Emma Corrin Is Disrupting The Naked Dress Trend This Party Season

In a couple of weeks, Vogue will publish a round-up of 2024’s best-dressed celebrities. Emma Corrin will take the top spot. That much was obvious when they did the red-carpet rounds while promoting Deadpool & Wolverine in gartered Saint Laurent dresses, corsetted Schiaparelli jackets crafted from rows of buckled belts, and a feathered Dilara Findikoglu showpiece dipped in silicone. With a little help from stylist Harry Lambert, Corrin has created a new standard for red-carpet dressing where conventional glamour is something to be challenged and unsettled.

Last night, the actor returned to the red carpet for the Berlin premiere of Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu – in which they play a despairing Transylvanian wife – in a Saint Laurent mini cut from contrasting layers of transparent blue, green and red lace with vicious, gold-capped sling-backs. It was a naked dress, sure, but without the obvious eroticism of a diamanté-strewn Kendall Jenner and EmRata. The colours alone are a sort of anti-aphrodisiac, which is, of course, what makes the look so desirable.

Emma Corrin in Berlin. Gerald Matzka/Getty Images

The look first appeared on Anthony Vaccarello’s spring/summer 2025 catwalk, alongside mannish tailoring, voluminous greatcoats and wide-set ties inspired by Yves Saint Laurent’s personal wardrobe. It was among the most successful of the season’s collections. “It is getting harder and harder to identify a singularity of handwriting from designers,” wrote this magazine’s fashion news director Mark Holgate in a review. “Blandness of unyielding ‘good’, ‘safe’ taste has crept in and outstayed its welcome. It’s certainly safe to say that Vaccarello has shown it the door.” The same, I think, could be said for Corrin and Lambert.

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