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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.