Helen Mirren Reveals Her Favourite Pink-Carpet Look of All Time — Interview

It wasn’t her all-time favourite red-carpet look, although. That goes again 15 years to the 2006 Venice Movie Pageant. “The evening that The Queen screened at Venice was a really massive second as a result of it was the second that launched the movie into the general public enviornment,” she remembers. “And I had a very pretty, sort-of-silver sequined gown — and it was so not like my look because the Queen. I liked that look.”

Sequins and pink hair can go a good distance in making Mirren really feel stunning — or as she prefers to place it, like she has “swagger” — however what in the end makes her really feel her most glamorous through the fanciest of film-industry occasions is a very surprising accent: consolation. 

“By some means, being snug in what you are sporting offers you an ease and the relief that transforms your look,” Mirren says. “You may have the whole lot completely carried out, however for those who’re self-conscious about issues displaying, or it would not fairly match, you are type of stiff. Weirdly, consolation may be very, essential.”

That consolation comes by as confidence when Mirren is in entrance of the digicam, which is what has made her a magnificence icon to so many. However even Mirren herself has magnificence function fashions, together with Kate Winslet, who not too long ago joined Mirren among the many L’Oréal Paris ambassador ranks. 

“Kate is a really stunning lady, undoubtedly, after all. However she’s stunning in a approach that she’s at all times allowed it to be herself — her pure self,” Mirren says of her Collateral Magnificence costar. “Even when she’s very clearly, superbly dressed up with hair and make-up, there’s one thing at all times very pure about her, and that comes from her persona. She’s a very nice lady.”

As they are saying, it takes one to know one.

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