Somewhere between method dressing and archival pulls lies the rewear: a celebrity steps out in the exact same dress one of her predecessors wore years ago. It’s a tricky stunt, immediately inviting comparison, but so far it’s seemed to work out, with a number of recent red carpets giving us a sort of doppelgänger effect.
Most recently, at the 2025 SAG Awards, Keke Palmer took us all the way back to the ’80s in an archival Chanel gown first worn by the scream queen herself, Jamie Lee Curtis. Keep scrolling for a look at some of the best celebrity red carpet rewears to date.
Blake Lively and Britney Spears in VersaceSpears wore the multicolored gown on the runway in 2002; Lively reportedly dropped $10k to buy the dress for the It Ends With Us premiere in 2024.
Keke Palmer and Jamie Lee Curtis in ChanelA red-haired Palmer wore the dress—and, crucially and fabulously, the black gloves—to the 2025 SAG Awards. Curtis wore the dress to a Los Angeles event in 1986.
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