Sydney Sweeney has touched down at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival, there to promote her forthcoming movie Christy. The biopic, already stoking awards season buzz from its first preview at the festival, sees the actor transform into the boxing legend Christy Salters Martin, as she rises through the ranks of her sport in the ’80s and navigates her own personal strifes and abuse. From Sweeney’s own accounts, it was an intense experience, training multiple times a day for three months with a boxing coach and weight trainers. Tons of protein too, with plenty of Chick-fil-A.
When not protein-maxxing, Sweeney is working with her longtime stylist Molly Dickson. For their newly minted press tour run, it looks like they’re layering Sweeney’s strength for character acting onto her wardrobe. First, the actor stepped onto the TIFF red carpet in a pre-spring 2026 Erdem dress in a textured pale pink shade, made bespoke with a super-cinched corset, asymmetric hand-draped satin skirt, with red tulip appliques on the hip. Makeup, by Melissa Hernandez, involved a sultry eye with thick lashes, a cool toned eye, and a matte taupe lip, with long and loose curls by Glen Oropeza.
It’s a super-feminine, dramatic silhouette and princessy aesthetic Sweeney enjoys; thinking back to her Echo Valley press tour, she wore a clingy, crystalline archival Elie Saab gown, a body-moulding corset McQueen top, and another crystal-studded bodice by McQueen. Back in April, Sweeney appeared in an ultra nipped-in Wiederhoeft dress from the designer’s spring 2025 runway collection to promote her film The Housemaid at CinemaCon.
Dickson and Sweeney have taken more playful sartorial risks though in the last few months, experimenting with some sailor chic via Coperni and subversive corporate attire with a pantsless suit and tie combo via Jean Paul Gaultier and silky power suiting by Oscar de la Renta.
And make no mistake: Sydney Sweeney still means business! The actor shed her medieval royalty guise and stepped out for a press call wearing custom Monse—the brand that designed the Blue Origin’s all-female spaceflight crew’s suits, and that’s worn by the likes of Rihanna, Michelle Obama, Taylor Swift, and Selena Gomez. According to Dickson, it’s a sneak peek at the New York designer’s collection set to be shown at New York Fashion Week this month.
The look consisted of a tailored gray check shirt made into a long-sleeved, twisted torso bra top that featured a sheer, boned bodysuit underneath. On the bottom, some matching, slightly flaring suit pants and pointed pumps. It’s stock exchange chic, the Sweeney way.
Now kickstarting another press tour run, it’s exciting to think of all the fun Dickson and Sweeney are going to have with her wardrobe. Will the past trend for boxing boots make a comeback under one of these corseted gowns? TBC.
