
It doesn’t hit Netflix for a few more days, but season three of The Crown has just premiered in London, and Helena Bonham Carter arrived at the festivities looking like some spectacular species of jaunty goth bird. Almost like a witchy Barbara Cartland? It’s working for me, is my point.
Here’s the look, in full. It’s like the added feather boas to chiffon, but with tinsel woven throughout.

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She looks, as my colleague Emily Alford pointed out, like a hot silky chicken. Compare:

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I love it and want to wear it everywhere, including the grocery store.
DISCUSSION
a silky! i once told my coworker - who had grown up on a farm in the Bakersfield area - that I wanted a silky because we were on a website where you could order chicks shipped to your house by the dozen (college job, we were fucking around, etc etc)
and he looked at me and said, never, ever get a silky. they’re devils with feathers. does anyone have RL experience who can attest to this?