Cannes Fashion: I Can Wear This Dress Because I"m a Model

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At the Cannes Film Festival, the most recent edition of which just ended, the red carpet with its daily parade of impossibly glamorous celebs sometimes eclipses the main attraction (the main attraction being cinema), at least in press coverage. The sideshow all too often becomes the principal event, reducing Cannes, the world’s most prestigious and influential film festival, to the sum of its red carpet fashion parts. This is almost certainly a function of the presence of an entire army of celebrities who arrive yearly in the south of France to represent not a film but a brand and whose only responsibility is to show up and look good. Which might explain why the most watched red carpet in the world is always dense with models.

 

Make that looking fabulous. On any red carpet, models are a privileged breed – they almost never look anything less than fantastic no matter what they wear, and what they wear is frequently startling. The ensembles they elect to costume themselves in would quite likely consign any wearer lacking a model-bod straight to the depths of fashion hell. A clutch of famous clotheshorses proved this all over again at Cannes this year.

In no particular order, this year’s outfits that only a model could look good in:

Karlie Kloss in a space-agey silver one-sleeved and one-legged Versace jumpsuit that Joan Jetson might pick to wear to a futuristic version of the Met Gala.

Liya Kebede in a Proenza Schouler concoction of scarlet sequins and black mesh studded with white grommets.

 

Jourdan Dunn in black lace Ralph & Russo, nearly naked underneath but for a skin-coloured bodysuit.

Petra Nemcova in a Zuhair Murad outfit of a completely sheer skirt and a peplum-style jacket with a neckline so plunging it almost reached her navel.

Izabel Goulart, also in Zuhair Murad, with upward-travelling flames of fabric clinging to her curves and flickering over her torso.

Joan Smalls and Kendall Jenner, passing off Azzedine Alaia crop tops and skirts as ‘dresses’

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: Cannes is Like Family to Me

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who has been associated with global cosmetic brand L’Oreal Paris since over a decade, is thankful that her association with the brand is not merely about photoshoots. She is glad it offers an ‘opportunity to get in touch with the artistic aspects of the business as well as interaction with its top personalities’.

 

“I am very very thankful that my associations are not just for photoshoots or endorsements for a brand. If you are actually a part of such brand for a long time, you end up having many things,” the former beauty queen said on Wednesday in a video chat from Cannes with the media here.

 

“Yes, we walk the red carpet here (as ambassadors of L’Oreal Paris), get a touch of artistic aspect of this business like styling, makeup, designers, wear gowns, but at the same time, we get an opportunity to interact with the top people of the business,” added the actress, who shared the frame with leading actresses like Salma Hayek and Eva Longoria at the Cannes gala this year.

 

When asked about her experience at the Cannes Film Festival, she said, “It’s family to me. I have a long association with Cannes (International) Film Festival. Then, of course, I had privilege of coming here as a jury member. So, the relationship with this festival started on those grounds, which makes it very familiar for me. Now I have a family-like relationship with this festival.”

 

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French Film Dheepan, Shot in India, to Compete at Cannes Film Festival

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French film Dheepan, parts of which have been shot in Tamil Nadu, will vie for the coveted Palm D’Or prize in the Competition Section of the 68th Cannes International Film Festival.

 

The last Indian film to compete for coveted Palm D’Or at the prestigious gala was Shaji N Karun’s Swaham in 1994. It turns out that Dheepan is also a movie with an Indian connect.

 

India’s ‘Wide Angle Creations’, led by Suresh Balaje and George Pius collaborated with the Paris-based company ‘Why Not Productions’ to shoot the Jacques Audiard-directed film in India.

 

Mr Balaje, who will walk the Cannes red carpet with the film’s crew, said, “It feels good to have worked with Jacques Audiar’s Dheepan. We have a great production talent in India and some of the finest film shooting locations. I’m very confident that India can make a global footprint with its production strengths.”

 

Portions of Dheepan, which is based on the journey of a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who migrates to Paris, were shot in Rameshwaram, Mandapam and Ooty.

 

One of the 19 films in the Cannes Competition Section selected from all over the world, Dheepan also stars Chennai-based theatre artiste Kalieaswari Srinivasan in a pivotal role. The leading man is played by Sri Lankan Antonythasan Jesuthasan, who is settled in France.

 

Over a dozen Indian artistes, including assistant directors have contributed to the making of the film.

 

The Cannes International Film Festival will also screen the Punjabi film Chauthi Koot, directed by Gurvinder Singh; and Masaan helmed by debut director Neeraj Ghaywan in the Un Certain Regard Section.

 

Wide Angle Creations has also worked executive production on shooting in India for French film Son Epouse, directed by Michel Spinosa.

 

The film gala will be held from May 13 to 24.

 

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