Nicole Kidman’s Victoria’s Secret Show Look: A Shirt, Striped Tie and Burgundy Chanel Bag

Nicole Kidman attended the 2026 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, choosing a white shirt and a black skirt by Jean Paul Gaultier, and then completed the look with a striped tie and a dark red Chanel east–west bag. Compared with the wings and sequins on the catwalk, this outfit uses fairly familiar basic items, with the changes coming from the proportions of garment lengths and the placement of accessories.

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White shirt and black skirt, why doesn’t it stay in the uniform impression?

Shirts and narrow skirts are easily associated with the office, but ties, skirts and bags each adjust the overall rhythm. The tie puts the vertical line in the center of the body, the short skirt leaves more space on the lower body, and the east–west bag adds another direction to the upper body, allowing the line of sight to not only move down along the neckline.

This look doesn’t have to be interpreted in terms of age or “how many years younger do you look.” What is more valuable is how a set of clothes with a strong sense of formality can be transformed into different styles of wearing for different occasions through proportion. The same shirt and skirt may have different effects if the collar, cuffs or strap length are changed.

Ties and bags, let the accessories each be responsible for one thing

The striped tie provides more eye-catching colors and lines, while the dark red bag style responds to the shape with a relatively concentrated area. If you want to incorporate a similar method into your daily wardrobe, you can keep the black and white base color first, and then decide on an accessory as the focus, without changing every item to a bright color.

Horizontal bags should also be seen with clothing. If the shirt is already wider and the bag is close to the body or falls on the waist, different layers will be formed; if the tie is longer, it is also worth comparing in front of the mirror whether the bag and tie are concentrated on the chest at the same time. These visual relationships can better explain whether the styling is coordinated than just looking at the bag itself.

How to read Jean Paul Gaultier's clothing in daily life?

This clothing is from the Jean Paul Gaultier 2026 autumn and winter series. The brand has long used the body, uniforms and gender clothing symbols as design materials; the white shirt and tie are familiar elements, so they can have formal, preppy and freer dressing associations at the same time.

For general readers, you can start with the shirt you already have: compare which button to button, whether it is tucked into the lower body, where the skirt or trousers length falls, and then add a tie. This doesn’t require copying a celebrity’s entire set, nor does it require sharing the same brand as a necessary condition for a match to work.

Get inspiration from show photos and go back to occasions where you can actually wear them

Celebrity runway looks are choices for specific events, different from the needs of going to work, commuting or walking for long periods of time. If you are going to actually wear it out, you can first adjust the length of your lower body, the shape of your shoes and the items you need to carry in your bag, and then decide how much of the show feel you want to retain.

The strength of this look is the simple color base and clear accessories that work together. Rather than generalizing it as an age-reducing template, it is more suitable to be regarded as a proportion case: when shirts, ties, skirts and east–west bags have clear positions, familiar basic styles can also form a distinct personal style.