Buckle up, fashion history geeks — this Oscar red carpet appearance is a big one. At the Vanity Fair 2024 Oscar party, Jennifer Lawrence showed off her sheer floral prints from the Fashion house's Haute Couture collection in Fall 1996, her last couture collection before John Galliano became Dior's creative director. i wore a givenchy dress. Lawrence's otherworldly white gown was originally worn by Capital supermodel Kate Moss on the runway 28 years ago.

The exquisite archive dress boasts a high empire silhouette and ruffled puff sleeves and offers a sweetness that contradicts the sultriness of its sheer floral fabric. Under her dreamy nude dress, Lawrence wore underwear that blended seamlessly with her skin for a pitch-perfect nude illusion.

As for accessories, longtime stylist Jamie Mizrahi added a selection of Lucite bangle bracelets, giant diamond stud earrings, and diamond rings to complement lawrence's ethereal dress.

Nearly three decades ago, Moss wore a dreamy Givenchy couture dress with a towering Marie-Antoinette-style wig in ivory shades that matched the gown-J.Law and Mizrahi chose to go without accoutrement.

Galliano's Givenchy The 1996 couture collection, which is a small group of French aristocrats dressed in luxury and ornate clothes of the late 1700s, was also founded in 1984 in a graduate collection entitled les Incroyables at the Saint Martins College of Art And Design, in a post-revolutionary French style. He used a crowd of hedonistic aristocrats as a design muse.

Early in the evening, Lawrence arrived on the 2024 Academy Awards red carpet wearing a polka-dot custom Dior gown.This required about 1,500 hours of work to create.

In the world of celebrity styling, archive fashion relics is the ultimate fashion flex. Zendaya and roach cockroaches often pull out of the vault; Just last week, Z wore a vintage Roberto Cavalli gown to the Green Carpet Fashion Awards that carried the party spirit from the Roaring twenties.

In addition, given that Lawrence is a longtime Dior ambassador and usually dresses exclusively in French fashion houses, it's a pivot, though fascinating, if wonderful, for her to pick an unusual vintage from Givenchy. I hope Lawrence will be wearing more historical gowns, Givenchy, Dior, or otherwise, soon.