Zendaya Revives Carrie Bradshaw’s Iconic Dress, Tracing Back to Whitney Houston

Zendaya arrived at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards in a vintage Cachè dress that re-creates Eugene Alexander’s ’80s design—the same look Carrie Bradshaw wears in the Sex and the City movie. The moment, celebrated by stylist Law Roach, highlights that the original Eugene Alexander dress was Whitney Houston’s in a 1987 Life photo shoot and later appeared on the Life cover, underscoring a lineage from Whitney to Carrie to Zendaya.