Best dressed at Toronto Film Festival 2025: Anya Taylor-Joy, Charli xcx, Paul Mescal

The last water taxi had barely left Venice before the looks from Toronto Film Festival 2025 started to drip into our social media feeds.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the festival. Its lineup includes Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, with Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, the James McAvoy-directed California Schemin’, Romain Gavras’s Sacrifice, starring Charli xcx, and Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine — also known as “The Film That Will Win Dwayne The Rock Johnson An Oscar.”

Other films scheduled for special presentations include Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein — which means plenty more Jacob Elordi red carpet appearances — and Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man, the most recent instalment in his Knives Out saga.

Wake Up Dead Man’s stacked cast (Josh O’Connor, Andrew Scott, Glenn Close and many more) were some of the first attendees to hit the Toronto red carpet, with Josh O’Connor’s massive Dior bowtie causing a particular stir.