or, in this case, a frothy slip dress.

It’s this duality that I find so captivating about Ortega’s style. One moment she’s a fantastical creature of couture, the next, a vision of polished, effortless chic. She’s giving us two very different, but equally powerful, ways to do goth-glam. The first is an artistic statement. The second… is a wearable dream. And is there anything more inspiring than that? I don’t think so.