Iris Law Kicks Off Party Season In True Brit-Girl Style

A familiar sight across the UK as party season gathers pace: revellers spilling out of nightclubs with cardigans shrugged over their glittering PLT outfits and iPhones wedged into their emergency flats. A less familiar sight: the reveller in question being Iris Law dashing from Net-A-Porter’s Le Club Rabanne party at The Scotch of St James straight to The Running Man premiere in Leicester Square.

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Wearing a slit-hem minidress from NAP’s exclusive capsule of Rabanne’s futuristic festivewear, it seems 25-year-old Law might have taken a leaf out of Kate Moss’s playbook. Specifically, the page marked 1999, when Moss, also 25, was photographed with Naomi Campbell in coordinating metal-mesh minis at De Beers and Versace’s “Diamonds Are Forever” presentation at Syon House. You’ll know the image, because it still does the rounds on Instagram moodboard accounts, and is one of Moss’s all-time favourites. “That was a great night,” she told Vogue in 2020. “I met Prince Charles.”

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I, for one, don’t care for a Christmas sequin, but chainmail, I’ll forgive. Once worn on the battlefields of medieval England, the fabric might even offer a touch more insulation in the country’s sub-zero temperatures. Not that British girls need it, of course. Was it not social psychologist Roxanne Felig who, in a 2021 paper for the British Journal of Social Psychology, found that hot people quite literally don’t feel the cold? “When women are highly focused on how they appear externally, it reduces the cognitive resources they have available to appraise their internal states,” Felig observed, after surveying 98 women outside nightclubs in freezing conditions – adding that there was “literally no relationship” between how much skin was exposed and how cold the women felt. Proof, perhaps, that the British commitment to serving a look nourishes, sustains and fortifies. Merry Christmas, I suppose.