8 Times Celebrities Wore the Exact Same Dress at Different Times
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 seems to have worked 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.
1/8Blake Lively and Britney Spears in Versace
Spears 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.
2/8Keke Palmer and Jamie Lee Curtis in Chanel
A 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.
3/8Kylie Jenner and Elizabeth Hurley in Versace
Attending the 2025 Golden Globes with her boyfriend, Timothée Chalamet, Jenner chose the same dress Hurley donned for the 1999 CFDA Fashion Awards, albeit in a slightly different shade.
4/8Halsey and Elizabeth Hurley in Versace
Looks like all the girls wanna be Elizabeth Hurley in Versace! Hurley wore the red cheetah-print dress to a boutique opening in 1996, while Halsey took it to the 2024 VMAs.
5/8Sabrina Carpenter and Madonna in Bob Mackie
Madonna’s gown for the 1991 Oscars—not to mention her coat, hair, and makeup—was inspired by Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Carpenter wore the same dress, with less retro styling, to the 2024 VMAs, aligning herself not only with Old Hollywood but with Madonna.
6/8Sydney Sweeney and Angelina Jolie in Marc Bouwer
Another instance of a Gen Z star rewearing an older icon’s homage to Marilyn Monroe: This gown evokes Monroe’s costume in The Seven Year Itch and was worn first by Jolie to the Oscars in 2004, then Sweeney at the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party in 2024.
7/8Cynthia Erivo and Debra Shaw in Givenchy
Surprisingly, Erivo (at the 2025 SAG Awards) is not the longest-fingernailed person to wear this gown from Alexander McQueen’s brief tenure at Givenchy! (Here is Shaw on the runway in 1996.)
8/8Tyla and Aaliyah in Roberto Cavalli
At the 2024 MTV EMAs, Tyla put her own spin on the dress Aaliyah rocked at the 2000 VMAs, choosing the blue version and markedly different styling.
