Viola Davis Rewears This Black Sequined Gown to the 2025 Golden Globes

The 2025 Golden Globes isn’t simply every other awards ceremony for Viola Davis. The EGOT winner can be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award, becoming a member of fellow business titans together with Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, and Meryl Streep. Whereas the event greater than requires a superb look, reasonably than commissioning a brand-new gown, Davis and her stylist Elizabeth Stewart turned to Gucci to refashion one in every of her previous items.

Tonight, Davis is rewearing the Gucci look that she sported for the 2024 LACMA Gala in November—a black sequined gown full with a V-neck and a dramatic beaded cape. “Sabato [De Sarno] despatched a lovely sketch for the LACMA Gala and and we knew it might be one thing particular,” Stewart tells Vogue. “And after we truly tried it with everybody from Gucci there within the room Viola beloved it and mentioned one thing like, ‘I’d put on this a thousand instances!’”

Now, she’s chipping away at these thousand wears—with some updates. “Whereas in our first Gucci becoming all of us instantly began dreaming,” Stewart says. “What if she did put on it once more? How would Sabato make a fantastic gown even better?” They determined to embrace Davis’s love of colour with a rainbow cape. “A rainbow is a logo of hope and happiness in a darkish time. Very significant for Viola who by no means does something with out objective,” Stewart says. She added a pair of customized rainbow Swarovski earrings. For Davis’s half, the actor says, “The dramatic, daring however traditional type made me really feel like I used to be entering into the girl I’ve all the time been….and dreamed of being.”