How To Pull Off Daisy Edgar Jones And Dakota Johnson's Gritty Approach To Sequins

Dakota Johnson and Daisy Edgar Jones are sisters in bangs and sequins.

At the Cannes Film Festival, the actors have put on a united front in how to do classic Hollywood sparkle now – both wearing Boucheron jewellery. Their joint approach? With a new twist that speaks not only to what's trending today but their usual day-to-day fashion tendencies, too.

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Consider first Edgar Jones' arrival on the Croisette red carpet for the premiere of The Phoenician Scheme, the latest film from Wes Anderson. The English star chose a Gucci gown, as she so often does, in a brown shade to give the otherwise simple, sparkling dress a fresh angle.

Here was all the makings of a classic red-carpet gown (strapless, floor length, stunning) but thanks to the deep bitter chocolate colour of the embellishment it was given a fresh angle that brought it up to speed with the decree that a brown dress is set to be summer 2025's MVP. And Edgar Jones stuck with this memo into the evening for Kering's Women In Action Awards.

Arriving at the event hosted by Gucci's parent group, Edgar Jones once again looked to the Italian house for her look (she is its current face, after all). She swapped out the earlier dress for a two piece that stuck to delivering sparkle in murkier tones compared to that of what we usually see of sparkle at Cannes, where bright shades tend to prevail amongst the sunny Côte d'Azur climate.

Johnson has been playing it a little more to the book. For that same Kering-hosted event, the American actor also chose sparkle. Although Johnson's approach was not as obviously obtuse as Edgar Jones' brown pieces, it still spoke to a grittier look to classic metallics in its grey, armour-like colour.

The shared point of view on sparkle here makes for a textbook example in how to wear the shiny stuff if it's not your usual port of call. Opting for surprising, grittier colours that perhaps already live in your wardrobe but are now delivered in embellishment could be your entry point to unlocking a whole new sartorial world. Sparkle summer? Shine on.

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Naomi Pike

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