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Royal-approved designer Adeline Took45, returned London Once again for their Women and Power Speaker series, which celebrates women in leadership and style.
The curated event, now in its eighth edition, brings together influential women in the arts, journalism and politics to examine power, identity and cultural leadership in fashion.
Past speakers have included supermodel Christy Turlington Burns and historian Dame mary beardBut for this installment, irish Actress, Writer and Producer Sharon HorganThe 55-year-old offered one of her most candid thoughts on the realities of dressing both on and off screen.
Horgan revealed that wearing a beautiful dress can make you feel instantly empowered, but the effect is often gone as soon as the camera starts flashing.
“When I’m on the red carpet […] I love being given a beautiful thing to wear and you instantly feel good. But then everything changes when someone takes your picture,” laughs Horgan.
“You work so hard on a show […] And then everything went wrong that night,” she continued, referring to the old fashioned missteps she made, describing the whole experience as “difficult when the focus is on you in any way”.
Lee, who launched her London-based label in 2014 after graduating from Central Saint Martins, is known for designing elegant, easy-to-wear clothes for women who want elevated style without the effort.
Horgan’s eldest daughter now also studies fashion at Central Saint Martins, and apparently regularly gives advice (and constructive criticism) to her mother’s wardrobe.
“He’s very critical,” Horgan says, laughing.
When it comes to women’s fashion, Lee says she designs for modern women who “live busy, balanced lives”.
Their signature clothes resist wrinkles and are designed to work at any pace, worn by women from all walks of life including the Princess of Wales, Taylor Swift, Olivia Colman and Gillian Anderson.
A “healthy” but evolving relationship with clothes
Horgan has described her relationship with fashion as “pretty healthy”, although it is quite different from her previous years.
“It’s a lot healthier. I mean, it’s changed a lot over the years,” she says. “In my youth, I used to dress more flamboyantly […] But I also had to work less hard. Now I feel like everything takes so much effort.”
Her everyday uniform is practical: jeans and a T-shirt. “I love anything that’s easy to wear but stylish and takes very little extra stuff,” she says.
“Like my favorite thing is to wear a dress that I don’t have to add a lot of extra things to – and it seems like that’s just it. [Edeline Lee’s] Do clothes.”
No matter how much her relationship with clothes has evolved, Horgan, like most women, still finds the shopping scene an intimidating experience.
“I hate shopping […] I will buy anything from any shop that has good mirrors,” she says, laughing.
learning red carpet rules
Horgan’s first red carpet appearance was for one of the first programs she wrote, Pulling.
She recalled attending the BAFTA Awards in 2007 before having a stylist. “You definitely didn’t get [a big clothes budget] When you were in a little show on BBC Three that nobody watched,” she says politely.
“I think I went in my black mini dress [then] The realization that someone wanted to take a photo was as follows – [I mean I was] Hunched over, my whole posture was terrible,” she laughs.
As his work began to reach American audiences, expectations changed. “Instead of just doing a little BBC Three show […] Suddenly there’s money and budgets, and you’re being paraded around,” he said. Still with the stylist Rachel DavisThe investigation is unreliable.
“You think about it all the time — even when someone is helping you,” she says, “It’s hard when the spotlight is on you.”
Clothes, characters and costumes in TV
For Horgan, clothes are more than decoration – they take on a character in their own right.
As the driving force behind acclaimed TV shows like Pulling, Catastrophe, Motherland and the thriller-comedy Bad Sisters, she understands how wardrobe registers emotional details.
“We were obsessed with the costumes,” she says of Bad Sisters. “You want the clothes to express [the characters],
“We wanted it to feel real […] When someone is in love you want their outfit to show off, because when you are in love you dress differently […] Dress is everything.”
One character creation that has stuck with him is Karen in Pulling. “She dressed in a really ultra-feminine way, but she was very strict,” she says, “The clothes gave her a tough edge, it allowed her to be who she wanted to be but it also kept people away from each other.”
It’s exactly the kind of aesthetic psychology that makes Horgan’s work so precise and beloved.
“You get a buzz when you look good – not when you feel good,” she says.
Lee’s Women and Power series encapsulates this reflection. A reminder that clothes are not just superficial, but are also part of how people orient themselves in the world emotionally, professionally, and sometimes politically.