Not White, Not Butter Yellow—Zendaya's Spring Dress Color Will Be Everywhere Come May

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While promoting her latest film, The Drama, Zendaya was spotted wearing a silky pink dress and a long fuzzy coat in a slightly darker shade. It was a small departure from the bridal looks she's been wearing on the film's press tour, but equally as ethereal.

It also served as a reminder that some color trends are forever. The term "millennial pink" may no longer be in the zeitgeist, and perhaps was even shunned by Gen Z initially, but there's no denying that the shade seems to be creeping back into the mainstream again. This time with no generational label.

Zendaya millennial pink outfit

(Image credit: Anthony Prince Leslie)

It's also the perfect color to wear to welcome spring that doesn't feel as matrimonial as white or as trendy as butter yellow. As Zendaya demonstrates, it's also easy to wear with the heel trend of 2026, and nothing about it feels dated. It clearly works across generations: for millennials, Gen Z, and beyond.

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Tara Gonzalez
Tara Gonzalez
Senior Fashion & Social Editor

Tara Gonzalez is a senior fashion and social editor at WhoWhatWear. where she is interested in exploring the intersection of fashion and culture and why we are drawn to wearing the things we wear and what that says about the world we live in. Previously she worked as a senior fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar. When she isn't writing trend deep dives for WWW, she's working on her newsletter on Substack, Cult Classic, which explores the very best fashion in film and television. She has a degree in creative writing from The University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Brooklyn with her boyfriend and pug Bjork, the later of which has a very extensive collection of dog-sized Sandy Liang sweaters.