Jane Birkin pairing her beaded gown with a basket. Madonna in a Jean-Paul Gaultier cone bra and a garter set. Kristen Stewart barefoot in Chanel chain mail. Spike Lee in a sunset-inspired go well with.
The Cannes Movie Pageant, with its sheer preponderance of pink carpets and boardwalk photograph ops, its blockbusters and artwork home flicks, has given the world extra indelible vogue moments than some other competition. In 2002, Sharon Stone made so many dramatic pink carpet entrances as a member of the Cannes jury that she managed to revive her flagging profession by means of the ability of garments alone.
The competition, held on the French Riviera, is going down from Might 14 to Might 25 this yr. It has been off to a glamorous begin — and a few attendees threw down the style gauntlet even earlier than its official opening ceremony on Tuesday night.
The actress Anya Taylor-Pleasure, who got here to Cannes to advertise “Furiosa,” the newest “Mad Max” film, made waves by stepping out on Monday in a Jacquemus straw hat so massive it doubled as a transportable sunshade. The filmmaker Greta Gerwig, whose job as president of the competition’s competitors jury means packing 10 days’ price of outfits, stopped by a photograph name on Tuesday morning sporting an hourglass-effect, blue-and-white-striped milkmaid gown straight from the newest Maison Margiela couture assortment.
Certainly, what makes the Cannes Movie Pageant such irresistible eye sweet is that it’s not solely a parade of grand robes and tuxedos, but additionally a panoply of accessible sunshine model.
The style present actually kicked off with the opening ceremony, attended by stars like Léa Seydoux, Jane Fonda, Lily Gladstone and Meryl Streep, who was honored with a lifetime achievement Palme d’Or award. As the style editor Miranda Priestly in “The Satan Wears Prada,” Ms. Streep gave the world an outline of the trickle-down vogue impact that has but to be crushed. At the moment the Côte d’Azur, tomorrow your closet? It’s not as far-fetched because it sounds.
