Tilda Swinton in Haider Ackermann at Cannes: lovely or alien fug?

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Yesterday, we unexpectedly had a little love-fest for our favorite alien, Tilda Swinton. Tilda is in Cannes, promoting her work in We Need To Talk About Kevin, which will likely be one of the most disturbing and award-winning films of the year. Tilda is probably going to be nominated for every award out there this year for her portrayal of the mother of teenage mass murderer. We already saw some photos of Tilda from the photo call – in which she looked ghostly and kind of rough (but fab!). Now here are some photos from the red carpet premiere last night.

Tilda is wearing Haider Ackermann two-piece – a navy silk skirt, and what seems like a (silk?) satin cowl-neck halter in a teal-ish color. I love the jewel tones on Tilda! I would have thought such strong colors would have overwhelmed her pale coloring, but it all looks really great, I think. She’s still not wearing any makeup… except maybe some lipstick…? I’m not usually the person who is encouraging women to wear more makeup, but Tilda would look world better with just a touch of mascara and a stronger lip color, I think. But other than that minor complaint, I think this might be one of my favorite looks ever on Tilda. The skirt and halter is cut beautifully, and I think she looks like a million bucks.

Meanwhile, Tilda had some comments at the Kevin press conference that are now being discussed. Tilda can’t just say “The way childbirth is shown in films is nothing like how it is in reality.” No, Tilda, with her lovely alien-brain, has to put it in graphic terms: “In the movies where people have babies and particularly [in] television films, they are sitting in a hospital bed with flowers everywhere, beautifully made up, they have a baby in their arms and it is all very lovely. Anyone who has been in that zone will know it’s a total fiction. It’s a truly, truly murderous business. Giving birth is a violent [thing to go through]. It is a bloody business having a family. It is a bloody business being in a family; a bloody business having a child and a really bloody business, as we know, being a child.” DAMN. We get it, Tilda. It’s BLOODY.

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  1. danielle352 says:

    Fab

  2. tanya says:

    I love this crazy lady…

  3. Eugene says:

    The best look I’ve ever seen on her! Congrats…she nailed it at last!

  4. She’s bloody right! Lol!

  5. hmmhmm says:

    she’s trying… she normally dresses worst than maggie gyllenhall.

  6. Phillylady says:

    Oh so perfect. I actually rather love her eyes with no makeup. Real looking and striking. Bloody striking haha

  7. mln76 says:

    Wow she looks amazing I really haven’t seen her in anything that compliments her more.

  8. Daphne says:

    Ugly. But still love her.

    I think the only person who can pull off this dress is Cate Blanchett.

  9. phlyfiremama says:

    Gorgeous! Total win for her.

  10. embertine says:

    Lovely AND alien fug. She is SWINTON.

  11. Micki says:

    It’s a bloody good combination on her! I like it.

    I personally wouldn’t mind some bloody flowers after the birth though, a bottle of bloody champagne too for all the bloody hours I’ll spend in the bloody hospital.
    Ah, yes, not to forget the bloody “pushing present” LOL

  12. aenflex says:

    the woman is amazing. she leaks power. i dont give shit what she wears. and yes she is scary.

  13. Ann says:

    Totally & absolutely fucking fabulous. I love her look – a total relief from the manufactured, generic “beauty” Hollywood (& its men) want to enforce on women.

  14. bros says:

    I bow down to the swinton.

  15. RHONYC says:

    yet another designer i have gained appreciation for because of her.

    stunning.

    the woman is like 50 yrs. old. FIFTY! props are deserved, come on!

    the top drapes on her so well. it makes me wish for smaller boobs so my tops would lay that way on me.

    ahhh, tilda. let me count the ways. *batting eyelashes* 😉

    p.s. – the ‘Ant and Bee book-clutch’ especially made for Tilda by Olympia Le-Tan is super dope! loves it.

  16. blackswan says:

    nobody has that kind of eye color, so alien pretty 😉

  17. EdithP says:

    Absolutely gorgeous. I love that she doesn’t conform to normal Hollywood beauty standards.

  18. Canuck says:

    I LOVE the clutch! lol She looks great, although she could totally do glam if she wanted to.

  19. DianaPrince says:

    I like her. I bloody well like her. I like her sense of personal style. She strikes me as a person who only wears what she likes and not what other people think she ought to wear.

