The 83rd Venice Film Festival opened last week on the Lido, claiming its place as the warm-up act for the September fashion calendar.
The juxtaposition of old-school Hollywood glamour and sharper, more structural statements made the carpet read as a preview of the silhouettes to come.
Power couples dressing in concert confirmed a recurring theme, clothes worn as a shared declaration rather than a personal one.
Suki Waterhouse countered in Saint Laurent beside Robert Pattinson, while Phoebe Bridgers dressed in McQueen and Mackenzie Davis in Celine, each look pitching a different vocabulary.
As fashion’s center of gravity shifts to the Lido, Venice has become the first reliable read on the aesthetics that will dominate the weeks ahead.
