Gwyneth Paltrow’s Outfit Proves You Need to Try This Colour Combo

Pamela Anderson recently discovered the magic—not an overstatement—of a particular colour pairing on the red carpet: green and pink. Now another celebrity has riffed on green, not a macaroon shade like Anderson’s, but more of a lime.

Gwyneth Paltrow put in a display that was positively zesty—not to mention sharp in all the right places—at Valentino, which decided to show off-schedule after Paris Fashion Week. But like Anderson, she didn’t stop with green, adding not one but two other colours into the mix: white and blue. It sounds like a lot and, in some ways, a tri-colour palette isn’t for the faint of heart, but it also just worked, especially as we’re edging—finally!—towards more spring-like weather.

Paltrow wore flower-embellished tights—bridal-white—which she paired with powder-blue pumps, round-toed and slightly Cinderella. Together, it was a combination that was very Alessandro Michele, a designer whose eye for colour is rich and experimental, often resulting in groupings that are so wrong they’re right.

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