—the wife of Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault—who last night attended a pre-opening dinner at the Fondazione Cini dressed in vertiginous platforms and an hourglass gown cut from tendrilous sequins. With those famous proportions perhaps rivaling some of the city’s most stomach-soaring architecture, Hayek—as last week—has managed to align her own image with the might of fine art itself.Salma Hayek in Venice.I do wonder what the more prescriptivist art types—i.e., those who tend to cloak themselves in a more austere sort of look—make of all these famous people in their shimmering sequins posing on step and repeats.
