Zendaya Is Giving Cher in an Ultra-Low-Rise, Hip Bone-Baring Dress and XL Hair

Can we hear a little commotion for Zendaya’s dress?

On October 19, Zendaya wore Cher’s favorite designer to honor the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee in Cleveland, Ohio. Zendaya paid homage to the 78-year-old “Believe” singer with ultra-long black hair and an ultra-low-rise Bob Mackie illusion dress from the American designer’s 2001 collection—we’re talking hipbone-baring low.

The strappy gold dress can best be described by Zendaya’s longtime styling partner Law Roach, who pulled the archival piece from the Fall 2001 Bob Mackie Couture collection, Foreign Intrigue. Roach shared dress details on Instagram Stories, revealing that the “nude illusion halter-gown” was “entirely hand-beaded in gold, diamond and iridescent bugle beads and aurora-borialus [sic] stones.”

Briefly thrown to the ground for dramatic effect, Zendaya’s dress was paired with a “white silk satin trench coat, with dramatic collar and cuffs, embroidered in gold and diamond iridescent bugle beads and stones.”

Cher, of course, has worn many Bob Mackie illusion dresses over the years, from avant-garde Oscars gowns with feather headdresses to sparkling nude designs for the Met Gala.

“Thank you, Cher. Thank you for being an advocate, for being an ally, for painting the way for so many humans of all kinds to live in and speak their truth and to have the courage to be as daring and as open hearted as you,” Zendaya said in her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame speech honoring the inductee. “Cher once said, ‘You should never be inhibited by what people expect you to do.’ And those are words I hope we can all learn to live by.”

When it comes to fashion, Zendaya and Law Roach definitively have “daring” and “unexpected” down to a science. Surely, they made Cher very proud.