Florence Pugh returns to the runway at London Fashion Week.Photo:Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/Getty
Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/Getty
London Fashion Week is officially here and it kicked off withFlorence Pughopening the Harris Reed show on Feb. 20.
Videos of the Oscar-nominated star immediately began circulating online after she made a surprise appearance at the Fall/Winter 2025 presentation wearing a sheer hooded dress complete with a sculptural corset. She also wore a bold makeup look complete with long spidery fake eyelashes while rocking a slicked-back short blonde hairstyle.
Pugh, 29, didn’t strut down the runway but rather walked around the audience while performing apowerful monologueagainst a soundtrack of live cellists, perVogue.
Florence Pugh performs a monologue during the Harris Reed Fall/Winter 2025 show in London.Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/Getty
As theWe Live in Timeactress emoted her script, her words echoed through the high-ceilinged Duveen Galleries of London’s Tate Britain art gallery, providing a chilling ambience to the entire affair. That is, after all, how designer Harris Reed intended it to be.
“I feel like there’s a bit more of an eerie, uncomfortable nature to her [character],” the creative director toldVogue. “I want everyone to be very uncomfortable,” Reed continued, adding, “I think through uncomfortability, you look deeper within and question a lot about yourself and your surroundings.”
Florence Pugh at the Harris Reed Fall/Winter 2023 fashion show.Dave Benett/Getty
Dave Benett/Getty
The first time Pugh took part in a short of Reed’s was in February 2023. She wore a dazzling black and silver harlequin dress with a matching wide-brim hat.
Pugh and Reed are close friends and collaborators and the two attended the 2023ElleStyle Awards together. She also glammed up in one his Reed’s designs for the2024 BAFTA Awards.
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Florence Pugh pictured in a custom Harris Reed design at the 2024 BAFTAs.Joe Maher/BAFTA/Getty
Joe Maher/BAFTA/Getty
Over the years, Pugh’s appearances at Fashion Week have been few and far in between. However, for all the shows she has been to, she’s definitely made a fashionable impact.
Her most notable moment was when she wore anipple-baring pink gownto the Valentino Fall/Winter 2022 Haute Couture show. The daring look caused quite the stir online, which Pugh was not afraid to address.
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Florence Pugh at the Valentino Haute Couture show in July 2022.Jacopo Raule/Getty
Shedoubled down on her commentaryin an August 2023 interview with Jodie Turner-Smith forElle, saying: “Unfortunately, we’ve become so terrified of the human body that we can’t even look at my two little cute nipples behind fabric in a way that isn’t sexual. We need to keep reminding everybody that there is more than one reason for women’s bodies [to exist].”
A month prior, she wore another sheer number to Valentino’s show in Paris, taking the moment to alsodebut a edgy pink buzz cut.
source: people.com
