Are Floating Straps The Latest Red Carpet Fashion Trend? Here's Why Emily Blunt Chose Them

At the Oscars on Sunday night, the crowd spotted two Oppenheimer stars in gowns with floating straps. Co-stars Florence Pugh and Emily Blunt stunned on the red carpet with straps curving above their shoulders. Blunt, in a video on Instagram, showed off the strange look by swaying side-to-side to show how detached the straps were. Pugh donned something similar. The majority of the audience is annoyed by the look, which is understandable – to many, it makes the dresses appear ill-fitted. "this would be a perfect slay except unfortunately the straps are going to annoy me why are they floating like that?" asks @_supershepherd. "she [Pugh] looks great BUT I do *not* get the weird floating strap trend on her and emily blunt tonight," writes @thekuhlest on X. Another X user wondered , “What is going [on] with the straps of Emily Blunt’s dress?!?!?! Is it not meant to touch her shoulders?” Gossip page DeuxMoi uploaded photos of Blunt and Pugh on Instagram, and many women agreed that we shouldn't make floating straps a thing. Why Did Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh Wear the Floating Straps? Jessica Paster, Blunt's stylist, offers an explanation as to why the actress selected the dress with the hovering straps: "I think when you decide what you want to wear, I think something happens," she told Vanity Fair. "It depends on your mood. One was colorful, one was diaphanous, one was white." Paster said that she anticipated the comments on Blunt's Schiaparelli gown. “Sometimes we don't play it safe. At this point of years of being with Emily, we can go have fun with fashion,” she added. “Did I know that people were going to talk about the shoulder? Absolutely. Do I care what anybody else has to say? Absolutely not. Me? I think that people that know fashion, like fashion, like things that are interesting, were going to like it, and I know the people that like some things that are very classic were not going to like it. At the end of the day, she looked absolutely beautiful. It was such a beautiful dress.” Support our cause and help women reclaim their femininity by subscribing today.