Katie Holmes was seen enjoying a glamorous outing in New York City this week with her friend and stylist Brie Welch.
The 45-year-old actress, who shares daughter Suri, 18, with Tom Cruise, cut a stylish figure as she stepped out in Manhattan on Tuesday.
She slipped her slender figure into a sleek navy pantsuit that sparkled under the lights as she hit the pavement in the city that never sleeps.
Wearing blood red lipstick that matched her heels, the Dawson’s Creek actress let her dark hair down to frame her luminous complexion.
His outing with Brie comes a year and a half after they collaborated on a 2000s-inspired look that was brutally trolled online.
Katie Holmes was seen enjoying a glamorous outing in New York City this week with her friend and stylist Brie Welch.
When spotted out and about with Katie this week, Brie emphasized her lithe physique by fastening a black belt around her collarless purple top.
The couple exuded a formal sense of elegance on Wednesday, a far cry from the ensemble that led to them being mocked online in December 2022.
That month, Katie attended the iHeart Radio Jingle Ball wearing a sleeveless navy tunic over a pair of jeans and paired with sneakers.
Inspired by the 2000s aesthetic at the turn of the millennium, the quirky outfit, which Brie worked on, sparked widespread mockery on social media.
Fans mocked Katie for channeling a “mid-2000s Disney red carpet,” mocking that she “looked like a mess” and joking that they were “disturbed” by her appearance.
“Unfortunately I can’t comment on Katie Holmes’ dress top and jeans combo because I too lived through the early 2000s and made decisions I regret,” one joked.
“All morning I’ve been wondering why people are digging into a photo of Katie Holmes from 1999, but apparently that’s not it.” Another marveled.
“Please, for the love of the goddess, keep this era of fashion in the archives,” one fan pleaded on what was then still known as Twitter. ‘I love Katie Holmes… but I hate this damn era of the red carpet. I don’t mind. I don’t mind. I don’t mind.’
The two made formal figures together on Wednesday, a far cry from the ensemble that led to them being mocked online in December 2022.
His outing with Brie comes a year and a half after they collaborated on her infamous Y2K look; Katie appears with the ensemble at the iHeart Radio Jingle Ball in December 2022.
“This trend reared its ugly head years ago and honestly, how dare Katie Holmes have the audacity to try to bring it back,” another observer fumed.
Brie defended her and Katie’s work, insisting that the Batman Begins actress was “more than capable of looking great in an unintentional trend 20 years later.”
She and Katie “decided that the rich color and subtle bustier effect of the top were chic and would be fun paired with jeans, creating a more youthful feel for Jingle Ball and the atmosphere there,” Brie explained..
‘On the day of (and because Katie has her own effortless style that should be appreciated here), she said she wanted to wear sneakers, because it was a concert and there would obviously be a lot of dancing with Dua Lipa (and nothing is more comfortable!),’ he added the stylist New York Times.