“I have a wonderful team around me,” Atim tells Vogue. “They’re all fantastic dark-skinned Black women, so there’s such an easy shorthand there.”
with helping her look to grow and evolve. “I have a wonderful team around me who are so supportive of my ideas and bring their own brilliant expertise and ideas as well,” she says. “They’re all fantastic Black women – dark-skinned Black women – working in their fields, so having those conversations about what I want this press tour to look like and be, there’s such an easy shorthand there. I’m really glad that I can have them with me.
Sheila’s taste for statement-making fashion drew her to her premiere look, but it was another Prada dress – the sculptural sequined one she wore to theOscars after-party earlier this year – that initially prompted her to shake up her approach. “I’m always looking for something that’s a little bit out of the ordinary – but very much a little bit – I like to just kind of dip my toe into something that’s a bit unexpected,” muses Atim.
Of course, Prada was also behind the memorable velvet look she wore at Cannes Film Festival over the summer , so it felt natural for Sheila to consult the house once again. “I have a joke with my stylist [Abisoye] that when we go to Prada fittings, it’s just for fun – not for work,” she laughs. “There’s just something fresh every single time, and something that you have to look twice at.”
In fittings, the red dress immediately caught the actor’s attention. “It always happens: the looks are all great, and then there’s one that’s just like [gasps], what is that? Oh my god, that’s amazing!” Atim was a fan of the high-neck silhouette, which makes her “feel like a princess, but in a cool way”, as well as the sweeping train.
“I had so many people who are coming [to the premiere] in mind when I was filming this project, when I was out in South Africa and we were doing long days and going through stunts, I just kept on thinking about them, and their reaction when they saw it,” Sheila says. “I can’t wait to watch it with my mum and I can’t wait to watch it with my friends.
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