In Poor Things, the character of Bella Baxter has a very distinctive look: steampunk Victoriana, with a taste for leg-of-mutton sleeves, operatic flounces and saccharine pastel shades. On the Bafta podium to collect her best actress award, Emma Stone came dressed in character, in a salmon-pink gown with one balloon-shaped sleeve, vintage-style buttoning and a floating bubble skirt.
Stone’s dress was not the result of a last-minute rummage in the Poor Things costume department, but a custom-made gown that took the Louis Vuitton atelier 450 hours to create, and which her stylist, Petra Flannery, said was intended “to show [Stone’s] affinity with the character and Bella’s spirit”.
