‘Loewe, Loewe, Loewe,’ Sophie Wilde gushes on the phone from her hotel room at the . The Australian actor, who not only pronounces the Spanish luxury fashion brand’s long revered yet complicated to pronounce name (see ’s recent short film joking about said confusion) with perfection (‘it's definitely one that you have to kind of practise'), but explains with ease why J.W.
Anderson’s bespoke two-piece tasselled design was the perfect choice for her debut Festival red carpet moment over the weekend. ‘It was a white two piece with these beaded silver tassels along the hem of the skirt and the hem of the top. It’s so fun,’ Wilde, who received a nomination for Rising Star earlier this year, says of her standout look.
‘Nell [Kalonji] and I wanted to kind of have a moment because it’s Cannes. We wanted a special opportunity to showcase something fun. We were just thinking of what's fun, young and still elevated and refined at the same time.
We got the perfect combination of the two in that dress. Reflecting on the process of choosing the look, Wilde – who believes she has the style of a ‘12 year-old skater boy..
. my red carpet looks vastly different’ – admits she has an ‘amazing relationship’ with her stylist, Kalonji. ‘It definitely feels super collaborative and we’re always spit balling off each other and coming up with ideas,’ she notes.
‘For Cannes, we created a little mood board for Loewe and they came back with some drawings and we pic.
