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Men are not exempt either --I was whisked away from the opening night carpet for wearing silver shoes (with heels) and interrrogated by a style cop with whom I had to farcically debate the intricacies of 'Tenue de Soirée'. Eventually I was let in, with a stern warning, but relegated to the balconies –my shoes were too offensive for the stalls. My French friends refer to this as "red carpet fascism". Not the best face of Cannes