Zendaya was glowing as she made her way down the 2025 Golden Globes red carpet in a captivating burnt orange ballgown that was unlike anything else at the Jan. 5 award show in Los Angeles.

Zendaya’s look was a fashion history lesson, referencing Zelda Wynn Valdes. Valdes was a designer who is credited with designing the Playboy costume and dressed the likes of Joyce Bryant. Zendaya’s hair seemed to also be a reference to Joyce Bryant’s signature style.

Skyrocketing to fame in the 1940s and 1950s, Bryant was a prominent Black singer who broke barriers in the nightclub scenes of the time, also raising the hackles of radio censors. Ahead of tonight, Roach told the The New York Times that Zendaya’s glamorous look served an an homage to the figure,