Why does everyone want to dress like Lily-Rose Depp in Nosferatu?

In recent days, fashion has been darkening on TikTok. On the application, several teenage girls shun the traditional sequin dress often worn during the end-of-year holiday season. Instead, they celebrate the return of corsets, jabots and lace ornaments, bouffant petticoats, maxi-hats trimmed with flowers… In fact, all the attire of Ellen Hutter, a young woman tormented by a vampire in 19th century Germany, played by Lily-Rose Depp in Nosferatuthe new horror film by Robert Eggers currently in theaters.

So, on Christmas morning, content creator @briibunny informs her community that she plans to go to the movies wearing a lace Victorian nightie. A look liked by more than 60,000 people. For his part, @deerswans believes that the white wedding dress in taffeta and Bardot collar is “the only acceptable outfit to go see the film”.

With the release of this feature film, Lily-Rose Depp, ultra-influential icon of Generation Z, is bringing back a real craze around an emblematic look of the 19th century: “Victorian goth”, one of the many branches of the Gothic culture which took shape with the arrival of Queen Victoria on the British throne in 1837. This dark aestheticism, transcribed in the obscure stories of Charles Dickens, the Brontë sisters or even by Edgar Allan Poe, settles and evolves in a United Kingdom ravaged by diseases which force many bereaved women to dress in black.

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“I was blown away”

For the needs of the project, the film team called on Linda Muir, a Canadian costume designer known for her numerous collaborations with Robert Eggers. “I always dreamed of wearing costumes from that era. I love these dresses, corsets and silhouettes. Films with these costumes have always fascinated me since I was little,” says Lily-Rose Depp. And TikTok too, is under the spell. “The 1830s are NEVER this accurate in film. I was blown away”, “This must be the next theme of the Met Gala”, several Internet users express themselves in video comments. Going so far as to say that Vanessa Paradis’ daughter deserves an Oscar for her role in Nosferatu …

The aesthetic, which emerges just three months after the Burtoncore phenomenon following the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice by Tim Burton, goes so far as to seduce males. She now enjoys tying ties like a bow tie, bringing out top hats and molding her thighs into striped suit pants. A new sartorial enthusiasm prepared for months by the 25-year-old actress and model for the promotion of Nosferatu. On December 2, in London, she showed up again at the photocall in a baroque dress taken from the Chanel haute couture archives. Clearly, the weather isn’t the only thing that makes you shiver at the start of winter.