The Chanelification Of Jessie Buckley
Buckley will have her pick of the bunch. A new friend of the house (she has previously attended Chanel’s seasonal film parties with Charles Finch), under the stewardship of Hollywood’s hottest styling export Danielle Goldberg, the métier show was Jessie’s first. “I was so intrigued!” she smiles, her wide eyes masked behind the requisite front-row sunglasses. “It felt like we were invited into a secret underworld before being so moved by the expression of the collection and its youthful expression of women wearing the clothes in the collection.”
An actor’s actor through and through, Buckley’s personal style hinges on both the narrative arc of a look (“I love things that aren’t perfect”) and comfort (“I need to be in something that can get me somewhere quickly”.) While her red-carpet archive is positively chameleonic, the press tour for Hamnet, the Maggie O’Farrell book adaptation for which she is Oscar tipped, has seen a more refined version of the Jessie Buckley we know and love.
“I want to feel like I’m absolutely myself,” she muses on what her moment on Tinseltown’s main stage will look like. “But elevated with incredible clothes.” Buckley will still wear her signature natty tailoring, teamed with homemade tees printed with the pictures she loves, but she’ll have a Chanel bag thrown over her shoulder or a pair of double-C dotted pumps grounding her. There were plenty to choose from in Blazy’s second edit for the brand.