Kim Kardashian led the glamour at the Rome premiere of All’s Fair series two, arriving at the Auditorium Parco Della Musica in a vintage Yves Saint Laurent gown.
The 46-year-old wore a strapless couture leopard-print dress from 1998, which was closely fitted through the body. She completed the look with a matching chiffon scarf draped over her shoulders and black heels.
Kardashian plays Allura Grant, a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer whose firm specialises in securing large settlements for female clients. The second series is due to arrive on Disney+ on 4 November.
She was joined on the red carpet by co-stars Naomi Watts and Sarah Paulson at the screening, held during Rome’s film festival.
Watts chose a black satin Roksanda dress featuring a paint-splatter pattern and a dramatic skirt. Paulson wore a custom Miu Miu white gown embellished with beads.
Watts plays Liberty Ronson, a sharp-witted attorney and co-founder of the all-female law firm Grant, Ronson & Greene, while Paulson portrays Carrington Lane, a rival lawyer.
Kardashian arrived in Rome earlier in the week with her mother, Kris Jenner, who also attended the premiere. Jenner wore a black cape decorated with silver scorpions.
The custom garment was a recreation of a Tiziani Roma cape originally worn by Elizabeth Taylor to Grace Kelly’s 40th birthday party in 1969. Kardashian wore the piece in the second series of the legal drama.
All’s Fair returns after harsh critical reception
The Ryan Murphy-created series also stars Glenn Close, Niecy Nash-Betts and Teyana Taylor. Nash-Betts appeared in a strapless white and black corset gown on the Rome red carpet.
The programme attracted sharply negative reviews when it first debuted, despite its high-profile cast and extensive promotion. It received a zero per cent critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 19 out of 100 on Metacritic.
The Times critic Ben Dowell described it as “the worst TV drama ever” in a zero-star review, while USA Today’s Kelly Lawler called it “the worst TV show of the year”.
Other critics also singled out Kardashian’s performance. Dowell wrote: “Does Kardashian make a convincing lawyer? No, she does not. She is to acting what Genghis Khan is to a peaceful liberal democracy.”
Angie Han of The Hollywood Reporter said Kardashian’s performance was “stiff and affectless without a single authentic note”, while The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan wrote: “I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad… But I was wrong. All’s Fair is terrible. Fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.”
Ed Power of The Telegraph awarded the show one star and criticised Murphy, describing him as “the high priest of tacky, tasteless television”.
Kardashian, who also served as an executive producer, recently said she had feared she had “ruined” the series after its first episodes were released.
“At the beginning, to the girls, my cast, I was like, ‘Wait, are we OK? Did I ruin everything?’ And they were like, ‘Listen, we are OK’,” she recalled.
She added that the cast had enjoyed making the programme and had responded to the way audiences viewed it. “We thought we were a bit more serious last year, but the audiences thought we were really comical, so we’ve leant into that,” she said.
Despite the critical response, All’s Fair recorded 3.2 million views worldwide in the three days after its November 4 premiere, calculated by dividing total viewing minutes by the programme’s running time. Hulu said it was the strongest opening for an original scripted series on the platform in three years.
Kardashian is also pursuing further scripted acting work and wrapped the Netflix comedy The Fifth Wheel in March. The film was directed by Eva Longoria and is expected to premiere later this year or in early 2027.
