Jennifer Lawrence: Globes Best Dressed (Lainey)

It was accidental, we didn’t even realise it on our post-Globes editorial call and I only just clocked it now having edited Sarah and Duana’s best dressed pieces about, respectively, Rose Byrne and Tessa Thompson, both in green: that my pick for best dressed is also green… ish. Not all green like theirs, but the green is there, unmistakably.

I just posted about JLaw last week, ahead of the Globes, anticipating the look. In fact, I said I had “high expectations”, but assumed that she’d be in Dior, given her long association with the fashion house and there’s been an immediate upgrade on her outfits since Jonathan Anderson took over.

The high expectations were met… just not with Dior but Givenchy by Sarah Burton instead.

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Many online have pointed out that it could be a callback to Beyoncé at the Met Gala in 2015, wearing Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci:

Different designers for the same house, there is certainly a shared DNA, but with an individual twist suited for each woman. For Jennifer Lawrence, though, it’s not just a serve, it’s a swerve. Because I don’t think any fashion commentator could have predicted that it would be this much of a departure, this much of a style reinvention by Jennifer Lawrence. We have never, ever seen her in a look like this on a red carpet. And this is what I’ve been alluding to all day in my previous fashion posts about big swings, about sameness, about surprise. Had it been, say, JLo or Kylie Jenner, in this dress, it wouldn’t hit the same way. And it wouldn’t have been worn the same way – with the subtlest blowout and bangs and the exactly the right level of rosy makeup, delicate on the accessories…

It's a smash. It’s a menace of a curveball, a strike you don’t see coming, so diabolical that you’re left gasping in shock. And it’s rare, this kind of impact on a red carpet. Award season is exhausting, party after party, event after event, look after look – and when it’s someone as famous as Jennifer Lawrence, who’s been famous for so long, it rarely happens, an appearance like this that, looking back, would have been impossible to foretell.

But there were signs…

For her previous few appearances, Jamie Mizrahi, who’d been her stylist for at least a couple of years, wasn’t being mentioned. And now, the credited stylist for JLaw’s look at the Globes is Ryan Hastings, known for his work with Taylor Russell and Anya Taylor-Joy. This an entirely new direction for JLaw, and the effect is immediately obvious. She will likely not be nominated for any other awards this season so she came to the Globes and made it f-cking count.