Jessie Buckley’s Style Shift Has Officially Begun
Jessie Buckley has always looked good, and often, strange. In 2022, she arrived at the premiere of Women Talking in a harlequin-printed milkmaid dress from Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood’s autumn/winter 2022 collection; in 2023, she chose a period-style, puff-sleeve Rodarte gown for the Oscars; and in 2024, she attended the Wicked Little Letters premiere in a latex, empire-line dress by Simone Rocha. These were big and bold swings that rejected the prettily safe red-carpet archetype. The message, I suppose, was that, in style, as in work, Buckley goes where others don’t.
But last night, the actress arrived at the Governors Awards in nothing more eccentric than a black turtleneck with a pleated maxi skirt from The Row’s spring/summer 2026 collection. The hair, which is usually mussed into phone-box red, jet-black or platinum crops, had softened to a honey blonde, and was tucked neatly behind two Briony Raymond diamond-studded ears. Ultra-polished, cultivatedly offbeat: something had clearly shifted. Buckley had hired a new stylist, and thus became the latest example of the “Danielle Goldberg effect” – the moment a celebrity suddenly starts dressing exceptionally well – which has recently transformed Ayo Edebiri, Saoirse Ronan and Jodie Comer into overnight It-girls.
