It's as if the white swan had transformed into a black swan.
For several months now, the outfits adopted by Natalie Portman on the red carpets or in the streets of Los Angeles have been surprising.
It all started on January 9, when the actress attended the 14th Governors Awards.
At the photocall, she appeared wearing an elegant black Schiaparelli dress with a “cut out” neckline which suggested her chest.
Only two days later, the foreign press is in all its turmoil: Natalie Portman is photographed near the studios of the American show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”.
This time, the look is even more radical: she wears a tight little black dress that stops mid-thigh, adorned with a transparent black bra.
An upheaval for the one who usually opts for strapless or strappy dresses with wise cuts and has rarely been spotted in such a sexy outfit.
For the
Daily Mail
, this bra dress is nothing other than a “
revenge dress
” (revenge dress, in French).
And for good reason.
Natalie Portman's radical style change
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At the same time, many sources speculated that Natalie Portman and her partner, French choreographer Benjamin Millepied, were going through a period of turbulence.
While rumors were swirling about a potential separation, it was
People
magazine which, on March 8, confirmed: the couple had indeed divorced.
“Natalie is coming out of a really difficult and painful year, but she is coming out stronger and finding joy in the moments spent with her family, her friends and at her work,” someone close to the actress explains to the media.
Natalie Portman filed for divorce in July 2023, finalized in February 2024.
The “revenge dress”
A life test which could justify the recent dresses worn by the heroine of
Black Swan
(2010).
Those that are grouped under the term “revenge dress”.
The term was born on June 29, 1994 when Lady Diana, shortly after Prince Charles's confession of infidelity on television, went to an evening party wearing a black Christina Stambolian dress.
With its bare shoulders and its anything but formal neckline, the “revenge dress” made its entrance onto the media scene.
Since then, celebrities almost automatically adopt this dress when rumors of infidelity or breakup arise on the Web.
Like Kate Middleton
herself
, in 2019, in an immaculate off-the-shoulder dress shortly after the infidelity scandal concerning Prince William and his supposed mistress Rose Hanbury.