Pop culture was first introduced to Daisy Edgar-Jones through Normal People, the television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel, broadcast in the depths of global lockdown in 2020. She played Marianne, a bookish and sensitive outsider to Paul Mescal’s handsome and still-waters-run-deep Connell. It would take Edgar-Jones a while–and a couple of Gucci co-signs–to shake off the awkward schoolgirl image.
She was prim and proper as a rising star–posing on red carpets in puff-sleeved floral frocks and presidential pant suits, Chanel tweeds and Ralph Lauren slips–but fast forward four years and Edgar-Jones is using the promotional tour for Twisters as a launchpad into Hollywood’s It-girl canon. She’s worn corseted Vivienne Westwood gowns–a rite of passage for any English rose-turned-Hollywood bombshell–nipple-embellished Schiaparelli minidresses, backless Gucci column gowns and diaphanous, drop-waisted 16Arlington dresses. Tasteful, polished, elegant… but cool.
Styled by Dani Michelle–the invisible hand behind Rosie-Huntington Whiteley, Hailey Bieber, and Kendall Jenner’s wardrobes–much of this transformation is down to Edgar-Jones’s relationship with Chemena Kamali’s Chloé. She was earlier this week photographed in so-wrong-they’re-right kitten clogs and an oversized hobo bag that dominated at least half of the actor’s 5’7” frame. And then there was yesterday’s look–a boho-ruffled maxi dress with thigh-high boots and a banana-charm pendant necklace–that Edgar Jones wore while on a coffee run in New York. “It’s very much about an intuitive way of dressing,” Kamali herself said of the Chloé girl in 2024. “I think there’s this longing for undone-ness and freedom and softness and movement.”
