The sighting: Actress Elle Fanning wore a custom Balmain gown with leopard print details to the 2025 Golden Globes. How does one accessorize such killer kitty couture? With more cat, of course.
The jewels: Elle Fanning is wearing Cartier jewels, all cuff-style pieces from the Panthère De Cartier collection. These figural styles feature panther motifs in yellow gold with black liquor spots and green tsavorite eyes.
According to fan account @ElleFanningsCloset, the actress is wearing the following Cartier styles:
- Panthère De Cartier necklace in 18K yellow gold with onyx, black lacquer, and tsavorite garnets. Listed on Cartier’s website for $103,000.
- Panthère De Cartier ring in 18K yellow gold with onyx, black lacquer, and tsavorite garnets. Listed on Cartier’s website for $17,100.
- Panthère De Cartier bracelet in 18K yellow gold with onyx, black lacquer, and tsavorite garnets. Listed on Cartier’s website for $23,200.
- The Cartier La Panthère Hair Pick, which is made of buffalo horn with an 18K yellow gold tassel and panther head with tsavorite eyes
and black lacquer nose and spots.
The trends: The choice to pair so much Cartier Panthère jewelry with a leopard print gown is very kitschy and camp, leaning into the joyfulness of the Dopamine Dressing trend.
What’s most interesting to me about this look is how much of it is coordinated: counting the gown, there are five different cat themed outfit pieces here. That’s an extreme amount of matching. Are coordinated suites due for a trendy moment? We’ll have to see.
What do we think? This look got mixed reviews online, but I’m a fan. I think that the bold design of the open cuff Cartier jewels undercut the vintage feeling of the gown and keep the look feeling modern, while the extent of the matching feels like a wink, like Fanning is letting us all in on a shared joke with her.
I will also make a rare exception to my “no bare lobes on the red carpet” rule: there’s so much going on here already that the lack of earrings doesn’t feel like a problem.
Judgement: 12/10 for a fantastically feline fashion moment.
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