Mindy Kalingmade quite the statement on theOscars 2023red carpet.
TheMindy Projectstarwowed in white, rocking a customVera Wanggown to the awards show. The 43-year-old wore a structured white gown with visible boning in the otherwise transparent bodice and a structured peplum ruffle on the hip. The dress also featured delicate spaghetti straps and detached flared sleeves.
The look was originally supposed to be black and white, but Kaling asked that the dress stay all white, according to Zanna Roberts Rassi on E!’s preshow. She also requested that the boning, which was originally nude, to also stay white.
Kaling’s reasoning for the all-white look? “Who does a white gown better than Vera Wang?” she reportedly said, according to the E! Broadcast.
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The Ocean’s Eight star wore her long wavy hair down, with the front pulled up in a small messy knot at the crown of her head. She finished the look with a drawn-out smokey eye, a gazillion lashes and a brick-red lip, plus Boucheron jewels.
She had one more surprise in store, though: When it came time to present Best Original Score, she appeared onstage in the same dress in black, with a change of earrings and brighter red lip.
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On Sunday afternoon, Kaling gave a sneak peek of her Oscars beauty-prep routine on her Instagram stories. The photo showed the actress sitting in front of makeup brushes and an old school Hollywood mirror with bulbs lining the sides and a Moscow mule sitting on her dressing table in front of her.
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And she turned heads in a keyhole-cutout minidress earlier this year.
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The Oscarsair live on ABC on Sunday, March 12, at 8 p.m. ET.
source: people.com
