Gwyneth Paltrow Is Dressing For Another Ski Trial

In March 2023, Gwyneth Paltrow entered a pine-panelled courthouse in Utah. The actress-turned-wellness guru was counter-suing a retired optometrist for a 2016 ski slope collision, and wore a turtleneck sweater from her own G label. Style titles began to make several outsized statements about the expensive clothes she was photographed in during the rest of the proceedings. The wide-legged Proenza Schouler trousers, cashmere Prada polos, Olsen-made loden coats and lug-soled Celine boots were chosen not because they were courtroom-appropriate, but, if you were to be online at the time, as an assertion of this billionaire’s soft powers. It was “stealth wealth” embodied.

Gwyneth Paltrow in New York. Raymond Hall

Sure, it was fun to read the runes of a Ralph Lauren blazer and FoundRae necklace, but the desperate need to decode Paltrow’s belongings led people to conjecture. (Like all those who claimed Paltrow’s reading glasses were a subtle dig at the optometrist complainant despite her wearing them long before the trial started.) What if – and bear with me on this – these were just her normal clothes, worn for no reason other than her already owning them? Take, for example, the G Label cable knit sweater and G Label double-breasted overcoat she wore yesterday afternoon. Paltrow looked as if she could have been dressing for judge and jury, but was simply visiting Goop’s flagship in New York.

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While courtroom fashions are often curated and considered – there are actual stylists who specialise in that kind of stuff – the casual nonchalance with which Paltrow dressed was, of course, the point. (This was the same person whose main gripe with getting into the hilltop collision was said to be losing “a half-day of skiing”.) The outfits were inconspicuous, as if to detract from and neutralise the absurdity of a legal battle that more than 491,000 people livestreamed on YouTube. The chatter that collected around these nice, but routine, items of clothing became even more absurd than the hearing itself. The truth is: Gwyneth Paltrow will always be dressing for a courtroom appearance, because she happens to own sensible clothes.

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