Emily Blunt Just Resurrected the Chambray Shirt

As the denim wars wage on, Emily Blunt is officially marking herself “safe” at the Venice Film Festival, choosing an oversized light wash chambray shirt as her go-to layer for riding the canals. The onetime style staple is back, providing just the right amount of coverage and warmth for a breezy day jetting to and fro on the water.

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Keeping her auburn hair in simple waves parted in the middle, Blunt styled her shirt, a loose boyfriend-style cut garment, over a clingy maroon dress with a Prada bag, designer sunglasses, and white sneakers. She’s at the festival to promote her new movie, The Smashing Machine, which reunites her with Jungle Cruise costar Dwayne Johnson and is directed by Benny Safdie.

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Chambray is denim’s light, cotton-based cousin, and it had a moment about 10 years ago, a moment Blunt definitely embraced: here she is in a chambray button-down in 2014; another in 2015; and a sleeveless version too.

Blunt also knows that light blue is an excellent color on her, and she embraced it again at another festival event, wearing a Schiaparelli gown and Ysso jewelry, styled by Jessica Paster. Here, her waves are pressed and glossed, her face is given a bit of definition with makeup, the heels are heel-ing, the nails are nails-ing…in short, she’s got her movie star thing going on, and she looks gorgeous. Or should we say, smashing.

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After the festival wraps, we assume she’ll jet back to New York City to continue filming the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada. We know her character, also named Emily, appears in the film, though we won’t spoil any more than that. Remember at the end of 2023 when she said she was taking a break from acting? Thank goodness that turned out to be an exaggeration. Much like a chambray shirt, we will never let this classic icon go.