Halle Berry wore her Elie Saab Oscar gown again on November 13, 2024, at the designer’s 1,001st-season show in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The dress first appeared on Berry at the 2002 Academy Awards, where she won Best Actress for Monster’s Ball. Vogue reported that the 2024 look was revived “with zero alterations.”
What Halle Berry wore to the 2002 Oscars
Berry’s gown was a design from Elie Saab’s collection presented in Paris on July 12, 2001—not a dress created specifically for her. Stylist Phillip Bloch selected it for the 74th Academy Awards on March 24, 2002, where Berry won Best Actress for Monster’s Ball. EL PAÍS reports that she became the first Black woman to win the category.
The look paired an embroidered tulle or mesh bodice with a full, draped taffeta skirt. Vogue describes the skirt as silk taffeta; EL PAÍS calls the bodice lining-free embroidered tulle.
How the Oscar gown was changed for Berry
The original runway version revealed more than Berry and Bloch wanted for the televised ceremony. According to EL PAÍS’s account of the gown’s design history, seamstress Madeleine Aikenberg enlarged the chest embroidery, and Aikenberg and Bloch removed the original back zipper. The alterations made the runway design into the version audiences saw at the Oscars.
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When and how she wore it again
On November 13, 2024, Berry appeared on the catwalk at Elie Saab’s 1,001st-season show in Riyadh wearing the Oscar look again. Vogue reported that the gown was revived with “zero alterations”—a rewear of the 2002 Oscars look as Berry wore it, rather than merely a similar design.
The reports do not establish that the historic gown held by the Academy Museum was the physical garment worn in Riyadh. Berry said the gown became part of the Academy Museum collection in 2021; the available accounts do not clarify how the 2024 rewear was arranged.
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Why the gown became part of Oscar history
The dress is closely associated with Berry’s Best Actress win and the significance she gave the moment in her acceptance speech, connecting it to Black actresses and other women of color. Its meaning extends beyond the red carpet: Saab later said the appearance helped bring his name to a wider international audience. EL PAÍS reproduced that comment from a 2019 Vogue Australia interview.
Berry’s statement, reproduced by EL PAÍS, described the gown’s museum future as a way to preserve it and make it accessible to future generations. The Independent reported in March 2023 that it was on display, but that report does not verify whether it is currently on view.
Where the gown is now
Berry said in 2021 that the historic gown had become part of the Academy Museum’s collection. The Independent also reported it on display in 2023. Those dated reports establish its collection and display context at those times, not its current gallery status; check the museum’s current visitor information before planning to see it.
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