Ayo Edebiri flocked with the best of them in her Chanel couture look at the London Film Festival screening of her new film “Clarissa” on Monday night at Vue West End.
The Emmy Award-winning “The Bear” star revived the couture feather trend, sporting a design from Matthieu Blazy’s spring 2026 couture collection for Chanel that debuted January 2026. The look featured a sleeveless cream blouse with a feathery hemline that transitioned from the soft white tone to black in a tiered effect. A black pencil skirt balanced out the texture-heavy top of the dress.
Edebiri accessorized with a pair of dangle earrings in crimson and jade and wore a set of strappy black heels. The actress was styled by Danielle Goldberg.
The spring 2026 collection marked Blazy’s debut couture curation for Chanel since joining the French luxury fashion house as its creative director in April 2025, following his appointment to the role in December 2024. “I wanted something light, poetic and easily understood,” Blazy said in a preview, per Joelle Diderich’s WWD review of the collection. “Making something light also allows me to dial down the drama.”
The collection included feathers and feather-like motifs — “raw threads created the illusion of peacock feathers on a flapper-style dress,” Diderich wrote of the collection, which included “pigeon gray petals” among other details.
Edebiri’s feathery look harkens back to July, where fall couture collections debuted and stars sported a bevy of plumed looks. None was quite as dramatic as Emma Corrin‘s Schiaparelli design, which hailed from creative director Daniel Roseberry’s previous spring 2026 couture collection.
Corrin wasn’t the only star spotted in feathered finery in July. On the same day, Jennifer Lopez was seen wearing a white feathery jacket from Michael Kors’ fall 2026 ready-to-wear collection, which she paired with black Bermuda shorts and Giuseppe Zanotti Cocktail mules.
Feathers have a long history in connection to couture style. Experts called plumassiers, or feather specialists, would often collaborate with fashion houses and incorporate feathers, both faux and real, into designs for couture and ready-to-wear collections. The style dates back to the early 1900s and more than a century later, it’s still clearly en vogue.
Edebiri’s new film “Clarissa,” an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway,” follows a society woman in Lagos who prepares for a dinner party while reflecting on the choices that led her to marry a respected man instead of her poet boyfriend. The film is among the 2026 edition of the London Film Festival’s slate, which includes “Ink,” “Wildwood” and “Paper Tiger,” among others.