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Bandanas have lengthy been the crowning glory of competition seems to be, Instagrammable seaside outfits and, extra not too long ago, the style week entrance row. Rarer is it to see the informal scarf on the red carpet circuit — an area often reserved for sartorial extravagance.
But on Saturday night time, Norwegian actor Renate Reinsve made a convincing case for bandanas as luxurious eveningwear with a model from Calvin Klein’s Spring-Summer 2026 assortment on the European Film Awards. Reinsve, who gained finest actress for her efficiency in Joachim Trier’s newest movie, “Sentimental Value,” arrived on the red carpet in a stark white floor-length costume, additionally by Calvin Klein, held up by spaghetti straps. The robe was lower low within the again, making a V-shape that her triangular bandana neatly corresponded to. She wore no jewellery, save for one sculptural silver ring on her index finger.
The ensemble was styled by Karla Welch, who has been working with Reinsve a minimum of since 2022. While selling “Sentimental Value” the pair have created a collection of minimalist seems to be that pack a punch by means of surprising particulars. At the Golden Globes earlier this month, Reinsve made a splash with a customized Louis Vuitton silver strapless robe. But what feels like a drained red carpet formulation was elevated by lengthy swishing strands threaded with over 800,000 bugle beads that made the actor look extra like a strolling glitter curtain. Most of Reinsve’s outfits observe this rhythm of familiar-with-a-twist: a beautiful balloon-skirted robe with a one-shoulder neckline, however rendered in heavy black leather, for instance; or a black velvet two-piece with the exaggerated silhouette of a Barbara Hepworth sculpture.
Historically, bandanas had been workwear — utilized by farm laborers and employees who wanted safety from solar, warmth and dirt. The loud paisley prints now we have come to acknowledge as tent poles of Americana trend had been truly impressed by textile-makers in India — later embraced by 18th century European snuff-takers who appreciated the way in which they camouflaged tobacco stains. In the Nineties and early 2000s, celebrities akin to Jennifer Lopez paved the way in which for red carpet bandanas, although hers — worn to the MTV Music Video Awards in 2000 — was folded and tied throughout her brow like a scarf.
In her second assortment for Calvin Klein, Veronica Leoni, the model’s present artistic director, redesigned workwear by means of a contemporary lens. “That unadorned and very practical approach to the daily look of urban life seduced me quite a lot,” she informed Harper’s Bazaar. But the clean white and black monochromatic headscarves she despatched down the runway final September felt extra consistent with the custom of headscarf-wearing girls in Europe. A bit of starched white linen, known as a skaut, was a key half of a married lady’s conventional people costume in nineteenth century Norway, for instance.
There was an identical humility to Reinsve’s Calvin Klein scarf, a homeliness that at the beginning would possibly really feel incongruous on the red carpet (X largely reacted to the outfit with tongue-in-cheek jabs in regards to the actor getting misplaced on the way in which to clean her home). But Reinsve isn’t the primary to attempt to reframe domesticity as one thing extra formal. In December, Emma Corrin wore a frilly quilted Prada apron to the London premiere of “100 Nights of Hero,” and a bonnet to the 2021 Emmy Awards. The red carpet isn’t only a place for ostrich feathers and elbow gloves. There’s room for one thing slightly quieter, too.