At 78, Helen Mirren has just been made into a real life Barbie. Here, she discusses the fashion doll’s complicated relationship with fashion and why stripper heels have always been her secret weapon on the red carpet.
It is a miserable afternoon in London and I am sitting in a “Zoom booth” in the Condé Nast offices. Dame Helen Mirren is not. “I am in southern Italy, overlooking the blue of the Ionian sea,” she says, her well-oaked voice firm and forlorn. “In fact, it is the same blue as the beautiful Del Core dress I wore to Cannes in 2023, which is certainly not the way I am dressed at the moment, because I am, of course, wearing elasticated-waist trousers.
I think we’ve reclaimed our bodies and the way we look for ourselves.” If anything, the act of dressing up – and perhaps even dressing down – on the red carpet, is something Mirren savours. “I love that Mattel chose this look, not least because it’s one of my favourite dresses I’ve ever worn. It was made for me to wear for another function, a premiere or something in America, but it needed an international stage, which is why I held onto it for almost 12 months before it ‘debuted’ in Cannes.
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