Fashion

Cannes – the film festival is so French, so cool. They have shoe requirements for women: you have to wear heels.

Cannes opened to rain filled skies and plenty of star power.

Understated elegance. We’ve grown accustomed to stars donning designer duds that sparkle and shine.

Costume designer Peggy Schnitzer delved into old news footage, magazines and photographs of the sixties and early seventies from Washington D. C.

Tilda Swinton is the ultimate style icon. She never conforms to trends.

Inspired by the memoirs of a former nurse, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife reflects her life as a midwife at a nursing convent in a deprived part of London during the late 1950s and early 1960s. But really it’s personal stories told against the backdrop of social change, a time when men and women are starting to listen to themselves and question the status quo.

How do you take costumes avid fans know intimately and update them? That was the challenge for costume designer Michael Wilkinson. Having created the clothing for 300, American Hustle and Man of Steel, the Academy Award nominee was up to the task.

The 70s may have been the ugliest of all decades. Ochre, olive, mustard.

Ever heard the phrase: “You are what you wear”? House of Cards’ Claire Underwood (Golden Globe winner Robin Wright) epitomizes that phrase. As ambitious and ruthless as husband, Frank Underwood, (Golden Globe winner Kevin Spacey), she sublimated her goals to support him to the pinnacle of Washington Power.

The Heel Has it – Hollywood embraces Spring Shoe trends …Every few seasons there’s a seminal shift in a trend that brings a fresh approach to the road we walk. Over the past few years, fashion forward stars have been turning up on the red carpet sporting the shift we can now see taking hold everywhere.