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# Zendaya Makes Beige Anything But Boring
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/zendaya-makes-beige-anything-but-boring-09-2021/
- Published: 2021-09-07T13:00:38.000Z
- Updated: 2021-09-07T18:17:33.000Z
- Description: At the Dune premiere in Venice.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Well Played, Balmain, Venice Film Festival, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:18

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It is not my impression that Zendaya plays a principal character in *Dune* \-- the Wikipedia plot synopsis of this film, at least, leaves out her character completely, and is mentioned only once in the novel's summary -- but you wouldn't know it from the way she owned the Venice premiere. Everyone went nuts for this clingy, wet-look Balmain, and deservedly so. The whole damp sea-goddess aesthetic really only works when you go all-in (think [Kim Kardashian in Mugler at the Met](https://www.gofugyourself.com/photos/the-kardashian-jenner-hadids-at-the-met/costume-institute-benefit-celebrating-the-opening-of-camp-notes-on-fashion-arrivals-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-new-york-usa-06-may-2019-154?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)), and it can be REALLY risky; too often, the wearer ends up looking like a vengeful rival turned a hose on them. But Zendaya and Law Roach avoided that pitfall and instead turned her into Sexy Sandworm. This outfit is leather, if you can believe it, and is a clever derivation of [this bodice piece from a 2020 runway show](https://www.gofugyourself.com/photos/balmain-fw-2020-rtw/infoimaxtree-com-20411?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) (about which I noted that it reminded me of something Daisy Ridley's Rey would buy at the Jakku outlets, and since that's a desert planet, I feel like this counts as a mind-meld). The fit is IMMACULATE, the styling is precise, and for a movie named after a big ol' pile of sand, it really IS apt to look as if you might have just risen fully-formed from a dune that was touched by Zeus.

\[Photos: Shutterstock\]