British actress and ‘Bond’ girl Naomie Harris has opened up on her personal style, admitting that she hasn’t always dressed as elegantly as she does whenever she’s hitting the red carpet these days. Naomie says that during her college years, she had “no fashion sense” at all and looked “grungy” as a result. She commented:
“As a student at Cambridge [University] I had no fashion sense and looked very grungy. Zadie Smith [novelist] was my contemporary and wore really colourful head scarves and always looked chic. I recently met Zadie again at a dinner at [Burberry CEO] Christopher Bailey’s house. It’s the first time we’d spoken at length — we mostly talked about babies.”
Opening up on her biggest fashion regret, Naomie reveals that she once made a big faux pas that landed her on many worst-dressed lists. She explained that her dress was simply too short and it didn’t look right for the event she was attending:
“My biggest fashion faux pas was wearing a Matthew Williamson dress to the BAFTAs several years ago. It was inappropriately short. I looked very out of place and made it on to a lot of worst-dressed lists.”
Naomie is known for playing the part of Bond girl in ‘Skyfall’ but she admits she didn’t steal any souvenirs from the set – however she was given a few gifts that she now has to remember her time working on the film: “I didn’t take anything from the Skyfall set, but Sam Mendes [director] gave me a baseball cap and Barbara Broccoli [producer] gave me a lovely bracelet and necklace.”
