Dakota Johnson’s Sheer Colleen Allen Lace Dress Leaves Almost Nothing to Verity
At the London premiere of Verity, Dakota Johnson poured herself into a sheer beige Colleen Allen lace column over black Fleur du Mal lingerie — plunging neckline, peekaboo everything.
Dakota Johnson did not come to the London premiere of Verity to leave anything to the imagination — she came in sheer beige lace that basically filed a transparency report with Curzon Mayfair.
On September 24, the Fifty Shades alum walked the carpet in a sleeveless Colleen Allen Fall 2026 maxi: delicate cream floral lace, plunging V with ruffled shawl collar, column silhouette, and enough see-through energy to make the neon triangles blush. Underneath? Contrasting black Fleur du Mal lingerie — triangle bra and cheeky bottoms doing the absolute most with the absolute least. Straight bangs. Black manicure. Tiny gold heart necklace. Soft Scoop raunch only — Facebook-safe, still the reason every photographer zoomed.
Page Six, WWD, Marie Claire, and Daily Mail all clocked the peekaboo formula. Johnson has long owned naked-dressing with stylist Kate Young — Madame Web mesh, Kering black lace with Fleur du Mal again, Zurich purple Gucci — and Verity’s erotic-thriller vibe just handed her the perfect excuse to restart the sheer era. The dress debuted in Colleen Allen’s lookbook with a beige slip; Dakota swapped that for black lingerie because of course she did. Contrast was the point. Lace was the alibi.
Co-star Josh Hartnett joined in a tieless modern black suit with balloon-adjacent trousers; pregnant co-star Anne Hathaway sat this London stop out in New York. The film — Michael Showalter directing Colleen Hoover’s twist-on-twist thriller — hits theaters October 2. Dakota has described it as “a twist on top of a twist on top of a twist.” Thursday night’s dress was the fashion equivalent: covered in embroidery, uncovered in every other sense.
She once told Vogue Germany she simply doesn’t “care” if a dress is “too sexy.” “I’ve been able to wear some of the most beautiful dresses, and I feel beautiful in them, so I wear them.” Soft Scoop translation: London got the memo in sheer lace and black Fleur du Mal.
Soft Scoop housekeeping: the Verity carpet wanted gothic sensuality and got it in beige lace with a black lingerie underlay. Photographers got the full-length. Fans got the zoom. Fashion Twitter got another chapter in Dakota’s sheer extended universe. October 2 can’t come soon enough — but the dress already premiered.
Sources lightly stacked: Page Six’s Audrey Rock, WWD’s Julia Teti, Marie Claire’s Meguire Hennes, and the Daily Mail red-carpet gallery all carried the same math — sheer Colleen Allen, black Fleur du Mal, Verity neon, Josh Hartnett on the arm. Scoop just said it with less politeness and more pink footer.
Scoop’s verdict? The dress left almost nothing to Verity. The timeline left nothing unsaid. Sheer lace: undefeated.