Florence Pugh in McQueen
I'm neutral on the dress, but with the spiky bleached hair... am I crazy for kinda wishing she'd lean into a short-haired Madonna homage? This screams for a bold lip.
with Harris Reed
Harris Reed, a designer who's done a lot of work for Harry Styles among others, presented Flo with the award (they're friends). He reminds me of Saoirse Ronan in this photo, maybe mixed with Grace Gummer. (He identifies as genderfluid but uses he/him pronouns, from what I can see.)
Gwen Christie
Gwen attended to accept an award for Designer of the Year in Kim Jones's place (Kim helms Fendi and Dior Homme). This is very ethereal overall. It works for her.
Letitia Wright in McQueen
Why does the top look so much like a craft project?
Suki Waterhouse in Fendi
I like this better than a LOT of the current crop of Fendi, and more than I expected to given my fatigue with undercrackers. But all the extra folds on her torso seem... excessive.
Gemma Chan in Louis Vuitton
I do NOT particularly like this, nor would I ever have identified it as Louis Vuitton if you showed it to me on a hanger. It's just so drab. It's GEMMA CHAN. This woman can carry so much dress!
Clara Amfo
Wait a minute. Could she unclip that and use it to rope off the area around her? This has MANY useful applications in life.
Griff
I hope nobody at her table is allergic to hay.
Bianca Jagger
This seems absolutely correct.
Arsema Thomas
She is so delightful. WHY is that bodice... well, just WHY IS THAT BODICE.
I guess I wanted us all to have a closer look. It's like all the squinch of a barmaid's corset, without anything actually popping out? But "squinch" is not a word we should want to use in a sentence about clothes.
Ambika Dhir
Camping blankets have all SORTS of practical uses.
Andreas Kronthaler
I either didn't know, or simply forgot, that Vivienne Westwood's longtime partner in life and work likes to style himself as a pirate.
Billie Piper in Nina Ricci
SURPRISE. THERE IS A HAT. Somewhere, Billy Porter just felt a pang.
Francesca Hayward
Love the shoes; less sold on the net.
Yasmin Finney
I don't love all the darting on this. Yasmin also posed in every picture with her hand holding back the skirt, suggesting maybe she wasn't sold on how it moved.
Ncuti Gatwa
Yasmin and Ncuti are coming to you soon (or... soonish?) in Doctor Who. I think I wish the pants matched the jacket here, perhaps? Or were blue instead of black? SOMETHING. The lower half doesn't quite sing in harmony with the rest.
Tems
We've seen Tems at a couple events (if you don't know much about her, here's the Elle piece -- they named her a trailblazer), and this is very toned-down by comparison.
Stormzy
Stormzy is crazy handsome and stylish, which is why this feels like such a bummer -- but, he acknowledged this by saying his stylist was on vacation. That is a wild excuse and his stylist is probably somewhere like, '"YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME, I would have set you up in advance," but it cracked me up. His publishing imprint won an award; I didn't know about it, and it's neat.
Sir Ozwald Boateng and Emilia Boateng
Or just call Sir Ozwald! Look at the glories HE has kicking around his closet! He could dream up something fab.
Kenya Hunt
This is trippy. It might want me to do something evil? But... I might be okay with that?