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Jane Birkin pairing her beaded costume with a basket. Madonna in a Jean-Paul Gaultier cone bra and a garter set. Kristen Stewart barefoot in Chanel chain mail. Spike Lee in a sunset-inspired swimsuit.
The Cannes Film Festival, with its sheer preponderance of purple carpets and boardwalk picture ops, its blockbusters and artwork home flicks, has given the world extra indelible trend moments than another pageant. In 2002, Sharon Stone made so many dramatic purple carpet entrances as a member of the Cannes jury that she managed to revive her flagging profession by the facility of garments alone.
Even earlier than the beginning of this yr’s pageant, which formally takes place from May 14 by May 25 on the French Riviera, attendees started throwing down the style gauntlet.
The actress Anya Taylor-Joy, who’s in Cannes to advertise “Furiosa,” the most recent “Mad Max” film, made waves by stepping out in a Jacquemus straw hat so giant it doubled as a conveyable sunshade. The filmmaker Greta Gerwig, whose job as president of the pageant’s competitors jury means packing 10 days’ value of outfits, stopped by a photograph name carrying an hourglass-effect, blue-and-white-striped milkmaid costume straight from the most recent Maison Margiela couture assortment.
Also hopping on the seaside stripes development have been the actor Chris Hemsworth, recent off co-hosting the Met Gala, who stepped out in a blue-and-white-striped Etro swimsuit, and Meryl Streep, who posed in a white Michael Kors pantsuit and a navy-and-white-striped shirt.
Indeed, what makes the pageant such irresistible eye sweet is that it’s not solely a parade of grand robes and tuxedos, but additionally a panoply of accessible sunshine fashion.
The trend present actually kicked off on Tuesday with the pageant’s opening ceremony, attended by stars like Léa Seydoux, Jane Fonda, Lily Gladstone and Ms. Streep, who was honored with a lifetime achievement Palme d’Or award. As the style editor Miranda Priestly in “The Devil Wears Prada,” Ms. Streep gave the world an outline of the trickle-down trend impact that has but to be overwhelmed. Today the Côte d’Azur, tomorrow your closet? It’s not as far-fetched because it sounds.
