When Anya Taylor-Joy showed up for the 22nd Marrakech International Film Festival in Morocco on December 6, she opted to step out in an extemely chic sheer dress that left her looking absolutely statuesque.
A black full-length piece that pooled around her feet, the star’s gown included intricate lace sections on the upper portion and a see-through section around her legs.
Wearing her hair in an updo, Taylor-Joy let a few strands hang down with one piece left beside her face while the other was tucked behind her ear. She finished the look with dangling earrings, a bracelet and deep red lips.
GettyAnya Has Become ‘Obsessed with Fashion’
When it comes to fashion, Taylor-Joy is enjoying an evolving relationship.
“I was just unaware of fashion of a really long time,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in August 2024. “I immediately went straight into working acting jobs, and so the only way I saw clothes was as a means of finding a character. It was about building this other person.”
“Because I was getting picked up at from work at three o’clock in the morning and then going home exhausted, I would only really wear sweatpants,” she added.
“Fashion began as a means of feeling comfortable,” she explains. “The actual experience of a red carpet was so anxiety-inducing for me. I found that if I was making it about something more artful, then I just turned off a part of my brain that usually would be afraid and that made me excited about it instead. It really does feel like a kind of armour.”
She continued by saying, “But the deeper I got, the more obsessed with fashion I became. I love fashion history – being able to look at designs and seeing how events in the world influenced each piece or how the designer responded to trends.”
Anya Considers Fashion as a ‘Form of Performance Art’
Getty“I grew up such a tomboy,” she said while talking to W magazine in November 2023. “I never paid attention to clothes until I realized that it was a form of performance art for me—specifically, on the red carpet. I love drama. I love theatricality. I love leaning into a theme.”
She continued, “I have a wonderful stylist, Ryan Hastings. We approach it not as, ‘We’re going to be wearing some clothes to this.’ We create. With my hair and makeup team, Georgie Eisdell and Gregory Russell, it’s very much a group enterprise. That’s where we have the most fun: everyone pitches in and we get to try new things. We take it very seriously by not taking it very seriously.”
“It’s bizarre that [red carpets are] a huge part of my normal life, but it’s not normal life at all. In which situation do you ever dress yourself to the nines to be photographed by 200 people who are screaming at you? It’s not normal. I have so much more fun thinking of it as—we dress up for this, we feed into the fantasy of it a little bit. Then I get to embody a character.”
