71st Cannes Film Festival

An interesting mix of different in the final days of Cannes.

Do we come to fashion because of the names and faces or for the art and spectacle? As the rest of the world took their place on the famous stairs and the usual parade of a thousand models.

Cannes was light on mega-stars this year but made up for it with diversity and the use of the red carpet for protests. Hair and showing everything were the main fashion topics.

As we pass the Cannes mid-way point the only clear trend is: hair is making a statement. And men are predictable though sometimes surprising.

Fashion is fun and fantasy, and some of the fantasy is that many of the looks we embrace hold a different standard for men and women. Not only ageism, warmth, but comfort too.

In what has become a Cannes festival tradition, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarded its annual humanitarian grant on Sunday. The $500,000 grant will benefit the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, founded by Indian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi.

So much for the early theme of capes – before they could solidify as a trend they disappeared. Today it poured at Cannes.

Wait! What do you mean? Caucasians aren’t the only people making art? Yes, there are some impactful films to be seen at Cannes, but the biggest headline is that the world is represented in all its variations and it’s wonderful to see.

Who cares who wore what on the Cannes red carpet! Women are not a minority in the world, yet the current state of our industry says otherwise.   Women in film - directors, writers, producers, actors - joined forces with the filmmakers responsible for in-competition entry Girls of the Sun  - to make a stand about representation, inclusion, and justice.

On this year’s Cannes red carpet the mini had disappeared, but on Thursday it returned. Up-dos continued to trend.