Zendaya Wore an Ab-Baring Cutout Dress With 183 Carats of Jewels to the Oscars
The cutout trend just got a major endorsement at the Oscars. Zendaya and her stylist Law Roach chose a stunning custom Valentino dress with a statement-making cutout beneath the bust. It's hard to choose what to focus on: the gown's vibrant and cheery color, its sultry ab-baring slit, or Zendaya's 183 carats worth of Bulgari jewelry. So let's just admire every inch of this stellar look.
Zendaya went matchy-matchy in a yellow face mask and coordinating canary Jimmy Choo heels, so it's no surprise that her jewelry was also in the same color. Zendaya wore a Bulgari High Jewelry necklace in platinum with a cushion-cut fancy vivid yellow diamond along with hundreds of white diamonds. Her Bulgari High Jewelry rings and earrings also featured yellow diamonds for a grand total of 183 carats. Scroll down to see Zendaya's Oscars 2021 look.
On Zendaya: Valentino dress; Bulgari necklace, rings, and earrings
On Zendaya: Valentino dress; Bulgari necklace, rings, and earrings
Next, see the best beauty looks from the 2021 Oscars.

Erin got her start as a Who What Wear intern in 2011—back when the site only published a single story per day. (We have since increased that number twentyfold.) She graduated magna cum laude from USC and lives in Los Angeles. In college, she also interned at Refinery29, where she was promoted to editorial assistant and then assistant editor. After nearly three years at R29, she came back to WWW in 2015, where she is now the Associate Director of Fashion News. From the Oscars to the Met Gala, she leads the site's entire red carpet coverage strategy. She specializes in celebrity and fashion news but also enjoys writing travel features and runway reports. She frequently contributes to WWW's social accounts and has a sizable following on her personal TikTok.
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