Elle Fanning Cracks the Code on Doing Less, Beautifully

Call it the return of restraint: Elle Fanning's date-night uniform lately reads less "red carpet," more quiet confidence, all clean lines and nothing shouting for attention. The reference point tracks — there's a distinctly Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy hush to it, the kind of minimalism that takes more discipline than it looks like it does. It's the rare date-night formula that photographs as effortless because it actually is simple, not because anyone's pretending.

With reporting from Harper's Bazaar.