Vogue’s Forces of Fashion

VOGUE – Saoirse Ronan is “a person with the aura of a star but none of the pretence,” finds Reni Eddo-Lodge in the Irish actor’s November 2024 British Vogue profile – unfathomably her first. As the erstwhile child star-turned-Oscar nominee, whose talent has been compared to that of Hollywood matriarch Meryl Streep, took to the stage at this magazine’s Forces of Fashion event, Ronan, in a sinuous red dress, indeed had the charisma of a performer, but the warmth of a dear friend.

In conversation with the legendary British costume designer Jacqueline Durran, whom a 12-year-old Ronan met on the set of Atonement and has since worked with on Hanna, Little Women and Blitz, Ronan is just as keen to steer the tête-à-tête towards Durran’s work on Barbie (“it wouldn’t have been a film that interested me at all unless it was directed by Greta [Gerwig]”) than she is her own career. Still, the old acquaintances find a happy medium in delighting over their most recent collaboration on Steve McQueen’s new take on the quintessential Second World War film. “It was about looking at all of the people in London as individuals and thinking of the different stories, because it’s quite easy to forget that it was millions struggling,” notes Durran of the importance of cutting through the rose-tinted nostalgia. The costumes, meanwhile, are as detail-driven as we’ve come to expect from Jacqueline, who says the watchword on set was “authenticity”, particularly when considering the surprisingly overt glamour that was “part of the war effort to keep up appearances.”
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2024 Academy Museum Gala

2024 Academy Museum Gala

On Saturday (October 19) night, Saoirse attended the fourth annual Academy Museum Gala held at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California.

Saoirse for British Vogue

Saoirse for British Vogue

“She’s Fascinating Eating Cornflakes”: The Endlessly Alluring Saoirse Ronan On Blitz, Kids And Marital Bliss

A riveting silver screen presence since her early teens, when Saoirse Ronan commits to a part the world takes note. Her latest? Playing single mother to an evacuee son during the Second World War, in director Steve McQueen’s history-remaking Blitz. Author Reni Eddo-Lodge travels to Scotland where she finds the multi-Oscar-nominated Irish actor newly married, intent on reflection and ready for her next chapter. Photographs by Jack Davison. Styling by Nell Kalonji

Saoirse Ronan considered wearing a blazer for this interview. The 30-year-old Irish actor assumed that she’d be speaking to a fashion journalist to accompany her first time featuring on the cover of British Vogue. Five minutes into our conversation, I can see the cogs in her brain turning. “You know what I’m just realising… ” she says, clocking that I am an author. You don’t need to worry about dressing to impress me, I say. “I know that now!” she exclaims, chastising herself. “I feel like such an idiot.”

Saoirse Ronan is not an idiot. Before she turned 26, she had won a Golden Globe (for Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age comedy Lady Bird) and accumulated four Academy Award nominations, the first, when she was 13 years old, for her portrayal of precocious teenager Briony Tallis in the film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s Atonement. When, in 2020, The New York Times included Saoirse in its list of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century, the newspaper noted that she has been “in full, disciplined command of her gifts right from the start”.

When Ronan appears in the doorway of Toast, a small riverside wine bar and café in Edinburgh, the most attention-grabbing thing about her entrance is Stella, the four-year-old petit basset griffon Vendéen she acquired just before lockdown with her new husband, actor Jack Lowden, whom she lives with between London and Scotland and married a couple of weeks before we meet. She worries that Stella might annoy people and get in the way, but I’ve met much worse behaved dogs. The potential interview blazer has been replaced with a lightweight black liner jacket. I ask if she’s into fashion. She looks reluctant. “I should probably say that I am.”
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“Blitz” Premieres at the BFI London Film Festival

“Blitz” Premieres at the BFI London Film Festival

On Wednesday (October 9), Saoirse attended the world premiere of Blitz during the opening night gala of the BFI London Film Festival at The Royal Festival Hall in London, England. Earlier that day, Saoirse attended the press conference for the film. Take a look below.


Gallery Update

Gallery Update

Hi, Saoirse fans! I have updated the gallery with missing 2024 photoshoots and events (starting from February). Apologies for the late update!



“Blitz” Official Trailer

Sir Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.

Annual Academy Museum Gala

Saoirse for Document Journal

Saoirse for Document Journal


Saoirse Ronan and Grace Coddington are artists in the craft of character-building

DOCUMENT JOURNAL – Saoirse Ronan was 16 when she did her first Vogue photoshoot, under the creative direction of Grace Coddington. Then a rising star with the first of an eventual four Oscar nominations under her belt, the young actor used her considerable ability to fully embody Pre-Raphaelite muses, gazing at the heavens as an exquisitely doomed Ophelia, and running through overgrown castle gardens and untamed forests as a rogue Arthurian queen. The shoot is the perfect distillation of their shared capacity to convey an entire story in a single moment, with Ronan as its subject and Coddington as its mastermind. Photographed by Steven Meisel, the portraits beckon you into the fantastical world of a flaming-haired, barefooted woman, consumed in dramas of lore and legend—exactly the kind of mesmerizing, narratively rich images which characterize Coddington’s decades-long reign as American Vogue’s creative director. In the foreword Ronan later wrote for Grace: The American Vogue Years (Phaidon), she expressed a sentiment common among those who have been lucky enough to work with the fashion editor: “A fire as bright as her hair is brought to everything she makes room for in her heart. A burst of character and brilliance!”
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