Winona Ryder Reacts to Kendall Jenner Wearing Her Archival Givenchy Dress to the Met Gala
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Winona Ryder rose to the Hollywood spotlight in an era with no social media, and even decades into her career, she has maintained that lifestyle: informed but not involved in the drama, working but not overly famous. She likes it that way.
Speaking with Harper’s Bazaar for her August issue cover story, the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star responded to a recent internet drama that involved her and Kendall Jenner—one which Ryder, unsurprisingly, never publicly commented on.
It was about Jenner’s 2024 Met Gala dress, a stunning archival Givenchy gown designed by Alexander McQueen in 1999, which the supermodel claimed had never been worn by anyone before her. (“I’m so, so incredibly honored to wear it. I’m the first human to wear it,” she said in a red-carpet interview at the time.) Jenner was wrong, the internet quickly pointed out, as Ryder had worn the dress first, in a photo shoot for Flaunt magazine on the year it was designed, no less.
“i’m the first human to wear it” // winona ryder wearing the same givenchy fw1999 archival look photographed by warwick saint for flaunt magazine 1999 👀 pic.twitter.com/pnQb3zMddQ
— C 💒 (@churchofysl) May 7, 2024
“I heard about that,” Ryder told Bazaar of the Jenner incident. “I do remember that photo shoot. It was with my dear friend [and makeup artist] Kevyn Aucoin,” she added. “And I did wear it. I have pictures. The photographer gave me some prints. I’m in a tartan in one of them, and I’m in that dress.”
She was 13 years old at the time, and had not yet been cast as Veronica in Heathers—the role that launched her into fame.
But Ryder has no bad blood for Jenner over the mishap; instead, she appreciates the fact that her Hollywood was not the overcrowded, overly-scrutinized one stars like Jenner live in today. “I feel incredibly lucky to have been able to live this life—however intense and overwhelming it got, it’s NOTHING compared to what it is now with the internet and social media. I just find myself feeling tremendous empathy toward people who have sacrificed so much,” she said.
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