When Lucy Boynton and I connect a few hours before the Feb. 11 premiere of the series A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, the actress's red carpet look still has a few question marks. She and Chanel makeup artist Tyron Machhausen hadn't yet decided on the thick strokes of Noir Intense eyeliner and Enchanted Night eyeshadow worthy of a Black Swan performance at the Met. Nor had she and hairstylist Rebekah Forecast landed on the tousled twist with parted curtain bangs, placed for a pair of 18k Chanel High Jewelry Soleil Ganse earrings to catch the light of the cameras. But she knew she wanted a grunge twist to counterbalance the retro Metiers d'art look she'd screenshotted and sent to stylist Leith Clark the minute it walked the runway in Hangzhou, China, last December.
"I immediately fell in love with it," Boynton says of the black tweed jacket and mini skirt, accented with hundreds of pink pearls. "I always kind of let [Clark] work her magic in terms of what we select as options, and this was the first and only look that we ended up trying. As soon as I put it on, it fit like a glove and just felt like everything that we'd been trying to encapsulate."
