Last night at the Golden Globes, Anya Taylor-Joy commanded the internet’s attention with her curve-skimming green custom couture Dior dress. The striking look felt celebratory, and why not? The 24-year-old won a Best Actress Golden Globe for her role as Beth Harmon, a chess wunderkind with soaring cheekbones, in The Queen’s Gambit. (The show also won for Best Limited Series.)
For the bombshell look, Taylor-Joy worked with image architect Law Roach and Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri to realize the striking green Lurex gown and accompanying cape. Dripping with glamour, the dress came with a draped bust to evoke a bombshell ’70s feel. Taylor-Joy’s platinum pin-straight hair with a deep side part also added to the retro aura. The resulting outfit took three people and 300 hours to create. To complete the look, Taylor-Joy wore Tiffany & Co. jewelry valued at more than 1 million dollars, including earrings featuring more than 18 total carats of diamonds.
The idea for the dress came to Roach, who has been wanting to bring back the glamour of the red carpet following a year of sweatpants. “Everyone misses that part of it; everyone misses the red carpet, the gowns and the jewelry,” he tells Vogue over the phone. “We are all longing for it.” Working during the pandemic—with fewer in-person red carpets—has become the new normal for Roach. “It really doesn’t affect my process,” he says. “I actually enjoy it being a bit virtual because you have control over the final product. On the actual red carpet, it’s hundreds of photographers taking photographs from every angle.” His favorite part of the “really glamorous and also really sexy” look? The transfixing green color.
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For Taylor-Joy, the color was also significant to her, as it reflected both of the characters she was nominated for last night: Beth in The Queen’s Gambit and Emma in the film Emma. “I’m literally obsessed with the entire look and am so grateful for it. It made me feel powerful, and I really loved the fact that it was green, because the color was important to Beth, Emma, and myself,” she writes. “My stylist, Law Roach, and I worked very closely together with Maria Grazia Chiuri and her team. We wanted this to be a special moment and for the dress to convey the symbolism that we cared so much about.” And what a special moment it was.
