Angelina Jolie Gave Her Trench Coat a Twist With the Most Unexpected Detail

No matter the season and no matter the setting, leave it to Angelina Jolie to stick to her uniform. Today, the Oscar-winning actress, fashion designer, mother, and philanthropist arrived at the Venice Film Festival wearing her go-to trench, but she gave her go-to a summer-ready twist by opting for a coat with short, cropped sleeves. No stranger to a trench, Jolie is often seen wearing long, flowing black coats, but today’s featured a lighter khaki hue, cinched belted waist, and exaggerated, voluminous short sleeves.

Jolie finished the look with a pair of bold, cat-eye shades and black, knee-high boots with crisscross strap detailing from Mulberry. Her coat fell past her knees, obscuring her choice of top for the Italian trip, but a flowy silky skirt peeked out from the hem of her outerwear. She skipped out on a necklace and wore her blonde hair in a deep side part.

Jolie is in Venice to promote her film, Maria, which is in competition at the storied film festival. In the Pablo Larraín-directed movie, Jolie stars as real-life opera singer Maria Callas and it also includes co-stars Kodi Smit-McPhee, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, and Haluk Bilginer. Jolie has a packed schedule for the biopic, with plans to take it to the Telluride Film Festival, as well.

“Angelina will be on the first day, on Thursday, [August] 29, and she will leave right after with Pablo Larraín to go to Telluride [Film Festival],” Venice Film Festival Artistic Director Alberto Barbera told Vanity Fair.

Previous Larraín films Spencer and Jackie earned their respective stars Oscar nominations, including Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana and Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

“I am incredibly excited to start production on Maria, which I hope will bring Maria Callas’s remarkable life and work to audiences all around the world, thanks to the magnificent script by Steven Knight, the work of the entire cast and crew, and, especially, Angelina’s brilliant work and extraordinary preparation,” Larraín shared in a statement last October.

According to a press release, Maria will chronicle the “tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.”