Since 1946, the Cannes Movie Competition has attracted cinema’s most glamorous stars to the Cote d’Azur. Due to the pageant’s famously strict (and more and more outdated) costume code, you will discover no scarcity of top-level night put on—dinner jackets and tuxedos—on the enduring red-carpet steps of the Palais des Festivals. Nevertheless it’s typically between the flashy occasions—throughout uncommon moments of downtime by the glimmering French Riviera, or interviews with the press on luxurious resort balconies—that you’re going to catch glimpses of actual, righteous private type.
The attendees most frequently delivering that top-end type are usually not, as you may assume, the actors. In my humble and barely biased opinion—because the proprietor of the @DirectorFits Instagram account—a director’s method to dressing typically says a lot about their filmmaking, their view of the world, and the place they’re in that specific second. And Cannes, with its fit-pic-ready backdrops and 76 years of historical past, provides a very wealthy buffet of nice director appears to dissect.
With the newest version of the pageant kicking off tomorrow, I’ve curated a handful of my private favourite Cannes director matches. Here is what you may study—and what you must steal—from the good filmmakers’ wardrobes.
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