Earlier this week, British Vogue’s Alice Newbold revealed an article titled “Let Dakota Johnson’s Webbed Bare Robe Finish The Technique-Dressing Recreation,” in reference to the sheer variety of arachnid-inspired appears to be like that Johnson and her stylist Kate Younger have been pulling for the Madame Internet press tour. And it appeared to work: yesterday night, the actor wore a Tom Ford maxi gown (which was under no circumstances netted or chandeliered) to the movie’s premiere in Mexico Metropolis. She seemed like Dakota Johnson the actor versus Dakota Johnson the actor starring in a movie about spiders.

In fact, Johnson isn’t the primary individual to make self-referential statements on the crimson carpet. That will be Margot Robbie, who has spent the previous 12 months in various shades of Barbie-pink. See additionally: Maisie Williams–who’s starring as Catherine Dior in Apple TV+’s interval drama The New Look, which retraces the rivalries between Christian Dior and Gabrielle Chanel–in all her nip-waisted odes to the Nineteen Forties. Although enjoyable, the method-dressing pattern is a tough factor to tug off with out it feeling, nicely, somewhat apparent. There may be little motive for clothes to additionally tackle the duties of a movie studio’s advertising and marketing division. “It’s unattainable to know what individuals seem like anymore!” as Newbold wrote.

Technique dressing ought to, a minimum of, converge with an actor’s private type. It helps, then, that Florence Pugh has all the time dressed as if she have been some sort of tough-minded empress. (She performs Princess Irulan in Dune: Half Two alongside Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet.) Think about the feathered headpiece she wore to the 2023 Met Gala, or these bone-crushing platform wedges, for instance.

And so, for tonight’s Dune: Half Two premiere at Leicester Sq., she stepped onto sand dunes put in outdoors the Odeon cineplex in a long-trained, hooded gown embroidered with chocolate-brown sequins that, sure, felt Arrakis-appropriate, but additionally prefer it had been sourced from an atelier slightly than a Warner Bros lot. Actually, artistic director Pierpaolo Piccioli personally designed the search for Pugh. A suitably celestial search for the fictional daughter of an intergalactic emperor, with one foot very a lot in the true (trend) world.