Angelina Jolie is, perhaps, the ultimate Hollywood actress: Dignified in speech with a Hellenic beauty, but with an underlying pathos that evokes Louise Brooks, Pauline Starke, and Marilyn Monroe. Her performance in the Pablo Larraín-directed Maria Callas biopic—which Vogue’s Radhika Seth described as her greatest of all time and won her an eight-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival—has seen her become an avatar for a resplendent strain of old-world composure otherwise lost to time.
“I chose not to copy [Maria’s] looks because they are hers, and her Venice carpets were stunning, so I gave a little nod to her—in a different way,” Jolie last week told Vogue of her own wardrobe. “But I made sure to wear something ladylike in her honor.” The actress spent most of her time dressed in Saint Laurent and Tom Ford dresses with Grecian-style sleeves that served as a subtle homage to the American-Greek soprano, before later wearing a knitted column at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado cut from the most luxurious shade of cashmere with Roger Vivier’s buckled City pumps.
