Seemingly everybody in Hollywood needs to have a sheer costume second on the pink carpet this yr. But, too typically, it looks as if their stylists will put them in some black mesh cloth and name it a day. The place’s the style fantasy? The private fashion? The weather that elevate it past only a looky-loo second? Nicely, final evening in Atlanta, actress, musician, and artistic director Teyana Taylor proved simply the way to do all of that with a dramatic sheer dressing second for the books.

Taylor was in attendance at High quality Management CEO Pierre “P” Thomas’s third Annual Birthday Ball in Georgia and pulled a full-length black-knit robe adorned with sequins for the occasion. The costume was designed by Coperni, the new (each in buzz and aesthetic) French model.

The costume may need been sufficient for some, however Taylor turned the glamour up with hair by Trjko da Lace Surgeon that artfully layered excessive half of her robe. For the face, she went for dramatic eye make-up that a few of her Instagram commenters in comparison with Aaliyah’s vampiric appears to be like from Queen of the Damned. To prime it off, she added a gold chin cuff, which has turn into one thing of a Teyana signature as of late.

Whereas initially coming to prominence as a musician and dancer, Taylor is within the midst of a full inventive renaissance. Not solely has she reportedly been working as a inventive director for different musicians (together with Latto and Summer season Walker), she’s additionally recent off receiving essential approval for her function within the Sundance hit A Thousand and One. Starring as a single mom on the run after kidnapping her son from the foster system, The New Yorker referred to as her efficiency “awe-inspiring,” including she “endows even seemingly bizarre interactions with the overwhelming warmth of fiercely principled and protecting power.”

“It’s what I prayed for, truthfully,’ Taylor instructed W earlier this yr. “I prayed to simply have that second the place individuals might lastly actually see me and see what I might do. I knew that this might be difficult, however I used to be on to take that problem.”