She is one of the most celebrated actors in Hollywood, capable of conjuring a wound from a glance, but I’d argue that Jennifer Lawrence’s taste in shoes stirs just as much emotion: pain, pleasure, surprise. To wit: the actor was yesterday afternoon photographed strolling through Los Angeles in a belted Loro Piana coat and the kind of slippers traditionally seen on garden centre personnel.
Those ergonomic Halfingers – dubbed, in an act of nominative determination, “The Grizzly” – are the latest example of Lawrence’s one-woman campaign to reappraise odd-looking shoes. Take, for example, the moment she decided to wear flip-flops with a Dior ballgown on the Cannes red carpet; the photographs that surfaced while she was house hunting in Los Angeles in skin-toned ballet flats transparent enough to reveal the outline of her toes; the non-shoes, the jelly shoes, and half-shoes.
“She’s timeless and doesn’t take herself too seriously,” the stylist Jamie Mizrahi said of Lawrence’s changing relationship with clothing back in 2023. “Her wardrobe is relatively straightforward and modern, and it isn’t driven by what’s fashionable.” True: Lawrence is no guileless consumer of trends – hers is a well-trained eye, rooting out the beauty in the unusual, the pleasure in the pain. (She could have worn a Birkenstock Boston.) It’s about “caring enough,” Mizrahi added, “without caring too much”.
