Daisy Edgar-Jones Has Entered the It-Girl Arena
Daisy Edgar-Jones in New York. Gotham
Pop culture was first introduced to Daisy Edgar-Jones through Normal People, the television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel, broadcast in the depths of global lockdown in 2020. She played Marianne, a bookish and sensitive outsider to Paul Mescal’s handsome and still-waters-run-deep Connell. It would take Edgar-Jones a while—and a couple of Gucci co-signs—to shake off the awkward schoolgirl image.
She was prim and proper as a rising star—posing on red carpets in puff-sleeved floral frocks and presidential pant suits, Chanel tweeds and Ralph Lauren slips—but fast forward four years and Edgar-Jones is using the promotional tour for Twisters as a launchpad into Hollywood’s It-girl canon. She’s worn corseted Vivienne Westwood gowns—a rite of passage for any English rose-turned-Hollywood bombshell—nipple-embellished Schiaparelli minidresses, backless Gucci column gowns and diaphanous, drop-waisted 16Arlington dresses. Tasteful, polished, elegant… but cool.
Styled by Dani Michelle—the invisible hand behind Rosie-Huntington Whiteley, Hailey Bieber, and Kendall Jenner’s wardrobes—much of this transformation is down to Edgar-Jones’s relationship with Chemena Kamali’s Chloé. She was earlier this week photographed in so-wrong-they’re-right kitten clogs and an oversizedOversizedA cut that is intentionally larger and roomier than the body, producing a relaxed, voluminous silhouette. Oversized blazers, shirts, coats, and knits balance comfort with style, and they work especiallyGo to Oversized Glossary hobo bag that dominated at least half of the actor’s 5’7” frame. And then there was yesterday’s look—a boho-ruffled maxi dress with thigh-high boots and a banana-charm pendant necklace–that Edgar Jones wore while on a coffee run in New York. “It’s very much about an intuitive way of dressing,” Kamali herself said of the Chloé girl in 2024. “I think there’s this longing for undone-ness and freedom and softness and movement.”
This article was originally published on Vogue.com.