It has been 11 days since Katie Holmes was last photographed, leaving the public eye in an activated state of fight or flight. This is, after all, the same person who wakes in the morning and tasks herself with undertaking a Sisyphean trek around New York, each grueling step documented in hundreds if not thousands of tabloid shots. (I don’t think any famous person in the history of style reporting has ever been described as running quite as many “errands” as Holmes.) The actress returned to the streets of Manhattan this weekend, giggling into a telephone with sun-bleached tresses skimming the belt on a pair of wide-legged jeans with articulated seams and grandma-ish slip-ons. (Holmes almost as much as she does , among them , , , and .) “I’m less likely to centre an outfit around a heel since the pandemic,” Holmes said last month. “I also like to walk everywhere and so that makes me go towards flats and sneakers.” Who else would arrive at the in practical running trainers and a strapless minidress layered over some frayed jeans? Holmes’s fans—and the countless publicists that thank the actress for keeping their brands in business—will perhaps have to acclimate to seeing less of their hero over the coming months. Holmes is currently in rehearsals for , which previews on Broadway in September, and last week she announced that she had been cast in the second season of Natasha Lyonne’s . Good thing Holmes has a lookalike in her 18-year-old daughter Suri, who seems to be following— —in her mother’s well-trodden footsteps.
Katie Holmes Returns to the Streets of New York, Embracing Comfort Over Heels
