Have you been outraged/titillated/bored by the onslaught of “naked” dresses that assaulted our eyeballs at the Met Ball and recent TV BAFTAs?
It doesn’t matter. Move on. The Cannes Film Festival has unexpectedly saved all our sanity, dishing up daily lessons in How To Dress Provocatively Without Looking as Though You’ve Lost Your Mind (and your underwear).
Yes, Cannes. The heaving fleshpot where even in the 1950s, actresses “accidentally” lost their bikini tops in the waves so that the battalions of paparazzi who just happened to be loitering nearby could get what they came for. This year, the festival has uncharacteristically opted for (mostly) understated classiness.
Here’s what I think we can all feel: relief. Even those of us who like to come across as modern and non-judgy can rejoice that our secret judgy instincts were probably right all along. The world has swung on its axes and swung back again. Going out in a cobweb with nothing on underneath, or, possibly worse, with the wrong bra underneath, is so last month.
This doesn’t mean we should dress as if it’s Salem 1692. Not revealing any bare skin at all is actually very aging. And rather hot. It’s almost summer (allegedly),let’s enjoy it.
With that in mind, here are the skin-baring style notes worthy of your attention from the Cote d’Azur:
Less is Moore
Demi and Julianne to be precise. I hear you from afar – Demi may appear to have had a chihuahua grafted onto her torso. But as Hollywood celebrities go, she looks amazing and with her stylist, Brad Goreski, has played a blinder at Cannes. What has she revealed, skin wise? Smooth décolletage for one thing and some exceptionally toned thighs.