While the Barbie has delivered a plethora of candy-colored ensembles, the press tour for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer—featuring Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh—has also made its mark with its red-carpet fashion moments.
From Cillian Murphy’s sheer Saint Laurent shirt to Pugh’s burnt orange Valentino haute couture gown and matching orange buzz cut, the looks have felt theatrical and err on the dark side. At the London premiere of Oppenheimer, Blunt wore an Alexander McQueen ’40s sequined ensemble, before leaving with the rest of the cast in a mass walkout in solidarity with the actors strike in America.
The outfit—look 51 from the brand’s autumn-winter 2023 collection, to be precise—comprised a black and silver cutout dress adorned with bugle beads, as well as pronounced capped sleeves and a sweeping fringed skirt. Blunt topped it all off with a black and silver clutch bag, drop earrings, and black leather strappy sandals. “I loved the nostalgia and modernity of this stunning creation,” Emily Blunt tells Vogue. “I gasped when I first saw it.”
“With Oppenheimer being a period piece set in between the ’40s and ’50s, the minute I saw this gorgeous creation, it inspired me,” shares stylist Jessica Paster. “I love the fringe and the cut of the dress, the bugle beads and the shoulder, which gives me nostalgia for that period.”
Florence Pugh also walked the red carpet ahead of the walkout, wearing a burnt orange dress from Valentino’s autumn-winter 2023 couture collection, designed by Pierpaolo Piccioli. She dyed her buzz cut to match the color of the dress, as it was a light pink shade the day before.
This article first appeared on British Vogue.
