“Jet lag is way more serious when you’re in your 30s,” Alia Bhatt sighs, over a Zoom name on the eve of her first look on the BAFTAs. The Bollywood famous person has flown in from Mumbai to current the award for Best Film Not within the English Language, however any telltale indicators of long-haul journey had been absent when she stepped onto the purple carpet at Royal Festival Hall on Sunday evening: a imaginative and prescient in customized Gucci that owed a debt to an icon of cinema, Marilyn Monroe.
The prospect of touching down in London within the midst of an even-more-relentlessly-damp-than-usual February is partly why Bhatt landed on a particular reference for her look: a photograph of Marilyn in a shimmering silver robe, a fluffy white stole draped over her arms in true Old Hollywood fashion. “I was like, ‘Hey, it’s gonna be really cold and the dress is backless…’” the star says with a smile on the eve of the ceremony. Demna’s atelier dutifully conjured a shearling wrap for Bhatt to put on over her bespoke halter-neck costume, customary from tulle and embroidered fully in silver sequins layered with delicate microbeads, for a “cinematic glow”.
Marco Bahler
