What Sydney Sweeney’s gown at Variety’s Power of Women event reveals — about art, femininity, and our ongoing confusion between sensuality and performance. Woooo eeee! Sydney Sweeney — the pint-sized bombshell who’s got heads rolling off shoulders and tongues waggin’. Let’s break this down. First, the art. Because I’ll always be drawn to beauty found in art before anything else. The dress — that  dress — is simply gorgeous. It debuted at the Christian Cowan Spring/Summer 2026