Daisy Edgar-Jones Goes London Cool Girl Next Door at Met Gala 2026
The actor embodied a classic and cool beauty look to match her custom-made McQueen sculpted dress. See the full look here.
Reported by Vogue.
Daisy Edgar-Jones is, by her own admission, practically a veteran at this point. Her third Met Gala appearance — and first in 2022 was apparently spent hovering awkwardly at the entrance like an accidental maître d', waiting for a late friend — has the Twisters star arriving with a clearer vision and a dress worth the planning. According to Vogue, she and stylist Dani Michelle spent months exchanging references around corsets and bodices, fixated on finding something that honored a woman's body without flattening it into something safe.
The answer was McQueen, designed by Seán McGirr. A custom ivory silk georgette and heritage lace sculpted gown from the fall/winter 2026 collection, it's built from Lyon lace appliqué and what Edgar-Jones describes as "rough" and "undone" shredded tulle Banshee embroidery — a kind of controlled unraveling that mirrors the house's signature tension. "They're really good with that tension between beauty and destruction," she says. "Structure and fragility can coexist." The jewelry is Boucheron — Laurel earrings, Silhouette bracelet and brooch — precious metal deliberately understated against all that raw lace.
The Beauty Equation: Undone, On Purpose
For the face, makeup artist Jo Baker wasn't going for a red carpet gloss. "Instead of being overly polished or overly precise, we went for classic and cool," Baker tells Vogue — the goal being a London girl who, theoretically, just happened into this dress. Baker used an unreleased Estée Lauder Essential Eyeshadow Stick in Sugar Plum (a soft taupe dropping in June) for hollowed-out, moody eyes, then sculpted the cheeks with the ORA Method LED Guasha and layered Bronze Goddess bronzer with Futurist BlushMaker Dewy Cheek Tints in Stolen Glance and Skinny Dip. Foundation is the classic Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-in-Place — applied in five dots for buildable coverage — set over Advanced Night Repair Serum, which Edgar-Jones credits with making everything glow and last. Hairstylist Bryce Scarlett leaned into the same undone energy, leaving the hair down and deliberately casual. Nail artist Naomi Yasuda created a bespoke "Cloud Ombré" in Beetlesgel Milky White Gel — "we felt right away that the white tones would best capture that specific ethereal energy," she tells Vogue — an extension of the gown rather than a contrast to it.
Off the carpet, Edgar-Jones's priorities are exactly right: she wants to see what Beyoncé wears, find her friend Gracie Abrams, and secure a large cocktail with a side of fries. Her afterparty strategy is, in her words, to chase the vibes. The makeup, at least, will hold up wherever the night goes.
When the dress does the talking — structure, fragility, three-dimensional lace and all — the smartest beauty play is always to get out of its way.
Read the original at Vogue.
