Ayo Edebiri Looks So Posh in Chanel Haute Couture
Courtesy of Chanel haute couture
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
The bustle is not an easy sell. It is, historically, one of fashion's most structurally dramatic silhouettes — equal parts architectural and absurd — and pulling it off in the 21st century requires a specific kind of confidence that most people simply do not possess. According to Harper's Bazaar, only a handful of modern looks have cracked it: Carrie Bradshaw's lime-green satin miniskirt moment in Sex and the City season four, Zendaya in a vintage striped Vivienne Westwood set during the Challengers press tour. And now, Ayo Edebiri at the 70th BFI London Film Festival, making it a genuine list.
Business Up Front, Drama in the Back
Edebiri arrived in a two-tone look from the Chanel Spring/Summer 2026 haute couture collection — creative director Matthieu Blazy's vision for the house — and the genius of the silhouette was in its restraint from the front. A cream sleeveless tank with tiered fringe at the hem, finished with a contrasting black trim, layered over an inky midi pencil skirt. Sharp, clean, controlled. Then you catch the back: the hem of the top sweeps outward into a full, dramatic bustle that reads somewhere between majestic and mythological — like Edebiri was seconds away from growing wings and ascending.
Blazy has been at Chanel's helm since December 2024, and he is quietly doing something interesting with the brand's DNA. The ladylike codes are still there — the tailoring, the femininity, the Parisian polish — but he's injecting a restlessness into them, a sense of whimsy that makes even the most traditional silhouettes feel charged. This look is a case study in that exact tension: completely proper from one angle, completely theatrical from another.
Stylist Danielle Goldberg made the smart call to let the garment carry the room. Accessories were kept deliberately minimal — plain black sandal heels, and a pair of dangly red-and-green pendant earrings, also Chanel, for just enough color to feel intentional without competing. When the clothes are doing this much work, the job of a stylist is to get out of the way, and Goldberg executed that perfectly.
This is what great fashion dressing looks like: not playing it safe, not leaning on trends for relevance, but committing fully to a singular, considered point of view — and wearing it like you invented it.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
