Style File: Zendaya Promotes THE DRAMA in Erdem, Nina Ricci and Zimmermann

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The Drama star Zendaya has been making the talk show rounds in a succession of eye-popping looks, as expected. We’re just going to give up on where any of them fall on the “old/new/borrowed/blue” scale and just get down to the only question about celebrity fashion that has ever mattered to us: does it look good and get the job done? Let’s assess.

IN ERDEM ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA
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This is cutely weird or weirdly cute, depending on how you want to look at it. We can see the argument that the overlay is overworked, but we think all of the visual noise of those sheer pleats is the entire point of the design. If we could magically edit, we’d make the hem even, but that’s the only note we have. We’d probably remove the arm label as well, but that sort of thing doesn’t bug us in promotional dressing. We really love how unusual and striking this is.

IN NINA RICCI ON THE DREW BARRYMORE SHOW
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This is also unusual and striking, but not necessarily in a good way. We just don’t see how those two prints coordinate and we don’t see how throwing a black sweater over a flimsy sun dress makes any sense. We like that she’s getting a little weird with her style and not just going for the basic pretty pieces, but this one’s not working for us.

IN ZIMMERMANN WITH ROBERT PATTINSON ON THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON
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God, she really does have a talent, because she looks gorgeous, but that dress is a HIDEOSITY. It’s obviously meant to check off a few of those bridal tropes and we can admit that the blue lace is actually kind of pretty, but it’s all so hideously overdesigned; a clumsy attempt to marry sweetly romantic design tropes with sexy and fetishized ones and it just doesn’t combine all that well. The bodice is a mess. We’re not really here for him, but we have no objections to his look, except we hate black dress shoes with jeans.

Style Credits:
First Look: Erdem Embroidered Blazer Dress from the Fall 2026 Collection | Jessica McCormack Jewelry
Second Look: Nina Ricci Dress from the Fall 2026 Collection
Third Look: Zimmermann Dress from the Fall 2026 Collection | Christian Louboutin Shoes
Styled by Law Roach

[Photo Credit: ABC/PAULA LOBO, The Drew Barrymore Show/Ash Bean, Todd Owyoung/NBC, erdem.com, ninaricci.com, zimmermann.com – Video Credit: Good Morning America/YouTube, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon/YouTube]

• ABC
• Christian Louboutin
• Erdem
• Good Morning America
• Jessica McCormack
• Law Roach
• NBC
• Nina Ricci
• The Drew Barrymore Show
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
• TV Style
• Zendaya
• Zimmermann