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, as the titular 23-year-old sex worker out of Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighborhood, is the kind that can define a career. Back in May,premiere earned the coveted Palme d'Or award for the best feature. All along the fall festival circuit—from New York City to Toronto, Zurich to London—Madison's gum-smacking, pole-dancing, big-hearted performance has been hailed as a revelation. The
Madison has thus been photographed in a lineup of Louis Vuitton, Fendi, and Proenza Schouler looks—impressive credits for a relatively new talent—pulled by the stylist Jamie Mizrahi, whose clientele includeswhen her agent first connected her with Madison to style her star-making turn—but once she did, she was as blown away as reviewers. Though even more impressive, she notes, is Madison's down-to-earth nature through it all.
Jamie Mizrahi styled Mikey Madison in a Celine mini dress for an Oct. 29 stop by the SCAD Film Festival.While Anora is who Madison became to land on so many red carpets, it's not who she and Mizrahi have in mind when they look at a rack of gowns. The pair knew this would never be a press tour where Madison method-dressed like"Ani," her onscreen character, in Hervé Leger bandage dresses and pleaser pumps.
This red-carpet story is defined by elegant shapes and classic colors, pieces that cast Madison less as an of-the-moment ingenue and more of a timeless talent. And while some journalists have called Madison's rise a Cinderella story, she's not wearing princess gowns on the carpet."I find Mikey's kind of gravitated towards more of a neutral, timeless palette—blacks, whites, creams, reds—really kind of sticking in that Old Hollywood ," Mizrahi says.
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