Anya Taylor-Joy Politely Declines To Wear Pants in a Celine Cape, Jeweled Crop Top, and Micro-Shorts

Anya Taylor-Joy in new york city wearing a celine cape

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published 5 February 2025

Anya Taylor-Joy has made one thing abundantly clear on her current press tour for The Gorge. She will serve as many full designer looks as it takes to get the public to see her new movie with Miles Teller, and she won't remove her Louboutin pumps from our necks until we do.

That's perfectly fine by me, of course! In my humble opinion, Taylor-Joy is among the greatest fashion muses of her generation. No wonder Hollywood's hottest stylists—from Zendaya's "image architect" Law Roach to Zoë Kravitz's frequent collaborator Andrew Mukamal—love dressing her. It's unclear who the Dior ambassador is currently working with, but that person definitely deserves a raise for devising her latest coup in New York City.

After stepping out in two Celine skirt suits, one enormous shearling Yeti coat from Alexander McQueen, and a Loewe trapeze jacket layered with biker shorts and a bubble skirt, the Queen’s Gambit star pulled off another dramatic costume change for a taping of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Feb. 4.

A photo of Anya Taylor-Joy wearing a black Celine cape over a bejeweled crop top and micro-shorts. — Anya Taylor-Joy wears a black Celine cape over a bejeweled crop top and micro-shorts.

Clad in yet another Celine ensemble, the Golden Globe winner tapped into the cape trend with a long black wool cloak. Underneath her statement outerwear, the actor matched a black sleeveless halter crop top with a chunky bejeweled neckline to a pair of skintight micro-shorts. In a nod to the no-pants trend revival seen elsewhere on Bella Hadid and Hailey Bieber, Taylor-Joy accessorized her hot pants with sheer black tights and pointy black leather heels from Christian Louboutin.

A photo of Anya Taylor-Joy accessorizing her three-piece look with sheer black tights and matching black pumps. — Taylor-Joy accessorizes her three-piece look with sheer black tights and matching black pumps.

What I love about this monochromatic three-piece outfit is how, from afar, it could be mistaken for a conservative cape-dress. Only when the breeze hit the hem of her sweeping poncho did it lift up to reveal the daring set below.

A photo of Anya Taylor-Joy arriving for a taping of Watch What Happens Live amid her press tour for The Gorge. — The Golden Globe winner arrives for a taping of *Watch What Happens Live* amid her press tour for *The Gorge.*

The finished look was Dua Lipa in Chanel meets Charli XCX on the Sweat Tour, and I loved every inch of it. More of this please!

Hanna Lustig is a staff writer at Marie Claire, where she gets to gab every day about the topics she holds most dear: fashion, beauty, and celebrity. Hanna’s editorial journey began with formative internships at Elle and InStyle, where she was lucky enough to work for some of the smartest women in media while she was still in college at the University of Tennessee. Hanna then accepted a digital culture reporting fellowship at Insider, where she helped carve out a new beat dedicated to covering influencers. Those experiences later served her well as a staff writer at Glamour, where she developed a knack for spinning quick turnaround celebrity news and trend reporting into juicy feature stories. Some of her greatest hits include an earnest ode to the no-pants trend, this meticulously reported feature exploring the rise of endoscopic facelifts, this snappy take on the Chanel-designed fantasy of Sofia Richie’s wedding, this tribute to WAGs past and present, and this timeline of Katie Holmes’s life and career as told through her denim collection.

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