Natalie Portman wears $40 Target dress, seems more human
Celebrities, they're just like us! Well...sort of. On Sunday, A-list actress Natalie Portman turned up at The New York Times' Arts & Leisure Weekend wearing a black cardigan, heels, and a mustard-hued Target dress with a price tag of just $39.99. The filmy-frilly frock (pictured, left) is part of the retail chain's limited-edition, affordably-priced collection from coveted designer Rodarte, a line favored by Portman (she donned one of its strapless gowns to last year's Oscars). A regular, non-Target Rodarte dress costs upwards of $8,000.
Portman is just one of a growing number of celebrities whose budget-friendly red-carpet choices make them seem more relatable, down-to-earth, and more responsible than stars who drop thousands for a single, wear-it-once dress. It's a slightly odd phenomenon, sure, but we all love it when famous people wear inexpensive clothes-it even makes us like these famous people more. Consider the praise
heaped on Michelle Obama for her multiple J.Crew outfits from last year, the glowing magazine coverage given to any star who dons H&M or Old Navy (Rihanna, Katie Holmes, and Eva Longoria, to name just a few) or the fashion sensation that occurred in 1996, when Sharon Stone paired a simple Gap turtleneck with a Valentino skirt and wore this to the Oscars.
Honestly, we're not even sure we like Portman's strange, deconstructed, flouncy ballerina dress (do you?), nor that we'd spend $40 on it. We just like to know that if we wanted to, we really could.
Source: HuffPo