Anne Hathaway Just Started NYFW With a Baby Purple Bag

New York Fashion Week is just getting started, and yet it has already become a Big Bag Convention. While editors, industry insiders, and influencers zoom from one runway show to the next, the street style circuit shows no shortage of bottomless shoulder styles. That’s why it was so surprising to see Anne Hathaway with a tiny purple purse in tow on September 9, the eve of NYFW.

For Hathaway, Fashion Month began at the unveiling of “auruBOROS—Urban Memory and Collective Dream,” Bulgari’s first public art installation in the country. The pregnant star’s longtime stylist, Erin Walsh, dressed her in an airy gown from McQueen’s Fall 2026 fashion show.

The sweetheart neckline became its only structured design detail, and even that was buried beneath layers of floating chiffon. Better yet, the goddess-like strapless style (which could’ve been leftover from The Odyssey press tour) complemented the color trend that her novelty purse tapped into.

The jewelry brand ambassador didn’t just frost herself in Bulgari bling. Her top-handle bag, the “Serpenti Cuore 1968,” was on loan from the Italian label’s catalog, too. Just big enough to carry her phone and lipstick, it prioritized fashion over function.

Once inside the celebrity-beloved Boom Boom Room, Hathaway finished her first NYFW ‘fit of the season with a Bulgari Serpenti Pendant Necklace, diamond bangles and earring studs, metallic gold sandals by Aquazzura, and a red-hot lip and manicure (a subtle take on the red-and-purple color combination trend).