Venice 79, ten looks on display: in & out

VENICE – Still the nudes (unfortunately, too many). Stiletto heels, no more. The fluid, a lot. After two editions dominated by the pandemic, the 79th Venice International Film Festival forgets the anti-Covid masks (a paleozoic find, the golden one of Tilda Swinton in 2020), proposes transparencies, revolutionizes shoes. And we might as well start from these to tell a week of red carpet. Gangways in some cases to be the envy of the Barnum Circus.

THE SHOE

Imagination exercise: does anyone imagine Marilyn Monroe (tomorrow Blonde, the film that tells her) in the white pleated dress, her legs in the wind, with not a décolletée on her feet but a Marine amphibian? This year goes like this and the record (for now) is won by the juror Tessa Thompson on a white plateau that touched 30 centimeters. Not even.

THE TUNIC

There is tunic and tunic. Drusilla Foer the soft, long dress, almost a cloud, Naples yellow, specially created by the creative director of Valentino, Pierpaolo Piccioli. For former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a baby-blue caftan with papusse on her feet (but why didn’t she recommend the furlane?). Comfortable and that’s it.

WHO CAN AND WHO NOT

The flowered balcony by Schiapparelli by Australian actress Cate Blanchett was the absolute novelty of the festival’s outfits. Flowers also for Penelope Cruz, in black and pink lace: they were Chanel, but much more modest.

NUDE

The supermodel Mariacarla Boscono is not lacking in physique and has decided to show it: on the red carpet she wore the veil of Jean Paul Gaultier while keeping only the containment panty. The bustier took it off. Needed? Naked back for Timothée Chalamet, in cannibal blood red dungarees by Haider Ackermann. It’s the fluid genre that’s going crazy.

TRADITIONAL

He probably had the same tux seen in Venice in 2019 (he was with Scarlett Johansson at the time), the fact remains that on social media Adam Driver was elected king of sexy. One might say: finally a normal dress. For the godmother Rocío Muñoz Morales every evening a dress by a different designer. The most original, the silver metal one by Dolce & Gabbana. Metallic, almost psychedelic, also Julianne Moore, in a microshort and cape by Valentino. Lots of stuff. Too much.