But what you still have is a kind of drive-through couture: burger, fries and a bow.
The choice to sport tuxedos and see-through haute-couture dresses for a screening about dying children in the second poorest country in the world (Malawi) may seem at odds with the title-message of Madonna's new production, the documentary I Am Because We Are directed by erstwhile gardener Nathan Rissman -- but this kind of contradiction is perhaps par for the course for Cannes.
Articles about "size zero" illustrated with pictures of glamorous, rail-thin celebrities and models whose ribs are countable through their couture dresses may have the shock factor, but they do nothing to help anorexics and their families.
In the midst of a recession, he says, red America and blue America have come together, in a way, through "workwear couture": If it seems a little ironic that slender urban saplings are dressing like Paul Bunyan and the Marlboro Man, well, so what?
She strolled through the couture section, looking for a good deal.
"Valentino: Master of Couture" (through March 3), which opened last week at Somerset House in London, has taken a new angle on the much celebrated Roman designer.
The designer's penchant for elevating the normal to couture status came through with the inclusion of a leather overnight bag, which appeared to have been inspired by the bags found at the entrance of Ikea.
The little tidbit has passed through the curtain of couture cooking into the mainstream.
Angelina has longstanding relationships with the big guns of couture, rotating through Valentino, Atelier Versace and Elie Saab.
At one point, I remarked to him that he must have had a very free sex life to have designed, in 1968, the first see-through dress for haute couture, a black chiffon caftan doused with ostrich feathers around the hips.
