While the Oscars and the Met Ball are
one-night wonders, the Cannes Film Festival is the fashion equivalent of an
ultra marathon — 11 days and nights of unrelenting red carpet premieres
featuring some of the planet’s biggest stars and influencers.
Ahead of Saturday’s awards ceremony, AFP brings you some of the chicest and
craziest looks, and also the actor who brought a bit of grit to the glamour.
Moore and Moore and Moore
Demi Moore has always been a hard worker, but the Hollywood star pulled out
all the stops at Cannes clocking up two premieres a day as one of the jury
members who will decide who wins its top prizes.
Rarely has one person so dominated the fashion stakes, with a specially
made silvery Jacquemus bustier dress on opening night, followed by an enormous
hot pink Barbie ballgown by edgy French-Canadian fashion label Matieres
Fecales.
Moore fully embraced the vibe of her Oscar-nominated role in “The
Substance” to push the boundaries of what a 63-year-old woman can look
wonderful in. “Ageing is a gift,” she told reporters.
Fashion bible Vogue seemed to agree, saying “Moore has never before so
mastered this glamorous aesthetic that goes from timeless sophistication to
daring modernity”.
She later went from a figure-hugging sheer lavender Gucci gown to a playful
daytime polka dot ensemble from Jacquemus matched with retro white sun
glasses, with Elle magazine praising her “old Hollywood” dash.
Beret me now
John Travolta has never looked happier or more emotional than he did at
Cannes as he cried when he got a surprise lifetime’s achievement award and
premiered his first film as a director, starring his daughter, Ella Bleu.
“This is beyond the Oscar,” he said as he was given his honorary Palme d’Or.
On both occasions, the now shaven-headed “Pulp Fiction” icon wore fetching
French berets, a white one for his award and a black one for the premiere of
his semi-autobiographical movie, “Propeller One-Way Night Coach”.
Ciao Bella
Supermodel Bella Hadid let her figure-hugging Schiaparelli dress do the
talking for her at the premiere of the epic Charles de Gaulle biopic “De
Gaulle: Tilting Iron”.
Keen-eyed fashion historians noticed that the late British singer and actor
Jane Birkin caused a stir by wearing an almost identical dress to a Paris gala
in 1969 with her then-partner Serge Gainsbourg.
The pair, the parents of actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, recorded the
scandalously sensual song “Je t’aime… moi non plus” the same year, a number
one hit across the world despite being banned in several countries.
Even now, the dress has the same vibe.
Wrong kind of lighting up
As always, there were some style missteps, and tripping on trains and
jostling dress-jams when too many oversized gowns arrived at the same time at
the bottom of the famous red carpet steps.
There were also some simply bizarre moments, like the enormous curtains of
pearls that fell the whole way to the feet of El Salvador model Rakele
Menjivar when she turned up for Pedro Almodovar’s new film, “Bitter Christmas”.
Or when French actor Swann Arlaud, a contender for best actor for his role
in the critically acclaimed “A Man of His Time”, danced up the red carpet with
a roll-up cigarette in his mouth.
It also may have been his own ironic interpretation of the unwritten Cannes
rule that men should be “en smoking” — the French term for a black-tie dress
suit.
The star of the Oscar-winning “Anatomy of a Fall” certainly likes playing
the rebel, having made his name in the film “Anarchists”.
Which is maybe why he wore neither collar nor tie too.
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