Lily-Rose Depp elevates clean dressing with 90s vintage at the ‘Nosferatu’ premiere

Chanel may have just appointed a new creative director in former Bottega Veneta designer Matthieu Blazy, but Lily-Rose Depp is happy to focus on the brand’s famous archives for her latest red carpet number. Last night, the actress looked angelic in Karl Lagerfeld-era couture at the Los Angeles premiere of her period horror film. Nosferatu.

Depp hit the red carpet in a raw look straight out of Lagerfeld’s fall 1995 Chanel couture runway. Her outfit consisted of two layers. On top, Depp layered a sheer floor-length cape that was embroidered with dozens of decent sequins and balls. Underneath, she wore a clouded spaghetti strap dress that gathered elegantly on the black carpet. Depp’s explorations of pure substances are usually extremely risque – this subtle transparent moment, however, was pure vintage glamour.

After the red carpet, Depp mingled with her Nosferatu co-stars – including Emma Corrin, decked out in a gothic Miu Miu moment – ​​and guests like Charli XCX for the official after-party. She removed her look’s sheer overlay, putting even more emphasis on her beauty and accessory choice for the evening: a braided hairstyle framed by dainty silver Chanel earrings.

A Chanel muse through and through (her mother, Vanessa Paradis, was a close friend and inspiration of Lagerfeld), Depp apparently has envious access to the French house’s archives. She’s no stranger to slipping into notable pieces from the brand’s past, with a particular emphasis on Lagerfeld’s work, both on and off the red carpet. Last month, she attended her boyfriend 070Shakes’ Los Angeles concert in a drop-waist Chanel number that Paradis had worn on the red carpet back in 2003.

Under Nosferatu press alone, she’s been wearing a Victorian skirt set and an elegant bow-trimmed dress at the 2024 Governors Awards. Given that both of these pieces were from Chanel’s 2020 and 2018 couture seasons, respectively, it looks like Depp saved his most impressive (and oldest) vintage find for the premiere last night.