Felicity Jones Goes Rock ‘n’ Roll on the Red Carpet

 

NAME Felicity Jones

FILM “The Theory of Everything”

BACKGROUND At 31, Ms. Jones, an Oxford graduate, has already been acting for 20 years, with roles in such echt-English projects as “The Archers,” the long-running radio soap opera; “Northanger Abbey”; and “Brideshead Revisited.” She alighted on Hollywood’s radar in 2011, after playing Anna in Drake Doremus’s Sundance hit “Like Crazy,” and has completed the requisite mass-market outings in “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” and HBO’s “Girls.”

BEHIND THE SCENES After working with the veteran stylist Jessica Paster, the actress switched to Karla Welch, of the duo Kemal & Karla, beginning with the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013. She has been a paid “face” for both Burberry and Dolce & Gabbana.

LOOKS Pale, petite and delicate-boned in the Audrey Hepburn mold, Ms. Jones tends to favor gamine over va-va-voom, as in a tailored midnight-colored Prada gown for the Governors Awards in November. “You’re not going to see plunging necklines,” said Ms. Welch, citing the short, chiffon-topped black frock by Erdem, the recent British Fashion Awards winner, that her client wore to the New York premiere of “Breathe In” (also directed by Mr. Doremus) last March. “We try to wear a lot of British designers,” Ms. Welch said. That includes Christopher Kane, whose belted black spring 2015 dress Ms. Jones wore to the Bafta Los Angeles Jaguar Britannia Awards in October, and Jonathan Saunders, whose strapless fall 2014 dress, also in black, Ms. Jones chose for a “Theory of Everything” screening in New York in November.

“We like things a little rock ‘n’ roll, Patti Smith,” Ms. Welch said. “A mermaid dress — that’s not gonna happen.” Though princess is beginning to enter the picture, as with the drop-waisted pink silk Dior gown that Ms. Jones wore to the Beverly Hills premiere of “Theory.”

“We just felt like going for it,” Ms. Welch said. “She’s not a huge red-carpet girl yet. This is her big coming out.”


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