The fresh-off-the-runway look was business in the front, party everywhere else.
It might be October, but Nicole Kidman brought back warm weather dressing as she stepped out in an unexpectedly skin-baring look on Wednesday night. Ever the style risk-taker, the Australian actress embraced summer whites for fall as she paired a very demure bustle skirt with a crop top that was anything but. Kidman turned heads on the red carpet with her barely-there draped blouse, which left almost her entire toned torso exposed.
The Big Little Lies star’s physique was on full display whenever she turned as she went braless in the bold Bottega Veneta SS25 RTW piece at the Special Ops: Lioness season 2 premiere in Los Angeles on October 23. The wrapped halter top, which stylist Jason Bolden had Kidman tie around her neck in an elegant draped style, left her shoulders, arms, back, and sides completely bare. Unlike how the model styled the piece on the runway, the Academy Award-winning actress ensured that her look was wardrobe malfunction-free by tucking the shirt into the waistband of her whimsical skirt.
The midi-length architectural skirt, which was also from Bottega Veneta’s SS25 RTW collection, featured pleats of gray, bright yellow, a more muted butter yellow, and cream that swayed as she walked. In a seeming nod to the recently resurfaced Y2K peplum trend, the skirt added some additional structure with large ruffles in the same material that jutted out at the front and sides, and scooped down in the back to add a bustle.
Kidman, who added a black blazer to her skin-baring look later on in the evening, leaned into a more prim and proper aesthetic for her accessories and beauty look. A pair of pointy-toed white heels with ankle straps peeped out from under her playful skirt, while a pair of rectangular diamond earrings added some sparkle to her late fall look.
Wearing her strawberry blonde hair in a sleek and straight half-up hairstyle with a classic middle part, Kidman let her natural beauty shine with glowing skin, brushed-up brows, jet-black lashes, and a soft rose color on her eyelids and glossy lips.