Jennifer Lawrence is one of the most widely admired and well accoladed actors on the planet: she was the world’s highest-paid woman in Hollywood in 2015, and has four Oscar nominations and one win (all before the age of 26). She is a genuine movie star in an era when social media virality seems to eclipse generational staying power.But a style icon? That’s a new one.

“I’ve never looked at J. Law and thought, ‘You’re a fashion girl,’” said Marie Claire editor-in-chief Nikki Ogunnaike. “Nothing about her red carpet (clothing) has ever made me say, ‘Yes, this woman cares about fashion. She cares about what she’s wearing.’”But now, Ogunnaike observed, “Somehow her streetstyle has turned her into an icon.”

Over the past few months, as Lawrence promotes her Oscar hopeful “Die, My Love,” her red carpet ensembles, and especially her paparazzi-enshrined streetstyle, have spurred countless primers to her wardrobe on Substack and in magazine shopping roundups. The Cut praised her postpartum looks, and Harper’s Bazaar celebrated her “perceived effortlessness” in combining oversize tailoring with “quirky accessories.”On Substack, where shoppable guides to improved daily dressing are a cottage industry, writers have seized on her relatability: “Jennifer Lawrence Is Dressing How I Think I Dress,” wrote one Substacker, while another said Lawrence was leading the way in reviving the improvisational appeal of celebrity dressing that has dissipated amid brand deals and super stylists. In the shopping digest Magasin, where founder Laura Reilly steers readers towards a hyper-refined breed of minimalism, the style was crowned “Coldwater Creek chic.”

Lawrence, who has worked with stylist Jamie Mizrahi (who also works with Lawrence’s pal Adele, plus Riley Keough, Jeremy Allen White and Pedro Pascal) since 2023, doesn’t look particularly exceptional: she wears track pants with oversize sweaters, or a leopard print coat over a sweatsuit, or a loose slip skirt under a big T-shirt with a vintage Fendi bag.

But that’s just why so many women are drawn to it, said Erika Veurink, who writes the Substack Long Live. Veurink wrote a treatise on getting the Lawrence look that has been widely shared – especially, she said, by postpartum mothers. (Lawrence gave birth to her second child earlier this year.) She said Lawrence’s style captures precisely how many women want to look in this moment. “I wouldn’t say classic or timeless. It’s very ‘right now,’” she said. But it doesn’t appear difficult to pull off or replicate.“She’s a very thin woman,” Veurink acknowledged, “but I think there’s so much fatigue around celebrity outfits where it’s like, ‘Congrats, you took Ozempic and now you’re a zero, and you can wear Tom Ford anything.’ There is an everywoman feeling to these loose clothing items that are a little nondescript.”