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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Cannes Fashion: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Hits the Red Carpet in Ralph & Russo

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The fashion report for India’s Cannes veterans this year appears to consist of a binary formula – Ralph & Russo, and Elie Saab. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor made two appearances on the red carpet and both wore an outfit by each designer.

 

For her second red carpet look on Wednesday, Aishwarya picked a white Ralph & Russo dress made up of architectural folds, the bodice sprinkled with black.

 

She posted a picture of herself gliding down a staircase on the Twitter handle she’d been manning for a day:

This is her dress on its way to being worn:

Here’s my team getting tonight’s gown! Time to get ready for the red carpet! xxAsh #AishwaryaTakesOverpic.twitter.com/4hbao152dd

Aishwarya Rai (@LOrealParisIn) May 20, 2015

 

Aishwarya, now in her 14th appearance at the Cannes Film Festival, wore a teal Elie Saab dress for her first red carpet saunter on May 17.

 

Sonam Kapoor, for her part, wore blue Ralph & Russo on May 16 and lime-coloured Elie Saab on May 18.

 

To launch her comeback film Jazbaa at Cannes on May 19, Aishwarya wore claret Oscar de la Renta, a designer already spotted on Croisette rookie Katrina Kaif on the opening day. Katrina wore scarlet Elie Saab for her second outfit.

 

Aishwarya still has one more high-profile appearance to make at the amfAR Gala on May 21.

 

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Cannes Shoegate: Festival Apologises But Women Are Still Complaining of Flat Shoe Ban

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Women attendees are still complaining of being turned away from the Cannes red carpet despite a denial and then an apology from festival director Thierry Fremaux.

 

The BBC reports that producer Valeria Richter was barred by red carpet officials, who allegedly pointed to her feet and said, “No, no, this won’t work. You can’t get in like this.” Part of Ms Richter’s left foot is amputated and she said she finds it hard to balance in heels. She was eventually let in.

 

Filmmaker Asif Kapadia, director of the documentary Amy which was screened at Cannes over the weekend, also reported that his wife had been given a hard time over her shoes but was later allowed in. Actress Shabana Azmi, who has served on the Cannes jury in the past, criticized the alleged ban on Twitter:

Shocking report that Cannes bans flats on red carpet!Director of Amy Asif Kapadia says his wife was given rough time 2.Unacceptable surely.

Azmi Shabana (@AzmiShabana) May 20, 2015

 

After Britain’s Screen Daily reported that a group of women were not allowed into the screening of Cate Blanchett’s film Carol, Thierry Fremaux insisted in a tweet:”The rumour that the festival requires high heels for the women on the steps is baseless.”

 

At a dinner on Tuesday night, he told AFP, “We apologise,” adding that “there was perhaps a small moment of over-zealousness,” apparently referring to the security guards.

 

The festival also released an official statement that read: “Regarding the dress code for the red carpet screenings, rules have not changed throughout the years (tuxedo, formal dress for Gala screenings) and there is no specific mention about the height of the women’s heels as well as for men’s.”

 

As the row over high heels erupted, actress Emily Blunt said on Tuesday, “Everyone should wear flats to be honest. We shouldn’t wear high heels anyway. That’s very disappointing. You think there’s these new waves of equality.” Emily’s film Sicario premiered at the film festival on Tuesday evening and her director Denis Villeneuve joked that he and the film’s male co-stars, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin, would climb the ‘stairs in high heels’ in solidarity.

 

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Cannes Fashion: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Lights Up amfAR Gala in Elie Saab

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Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan led the celebrity roll call of A-List stars as she graced the red carpet at the annual amfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala held at the famous Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cannes on May 21.

 

The other high profile guests at the star-studded event included supermodels Irina Shayk, Toni Garrn, Doutzen Kroes and Laura Stone, Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria, Spanish actor Antonio Banderas, British actress Sienna Miller and French star Marion Cotillard among others.

 

Fetching in a mauve Elie Saab gown, Ash completed her look with diamond jewellery and her hair styled in soft waves.

 

Conspicuous by his absence was her husband, actor Abhishek Bachchan, who usually escorts her to the event each year. He had tweeted earlier

 

Unfortunately due to work commitments I can’t attend the AMFAR gala today. But the better half is there to represent.

? Abhishek Bachchan (@juniorbachchan) May 21, 2015

 

Aishwarya has been at Cannes for several days for her promotional duties as a L’Oreal Paris ambassador. This is her 14th year at Cannes.

 

The actress who is a big draw at the festival, picked a white Ralph & Russo dress for her previous red carpet look on Wednesday. Her first, on May 17, was in a teal gown, again by Elie Saab and turned the fashion police upon her. She redeemed herself somewhat with a claret Oscar de la Renta gown at the launch of her comeback film Jazbaa on May 19.

 

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