Millie Bobby Brown channels Marie Antoinette in corset and ruffled bloomers for 22nd birthday
Let them eat cake.
Millie Bobby Brown took her 22nd birthday to the French court, throwing a Marie Antoinette-themed party at Maison Close, a French restaurant in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood, on Feb. 20.
The “Stranger Things” alum, who turned 22 on Feb. 19, wore a pale pink jacquard corset with puffed cap sleeves and ruffled trim, adorned with teardrop pearls throughout.
She paired the corset with a detachable, pearl-studded belt featuring exaggerated side panniers — an 18th-century French court flourish — ruffled white bloomers and sheer thigh-high stockings
A multi-layered pearl choker with a dangling pendant and matching drop earrings finished the look.
Her beauty and fashion brand, Florence by Mills, shared additional videos and photos showing Brown in a towering white wig decorated with pearls, purple ribbons and pink feathers, captioning the tribute, “in her ✨22✨ era,” and calling Brown “the flo queen of our hearts.”
Brown, meanwhile, shared a photo dump on Instagram Monday, captioning it “I don’t know about u” — a reference to the lyrics of Taylor Swift’s birthday anthem “22.”
Her husband, Jake Bongiovi, 23, was by her side for the fête. The couple — who tied the knot in May 2024 and held a second ceremony in Tuscany that September — posed together in front of a multi-tiered birthday cake topped with sparklers as friends in period costumes gathered around them.
Bongiovi, the son of rocker Jon Bon Jovi, was spotted in a dark jacquard jacket and white frilled-collar shirt, keeping with the evening’s 18th-century dress code.
The intimate guest list included “Stranger Things” director Shawn Levy, castmate Jamie Campbell Bower (who plays the show’s villain Vecna), reality stars Whitney and Conner Leavitt, content creator Elena Taber, and Brown’s mother and grandparents. David Harbour, who plays Brown’s on-screen father Jim Hopper, was the only other “Stranger Things” cast member spotted at the celebration.
Not everyone was charmed by the theme, however. Some fans on social media questioned the choice of Marie Antoinette — the French queen whose lavish spending became a symbol of aristocratic excess and who was ultimately executed during the Revolution — as a birthday party muse for a multimillionaire celebrity. Others jumped to Brown’s defense, calling the criticism overblown and pointing out that the party was simply a fun costume theme.
