The 83rd Venice Film Festival runs September 2 to 12. The best dressing is not on the carpet.
The Lido is a beach town
The festival sits on a sandbar across the lagoon, where people are also just on holiday.
Hot day, cool evening, nowhere to change
So the evening becomes the outfit, and the afternoon is an adjustment to it.
Nobody changes at seven
Flat sandals swapped later. A shirt over the top, then off. Hair up, then down.
Long, dark, one idea
The women who look best are not wearing the most. One deliberate detail, nothing competing.
Dressed for the walk back
Bought for the hour after the screening rather than the gala one.