It may have been over 20 years (how?) since Friends wrapped, but the late ’90s, early ’00s world it captured continues to seep into the current culture. Aspirational Manhattan apartments and $2 cappuccinos aside, the show cemented Jennifer Aniston as the poster girl of the era , serving us slip dresses and spaghetti straps both on and off the screen, long before Zoë Kravitz or Hailey Bieber could even hope to spell Loewe.
Two decades on, Jennifer Aniston is back on the red carpet and reminding us that, sometimes, the best reference is…yourself. At the New York premiere of the latest season of The Morning Show last night (September 9), she wore a strapless black Rick Owens dress, one that was perfectly aligned with her red carpet wardrobe in the the era of floppy disks and bu