Naomi Ackie, Bella Freud and Lionesses share their favourite fashion trends

As Elle UK marks its 40th anniversary, nan mag celebrated successful cardinal London pinch nan Elle Style Awards.

Winners included vocalist Lola Young, character Naomi Ackie, trailblazing Lionesses, British designer Bella Freud and Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai.

The evening was a reminder that manner and productivity ne'er beryllium successful isolation – but astir of nan talk was little astir trophies and much astir taste, trends and really celebrated faces are reshaping their individual style.

Thursday Murder Club prima Ackie, 34, who was named performer of nan twelvemonth aft a defining 12 months connected screen, wore a DiPesta sheer, wet-look gown.

“The vibe is benignant of crazy,” she said. “The cloth feels almost bedewed – but it was cleanable erstwhile I put it on.”

Ackie’s reddish carpet look was a large departure from her accustomed style.

“Honestly, my mundane style is simply a really bully value hoodie, awesome jeans, chunky trainers – everything oversized,” she laughed.

While she tends to support it casual day-to-day, she can’t thief but beryllium influenced by her movie projects.

“I’m nan queen of stealing things from group – Star Wars, Master of None – half my wardrobe is worldly I’ve nicked,” Ackie said. “Each characteristic unlocks a different portion of yourself, and it’s nosy to fold that backmost into existent life.”

But erstwhile it comes to trends, Ackie leans much towards timeless pieces, laughing: “I’m not that alert of trends, to beryllium honest.

“I’m much of a staples girl: a bully brace of jeans, a awesome blazer… and an oversized hoodie – thing you tin Winnie The Pooh astatine location in, but besides stone erstwhile you’re outside.”

One designer successful attendance was Bella Freud, 64, recipient of nan Cult Creative grant for her playful, enduring publication to British style.

Dressed successful her latest design, nan Grand Parcel suit, she said of nan look: “I wanted to bring femininity to a benignant of masculine swagger – truthful I embroidered nan lapel pinch a fleur du mal. It’s French poesy meets American stone ‘n’ roll.”

Freud has ventured much into nan nationalist arena this year, pursuing nan occurrence of her podcast Fashion Neurosis which interviews icons successful nan manner world successful a psychotherapy setting.

“The inspiration doesn’t needfully travel from Sigmund Freud,” says Freud, nan great-granddaughter of nan psychologist. “But I’m willing successful nan undercurrents of what motivates group and really it influences really they deterioration clothes, and what they take to hide aliases reveal.”

Freud’s trademark look is simply a tailored suit and does not needfully judge successful trends.

“If you get excessively caught up successful manner without a consciousness of your ain identity, you tin get lost,” she said.

“But nan much rigorous you are astir what makes you consciousness good, nan much stylish you tin be.”

It was not conscionable those clued up connected nan manufacture who were honoured. England footballers Hannah Hampton, Leah Williamson and Lucy Bronze received nan corporate of nan twelvemonth grant for nan team’s contributions to women’s football.

While they often attraction much connected their athletics than their style, manner has played a cardinal domiciled successful each of their nationalist personas.

“I ever deliberation of British manner arsenic elegant, eloquent and possibly pinch a small spot of play successful there,” said Bronze, 33, who says societal media has helped broaden her style inspiration.

“It’s a awesome measurement to spot different people’s styles you mightiness ne'er transverse paths with. In athletics I’m mostly astir footballers, but online you spot really group unrecorded and definitive themselves done what they wear.

“Everyone has their ain measurement of dictating fashion. I emotion nan measurement immoderate group look, but it’s not ever thing I could propulsion disconnected myself.”

What stood retired astir connected nan nighttime was not nan glitter aliases nan gowns, but nan measurement each victor framed manner connected their ain terms.

No 1 really said astir “what’s in” truthful overmuch arsenic what feels right. And possibly that’s nan truest inclination of 2025: style arsenic self-definition, worn pinch assurance whether it is couture embroidery aliases an oversized hoodie.