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Gwyneth Paltrow understood the assignment.
The Oscar winner, 53, dressed in head-to-toe orange for her Late Night with Seth Meyers appearance on Monday night, a bold color choice with significance dreamed up by her Marty Supreme costar Timothée Chalamet.
Paltrow wore a bright orange tracksuit, complete with a high-neck jacket and coordinating sweatpants. The jacket was a zip-up with a white zipper and a matching white piping detail on each side of the leg.
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The actress, who plays love interest Kay Stone in the ping-pong-centric film opposite Chalamet’s Marty Mauser, glammed up her athletic attire with white pumps and jewelry. She swept her long, blonde locks behind her ears.
Orange, however, has a hidden tie to Marty Supreme, and dates back to a “leaked” brainstorm with the film’s marketing team and Chalamet, 29, that circled social media in November.
During the now-viral marketing Zoom call, Chalamet stressed the need to have a color synonymous with Marty Supreme, similar to the strategic marketing tactic that turned Barbie into a pink pop culture phenomenon.
Rather than pink for the table tennis movie, however, Chalamet pitched orange — or rather, a more complex version of the shade.
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“Hardcore orange. Corroded orange. Falling apart orange. Rusted orange,” are the color hues that the actor brought forth in the Zoom meeting that he envisioned would align with the film.
Paltrow isn’t the first to take the color out of the brainstorm.
Chalamet brought his vision to life alongside his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, at the Marty Supreme Los Angeles premiere when they hit the red carpet together on Monday, Dec. 8.
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The couple matched in custom Chrome Hearts ensembles: Chalamet wore a bright orange leather suit, with an orange silk shirt and orange Timberland boots. He also carried a Chrome Hearts black leather ping-pong paddle case draped over his shoulder.
Jenner dressed in a floor-length orange gown with triangular cutouts complete with a deep V-neckline cinched with a cross embellishment, which was then replicated on her necklace. She tied the look together with orange pointed-toe pumps.
Marty Supreme is in theaters Dec. 25.
