From the Mushroom Kingdom to the Front Row: How Anya Taylor-Joy Made Gaming Glamorous
If there is one actress on earth capable of making a video game character feel genuinely haute, it is Anya Taylor-Joy. The actress descended upon Tokyo’s Super Mario Galaxy photocall on Thursday in a custom Jacquemus look that rendered every other press tour outfit entirely beside the point — a blush pink apparition so precisely calibrated, so devotedly in conversation with her character Princess Peach, that one had to wonder whether she and stylist Ryan Hastings have simply been living inside a Mushroom Kingdom mood board for months.
The look — a cropped bandeau strapless top paired with a dramatically flared skirt, both custom pieces drawn from the spirit of Jacquemus’s Le Palmier Fall 2026 collection — was executed in the softest, most incandescent peach-tinged blush. The flared hem swirled with an almost balletic theatricality, while the colour itself was an act of character devotion made wearable. But it was the hat that stole the breath: an exaggerated, saucer-shaped confection that settled on Taylor-Joy’s head like a living, wearable allegory — its halo-wide brim unmistakably echoing the silhouette of Princess Peach’s iconic mushroom crown, reimagined for the couture age.
At ground level, the story continued with equal conviction. Taylor-Joy stepped into the Giuseppe Zanotti Intriigo sandals in white glossy patent leather — a choice that offered luminous contrast against the soft blush of her skirt. The sandal’s architecture is disarmingly minimal: a single low-slung strap curved gently across the foot, a slender ankle strap fastened with a delicate buckle, and a blade-sharp pointed toe perched atop a 105 mm heel. Clean, exacting, and entirely correct.
Jewellery came courtesy of Tiffany and Co., for whom Taylor-Joy serves as global ambassador — the knot ring and knot double-row ring appearing on her fingers like small, gleaming punctuation marks. The actress starred in the label’s 2025 holiday campaign, and the relationship has produced a string of impeccably chosen moments on the press circuit.
Makeup artist Georgie Eisdell kept the beauty peachy and ethereal — a glossy rose lip, softly sculpted contour — while hair stylist Gregory Russell delivered Taylor-Joy’s icy blonde hair in a long, straight centre parting that framed the whole vision with serene, almost otherworldly calm. The complete look was orchestrated by stylist Ryan Hastings, who has quietly been assembling one of the great press-tour style narratives of the decade.
