Cannes Film Festival Fashion Blog Posts

In this section you will find fashion blog posts about fashion seen at Cannes. The Festival de Cannes is a celebration of cinematographic art, existing to showcase new writing, new genres and new visual innovations; every year in May, Cannes gives a snapshot of what constitutes the art of cinema — and at the same time, the fashion world takes a glimpse of what the cinema industry is wearing. This page is the blog post index for the topic on Apparel Search, and it links the festival's own website at the top.

Cannes Fashion Blog Posts

About Fashion at Cannes

Five posts sit in this index. Christophe Guillarme at 67th Cannes Film Festival and Christophe Guillarmé Dresses at Cannes cover the French designer's gowns on the 2014 carpet — the festival is a home fixture for French couturiers, whose dresses are photographed on the Palais steps all week. Christina Hendricks with Thalé Blanc is an accessories post, about the clutch bags carried with evening dresses. Wacoal VIP Room at Cannes covers the lingerie brand's fitting and gifting room, the behind-the-scenes service economy that keeps a festival wardrobe running. Cannes Fashion Festival is the outlier: a separate fashion event that borrows the city's name and season.

Cannes is a city on the French Riviera, in the Alpes-Maritimes department — a busy tourist destination and host of the annual film festival, Midem and the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, famous for its luxury hotels and restaurants and for several conferences. Its fashion significance is concentration: for twelve days, actresses, directors and models arrive daily at premieres with a formal dress code — evening gowns for the evening screenings at the Grand Théâtre Lumière — making the festival the densest red carpet of the year. The news reports in the topic block below cover the 2011 and 2012 festivals, including the Alberta Ferretti dresses worn by Eva Longoria, Lana Del Rey and Paz Vega.

The festival's dress code shapes the coverage. Evening premieres require formal dress, daytime photocalls allow cocktail dresses and tailoring, and the contrast between the two runs through every Cannes fashion report: the same actress is photographed twice a day in deliberately different registers. Designers lend gowns for the steps because a single staircase photograph travels worldwide, and jewelers and clutch makers — the Thalé Blanc post in this index is an example — compete for the same frames. That economy is why a film festival anchors a fashion index at all.