This look was nearly too hot to handle.
Zendaya took a walk down memory lane during Vogue’s “Life in Looks” series on Tuesday, and the “Dune: Part Two” star admitted that she almost backed out of wearing Thierry Mugler’s iconic metal robot suit after she overheated in the futuristic look.
The full metal jumpsuit hails from the designer’s fall 1995 couture collection, and when thinking about her movie’s London premiere this winter, the “Spider-Man: Homecoming” actress, 27, said she ran the idea of wearing the suit past her longtime stylist, Law Roach.
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“This suit, everybody knows it, and I was like, ‘I wonder if I could wear that?'” she told Vogue. “And so I sent it Law and I was like, ‘What if we wore this for the premiere?'”
The “Greatest Showman” star admitted that her stylist didn’t think she was serious about the ultra-rare piece at first, telling her, “don’t play with me” and cautioning that he didn’t want her to “chicken out at the last minute.”
Luckily, the suit-of-armor “fit like a glove,” with Zendaya sharing that she felt the outfit “was meant to be.”
However, “after wearing it for like, 10 minutes or less than that,” the former Disney star “got really lightheaded.”
“The metal conducts and holds onto heat very quickly and kind of traps heat in,” Zendaya explained, adding that she wore “a complete body suit” under the metal ‘fit so there was already “a barrier” keeping her warm.
“As the days were coming up, I was like, ‘this is a bad idea,'” the “Euphoria” star told Vogue. “Like, why did I do this?”
However, she pulled herself together and “did it,” making the red carpet look one of the most buzzed-about fashion moments of 2024.
She avoided overheating in the bionic suit by changing into a simple black Mugler dress after making a splash on the red carpet.
Among the other looks she discussed was the black Valentino dress she wore to accept a 2022 lead actress Emmy for “Euphoria,” sharing that the chic ballgown was “a reference to an old Valentino dress” that featured a similar bow-trimmed top.
Zendaya also mused about her viral 2014 Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party hat, sharing, “I still see memes about this particular look.”
At the end of the day, she doesn’t care about the haters, stating, “I stick by it. Me and Law, we thought it was chic at the time and I think it’s still chic. I’d wear it again!”
