The future is here: it's Rachel in Roksanda
Our panelists on the latest and greatest celebrity looks
Rachel McAdams in Roksanda Ilincic at the About Time premiere in London last night
Elin Evans, junior fashion editor at Never Underdressed
This Roksanda gown was part of a beautiful collection that played with some heavy proportions. The gown that Rachel has chosen is all about the silhouette but I don’t think that she’s quite statuesque enough to carry it off – she looks a little swamped. Kudos for choosing Roksanda and for choosing a dress that completely covers her up, but in my opinion it wasn’t the right choice for her. But on somebody like Rooney Mara ... I think that she’d nail this dress.
Richard Godwin, writer and columnist at the London Evening Standard
At the premiere of her new film, the time-travelling romantic comedy About Time, Rachel McAdams decided to offer a vision of the future. She teamed her new reddish hairdo with a Roksanda Ilincic dress that looks as if it has been beamed in from 2056. It is a lilac shade of white, flowing and fresh, with a holographic belt, the sort of thing Princess Leia might wear to a wedding. However, for all the futuro-chic, those tramlines down the back of the dress make it look oddly like a piece of sporting equipment. I worry that if she laid still for long, she would wake up to find a volleyball team practising serves on her back.
Lynn Enright, staff writer at Never Underdressed
I'm going to sound a little bit like someone's mum when I say this but this a classic case of 'the dress wearing the woman, rather than the woman wearing the dress'. It's very fashion-forward – see, somebody's mum! – and I respect Rachel McAdams for choosing a London designer for the London premiere of a London film but I'm just not sure she quite pulls it off. I'll be watching intently as the About Time film tour continues, however. It's a first step in what could be a new and exciting daring fashion direction for the super-sweet star.
Left to right: Elin Evans; Richard Godwin; Lynn Enright)