Actress praised for wearing £5 bin bag dress to BAFTA TV Awards

Last night’s BAFTA TV Awards saw celebrities don their best fashion looks for the red carpet.

However, one actress used a totally different tactic to stand out.

‘This Country’ star Daisy May Cooper made a red carpet statement in a gown made from a bin bag.

“[I’m wearing] a sixteen litre bin bag…,” the star of the BBC Three mockumentary series told press at the event.

It cost "about £5", she added.

Cooper’s bin bag dress represented a lot more than just a zany departure from style norms.

The actress saved on her look so that she might donate money to the less fortunate.

"The reason I'm wearing this is if I wore a normal dress, that would cost a lot of money and I thought I'd donate that money to a local food bank and wear bin bags instead,” she explained.

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Twitter users have praised Cooper for her unusual style and the charitable rationale behind it.

This isn’t the first out-there red carpet ensemble Cooper has worn.

At last year’s BAFTA TV Awards, she wore an asymmetric red dress fashioned from a Swindon football shirt.