Yesterday evening, the film star Jennifer Lawrence sat down at a local cinema to watch a film, which is precisely the kind of thing I would do if I were also famous for being in films. I might slip into a late-night screening in a pair of black-out shades (as she did) and spend the duration of the film surveilling people’s reactions. I might laugh at certain moments and make audible gasps during others, and I’d also pop to the toilet a few times, making sure to slooow down as I passed the front of the screen.
Lawrence took a more inconspicuous approach, dressed in a beige dress with an Empire waistline so high that it looked as though the skirt might have been tugged over the chest. Perhaps it was taken from Simon Cowell’s (for now mythical) fashion line? With her Loewe Puzzle bag near sutured onto the crook of her arm and a pair of The Row’s Claudette leather ballet flats, Lawrence’s outfit compounded the masculine, quirked-up aesthetic that stylist Jamie Mizrahi has been constructing.
“She’s timeless and doesn’t take herself too seriously,” Mizrahi said of his newfound client. “Her wardrobe is relatively straightforward and modern, and it isn’t driven by what’s fashionable.” See also: the waistcoats and the razor-sharp slingbacks and the Alaïa shirt dresses and the fishnet flats, all of which have boosted Lawrence’s fashion credentials within an old Céline-loving corner of the internet. It’s all about looking like you care about clothes, “without caring too much,” as Mizrahi explained.
This article first appeared on British Vogue.
