BAFTA Film Awards Best Dressed: Why Serious Glamour Ruled the Red Carpet

During a typical awards season, the BAFTA film awards serve as the pre-Oscars appetizer, the only major awards show to occur outside of Los Angeles along the circuit. Nominees, presenters and other industry power players usually make their way from the West Coast to London for one weekend to attend a show revered for its international focus and prestige (though not exactly for its diversity and inclusivity). This year, the awards show was adjusted to the pandemic — as every show has done. But it wasn’t the lack of the red carpet that made it different. Unlike other awards shows such as this year’s SAG Awards, the BAFTAs had a red carpet, though it was limited. Cynthia Erivo in Louis Vuitton at the 2021 BAFTA Film Awards in London. CREDIT: AP Images The red carpet, in all of its glamour and fantasy symbolism, was there. But with most participants halfway across the world — and a nation on lockdown surrounding it — this year’s BAFTA awards were a study in beautiful, austere glamour. Cynthia Erivo’s Louis Vuitton look seemed to sum things up. Though it was intricately embellished with different types of beading and even a little flirty in its mini dress shape, its metallic

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