Brie Larson Embraces Her Inner Dancer in Michael Kors
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Brie Larson has been overcome with a love of dance. The Oscar winner says she’s not sure whether she’s “obsessed or possessed,” but whatever the undeniable force, dance has become a core part of her life. So when it came time to put together her look for the Michael Kors Fall 2024 show, Larson knew she wanted art and movement to be in conversation.
“Everything that I like wearing now seems to either be inspired by a dance performance I’ve seen or feels dancer-ly, and so that’s just what I’ve been gravitating towards,” the actor tells Harper’s Bazaar as she gets ready for the New York Fashion Week show. “Once you start getting your body in a place where it can move, it just wants to move all the time. And so I don’t like anything to be too restrictive … and luckily, Michael Kors—he seems very into that as well. He’s very into the body.”
With the help of stylist Samantha McMillen, the Lessons in Chemistry star has chosen an all-black ensemble that feels like a modern dancer’s take on cocktail dressing. When Larson arrives, she is decked out in a large black dress coat, which she removes inside to reveal the more dance-inspired pieces. Her asymmetrical, single-strapped bodysuit is stretchy like a leotard, and paired with matching slacks that flare at the bottom ever so slightly, adding a graceful, organic flow to her silhouette.
There are some subtle pops of texture, like her croc-embossed bag and skinny woven leather belt, which extends all the way down to her calves. The accessory and Larson’s strappy heels look like they were borrowed from a real-life ’70s disco floor. She accessorizes with rings from Anita Ko and earrings from Briony Raymond. (Simple and not too chunky, just like a dancer requires.)
Of course, Larson isn’t actually going to be getting down in the ensemble. “I mean, granted, I’m wearing a heel, so it’s not gonna be like I’m gonna start tendu-ing,” she jokes. “But it definitely is something I can move in.”
The Captain Marvel star first shared her love of dance with the world in September 2023, when she posted a slideshow to Instagram that captured her months of lessons. “Over the holidays last year, my inner voice was telling me to dance,” she wrote. “I don’t have a dance background, so these thoughts were strange to me. But it felt like something inside of me wanted to come out.”
A friend connected Larson with @charliearches and she started dancing, as many days as she possibly could, for months. After over half a year of lessons, she held a small performance for her loved ones. “It’s hard to explain what dance has become for me, but the goal was to share what I have through movement,” the Room star wrote in the slideshow caption. “It was such a fulfilling experience, and just the beginning.”
Now, after a year of dancing, Larson is able to display her new infatuation through this look. She also gets to tap into her lifelong love of fashion—and specifically, the work of Michael Kors. “He’s just an icon,” the California native says of the designer. “I’ve grown up knowing his name and knowing his point of view, and I find his clothes to be very celebratory and accessible, and that’s always been really important to me—that there’s a way of feeling fabulous as yourself, as a person.”
She adds: “As somebody who’s just tracked his career for like my whole life … it’s just fun to see, artist to artist, how you continue to evolve, how you continue to change. It’s just a wonderful thing.”
Leading up to the February 13 show, Larson notes how getting dressed for a front row is different from getting dressed for a red carpet. “It’s meant to be about going fully into the fantasy of fashion,” she says. “But you’re also stepping into the vision of the designer, which I think is so fun because [I] get to be in a little pocket universe for a day—maybe take on a persona that I’ve never done before, a persona that’s different from something that I’ve played onscreen. And there’s just a lot of freedom in that.”
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