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Cannes Film Festival Menswear Round Up

Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival in France included the premiere of ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’, which features Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Garrett Hedlund, and the premiere of ‘Blood Ties’, starring Clive Owen and Marion Cotillard.

Garrett Hedlund: Not going with the traditional black tuxedo, Garrett opted for a Saint Laurent midnight-navy tux with black peak lapels. Keeping the color scheme dark, he paired it with a black shirt and a black tie. Garrett looks great, but unfortunately he is standing next to a major menswear mogul in Justin Timberlake.

Justin Timberlake: In the past few months we’ve seen Justin wear tuxedos with perfection. He kept the streak alive, pulling out all of the stops in a beautifully tailored Balenciaga black tuxedo with peak lapels. He kept the look classic as always, with a crisp white shirt, and a black bow tie and cummerbund. To finish it off, he added a Cartier watch, a Lanvin lapel pin, and vintage mother-of-pearl cufflinks.

Oscar Isaac: The star of the film went with a classic black tux, but a few key differences made it stand on its own next to Justin’s similar look. Oscar decided to wear a necktie instead of a bow tie and nixed the cummerbund. Simplicity always works with a tux, so Oscar did well.

Clive Owen: Also sticking with the classics, Clive sported an elegant look in a black tuxedo alongside co-star Marion Cotillard. He finished off the two-button peak-lapel tux with a black bow tie and a white shirt.

It’s a little difficult to choose a favourite out of these four. For me, it was between Garrett and Justin because of the midnight-navy colour and the overall perfection, respectively. I’ll have to give the nod to Justin because of the hair. Grooming counts too.

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Fan Bingbing In Valentino - The Hollywood Reporter and Jimmy Choo Honor Fan Bingbing

The Hollywood Reporter hosted a party along with Jimmy Choo and Mouton Cadet at the Grand Hyatt Cannes Hotel Martinez in honour of the lovely Fan Bingbing on Saturday.

The star of the upcoming ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ was named International Artist of the Year.

Many of you will be delighted to see that she’s not wearing another Elie Saab embellished gown.

On this occasion she wore a Valentino Resort 2013 gown.

The colourful floral gown with an illusion yoke and sleeves is one of the gowns I had hoped to see on the red carpet, but with the Resort 2014 collection being presented I thought this gown would never see the light of day.

Bingbing continues her love affair with the braided updo, adding Chopard jewels to complete her look.

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Brit Marling In Prabal Gurung - 'The East' New York Premiere

Brit Marling attended the New York premiere of her latest movie ‘The East’ held at Sunshine Landmark in New York City on Monday evening.

The blonde actress oozed ‘It’ girl coolness, wearing a Prabal Gurung Fall 2013 dress.

Her white silk-crepe draped-waist long-sleeved dress featured an asymmetrical satin hem and cut-out shoulder accented with gold studs.

The look is simple, yet there are many elements to it as described above.

She manages to pull it off; the effortless styling is the key. However, I would’ve preferred a different pair of shoes to the Valentino studded pumps she went for.

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James Franco's Cannes Film Festival Style

The Cannes Film Festival is a grand hub of menswear suits and tuxedos. James Franco has certainly been one of the best, wearing well-cut suits along with his trademark smile.

The Art of Elysium, Rabbit Bandini and Leon Max event for Ahna O’Reilly: Supporting his co-star Ahna O’Reilly, James stepped out in a blue notch-lapel Gucci suit. Usually fastening both jacket buttons is a no-no, but James did it multiple times and still got the slimming effect of one button. Along with the suit, he paired a white shirt with a matching blue tie. He also wore black shoes and aviators. I would have preferred brown shoes with such a light suit, but the black looks good.

As I Lay Dying photocall: The second look came on Monday during the photocall before the film ‘As I Lay Dying’, which he both directed and starred in. For this he opted for a well-tailored black Gucci suit with notch lapels. He finished it off with a white shirt and a navy tie. The messy hairdo looks great too.

As I Lay Dying premiere: On Monday night, James went fully formal in an amazing-looking black three-piece Gucci tux with peak lapels. The dapper look was finished off traditionally with a white shirt and black bow tie. This was the best fit of the three.

I was pleasantly surprised by his three looks. Each of them fit perfectly and he kept them simple, even with a lighter-blue suit. Of the three, I think my favorite is the first look: the blue suit. It was a great colour for the event.

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Best Day 6

For Day 6 of Cannes Film Festival, I selected two looks for my Best of the Day in association with shoecribe.com: Zoe Saldana in Emanuel Ungaro by Fausto Puglisi and Zhang Yuqi in Roberto Cavalli.

The shoes which Zoe inspires are these Alexandre Birman sandals featuring a black strap and snakeskin heel. Like Zoe’s look, there is a bit of mixing and matching going on here, plus the heels are uber sexy, just like her look.

Beige McQ Alexander McQueen pumps were my inspired choice for Zhang Yuqi. The elegant pumps feature gold-studded accents, mimicking Zhang’s styling of her beige Cavalli gown with her gold Sergio Rossi clutch.

Shoes 6

Alexandre Birman sandals
McQ Alexander McQueen pumps

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Nicole Kidman in Christian Dior Couture was your eventual winner for Best Dressed this week.

The Cannes Film Festival juror blew us all away with her natural elegance, wearing the strapless floral dress with coral Dior shoes.

For the men we had different opinions. You guys just can’t get enough of the ruggedly handsome Chris Pine and his love of Ralph Lauren suits. The styling of his suit was very commendable; however, I opted for the boyishly handsome Jamie Redknapp.

The former soccer player opted for a classic suit and bow tie by Thom Sweeney. The suit fit to perfection, and you know I have a weakness for handsome men in three-piece suits.

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