Katie Holmes keeps cool in a black slip dress with beige lace trim during solo shopping trip

Katie Holmes donned a retro-looking black slip dress with beige lace accents when she went solo shopping in New York City.

The Dawson’s Creek alum, 44, carried an oversized bag and slipped her feet into a pair of comfy black ballet slippers.

Suri Cruise’s mother, 17, wore black sunglasses and had a hair tie on one wrist.

She wore her signature dark brown locks in their natural loose waves as her hair fell down her back.

The Alone Together star debuted her new naturally curly hairstyle at the 16th annual Chanel Tribeca Artists Dinner earlier this week.

The Batman Begins star is a bit of a coy fashion icon.

“We live in a world where we have a premiere and you want to look nice, and it turns into a fashion person,” she said in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar last year.

“I’m like, ‘Well, I just want to look nice. I’m not much of a fashion person.’ We all just want to look good,” Katie added.

And the First Daughter actress also confessed that her real signature look is her vintage t-shirt collection.

‘I love my T-shirts and I love my vintage T-shirts. They are so tasty. They’re a little dirty, a little stained or whatever, and that’s me,” said the Rare Objects star.

And she also confessed that she thinks sustainably when it comes to her wardrobe, whether that means keeping something for a long time, donating it or reselling it.

“We no longer have a choice,” she said. “We have to be smart and aware and do the right thing.”

And while she has a collection of vintage handbags, she admitted to having a favorite indulgence in that category: Bottega Veneta bags.

Retro look: The Dawson’s Creek alum, 44, carried an oversized bag and slipped her feet into a comfy pair of black slipper-style ballet flats

Lace accents: Suri Cruise’s mother, 17, wore black sunglasses and had a hair tie on one wrist

All done! Holmes at the Chanel Tribeca Festival Artists Dinner at Balthazar Restaurant on June 12 in New York City

“I feel like that’s one of the brands I always love because it’s so creative and chic,” she said. You feel like you’re wearing a museum piece. So it takes fashion to another level.”

And Katie will have a lot more time on her hands when her only child, Suri, starts college in the fall.

Reportedly, Suri wants to go to fashion school and her father Tom Cruise will pay for it, even though he has been estranged from his biological daughter for years.

Paying for Suri’s college was stipulated in the couple’s divorce settlement, but the Top Gun star has no say in where Suri goes to college.