Tiffany & Co.’s Fashion And Film Party At Annabel’s

She masterminded the champagne-fuelled bacchanal that has embedded itself into the very fabric of TikTok since Saltburn dropped on Amazon over Christmas, so who better to co-host a party than Emerald Fennell? As well as the BAFTA-nominated director, British Vogue’s head of editorial content Chioma Nnadi invited supermodel-turned-West End star Cara Delevingne and actors Ayo Edebiri and Emily Blunt to join her in throwing Vogue and Tiffany & Co.’s annual Fashion & Film party.

Granted, there were fewer deer antlers and far less murderous plotting at Annabel’s than there was in the cult film – more like Tiffany & Co. diamonds and powder-room selfies – but there may well have been an impromptu rendition of “Murder on the Dancefloor” at some point, given that Noughties pop queen Sophie Ellis-Bextor was among the guests to make her way directly from the BAFTAs red carpet to the private members’ club on the Sunday night of London Fashion Week.

The brief for Fennell’s BAFTA night look was “elegant and elevated, yet not too serious”, her stylist Rose Forde told Vogue. The duo ultimately turned to Giorgio Armani, and landed on a dramatic black form-fitting gown with long sleeves and a seductive neckline embellished with 3D red roses (a trend her Saltburn star Rosamund Pike has also been taking note of this season). “The look was inspired by the autumn/winter 2023 runway, but the sexy cut, 3D roses and strong shoulder and train really make the dress Emerald’s own,” said Forde. For the Fashion & Film party she swapped it for another slinky Giorgio Armani look: black velvet tailoring over a deep red waistcoat with a chunky gold necklace by Tiffany & Co.

For The Bear darling Ayo Edebiri, BAFTA night was all about Bottega. The Rising Star nominee followed up her Old Hollywood peach gown for the red carpet with a “full 180” in a white shirt and jeans – also the work of Matthieu Blazy, but a very different mood. “Genius vibes, sorry!” is how Ayo sums up the designer’s work. “It’s hard not to feel cool in their clothes.” Tiffany & Co. jewellery provided the finishing touch.

Blunt, a BAFTA regular who was herself nominated for the Rising Star prize for her breakthrough performance in The Devil Wears Prada back in 2007, arrived on the red carpet in shimmering Elie Saab – and watched as her movie Oppenheimer took home several prizes, including Best Film and Leading Actor for her on-screen husband, Cillian Murphy. To hit Annabel’s with her co-hosts, she swapped all that glitz for a more muted alternative: a black fishtail skirt and matching cropped jacket over a white bralette with floral detail, plus jewellery by Tiffany & Co.

For British model Delevingne, meanwhile, presiding over the dancefloor at Annabel’s represented something of a homecoming – she has a palatial LA base, but will shortly star in The Playhouse Theatre’s lauded revival of Cabaret in the West End. In lieu of Sally Bowles’s Bauhaus prints and faux mink coats, for the Fashion & Film party, she chose a sequined midi-dress with a dramatic neckline and Tiffany & Co. jewellery.

Speaking of homecomings, the Fashion & Film party is Nnadi’s first as British Vogue’s head of editorial content, after the London girl returned from the US Vogue office in New York following her historic appointment. “It all feels quite auspicious” she said, given that the party coincides with London Fashion Week, which this year celebrates its 40th anniversary. “I’m especially excited and honoured to be joined by such a talented line-up of co-hosts,” she added. “I’m a huge fan of all of them.” As for her own look? Nnadi, a vintage obsessive whose fantasy celebrity wardrobe would be “a combination of Fela Kuti and Mrs Prada’s”, wore Tiffany & Co.’s classic Elsa Peretti Bone cuffs in gold, and opted to represent one of LFW’s most fabulous females, Vivienne Westwood, via an altogether appropriate (and one of a kind) archive Union Jack gown.