Melissa M. Dunn 
Sienna Miller is undoubtedly one of the most famous fashion icons of the 2000s, alongside fellow Brits Kate Moss and Alexa Chung.
The “Siena Effect” saw a legion of followers experiment with everything from coin belts and prairie skirts, to denim vests, Ugg boots and floppy wide-brimmed hats.
But while the world has long dubbed Miller a queen of “bohemian” style, United KingdomMay’s cover star tells us that only now she approves of the term.
“I’ve always been a little rebellious to a label, but now I’ve accepted it. I was something bohemian,” she admits during her It’s a mood video, which sees the actress chart her most memorable fashion looks over the past two decades.
‘You know what I hate? I hate an abbreviated word. It’s like “just say bohemian”, but boho gets on my nerves, like jeggings or something… I think in my soul, [boho is] probably as true to myself as I am.
Later in the video, the Anatomy of a Scandal The star recalls wearing a Grecian green dress by Matthew Williamson to the 2004 Oscars, and a rather disastrous morning involving a hangover and a makeover.
“I remember a friend coming over in the morning, jumping on me in bed and landing on my twisted ankle. It was so painful and like a balloon,” she recalls.
The actor continues, noting that during his “prep” process, his hairstylist told him he wanted to create a Medusa-like look. While viewing the final look, she said, “I literally had brown tendrils and I was like, ‘Damn, this needs to be fixed’.” So we tied it up and it kind of felt like Princess Anne. I think it’s pretty inflated.
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As for her hairstyle, which is a regular The ELLE team source of inspiration at the hair salon given her tousled, effortless curls, Miller notes that she’s not “particularly” attached to her blonde hair and would consider dying it brown again.
“I shaved half of it, cut the bangs – I perpetually cut bangs and hate it after a week,” she jokes. “I’ve always been drawn to messy, undone hair, I think it’s quite a London thing, and it’s not out of anything other than sheer laziness and an absolute inability to style my own hair. I think: don’t brush it, don’t condition it, and let it be scruffy and scruffy.
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In recent years, the mother-of-one has walked the red carpet in a Gucci custom lace column dress at the 2021 Met Gala, and a beige lizard-print chiffon dress by Yves Saint Laurent, complete with a crystal-studded bodice at the 2009G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra Screening in Los Angeles.
However, as she reflects on her style early in her career (with a skirt worn as a dress, belts worn around the bust and necklaces as headbands), Miller says she “didn’t care what anyone a pansy’ in his early twenties.
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‘I think it’s probably [what] resonated, and which was great and also, at times, disastrous,” she explains, later explaining that for press events she now relies on the expertise of celebrity stylist Kate Young, whose clients also include Dakota Johnson and Margot Robbie.
“Young people now have stylists and it’s very organised. I was dropped in a confectionery so there [was] a sense of individuality, which I love,” she fondly recalls.
We totally agree, Miller.
Watch Sienna Miller’s It’s A Mood video at the top of this article and read her cover profile here.
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