How Downton Abbey’s Elizabeth McGovern looks so stylish at 60
telegraph.co.ukElizabeth McGovern, the 60-year-old star of Downton Abbey and sometimes rock chick (she’s sung and played guitar in a band called Sadie and the Hotheads for years) ever since she was in Robert Redford’s Ordinary People in 1980.
Back then, I was obsessed with her shiny dark hair and sleek air of simplicity. Forty two years on, the hair has silvered, the blue eyes are as piercing as ever, and her style has gracefully mutated into a modern, pared-back, low-key glamour that has a multiplicity of easy-to-follow details to mull over.
She takes notes too – from her stylist Mary Fellowes, the British former Voguette who is known for dressing Olivia Colman, Julianne Moore and Scarlett Johansson, as well as for being one of the most sustainably minded celebrity stylists on the block.
It was Fellowes who steered McGovern to her latest red-carpet triumph, at Sunday night’s New York premiere of Downton Abbey: A New Era.The beautiful cream silk cape dress (by ethical, sustainable Indian brand Varana) and contrasting black peep toes are typical of the low-key, timeless labels she loves.
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