The Cannes Film Festival’s modest dress code is just the latest death knell for the red carpet staple. Style Points is a column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.

The Cannes Film Festival has officially banned nudity on the red carpet after updating this ... who was originally supposed to wear a modest striped dress in fear of breaking the guidelines ...

Nowhere is this more apparent than on the red carpet ... but-dull column dresses in neutral tones for women over 40; gone are the sexless pantsuits; gone, in many cases, are modest touches ...

She walked the red carpet at the Croisette in a spectacular Elie Saab gown. The off-shoulder dress consisted of multiple layers of pink fabric reminiscent of delicate flower petals that ...

A lot of what has passed for red carpet fashion recently is more like ... would be occasions where religious or cultural norms dictate modest dress codes,” Deihl said.

Nowhere is this more apparent than on the red carpet ... but-dull column dresses in neutral tones for women over 40; gone are the sexless pantsuits; gone, in many cases, are modest touches ...

Modest necklines were met with voluminous ... to pull a pale yellow 1966 Givenchy archive gown for the red carpet. The artist’s dress with encrusted crystals paired with short white opera ...

There are plenty of celebrity fashion looks that have been immortalized on the big screen, but there are also plenty of other famous dresses that never hit a red carpet. Maybe they should have.

But, in between the usual fishtail dresses and retro ballgowns, a few fearless women sometimes dare to really wow on the Oscars red carpet. There was Nicole Kidman in 1997, for example ...