When Conley Averett launched his knitwear label Judy Turner in the summer of 2018, he had old Hollywood glamour on his mind: pin-up model turned actress Lana Turner’s Imitation of Life and Madame X, and the extravagant costumes of cinema’s Golden Age. “I really do look to the 40s and to the birth of Hollywood,” he says over the phone, en route to his New York studio. “At the time, we were talking a lot about Adrian [Adolph Greenburg], the costume designer – that look and idea.” The name Judy Turner, itself, was plucked from the musical The Chorus Line, and is an homage to both Judy Garland and Lana Turner. In recent weeks, though, another Hollywood starlet has come into Averett’s sartorial orbit, Lily-Rose Depp.
While promoting her upcoming film Nosferatu in Los Angeles, the 25-year-old actor sported a white off-the-shoulder woven top with corset-style darting and a matching shrunken bubble skirt that’s become one of the label’s signatures. She wore another that same week in black, with a witchy, ruffle-trimmed button-up top, hinting at the darker themes of the Bram Stoker’s Dracula-inspired film, which sees Depp playing the angelic Ellen Hunter, who becomes possessed by a demon in the 19th century. “It’s a little shiny, a bit spooky, but I also find it to be really chic,” Averett says of the look. “It has the right amount of sheen, but it’s not too precious.”
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