Most celebrities look good on a red carpet. (The hair will be neat, the skin unblemished and the gowns inoffensive.) But I often yearn for a time in pop culture when , , and Lizzy Gardiner in 254 expired Amex Cards.
It takes more than elegance – which is little more than an expectation being met – to inspire the imagination and move fashion forward. understands this. The actor’s partnership with stylist Harry Lambert has produced some of the most memorable red-carpet moments of the 2020s.
See: ; ; and designed to resemble a goldfish tied up in a plastic bag at the premiere of in 2022. These were successful not because Corrin looked glamorous, but because Corrin unsettles the glamorous. The actor last night returned to the red carpet for the premiere of in a peak-shouldered minidress with garter straps, thigh-high stockings and peep-toe heels.
It had an off-kilter sex appeal – high-powered, old-fashioned, undone – and was plucked from . Proof perhaps that the red carpet is not just a platform for someone’s perceived prettiness, but the eccentricities of their mind..
