How the ‘copycat dress’ is 2022’s most stylish trend with celebs from Kim K to Kate Middleton dressing up as their idols
THEY say imitation is the best form of flattery – and these celebrities certainly bear it out.
From the current Princess of Wales’s homage to Diana, Princess of Wales, to Kim Kardashian squeezing herself into a Marilyn Monroe outfit for the Met Gala, 2022 has been the year of the Tribute Dress.
Just this week, Mel B’s daughter Phoenix continued the trend, appearing in a leopard-print crop top, just like her mum in the Spice Girls’ 1996 music video for Say You’ll Be There.
Here, Hayley Minn looks at other fashionable celebs who paid stitch-perfect tributes to their famous role models.
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KIM KARDASHIAN & MARILYN MONROE
KIM KARDASHIAN shed more than a stone in three weeks in the run-up to New York’s Met Gala in May, purely to fit into the dress that Marilyn Monroe wore in 1962 to sing Happy Birthday to President John F Kennedy.
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It was later claimed that she had significantly damaged it.
IRIS LAW & BEYONCE
MODEL Iris Law continued the Beyonce renaissance as she appeared at a London Fashion Week party in the pop superstar’s corseted Versace dress in September.
It came 19 years after 41-year-old Beyonce had worn it to the 2003 MTV Movie Awards in LA.
DUA LIPA & CINDY CRAWFORD
SINGER Dua Lipa looked every bit the supermodel at the Grammy Awards in Las Vegas in April, when she wore the exact same bondage-inspired dress that catwalk legend Cindy Crawford had worn to the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.
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PRINCESS KATE & PRINCESS DIANA
THE Princess of Wales paid homage to her late mother-in-law Diana at Royal Ascot, wearing a black and white polka dot dress by Alessandra Rich, with matching hat and Diana’s diamond and pearl drop earrings.
It was very like the Victor Edelstein outfit Diana wore to Ascot in ’88.
MEGAN FOX & PAMELA ANDERSON
MEGAN FOX’S love for rapper Machine Gun Kelly has been likened to Pamela Anderson’s for ex-hubby Tommy Lee.
And Megan’s style seems inspired by Pam too, as she wore a pink feathered hat to the Audacy Beach Festival in Florida just like one Pam wore to 1999’s MTV VMAs.
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI & YASMEEN GHAURI
GONE Girl star Emily proved that Versace never goes out of fashion as she dazzled at this year’s Met Gala in New York.
The actress and model even wore her hair up, just like Canadian catwalk star Yasmeen did for Versace on the runway in Milan more than 30 years ago.