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Cannes Festival 2025: The Stars, The Styles, The Stories.
The 78th Cannes Film Festival, running from May 13 to 24, 2025 is a sparkling convergence of boldness, cinema, fashion and cultural discourse.
This year’s edition stood out for its bold red carpet appearances and thought-provoking films. Standing out most especially was the significant policy changes that got tongues talking. The festival had worked on its dress code, banning nudity and extra voluminous ball gowns. This has sparked so many debates online.
While people have been criticising the policy changes, here are some stars that showed up at the Cannes Film Festival looking dashing.
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Bella Hadid

Model Bella Hadid stunned in a form-fitting black Saint Laurent dress featuring a high slit and bare sides. Her look stirred conversation as it tactfully navigated the festival’s newly enforced dress code. The code which prohibits nudity and overly voluminous gowns. She paired the look with 118.68-carat emerald Chopard earrings and a 12.15-carat diamond ring. Hadid balanced elegance and defiance, making a case for fashion as protest.
Irina Shayk

Irina dressed in alignment to the festival’s new dress code that prohibits nudity and excessively large ball dresses. She graced the Festival in a black and white polka dot Armani Privé gown.
The look featured a strapless bodice with structured lines, balloon sleeves, a flowing pleated skirt, black gloves and two toned earrings. This look expressed Shayk’s ability to turn heads with elegance and marked sophistication.
Heidi Klum

Heidi Klum made a bold statement at the Cannes Festival, gracing the red carpet in a pink floral Elie Saab couture gown with a long train. While the look was on that turned heads, it violated the newly enforced dress code which prohibits voluminous dresses.
The dress also featured a thigh high slit that added to the dazzle of the entire look.
Eva Longoria

Appearing on the red carpet of the Cannes Festival showcasing her love for nude once more is Eva Longoria. The haute couture gown by Tamara Ralph was the main character as it mirrored an hour glass body with black running down the sides. She finished the look with diamond earrings and a majestic choker.
Wan Qianhui

Chinese actress, wan Qianhui attended the Cannes Festival looking celestial in a large cloudlike white dress that looks like huge cotton balls. The dress was strapless and fitted at the bodice with a voluminous skirt.
While some of the outfits went against the virally criticized newly enforced dress code, they were dazzling and made loud and bold statements.
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Lori Harvey Rocks a Daring Thigh-High Slit at Chanel’s Paris Show
Lori Harvey stepped out for the Chanel Fall/Winter 2026 Womenswear Show in Paris, wearing a look that paired a cropped tweed jacket with a vivid red blouse and a beige Chanel skirt cut with a striking high slit.
The look consists of a bright red blouse worn beneath a cropped brown and cream tweed jacket. The blouse was slightly open at the collar, creating a V-shaped neckline. The jacket featured tweed fabric and metallic buttons along the front.

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Harvey wore a beige Chanel midi skirt that was fastened in front with three rows of large buttons. The cut opened high along the right side, forming a high slit revealing her leg. A slim burgundy belt sat at the waist, repeating the colour of the blouse.
She completed her look with a small black quilted Chanel clutch, narrow-tinted sunglasses, and pointed nude heels.
Harvey kept her hair pulled back into a firm ponytail. Her makeup featured warm tones, with softly shaped brows, light eye definition and glossy nude lips. Harvey’s styling and choice of accessories helped her stand out among the guests at the Paris show.
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Jadrolita Goes Futuristic in All-Pink for her Birthday Shoot
When it comes to birthday photoshoots, most celebrities play it safe. A glamorous dress, soft lighting, a cake prop and a few smiles for the camera. But Jadrolita chose a completely different direction for her latest birthday shoot. She stepped into a futuristic world, dressed head to toe in pink, poses as a character pulled straight from a sci-fi film rather than a traditional celebrant.

Photo: Ibor Edosa Victor
The concept leaned heavily into technology, identity, and digital culture, themes that already sit at the center of Jadrolita’s public persona. Known for blending artificial intelligence storytelling with lifestyle content, her birthday shoot felt personal and carefully planned rather than experimental.
The first thing that stands out is the colour choice. Every part of the look revolves around pink. It gave the impression of someone existing in a digital universe where colour replaces emotion and storytelling happens visually before words are spoken.
Her outfit consists of a fitted bodysuit crafted from a glossy material. The structure hugged her silhouette closely, creating a clean outline from shoulder to ankle.

Photo: Ibor Edosa Victor
Layered over the bodysuit was a sculpted jacket designed with exaggerated shoulders and defined edges. The tailoring introduced structure without making the outfit look heavy. Instead, it reinforced the futuristic theme, resembling protective gear worn by a character built for a digital era. Not forgetting her glasses which completed the futuristic look.
Hair and makeup followed the same direction. Her hair was styled in a short pixie cut with clean edges. Her makeup was kept nude.
What makes this birthday shoot notable is how clearly it reflects Jadrolita’s brand. She has built an online identity around digital intelligence, virtual interaction, and futuristic storytelling. Instead of separating her birthday celebration from that identity, she leaned fully into it.
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Are We Finally Getting the R9 Album? Fans Read the Signs Around Rihanna
It’s been ten years since “Anti” came out in January 2016. It spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard 200. Ten years later, her fans are still waiting for R9. But this week, she gave them the clearest sign yet.
On February 26, 2026, Rihanna took to her Instagram and posted a day-in-the-life video. It started at 9 PM with a Savage X Fenty design meeting that stretched towards 2 AM. Before leaving, she turned to her team and said: “I still have to go to the studio after this. And I have to make a Mardi Gras costume for my son after the studio. Longest day ever.”
She followed through. By 2:30 AM she was inside the studio seen working at the mixing board, writing in a notebook, and chatting with her team. The session ran past 5 AM. At one point, someone in the room said “We in business, Kuk,” and Rihanna replied “Yes, let’s go.” Kuk is widely believed to refer to Kuk Harrell, the vocal producer behind her hits “Umbrella” and “Only Girl in the World”.

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No music was heard in the clip. No release date was announced. But the video alone was enough to send the Navy into an overdrive.
This is not the first time she has hinted about her album. In December 2019, she posted an Instagram video of a dog dancing, captioned: “Update: me listening to R9 by myself and refusing to release it.” Then in May 2020, she told British Vogue she was “very aggressively working on music.”
But her most detailed update came in February 2025, in a cover story for Harper’s Bazaar. She addressed the long delay directly:
“Way off! There’s no genre now. That’s why I waited. Every time, I was just like, ‘No, it’s not me. It’s not right. It’s not matching my growth. It’s not matching my evolution. I can’t do this. I can’t stand by this. I can’t perform this for a year on tour.’ “I’ve been in the studio the whole eight years. But it didn’t hit me. I was searching for it. I went through phases of what I wanted to do. I know it’s not going to be anything that anybody expects. And it’s not going to be commercial or radio digestible. It’s going to be where my artistry deserves to be right now. I feel like I’ve finally cracked it, girl!”
She also said: “I think music is my freedom. I just came to that realization. I just cracked the code on what I really want to do for my next body of work”.
No release date. No tracklist. No official announcement. But Rihanna is in the studio, and this time the whole world will be watching.
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