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Emma Stone embraces method dressing at Baftas with Bella Baxter-inspired look

Actor follows in footsteps of Margot Robbie and others by wearing gown designed to ‘show affinity’ with Poor Things character

In Poor Things, the character of Bella Baxter has a very distinctive look: steampunk Victoriana, with a taste for leg-of-mutton sleeves, operatic flounces and saccharine pastel shades. On the Bafta podium to collect her best actress award, Emma Stone came dressed in character, in a salmon-pink gown with one balloon-shaped sleeve, vintage-style buttoning and a floating bubble skirt.

Stone’s dress was not the result of a last-minute rummage in the Poor Things costume department, but a custom-made gown that took the Louis Vuitton atelier 450 hours to create, and which her stylist, Petra Flannery, said was intended “to show [Stone’s] affinity with the character and Bella’s spirit”.

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