Oscars 2025 Countdown: Fernanda Torres-ology

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We’re used to seeing that old Hollywood story of a fresh young star suddenly finding herself a frontrunner during awards season and watching her style go from low-key to A-list prestige star as designers suddenly realize they have a new face to utilize in promoting their pieces.

At the Venice Film Festival Premiere in Alexandre Herchcovitch
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But Fernanda Torres isn’t some fresh young actress; she’s a longstanding Brazilian star born into what is essentially the country’s First Family of the arts, as the daughter of actress Fernanda Montenegro and actor-director Fernando Torres.

At the Toronto Film Festival in Reinaldo Lourenço
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To call her well-established would be to understate her status considerably. But she hasn’t been a player on the international stage until now, and it’s interesting to see how her style evolved as her film Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here) and her performance started garnering recognition around the world.

At the New York Film Festival in Bottega Veneta
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She’s sailing into her first Oscars ceremony on a wave of the best press of her career and the possibility of an upset in the highly competitive Best Actress race and we love seeing how her style quickly evolved once the big labels started reaching out.

At the BFI London Festival in Bottega Veneta
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She started off with Brazilian designers like Alexandre Herchcovitch and Reinaldo Lourenco, as one would expect, but it’s pretty clear that Bottega Veneta saw the writing on the wall and was the first major house to reach out to her.

At the Hollywood Brazil Film Festival in Zero + Maria
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She briefly played around with bold prints.

At the Deadline Contenders Film Los Angeles in Bottega Veneta
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At the W Best Performance Party in Heirlome
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But rather quickly adopted a chic, neutral, minimalist style that spoke of her sudden frontrunner status.

At the Governors Awards in Dior
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And as her performance started getting more and more press…

At the Santa Barbara Film Festival in Chanel
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The labels got bigger and bigger.

At the Golden Globes Awards in Olivier Theyskens
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And as she racked up one A-list designer after another, she stuck to a very demure, low-key chicness.

At the BAFTAs Nominees Party in Chanel
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In a lot of ways, it reminds us of Lily Gladstone’s Oscar campaign last year, when she embraced as many high-end design house labels as she could get her hands on, as a way of signaling her own status as a prestige actress and Oscar frontrunner.

At the BAFTA Awards in Dior
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As for any predictions surrounding how she’ll dress for the main event, we think that’s pretty obvious by now.

At the Oscar Nominees Dinner in The Row
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She’s going to wear something elegant, but extremely low-key, in a neutral color like black or dark blue, with very little in the way of jewelry. That’s clearly the way she likes it.

STYLED BY ANTONIO FRAJADO

[Photo Credit: Phil McCarten/CBS, Getty Images, John Phillips/Getty Images for BFI, Abaca Press/INSTARimages, PA Images/INSTARimages, Cover Images, Charley Gallay/Getty Images for W Magazine]

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