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Let’s Talk About Tilda Swinton’s French Dispatch Caftan

By Danielle Cohen

Wes Anderson’s latest film The French Dispatch purports to be a fictionalized triptych of stories based on early New Yorker pieces, but really, it is about fashion. No, I am not referring to Owen Wilson’s tube socks, though those merit their own investigation. I am speaking of one outfit in this movie that has refused to dislodge itself from my brain. It is the caftan worn by Tilda Swinton’s character, a fiery orange number that has birthed its own style moniker: canastacore.