Red carpets and promotional rounds have turned up some smart ensembles.
Stars are taking it easy now that we’re in the post-Oscars period, though the NAACP Image Awards brought out some brilliant looks (an arguably stronger showing than the Academy Awards) and promotion continues for some new films. Kristen Stewart has been all over the place, sans pants; Jake Gyllenhaal too, though he’s had a trouser issue of a different nature — more on that below.
Queen Latifah
One of four outfit changes for the host of the NAACP Image Awards, where she spoke out against pay inequity, this Georges Hobeika number was the best of the bunch. A visual feast of scalloped fabric and violet, one can only imagine the sensory delight it delivered IRL.
Alexa Chung
It’s been a strong week of outings for Ms Chung, including a literally brilliant Miu Miu ensemble. This Erdem dress is particularly lovely, with a theatrical drape to it and a print that benefits from the crushed taffeta.
Jake Gyllenhaal
He’s been stretching his style muscles on the Road House promotional trail, and there’s an undercurrent of old-school masculinity to Gyllenhaal’s looks that plays well with the 1989 origins of this remake; a nod to nostalgia if you will. Surely he’s channelling the late, great, eternally cool Patrick Swayze? There have bene some hits — a tie and banker shirt with a tweedy Prada coat and trousers, although the pants needed hemming — and a few misses (odd shoe choices). This Boss outfit, layered over a white singlet and a few chains, is a hit.
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Olivia Colman
So louche, so elegant. The drama of this dress is tempered with the whipped-butter hue and Colman’s short, sharp hairdo.
Anna Sui, Barbara Hulanicki, Dame Zandra Rhodes and Dame Lesley “Twiggy” Lawson
Leaders in their respective fields, seeing four luminaries like these come together is like witnessing a solar eclipse. More significant than the overused term “star” denotes, Sui, Rhodes and Lawson are honouring Barbara Hulanicki at a private viewing of The Biba Story, 1964-1975 at The Fashion and Textile Museum in London, an exhibition about Hulanicki’s zeitgeist-shaping and hugely influential boutique, Biba.
Hunter Schafer
Our anointed avant-garde queen for 2023 continues to mine designer archives — a popular pastime for Hollywood stars and their stylists (Schafer’s is Dara Allen). This time it’s 2007 Prada, one of the brand’s weirder collections and a favourite of the Viva fashion department.
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A striking look on actor Nicole Berharie, also at the NAACP Image Awards, this is by Peggy Hartanto and accessorised marvellously.
Maya Rudolph
A great example of fashion with humour — well suited to the professionally funny Maya Rudolph — at first glance it’s an elegant, if somewhat conservative coat dress. But then you see the details and those sensationally perverse shoes. It’s Schiaparelli by Daniel Roseberry, a ready-to-wear look from 2022.
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