“When these first pictures of Severance got here out, I noticed the David Lynch high quality,” says Forde. “Britt felt like a type of Lynchian feminine icons. Charming! The present very quietly seems to be like a excessive style editorial, when so many different exhibits proper now are filled with busy over-styling. After I work with somebody, I believe the roles they select is a signifier for what sort of collaborator they might be. That is left subject, stylistic, tremendous attention-grabbing.”
Forde and Decrease instantly related over references and their love of style, movie, and artwork. “She’s as intrigued by the world as I’m—she’s methodical, researched, philosophical,” she says. “We carry that every one into styling. It goes far past private fashion and garments. Trend for us is a software to carry out different narratives.”
Britt Decrease in Talia ByrePhotograph: Kenna
They started enjoying round with moodboards and located they had been each large David Bowie followers, and talked rather a lot about Patti Smith. “Britt lives in New York, hangs out in Brooklyn, and is so embedded within the tradition of her metropolis—like Patti! We wish that New York spirit to shine by way of. Then, we regarded to Audrey Hepburn. How will we merge these worlds of the androgynous, the interior metropolis, the coolness and poetry, with the long-lasting magnificence and femininity? There’s a playfulness, and an off-beat magnificence to Audrey Hepburn we needed to faucet.”
That’s Decrease’s visible language summed up. So what does that seem like in apply? The actor’s latest promotional tour has articulated Decrease’s fashion by way of fitted knits by way of Courreges and butter yellow Maison Margiela. In London, she regarded to British label, the print and texture agnostic Talia Byre, for her signature striped and endlessly enjoyable outerwear, after which to Conner Ives for a silky purple halter mini costume paired with equally toned tights good for night apparel. In Paris, a pointy, modern, and silver-studded Coperni swimsuit. “I like to make the most of the wonderful designers of no matter metropolis we’re in, and likewise help younger expertise,” says Forde. The stylist known as upon Ives’ fall 2025 assortment early, making Decrease one of many first to put on it on the general public circuit. They fitted Decrease for her Tonight with Jimmy Fallon TV look in London, and so fell in love with Ives’ long-sleeved royal blue sequin robe. “It feels so highly effective however with a humorousness,” says Forde. “It was a nod to Bowie—I texted her and stated ‘that is your Ziggy Stardust second!’” Apt, for Decrease to have a go on the trumpet on the present, one way or the other wanting refined whereas doing so.
Britt Decrease in Coperni.Photograph: Kenna
Britt Decrease in Conner Ives fall 2025.Photograph: Kenna
Forde has additionally pegged label Shushu/Tong for Decrease, the Shanghai-based model that traverses the hyper-feminine and extra subversive, sensual takes on company put on that harks again to Helly. “It encapsulates an intriguing dichotomy,” says Forde. “We will play with a barely fucked up model of her character, including a component of the undone—cinched pencil skirts, unfinished hems, some pores and skin.”
Photograph: Kenna
Britt Decrease in Loewe.Photograph: Sela Shiloni
One other purple carpet look noticed Decrease in Loewe: A gathered black leather-based maxi skirt with a chocolate brown leather-based jacket, which was intentionally left unzipped and open to show a triangular slither of pores and skin. “It may have been fairly extreme with all that leather-based,” explains Forde, “however the option to peek out with some pores and skin is one other nod to playfulness and daring.”
