The Moment
Sofia Vergara did not fly to London to blend in with the wallpaper. The 53-year-old actress stepped out for beauty mogul Anastasia Soare’s birthday dinner in what was essentially holiday lingerie as an outfit – and somehow made it look like the most natural thing in the world.
In photos shared on Vergara’s Instagram, she’s wearing a sheer nude lace corset-style top paired with a floor-length, nude-toned sequined skirt. Same shade on top and bottom, all shimmer, zero apology. The slideshow shows her at an intimate dinner table with Soare and wellness coach Serena Poon, and in a close-up selfie where the decolletage is very much the main character.
She captioned one shot simply, ‘London’, which tells you where the party went down without giving away a single reservation detail. Soare followed up with her own carousel of group photos, showing Vergara’s look from head to toe – including towering platform heels that say, ‘I’m not here for a quiet night in.’
Sequins were basically the dress code: Soare in a black sparkly mini, her daughter Norvina and Poon in longer glittery dresses, and Sofia taking the theme and running it straight through the lingerie drawer. New Year’s Eve might still be around the corner, but she clearly decided to start the sparkle countdown early.
The Take
I have to say it: this is peak midlife power dressing. Not a blazer in sight, just a lace corset you can practically see through and a skirt that doubles as a disco ball. If your mom showed up to dinner in this, the group chat would never recover. When Sofia does it? It just feels…correct.
We talk a lot about “age-appropriate” like it’s a dress code written on stone tablets. Vergara’s been quietly shredding that memo for years. This London look is one more reminder that 50-plus women don’t have to retreat to sensible wrap dresses and statement necklaces. She’s still wearing the same silhouette she’s loved for decades – corsets, bustiers, body-hugging everything – she just updates the styling and owns it.
The outfit itself is clever. The nude-on-nude palette keeps the whole thing from tipping into costume territory. It’s lingerie, yes, but done in a way that reads grown-up glam, not bachelorette party. Think of it as taking a Victoria’s Secret corset and enrolling it in a very fancy finishing school.
There’s also a comfort level here you can’t fake. This is not a woman nervously tugging at her top between courses. She’s toasting the birthday girl, posing for selfies, hopping time zones from Vienna to London to New York, doing it all in lace and sequins like that’s just Tuesday. The message – intentional or not – is pretty loud: you don’t have to age out of feeling hot. You just get better at picking your moments.
Is the corset trend new? Not even a little. But when a high-profile 53-year-old leans into it this hard, in the dead of winter, at a candlelit dinner instead of a red carpet, it lands differently. It turns what could have been another celebrity “naked dress” into a little manifesto about midlife confidence – sparkly, lacy, and absolutely not retiring.
Receipts
- Confirmed: Sofia Vergara posted London dinner photos in a sheer lace corset and nude sequined skirt, captioning one image ‘London’, on her official Instagram account in late December 2025.
- Confirmed: Anastasia Soare, founder of Anastasia Beverly Hills, shared a carousel from the same birthday dinner on her verified Instagram, showing Vergara’s full corset-and-sequin look alongside other guests in sparkly dresses.
- Confirmed: Recent posts on Vergara’s Instagram show her traveling with the same friend group through Vienna over Christmas and stopping in New York beforehand, matching the travel mentions in coverage of the night.
- Unverified (but reasonable to assume): Exact restaurant location in London and the full guest list have not been officially detailed by Vergara or Soare.
Sofía Vergara teams sheer lace corset with nude sequined skirt for London night out https://t.co/Xp3uHwLUzz pic.twitter.com/AVGQlBCDqX
— Page Six (@PageSix) December 30, 2025
Sources: Sofia Vergara Instagram posts, December 2025; Anastasia Soare Instagram posts, December 2025; contemporary fashion coverage of Vergara’s London birthday-dinner look.
Backstory (For Casual Readers)
If you mostly know Sofia Vergara as Gloria from Modern Family, here’s the fashion footnote: she’s been a bustier girl since long before that show paid for her shoe closet. Red carpets, talk shows, F1 races – if there’s an excuse to put a corset over anything, she’s probably tried it. In recent years, she’s leaned even harder into curve-hugging, lingerie-adjacent pieces: sheer bustiers with jeans, structured corset gowns on carpets, slinky tops for girls’ nights out. While plenty of stars flirt with the underwear-as-outerwear trend in their 20s, Vergara has basically built a signature look out of it in her 40s and 50s.
What’s Next
If this is what she wears for someone else’s birthday in late December, you have to assume New Year’s Eve is going to come with even more wattage. At minimum, expect more sequins, more corsetry, and another round of “wait, she’s 53?” comments under every post.
On a bigger level, Vergara’s style run is part of a wider shift we’re seeing: Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek, Halle Berry and others in that same age bracket are dressing like the main event, not someone’s stylish aunt in the background. Sofia just happens to be the one doing it in a lace corset at a London dinner party, smiling like she knows exactly how much conversation she’s about to cause.
So yes, the outfit is a lot. That’s the point. The question now is whether more women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond will feel emboldened to pull something similar from the back of their closets – or finally buy the sparkly skirt they’ve been talking themselves out of for years.
Your turn: When you see Sofia Vergara in a sheer corset and sequins at 53, does it feel inspiring, try-hard, or something in between for how you think about dressing as you get older?
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