Perspective: Michelle Yeoh’s masterful, magical awards season style
Yeoh, who appears poised to become the first-ever Asian winner of the Oscar for best actress, has spent the 2022-2023 awards season racking up nominations and trophies for a distinctly idiosyncratic performance — and making headlines with edgy, risk-taking style choices.
The Malaysian-born Yeoh rose to fame first in Hong Kong cinema, then in Hollywood in the late 1990s. In last year’s “Everything Everywhere,” she plays Evelyn Wang, a beleaguered Chinese American mom and laundromat owner who becomes an unlikely superhero when she discovers during an IRS audit that she must abruptly start jumping between parallel universes, some more bizarre than others, to save the world.
But in the past few months, Yeoh has been on something of a tear, eschewing mature modesty in favor of whimsy and joy with the help of stylist Jordan Johnson Chung. At the Palm Springs Film Festival in January, Yeoh wore a two-piece Schiaparelli ensemble consisting of a glittering brick-red bolero with a black swirl pattern and a creamy light-blue silk skirt twisted into a rosette.
At the Screen Actors Guild Awards in February, Yeoh again wore Schiaparelli; this time, a strapless gown with what looked like a spray of delicious, glittering golden french fries, sequined and exploding all the way down the front. And at the Independent Spirit Awards this month, Yeoh wore a navy Gucci dress with a substantial cornflower-colored garland helixing over the shoulder and across the bodice.Striking silhouettes, bold colors, near-comically unconventional details galore.
But when such clothes are paired with Yeoh’s regal presence — and the glow of widespread mainstream appreciation, at last, for her steadfast presence in the industry and her apparent appetite, even in middle age, for new adventures — the whole spectacle seems to say: Look how much dress she can wear and still command your attention all on her own.
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