Florence Pugh learned to "relax" when she realised she could "have fun" with fashion.
The 'Thunderbolts*' actress used to feel self-conscious during red carpet events but over the years has started to feel more comfortable as she realised people want to see her having a good time.
She told the new issue of Harper's Bazaar UK: "It wasn’t until I realised I could have fun, and that other people enjoyed watching me having fun, that I could relax.”
The 29-year-old star opened Harris Reed's autumn/winter 2025 London Fashion Week show and she always likes working with the designer because he "genuinely cares" about how she feels in his creations.
She said: “When he dresses me, he genuinely cares about how I feel, and that is such a beautiful thing to give someone before they’re about to do something big like this."
Harris previously explained he wanted Florence to appear in his shows because of her "unapolagetically f*** you" attitude.
He told Britain's Vogue magazine: “(She) embodies everything that I want my work to be, which is just unapologetically, ‘F*** you, this is who I am. This is what I stand for. This is what I’m about.’”
Harris and Florence first met at his birthday party in Ibiza, at which she gave him a crocheted kaftan, and have been friends since.
The designer added: “That fabulous laughter, like anyone who knows (her will tell you), is absolutely infectious.
“I think in a business that is so overly curated and overly saturated, with massive teams of people trying to control and force a look.
“Florence Pugh is 100 per cent authentically and unapologetically just who she is. That’s very rare.”
The 'Fighting With my Family' star insisted she is "not a model".
She said: “I’m not a model. It’s portraying a completely different version of myself that I don’t necessarily believe in.
“You have to believe that you deserve to be in those pages being beautiful. But now I know what I want to show.
“I know who I want to show. I know who I want to be and I know what I look like. There’s no insecurities about what I am anymore.”
The full interview with Florence appears alongside photos by Erik Madigan Heck in the May issue of Harper's Bazaar UK, which is on sale from 17 April.
Visit https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/florence-pugh for more.
