Cannes Red Carpet Style Is Everything You've Ever Dreamed & Then Some
Entertainment
I am in a perpetual state of mild rage at red carpet style, particularly in Hollywood: with the proliferation of stylists, and favors to designers who are already established, rare is the celebrity who shows up not looking boringly perfect and perfectly boring. The worst offender by far is Reese Witherspoon, whose safe, conservative choices surely induce even the most status-crazed paparazzo to somnambulism, but virtually everyone is a perpetrator worthy of fashion arrest (and not by those rent-a-cops on Fashion Police, either). Jennifer Lawrence in Dior, Taylor Swift in J Mendel, even Kim Kardashian in Givenchy… boring… boring… boring… boring.
Is it America, people? Because as the photographs from the Cannes red carpet roll in, I find myself not just marveling but knocked the fuck over by the sartorial excellence leading ladies are putting down. Even those women from the USA seem to be bringing A game that they’d never dare attempt in Los Angeles; perhaps their stylists are on holiday or France has higher standards. Whatever it is, they need to keep doing this, because at a certain point, the public will revolt! Here’s the first batch of Cannes style photos that encourage everyone to seriously step it the hell up, for the love of not being boring.
Right?! Liya Kebede could wear anything and look stunning, so it is commendable that the outfit she chose was a little daring—a sparkly overpiece resembling Christmas tinsel, a holey skirt and what looks like her control top peeking out of the whole thing. Lupita Nyong’o, too, in one-of-a-kind Gucci, mint green and decorated with candy-colored rosettes that look like you could eat them straight off her shoulders. Indian actor/model Mallika Sherawat showed up with Game of Thrones on lock: a princess cape plus a huge collar of diamonds to show everyone who’s boss. Hell yeah, your grace.
In my estimation, Nyong’o’s main rival in the perpetually dressed-to-kill game (it’s not a game, people) is Fan Bingbing.
It’s almost like they went to the same cake boss, too—gorgeous flowers placed delicately upon chiffon and tulle. Welcome to this fantasy garden.
There is such a range of looks here, which I appreciate so much—not like, say, the Oscars, where everyone ends up wearing ice blue or pinkish-tan or white crystalline like they planned it on a conference call. French actor Diane Rouxel went baroque ‘80s and ended up looking like a cool owl. Eva Longoria also has a ‘70s/’80s look, like she’s going to prom at Studio 54, while Malian musician Rokia Traoré is stunning draped in yards of scarlet silk. I don’t normally go in for the super-sweet princess look, but Belarusian model Tanya Dziahileva nailed it; the crystals on her skirt look like tiny Christmas lights, and I like the maximalism of just going for it with a matching, over-the-top diamond collar.
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