Katie Holmes Delivers Two New Takes on One Hot Summer Trend
It’s a little boho, a little edgy—and as always with a Katie Holmes look, finished with a fab shoe.
Reported by Vogue.
Every summer, Katie Holmes emerges from the streets of Manhattan like a seasonal forecast with better shoes. She's done it before — the Khaite knit bra that launched a thousand chest-baring moments, the square-toe sandal she basically willed into the mainstream — and she's doing it again. Consider this your official trend alert, according to Vogue.
This weekend, Holmes hit the Tribeca Film Festival circuit in two distinct outfits sharing one clear throughline: boho, but make it harder. First, a silky champagne Chloé lace-trimmed dress with puffed shoulders (fall 2026 collection) — grounded immediately by the brand's black pointed Cleia sandals with chunky gold hardware. Later, at the after-party, she switched into a peachy Magda Butrym silk-satin lace slip dress worn over black leather pants. The lace stayed. The softness did not.
Boho Gets a Edge Transplant
The broader boho revival has been building quietly — Chloé and Isabel Marant have both leaned into the groovy, free-spirited references that dominated the early 2000s, bringing back maxi silhouettes, lace detailing, and an overall prairie-adjacent sensibility. But Holmes isn't doing boho-chic the nostalgic way. Both looks operate on the same deliberate tension: something floaty and feminine, immediately disrupted by something tougher. The leather pants. The studded sandal. The refusal to let the look tip into soft-girl territory.
There's no consensus yet on what to call this hybrid — edgy-boho and rocker-boho are both in contention — but the styling logic is clear enough. It's the same instinct that puts a blazer over a slip dress or stomps through a floral midi in combat boots: an insistence that femininity doesn't have to be delicate to count. Holmes just happens to be very, very good at making that instinct look effortless and then watching the rest of the city catch up.
If the Katie Holmes effect holds — and it usually does — expect downtown Manhattan to go full prairie dress and leather moto jacket by August.
Read the original at Vogue.
