Elle Fanning didn’t blend into the Hall H crowd at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 on Friday — she sliced through it, literally and sartorially, in a pair of pointed neon pumps.
The “Predator: Badlands” actress stepped out in a subtle-but-striking footwear choice: high-vamp, sharply pointed pumps in a highlighter chartreuse shade. The shoes featured a matte finish and dramatic stiletto heel, creating a sleek and vivid punctuation mark beneath the floor-sweeping hem of her jet-black trousers.
She paired the shoes with a sharply tailored black suit and bandeau top, a silhouette that echoed the structured menace of her new sci-fi role while keeping the look rooted in contemporary polish. But it was the shoes that provided narrative contrast — the acid green flash beneath all that black recalling alien glow.
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This isn’t Fanning’s first bold step this summer. At Cannes 2025, she wore angular orange Zanotti mules with a striped Max Mara shirtdress, and later floated across the red carpet in custom powder blue Chanel. Even her accessories — Prada’s sailor-striped tote, Balmain’s translucent cat-eyes — have nodded toward color play as a quiet motif.
She joins a growing wave of celebrities embracing green and pastel-forward shoes this season. Pamela Anderson recently wore hunter green Gianvito Rossi pumps to promote “The Naked Gun,” while Ahlgrens Bilar’s TikTok-fueled candy sneakers — a pastel fantasia — sold out on launch. Fanning’s pair sits somewhere between those extremes: grown-up but playful, high-impact but wearable.
“Predator: Badlands,” directed by Dan Trachtenberg, is a prequel set in the Predator universe, with Fanning starring alongside “Reservation Dogs” breakout D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai. The film, slated for release in 2026, was previewed during Disney’s showcase in Hall H, where Fanning joined the cast to debut early footage and concept art.
