Amal Clooney just struck gold.
On Monday night in London, the barrister and her husband, actor George Clooney, attended the King’s Trust 50th Anniversary Celebration at the Royal Albert Hall. While Amal may have gone full Pucci Girl Summer in recent days, she did a sartorial 180 for this formal occasion, wearing a gold sequined gown courtesy of Alexander McQueen.
Clooney wore a dress from the autumn/winter 2007 collection – titled “In Memory of Elizabeth Howe” – in homage to McQueen’s familial ties to the Salem witch trials. The cap-sleeve, V-neck dress was embellished with gold sequins that contoured the body, and Amal carried over the theme to her accessories, adding a pair of coordinating point-toe pumps, a bracelet, earrings and a clutch bag.
The McQueen dress has quite the pedigree: in May 2007, Cameron Diaz wore it to the Tokyo premiere of Shrek the Third; then, in 2010, it was sold at Bonham’s, following the designer’s untimely death. It hit the auction block again in December 2024 at Sotheby’s “Fashion Icons” auction, where it fetched a whopping $114,000. (It is not confirmed whether Amal’s dress is the one that was sold at Sotheby’s.)
Though she’s lately been into fresh-off-the-runway Pucci and Balenciaga, this McQueen dress is just the latest in the Clooney’s remarkable vintage and archival collection. Earlier this year, she wore a vibrant red ruched Pierre Balmain couture gown from 1957 to the Golden Globes, while last summer she rocked a magenta Jean-Louis Scherrer minidress with a dramatic cape from autumn/winter 1995.