Emily Blunt Is a Glittering Dream in This Spiky Couture Corset
Her corset top looked like a piece of Art Deco architecture
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
Press tour dressing has become its own competitive sport, and Emily Blunt is currently lapping everyone on the track. For the New York City premiere of her new Steven Spielberg sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day — out this Friday — Blunt arrived in a look that had nothing to do with impending doom and everything to do with armor as art form.
Styled by longtime collaborator Jessica Paster, Blunt wore a head-to-toe pearlescent set from Tamara Ralph's Spring/Summer 2026 haute couture collection: a silky maxi skirt paired with a corset that stopped the room. According to Harper's Bazaar, the top was constructed from slats of material — boardwalk-plank geometry, essentially — encrusted in mother of pearl and crystals, with a sharp, jutting neckline and a pointed peplum that flared at the waist like architectural punctuation. The effect: an Art Deco building wrapped around a human body. Structural. Intentional. Completely unignorable.
The Edit Was Everything
On the Tamara Ralph runway, the look came with a dramatic cape. Blunt stripped it back — bare arms, a three-strand pearl bracelet, coordinating rings. That's the kind of edit that separates a good stylist from a great one: knowing when the clothes are already doing enough. Hairstylist Laini Reeves kept beauty equally restrained, sending Blunt out with loose, shoulder-grazing waves that let the corset remain the undisputed centerpiece.
The NYC premiere is just the latest entry in what's been a genuinely impressive fashion run. Over recent weeks alone, Blunt has moved through a lacy lilac Stella McCartney set and a ruffled, asymmetrical Alaïa gown with the kind of ease that suggests she's not working to dress well — she simply is. And with The Devil Wears Prada 2 press tour already in her recent rearview, she's now two for two on fashion moments that will outlast the film cycles that inspired them.
Couture was built for this: not the red carpet as obligation, but the body as statement — and right now, nobody's making the statement louder than Blunt.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
