Tomorrow is the start of the Cannes Film Festival, and both movie and fashion fans are getting ready for the famous people who like to brag that has become a part of this legendary event.
Julianne Moore in Louis Vuitton’s flared white jeans was one of the best looks of last year. When Charlotte Gainsbourg wore a Saint Laurent tuxedo the year before, fashion writers fell in love with her.
The camera come-ons began early this year. In fact, they were in the arrivals hall at Nice airport a whole day before the event.
Anya Taylor-Joy, an actress, is by far the front-runner. She went through customs wearing an outfit that you might have seen Marilyn Monroe wear in The Seven Year Itch, rather than travel-friendly jeans, trainers, and a T-shirt (as seen on fellow Cannes actress Lea Seydoux) or black jeans and a leather coat (as seen on star Eva Green).
The smart 28-year-old actor made a name for herself as a chess prodigy in The Queen’s Gambit and has since been known for going her own way. She clearly knew that the show starts when you step off the plane, so why not go for it?
The woman walked or sashayed in £750 Jimmy Choo Ixia shoes with ankle straps and a one-shoulder dress from Atlein Paris’s new collection that hugged her curves and looked like it belonged on Joan Crawford or Rita Hayworth if it weren’t so thin. There’s no room for strong foundations here.
In addition to the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes dress, Ms. Taylor-Joy wore a £340 ultra-wide-brimmed La Chapeau Bomba hat by Jacquemus, cat-eye Oliver Peoples Khaite sunglasses, and starlet-red makeup. She looked like she was trying out for a remake of High Society.
She might have been, too. Cannes is all about showing off, and Ms. Taylor-Joy’s most recent movie is Furiosa, which is the fifth movie in the Mad Max series. This is very different from her old-school Hollywood style turn.
She will also be asked by her peers if she has raised the bar and now the standard outfit for an A-list first-class passenger is not luxury cashmere sweats or jeans and a baseball cap, but your best South of France show-stopper.
