Emma Stone’s Custom Peach Gown at BAFTAs 2024 Took 450 Hours to Perfect

Look closely at Emma Stone’s Poor Things promo wardrobe and you’ll see little nods to Bella Baxter—a uniquely special character that could well see the actor bag her second Oscar. “We wanted to keep Emma, Emma,” says her longtime stylist, Petra Flannery, “but show her affinity with the character and Bella’s spirit.” Ornate brooches and pins detailed with “BB” have punctuated her custom Louis Vuitton wardrobe, while the color palette has blurred from black and white to the saturated colors and whimsical pastels in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Frankenstein-adjacent epic. Stone’s BAFTAs dress and her British Vogue Fashion and Film party look are the latest homages to come out of Nicolas Ghesquière’s imaginative atelier.

The one-shoulder asymmetric bustier gown, featuring a statement cloud sleeve and padded band around the bottom edge, took more than 450 hours and 20 meters of fabric to create.

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For the detail-obsessed creative director, who, like Flannery, gobbled up the Poor Things references, no idea was too obscure to turn into a fashion statement. The levity and whimsy of Bella’s period costumes are reflected in the sheer underlay of Stone’s peachy BAFTAs red-carpet look: a “fantastic” one-shoulder top rendered in contrasting silk jacquard and a transparent textured chiffon skirt featuring a quilted band to polish things off. Team Stone has had the look in mind for a while, because it felt pitch perfect for the BAFTAs—a setting which calls for extra “flair” and “drama.” “Diaphanous is how we started off the Poor Things tour [Stone wore a pearlescent pale blue take on the slip with a fabulous ruffly robe shrugged over the top to the London premiere], and this felt so graceful for a beautiful [BAFTAs] stage.”