Venice Film Festival 2020: Best fashion (and face masks) on the red carpet

The 77th version of the pageant is considered one of the first main cultural occasions to happen in Europe since the coronavirus pandemic took maintain on the continent, with the Cannes Film Festival canceling its 2020 occasion in May.

Quite a lot of face masks have been on show on this yr’s red carpet. Credit: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images

Those security measures embrace obligatory face masks, temperature checks, bodily distancing throughout screenings and a wall constructed round the red carpet to maintain the public away.

Tilda Swinton arrives for the pageant’s opening ceremony and first screening holding a customized sea creature-inspired masks by artist James Merry. Credit: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images

Actor and jury president Cate Blanchett greeted pageant director Alberto Barbera by touching elbows, with each sporting masks. Blanchett paired hers with an Esteban Cortazar cape costume she had beforehand worn to the “Carol” premiere at the 2015 London Film Festival.

Elsewhere, mannequin Taylor Hill hit the red carpet in an Etro crystal-embroidered floral chiffon robe, whereas Roberta Armani impressed in a vivid blue quantity from her uncle Giorgio’s namesake label.

The way forward for cinema

This yr’s Venice Film Festival opened with the premiere of “Lacci,” a romantic drama directed by Daniele Luchetti. The film, which is about in Naples and depicts a wedding on the brink, has been in comparison with Noah Baumbach’s 2019 hit “Marriage Story.” The pageant may also see the premieres of films together with the Greta Thunberg biopic “Greta,” Pedro Almodóvar’s Swinton-led “The Human Voice,” the moody Frances McDormand street journey story “Nomadland,” and the interval love story “The World to Come,” starring Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston and Casey Affleck.

On stage at the opening ceremony, pageant director Barbera voiced his concern about the way forward for cinema, as the pandemic may give streaming companies an extra edge over theaters. “The feeling of watching a film on the large screen with other people is in the very nature of the film industry,” he mentioned. “We have to support cinemas. Many are still closed today, others will never open again.”

While accepting her Lifetime Achievement award, Swinton emphasised the tenacity of the movie business: “To come to Venice, this year of all years, to celebrate immortal cinema and her defiant survival in the face of all the challenges that evolution might throw at her — as at us all — will be my sincere joy.”

This yr’s Venice Film Festival is being held at the Venice Lido and runs from September 2-12, 2020.

Scroll by the gallery above to see the finest seems to be from Venice Film Festival’s red carpet. The gallery will likely be up to date all through the occasion.