If you're not living under a rock, you've undoubtedly noticed that a horde of celebs is visiting the Côte d'Azur for the Cannes film festival, which is currently underway. The festival transforms the resort town into a catwalk for 12 days in May. It has grown to be one of the biggest fashion events, from the not-so-subtle entrances at Nice airport (see out English actor Joe Alwyn, straight off the aircraft wearing a full new-season Bottega Veneta look, complete with leather trousers and a massive £4,000 bag) to the about five dazzling premieres held each day. Hollywood celebrities and their stylists need to step it up at this period, whether it's for the parties or the "off-duty" daytime looks, reported The Guardian.
However, it's not only celebrities making a comeback. This year, the directors—who are typically spotted behind the camera—have emerged as the Croisette's somewhat unexpected stars.
Directors are free to pick what and who they wear, and they are unlikely to be compensated to appear in a piece, unlike actors who are frequently limited to wearing labels they have deals with (Emma Stone owns a multimillion-dollar Louis Vuitton piece, for example). Additionally, there is a distinct, stylish look that feels elegant and authentic this year at Cannes. These are a few of their most stylish appearances to date.
The British director of films has made a basic chore jacket his trademark for fancy evening events as well as hard days spent on the production. The jacket style that was popularized by French laborers in the 19th century has evolved into a widespread favorite and been enhanced on the runways for both men's and women's fashion. Nowadays, you can just as easily spot a gen Zer strutting off in an east London coffee shop as you would spot Monty Don strolling around the Chelsea flower show in one. Don has stated, "I need big pockets for all the things I carry with me, like secateurs, string, pencils, and seed packets."
We picture McQueen stuffing notes and scripts into their spacious sections. He alternates between single- and double-breasted outfits, but he never wears his jacket without a colorful, contrasting layer beneath it. McQueen wore a clashing crimson T-shirt and a black single-breasted version to the Occupied City documentary premiere. His distinctive pieces include his heavy-set glasses and his rust-colored, loose, and wrinkled pants.
Although there are many graphic sequences in her body horror movie The Substance, the French filmmaker has so far tended toward a softer look when she appears with Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, the film's leads. Fargeat donned fitted black pants and a sleeveless white silk blouse with buttermilk-colored embroidery during a press briefing on Sunday. She changed into a blush-pink sleeveless dress for the movie's premiere later that evening. Moore and Qualley both looked good in the same pinkish-toned clothing (seen above). Given the director's skill in coordinating a movie's color scheme, we doubt that the three members' selections were a coincidental fit.
The worlds that Yorgos Lanthimos creates on screen are odd, horrible, and beautiful all at once. While Emma Stone, the lead actress in his 2023 hit film Poor Things, became accustomed to wearing extravagant Bella Baxter leg-of-mutton sleeves on the red carpet during its marketing, Lanthimos alternated between smart-casual cotton shirts and jackets and a classic tux. After a year, Stone and Lanthimos are returning to Cannes with his latest film, Kinds of Kindness, but this time the director has made a change. He appears to be taking notes and embracing a new big look after doing a Gucci commercial and a cover shoot for Vogue Ukraine. When he was photographed with Stone on Saturday, he was dressed in an olive green blazer and striped charcoal pants. With their classic Greek fisherman's sandals, the sandals pay homage to Lanthimos's Athenian heritage.
Gerwig must attend over seventy premieres in her capacity as jury president. Hollywood stylist Karla Welch has been hired by her to assist her in tackling this. Welch stated, "We can either follow some sort of rules, or just do what we want- and we're sort of doing both!" in an interview with Vogue. Similar to the movies Barbie, Little Women, and Lady Bird, Gerwig's style is ever-changing. She began the festival wearing a very French blue-and-white-striped dress by Maison Margiela. Since then, she has donned a variety of looks, including a figure-hugging, sequined Saint Laurent gown and an exquisite off-the-shoulder gold Prada dress. She's just as erratic off-set: she was photographed wearing a strapless taffeta minidress while directing the prom scene in Lady Bird, and she donned a bubblegum pink boilersuit while working on Barbie.
The director of Anatomy of a Fall has previously discussed how she is approaching red carpet fashion differently. "I used to kind of dress up for ceremonies or wear a kind of full-heeled panoply, but I no longer make the effort." Rather than silk gowns, you'll see her wearing enormous suits these days. Her approach is characterized by Triet as "a sort of false negligence." Her appearance at the Women in Motion awards dinner on Sunday night perfectly captures her new aesthetic: a white shirt with enormous cuffs and a unique silhouette. Triet is starting to wear jazzy shirts all the time; in January, her printed Lemaire blouse, which she wore to the Golden Globes, went viral online.
The director led a campaign for Saint Laurent last year, and now that the upscale clothing brand is producing movies as part of its offerings, the film and fashion crossover is heating up at Cannes. Naturally, Cronenberg donned Saint Laurent for the film's premiere. The Shrouds, his first full-length feature, debuted on Tuesday. He wore the brand's black acetate sunglasses on the carpet and changed into his iconic Julbo mountain biking spectacles once inside the theater. It is said that the filmmaker wore sunglasses to the Cannes premieres of his previous three films in order to protect himself from the photographer's pit's flashes.
In 2017, Rungano Nyoni, a Welsh-Zambian director (shown on the right with actress Susan Chardy), attended Cannes to see the world premiere of her first feature film, I Am Not a Witch. With her newest album, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Nyoni is back on the Croisette now. It seems fitting that Nyoni would bring some style credentials to the red carpet since the comedy/drama was recently acquired by the independent production studio A24, which is behind movies like Sofia Coppola's Priscilla, a film beloved for its elegance. She accessorized her Saturday look with an oversized shirt adorned with tactile tassels and a silk maxi skirt. She wore her trademark blue-streaked hair in a high bun. The style is a nice diversion from the antiquated regulations that attendees of Cannes used to have to follow. For example, women's flat shoes were prohibited until 2019./BGNES