🎬 [MOD POST] We Need Your Cannes Film Festival Posts!

Hey r/fashion,

We’ve been wanting to do this post for a while, and with the Cannes Film Festival happening right now (May 12–23), this feels like the perfect time.

So, I want to share some of the greatest films (My pick) that made it into Cannes, and what they’ve done to fashion ever since.

Because let’s be honest: half the reason any of us rewatch In the Mood for Love is for the cheongsams (the other half is because the part that hurt us most somehow still didn’t hurt enough).

1. In the Mood for Love (2000, dir. Wong Kar-wai): the intimacy of almost-touching, almost-speaking, almost-living a different life. It may be the most beautiful film ever made about everything that never quite happens.

The fashion: Maggie Cheung wears 23 different cheongsams, designed by William Chang, and arguably the most influential costume work of this century.

2. Mulholland Drive (2001, dir. David Lynch): Lynch's LA dream-logic puzzle, starring a wide-eyed Naomi Watts and an amnesiac brunette who may or may not exist.

The fashion: Yes, this is the girl.

3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, dir. Céline Sciamma) : A painter is hired to secretly paint a young woman's wedding portrait on a remote Breton island. What unfolds is unrequited love in its most precise form: not unloved, but impossible to carry forward in the world they inhabit.

The fashion: Dorothée Guiraud designed Adèle Haenel's emerald-green dress

4. Spirited Away (2001, dir. Hayao Miyazaki): A ten-year-old wanders into a bathhouse for spirits

The Fashion: No-Face’s monochrome silhouette, an iconic black-and-white look that feels unsettlingly elegant

5. Pulp Fiction (1994, dir. Quentin Tarantino): The movie dialogue is so sharp it basically rewrote American screenwriting, and everyone dresses like they’re about to commit a crime, go to a diner, or philosophize about burgers at gunpoint (sometimes all in the same scene).

The fashion: Maybe the most iconic costuming of the '90s, full stop. Mia Wallace's white shirt, black cigarette pants, and bare feet

Which one of these shaped your personal style the most? For me it’s Pulp Fiction, no contest.

Looking forward to seeing your Cannes Film Festival posts!