While Suri’s dad was promoting Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol about town, mom seized the opportunity to treat New York’s paps to a veritable cornucopia of seasonal looks. Chunky cableknit for lunch in Tribeca? Boom: Lazy Sunday Luxe. Black polka-dotted gauzy cocktail frock? Boom: Winter Shopping Mega-Festive. Silky coal onesie with ivory lace underlay? Boom: Birthday Dinner Glam. But it was while her better half was on his way to a Late Night With Jimmy Fallon appearance that Katie really hit her high note.

 
The shades:
A nod to the wayfarers her hubby made de rigueur in Risky Business, the silhouette of Katie’s shades also wink at her own filmography with an ever so slight upturn befitting a Catwoman alum. Timeless, self-referential and trendy. Touché. Of course, the impact of the frame is helped by being topped off with that impossibly glossy prep school–worthy mane, the kind celebrities named Kate seem to excel at.

The coat:
What better way to bounce back from the mixed-reviewed Kennedys miniseries than by conquering a 60s staple. On this occasion it’s safe to say Katie knocked it out of the park, pairing a mod black three-quarter-length swingcoat with that fab shrunken fisherman’s sweater from lunch (bonus points for illustrating the versatility of the piece KC!). It’s ever so “girl-next-door back from the big city, home to break the news to her film geek childhood sweetheart that she married that guy from the movie they both love.”

The bag:
A pop of Rudolph red in an otherwise neutral ensemble, Holmes’s nubuck Clare Vivier messenger bag screams chic celebri-mommy—still compact enough not to hold everything mommies who aren’t famous need to hold. And in case you didn’t get it right away, the peekaboo effect from Suri’s plush toy—a hint of creamy grey for that tone-on-tone effect with Holmes’s swingy a-line skirt—drives it home.