SWINTON and the Rest of Venice Day 1

SWINTON

This photo is amazing. She looks like she's an Egyptian deity of moderate evil, forever contemplating whether she will fillet you with her eye lasers or let you bring her grapes.

SWINTON in Chanel

"GRAPES, you say? Only in liquid form, please and thank you."

Obviously we needed a close-up shot of this. It's fascinating. More for show than practicality, of course, but WHAT a show.

And she did have other PPE around for the more practical purpose. I do wish her shirt didn't look like a mesh bag they use to sell produce. SWINTON is no one's sack of oranges, although, like Vitamin C, she IS good for my insides.

I like her hair, too. I don't know if this is a quarantine grow-out or what, but the color and the waves are super flattering.

"Thanks for this, but I had hoped for matching bookends? No?"

Taylor Hill

Taylor is a model, and there certainly had to be at least one here, especially as none of them got their Cannes exposure in 2020. I guess I should just sew hooks to my bras and loops into my sheets and BOOM, a gown is born.

Matt Dillon and Roberta Mastromichele

Matt Dillon is making the international rounds right now! I guess he and his girlfriend are living the LIFE. They both look nice (and he is on the jury, I believe, actually).

Roberta Giarusso

And we can leap RIGHT back into the discussion of why dresses bother having mullets.

Roberta Armani

Roberta is Giorgio's niece, and an actress, I believe. She's clearly wearing Armani; I remember that color scheme. I find it charming that her mask doesn't coordinate, either. Don't get me wrong, I am waiting for fashion to get with the program here, but there's also something regular and relatable about her grabbing whatever clean one is on the rack in her foyer and setting off for the night.