Menswear enthusiasts will be familiar with the phrase “ ”, which is something bro-ish podcast hosts use to describe the outsized clothing and wear during the winter months. And so, in the tradition of my peers at , I’d wager that is currently experiencing something like “Big Hat Season”, with the fashions at Cannes Film Festival slowly starting to resemble Ladies Day at Ascot (and stepping out in a considerably-sized while filming the third season of ). Though there is a perhaps not entirely flattering Mother of the Bride quality to phrases like “Big Hat Season” and “Ladies Day”, mercifully zero fascinators have been spotted on the Croisette.
Just big-brimmed works of millinery like the straw hats and wore during week one. One of which evoked a garden centre – no bad thing! – and the other a -indebted vision of hot and heavy summers in Saint Tropez. And then came the French musician and model wearing a custom recreation of Christian Dior’s “ ” – an hourglass bar jacket and pleated skirt with a woven saucer-shaped chapeau – that was first put forward as part of the late designer’s debut collection in 1947.
She posed , spinning on the axis of a heel, and bowing her gaze like one of Monsieur Dior’s snobbish mesdames. Which is, I think, the point of wearing a show-stopping hat. It takes a normal look and transforms it into something a little more mischievous in spirit.
One of the best examples of this came via the Spanish actress – a woman wh.
