Cannes Well-Played Carpet: SWINTON

This is quite a day. First, Bai Ling manages to make me afraid we’ve lost another site mascot (come back, Peldon sisters!), and now I can’t help kind of digging on our girl SWINTON here at the Cannes Film Festival’s premiere of Up:

The reason I pulled this particular photo is to illustrate why, at first, I thought this might be bell bottoms — and I was getting ready to fire up some comparison to an outfit I could SWEAR Barbara Harris wore in the original Freaky Friday movie, and perhaps a theory about whether Jodie Foster had cooked up some of the old magic to switch bodies with SWINTON and that maybe this meant we were going to see “Jodie Foster” skipping around Los Angeles in shapeless beige tunics and David Bowie hair and makeup.

But, no. It’s not bell bottoms. It’s a skirt. And the burgundy is a great color on her — so much better than the way she usually looks washed-out with the blonde hair and restrained makeup. Even with the faintly odd hairdo, I don’t know, I can’t help thinking SWINTON here looks like a tall drink of water. Or indeed, a tall glass of cabernet. Am I crazy?