On the press run for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, the actress has turned her third pregnancy into a mythic fashion victory lap.

There’s a certain kind of press tour that transcends the movie it’s promoting, and <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/anne-hathaway-best-fashion-moments-red-carpet">Anne Hathaway</a>’s run for Christopher <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/film-tv/odyssey-film-christopher-nolan-cast-plot-release-date">Nolan’s</a> The Odyssey is firmly one of them. Weeks before the film’s London premiere, Hathaway quietly announced she’s expecting her third child—and every look since has doubled as a celebration of it. At 43, she isn’t hiding the bump; she’s building entire outfits around it.&nbsp;
The genius is in the theme. In <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/the-odyssey-world-premiere-cast-outfits-red-carpet-zendaya-dress-hair-anne-hathaway-lupita-nyongo">The Odyssey</a>, out July 17, Hathaway plays Penelope, the clever, long-suffering Queen of Ithaca—and her wardrobe has leaned all the way into it. Working with longtime stylist Erin Walsh (this marks their third press tour together this year alone), she’s spent the circuit in goddess-like draping, empire waists, and sculptural pleating, the exact grammar of ancient-Greek dress translated for a modern red carpet. Custom <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion-week/dior-haute-couture-fall-winter-2026-runway-images-photos-sabrina-carpenter-sheer-dress">Dior Haute Couture</a>, custom <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/louis-vuitton-silk-tech-material-bags-sneakers">Louis Vuitton</a>, custom <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/men/prada-mens-spring-summer-2027-collection-runway-photos-review">Prada</a>: each one a study in regal, column-cut restraint that wraps the bump rather than works around it. Call it method dressing at its most literal—the Queen of Ithaca, styled for the step-and-repeat.&nbsp;
What makes it land isn’t just the concept, though. It’s that Hathaway has always dressed a pregnancy this way.&nbsp;

Anne Hathaway in Marc Jacobs at the LA Art Show in January 2016. Getty Images.

Anne Hathaway in Naeem Khan at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in February 2016. Getty Images.

Rewind a decade. In early 2016, pregnant with her first son, Jonathan, Hathaway debuted her bump in a monochrome polka-dot <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/marc-jacobs-spring-summer-2027-collection-runway-photos-see-all-the-looks-review">Marc Jacobs</a> minidress at the LA Art Show, then turned up to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party weeks later in a black-and-gold Naeem Khan gown veiled in beaded mesh. Set those images beside her 2026 looks and the effect is a little uncanny: same glow, same daring, same instinct to treat a growing belly as a reason to dress up rather than down. Ten years, two more pregnancies, and one impossibly consistent face later, Hathaway hasn’t so much aged as stayed exactly, radiantly herself.&nbsp;
That continuity is the quiet thread running through the whole tour. And in 2026, she’s using it to move through nearly every maternity trend worth naming. The empire waist—fashion’s oldest bump-friendly silhouette—shows up again and again, from a periwinkle Dior at the London premiere to a marigold Lela Rose column at the New York junket. Sheer layering does the heavy lifting elsewhere: her custom Louis Vuitton in Paris paired a structured chocolate-leather bodice with a completely see-through pleated skirt, while a Paris photocall look floated a gold-flecked, celestial-embroidered chiffon over a midnight-blue column. Even her off-duty looks lean into the theme, with all-white slip dresses and Grecian draping.&nbsp;
The throughline is that Hathaway never lets the styling upstage the storytelling. Every drape nods to Ithaca; every column reads as a crown. It’s the rare press tour where the clothes aren’t just beautiful—they’re in character. If maternity dressing once meant disappearing, Hathaway has spent this summer proving it can mean the opposite: a woman dressing like the myth she’s about to play, bump and all.&nbsp;

Anne Hathaway in custom Dior Haute Couture at The Odyssey London premiere. Getty Images.

Anne Hathaway Still Dresses a Baby Bump Better Than Anyone

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