greta lee is reaching new levels of it girl previously thought to be impossible

i'm obsessed with her toy story 5 press tour looks.

Sometimes I see an outfit so utterly impeccable that it reminds me of what it feels like to love fashion.

It starts with an imperceptible gasp under my breath. Then my body freezes, my eyes glaze over to appreciate the totality of the look, then they focus into precise laser beams as I zoom in, taking in the details.

This week I was bewitched by Greta Lee in a crisply cut microbang and a red fringed halter dress with little white stars all over. Oh and a shooting star placed on the hip, like a cheeky tattoo.

Her Toy Story 5 press tour looks, styled by Danielle Goldberg and makeup by Nina Park, have been TOO GOOD. I wrote about Greta Lee’s style back in 2023, and she remains one of my favorite actresses on and off screen because she takes fun fashion risks.

But also, I suppose it’s impossible not to look like the coolest, most stunning fashion girl when you have both Danielle Goldberg and Nina Park working for you, right??? A dream team if there ever was one…

This red halter dress is High Sport, a brand I’ll forever associate in my head with the “$800 pants” discourse from a few years ago. Not available online, maybe later this year? I’m not enough of a retail insider to keep track of these things. It’s not a dress I feel like I need to own to wear. I just love admiring it.

Anyways, it must be so fun to treat Toy Story as an outfit prompt—and this outfit lands the thematic connection without being too literal. The red is a hypersaturated primary color, and the stars and fringe evoke a Western cowboy vibe a la Woody and Jessie.

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The next look is something I’d totally wear:

When I saw this post, I rushed to click on the tagged designer, “yvonnne_.” Who could this yvonne underscore be??

Once I saw that her name was just “yeji” in lowercase letters and she had Central Saint Martins tagged in her bio and no website, I was like lol ok, this is some ultra-niche shit that only star stylists like Danielle Goldberg have access to!!

This set is called the Music Note Top and Skirt, “inspired by musical notes from sheet music,” according to yeji’s IG. How freaking whimsical.

Similarly, this print works as a nod to the Toy Story theme because the circle shapes look like Mr. Potato’s eyes. Maybe this was intentional too, but her pose here feels like a figurine. A bit stiff and plasticky, in a satisfying way because she looks like a toy on a shelf.

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This BTS look was posted on Danielle Goldberg’s IG stories:

Another fun riff on the Toy Story primary colors. I don’t remember the Barbie press tour fashion in much detail, but I do know I felt visually hungover from seeing the magenta pink everywhereeeeee bc the marketing was inescapable. In contrast, I feel refreshed and intruiged by the primary color play for this press tour.

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And now for the latest look we’ve been blessed with this week…

She’s wearing a red and white Dior puffed-top dress that matches the Toy Story color palette. The exaggerated proportions feel dramatic enough for a red carpet look but it’s also playful and funky in the same vein. It’s kinda giving Buzz Lightyear’s puffed-chest silhouette.

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The makeup and hair was to die for…I’m in awe of the gap of space between the strong eyebrow and the wispy microbang. Do you know how hard it is to get that exact distance right?!!! If I ever get my makeup and hair professionally done, I’ll just show them this photo.

As the press tour continues, I’ll be seated for more of Greta’s looks! Which one is your favorite so far?

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Molehill Miscellany

• My first guest piece for UNSAID launched yesterday—a heels-on-the-ground Euro Summer style report, aka what people are wearing in Rome and Florence! Take a look, it’s a fun photo-heavy piece to scroll through on Friday. It’s always a pleasure to work with Samantha Leach as an editor. I learn a lot from the way she thinks.

• The star wand lip gloss I mentioned in my makeup to buy from japan newsletter is on sale rn for $5. It’s the cutest thing to keep in your purse. Try whipping it out at a group dinner or happy hour, everyone will be like oooo what IS that?!

• If you were emotionally devastated by the Gemma episode in Severance, I really think you would enjoy reading “My Dear You” by Rachel Khong. It’s a collection of short stories that I would describe as Black Mirror written by and starring an Asian American woman. Like, the story about the factory worker training an AI sex doll story made me cry. There are also some Bay Area cameos in the stories, which made it all the more juicy to read in a San Francisco wine bar last night.

• I’m inspired by all of your summer bucket list items in the comments. I’m working on my realistic bay area summer bucket list (fall version here).

• Anyone else going to Pickwick this weekend? I plan to hit up Sensitive Vintage.

• RIP buffalo milk soft serve </3 It has come to my attention that a few months ago, the milk supplier for the soft serve at Palace Market (and several other Bay Area spots) changed. If you’ve had Palace Market soft serve you know that it was the creme de la creme of soft serve…truly nothing else in the world compared. The milk is now jersey cow, and not buffalo. For some, this news is food snob minutiae and they claim there is no difference in taste. I posted about this on on IG Stories and a few people responded saying they had Palace Market soft serve recently and it doesn’t taste as creamy or rich anymore (I believe them). Now I am very invested in the politics of Central Valley buffalo herd sales.

• I’m a major skincare and haircare loyalist in that it takes a LOT for a product to make it into my routine, or replace something in my routine. But two things have broken through the noise: (1) the ROZ leave-in conditioner, which I surprised myself with how much I love—my hair has been extra crispy and dry lately bc it’s outdoor swim season, but this conditioner smells like a five star hotel and leaves my hair much smoother after a wash. (2) the Sophie Pavitt Mandelic Clearing Serum *gifted—I’ve used a mandelic serum in my routine for the past 9 years, ranging from a mild 8% to a stronger 11% when I have breakouts. The Sophie Pavitt one is 8% and I used it every day when I was traveling in Italy. I think it helped keep breakouts and sun exposure pigmentation at bay, because I was doing a lotttt of skin-stressing things lol.

• Last month, my profile of Tory Burch for LA Times Image magazine came out. We talked about her instinct for wearable clothing, freaky footwear, and how a long career in fashion is its own kind of sport.

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xo viv

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