  20. girlnone says:

    Stunning!

  21. Ava says:

    lovely alien

  22. bluhare says:

    She looks amazing. That top just makes her eyes POP. I love it; I’d wear it and wear it and wear it . . . .

    I agree with whoever said Cate could rock this outfit; she could. But so does Tilda.

    See, sPaz copies Tilda. She doesn’t do eye makeup either, although I do think sometimes Tilda would look pretty good if she did her eyebrows. Not a lot, but a bit.

    PS I have eyes that color, she says modestly.

  23. Lee says:

    Awesome. Always. Love her.

  24. Regina says:

    Love her. She can do no wrong.

  25. Sue says:

    It ok but I think she could have pulled off the runway look and it would have look fab on her mines the gloves.

    http://www.redcarpet-fashionawards.com/2011/05/12/tilda-swinton-in-haider-ackermann-2011-cannes-film-festival-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-premiere/

  26. beth says:

    hahaha @lovefest with our little alien!

    i wonder why she likes to go so barefaced….
    she looks like a corpsey mermaid pulled out from the abysmal sunless depths of the Mariana Trench,
    she’s worse than paul bettany.
    she should play Death some day.
    she’s truly lovely in that peach colour dress she wore while stalking her soon-to-be amour in ‘I Am Love’ Bright, fresh pastels.

    But she looks breathtaking here anyway. i’m only saying that because i’m gay for longer than a minute, now.
    that colour palette is way overwhelming for her Paleness, but the design, classy as hell.

  27. Sumodo1 says:

    BLACK shoes?

  28. piedlourde says:

    AWESOME. Tilda can do no wrong in my eyes. No matter how objectively fug some of her outfits can be, she pulls them of. She’s so odd, weird, cool, ugly AND beautiful.

    Tilda Swinton and Sigourney Weaver — two powerful, androgynous, middle aged women with great presence that I’d go for in a heartbeat!

  29. truetalk says:

    She’s strange,this one.
    this is d best she’s ever looked IMO.

  30. danielle says:

    She looks wonderful! And if she’s really not wearing makeup she has BEAUTIFUL skin. That said, I suspect at least foundation and blush.

  31. ordinarygirl86 says:

    STUNNING!

  32. marge says:

    FABULOUS!

  33. Ron says:

    love it!

  34. Robert says:

    She reminds me of David Bowie! Brother and sister or was she once a man??? Hmmmm??

  35. VV says:

    Love HER. Her eyes, that dress, the colours are very flattering, plus she is one talented alien!

  36. sasa says:

    Gorgeous!

  37. beth says:

    she needs some eyebrows. her eyes are like two bright, emerald headlights of a flying saucer.

  38. girl says:

    She looks wonderful. I wonder what the back looks like.

  39. Newbie says:

    This is one of the more normal things I’ve seen her wear. She’s always dressed oddly, but it’s her thing and she works it, and I have to say I respect that.

  40. Pia says:

    But for the shoes? Amazing.

  41. Maritza says:

    She needs to pencil in her eyebrows,a little eyeshadow, a little blush and earrings but who are we kidding…

  42. Heather says:

    I love the dress! She just needs to add some flash drop earrings. She’s wearing green contacts?

  43. sandy says:

    very nice, she looks sophisticated, this is her look, it works for her.

  44. Blank says:

    It only works at certain angles. But it does look really good in the last pic.

  45. Nikki Girl says:

    She’s just one of those women that’s a badass and can pull off whatever outfit she wears no matter what, kind of like Helena Bonham Carter. F the normal Hollywood standards, she doesn’t need to be some long-haired, make-up-covered seductress, she can do her own thing! Go Tilda!

  46. truthzbetta says:

    If she’s fifty or even close I’m bowing too. Now that’s how it’s done.

    Interesting and scary but not the fake Hollywood kind. She is an alien of course as well.

    As in a Riley Scott alien– not one of those Steven Spielberg encounters of the cuddly kind.

  47. Cheyenne says:

    She is a dead ringer for David Bowie.

  48. beth says:

    “It”?

    You people are such Earthlings. 😀

  49. Call Me Al says:

    I think she finally wore something beautiful and suitable for her. I do agree that she could add some soft brown mascara and fill in her eyebrows a bit and she would not look as alien-like. I’m starting to like her more though.