Emily Ratajkowski marked her 35th birthday on June 8 by posting a new Instagram carousel from an intimate celebration, and the pictures put her dress front and center. She wore a red bodycon frock cut from the collarbone to the hips and held together by tassels, turning a birthday post into a sharp fashion moment.
The carousel was brief, but the look was not. The netted fabric was strung with striking gold beads, and she finished it with leopard print open-toe stilettos, a stack of diamond earrings, straightened brunette hair parted down the middle and makeup built around black eyeliner, terracotta blush and nude lip liner. Her caption kept it simple: “BIRTHDAY!”
The post fits into a run of recent public appearances that have kept Ratajkowski in the fashion frame. In April, she stepped out in Philadelphia wearing a leopard print coat over a black dress, and weeks earlier she attended an Ulta Beauty event in Los Angeles in a sleeveless beige shift, each look drawing a different side of the same polished style.
What the birthday carousel leaves open is the one detail that would have completed the scene: where the party took place. For now, the photos do the talking, and they make clear that Ratajkowski chose to celebrate 35 with a look designed to be remembered.
