All The Best Looks From The 2025 Cannes Film Festival

bella-hadid-cannes-film-festival-2025 — CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 13: Bella Hadid attends the pink carpet for the opening ceremony and “Partir Un Jour” (Depart One Day) screening on the 78th annual Cannes Movie Competition at Palais des Festivals on Could 13, 2025 in Cannes, France. (Picture by Mike Marsland/WireImage)

The Cannes Movie Competition is formally underway, with stars lastly hitting the pink carpet following a last-minute brow-raising dress code change. With this 12 months’s ban on nudity, voluminous clothes and dramatic trains, an uptick in curiosity over the incoming appears might be anticipated. Happily, it appears the brand new guidelines are but to have an effect on the sartorial prowess we now have all come to count on on the iconic pageant year after year.

At Cannes, trend guidelines have oft been damaged, and nude moments have lengthy been toed if not embraced. It appears this 12 months was no completely different, with a number of rebels among the many crowd on the Croisette. Although skin-baring and traffic-stopping robes apart, there have been show-stopping appears abound.

A crowd favorite on the pageant, Bella Hadid returned to the opening ceremony this 12 months in a black customized Saint Laurent robe. Whereas the mannequin is not any stranger to a virtually nude look, along with her sheer gown final 12 months grabbing headlines, this 12 months she skirted across the idea, with a thigh excessive slit and low again on the silk quantity. Complimenting the look have been strappy Saint Laurent heels and Chopard jewels. To prime all of it off, she confirmed off her new warm-blonde locks in a facet half.

Hers was not the one look staying simply throughout the new gown code. Fellow mannequin Heidi Klum attended the pageant in a big floral Elie Saab robe with a dramatic fluttering prepare—regardless of giant trains being banned this 12 months, it appears the pageant isn’t implementing this rule too closely. The beautiful floral phantasm robe additionally featured a leg baring slit and was worn with Lorraine Schwartz jewels.

heidi-klum-cannes-film-festival-2025 — CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 13: Heidi Klum attends the pink carpet for the opening ceremony and “Partir Un Jour” (Depart One Day) screening (Picture by Daniele Venturelli/WireImage)

On the opposite finish of the spectrum, some stars determined to keep away from dangers altogether. Halle Berry, actress and a member of the pageant jury this 12 months, appeared on the pink carpet in an elegant Jacquemus black and white striped quantity. Nonetheless, it seems the high-neck robe was not her first choose.

“I had an incredible gown by [Gaurav] Gupta that I can’t put on tonight as a result of it’s too huge of a prepare,” Berry defined to Variety. “I’m not going to interrupt the foundations. The nudity half can be most likely rule.” This assertion comes not too lengthy after Berry’s personal glowing, nearly-nude look on the Met Gala pink carpet this 12 months.

halle-berry-cannes-film-festival-2025 — CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 13: (L-R) Jury Members, Leïla Slimani, Halle Berry and Hong Sang-soo attend the pink carpet for the opening ceremony and “Partir Un Jour” (Depart One Day) screening in Cannes, France. (Picture by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Pictures)

It’ll be fascinating to see the ensembles that come out of the pageant’s two weeks, and whether or not stars will proceed to go in opposition to the grain or modify to the pageant’s new, prudent ethos.

Nonetheless, with so many star-studded occasions occurring in the course of the week, scroll on to see extra of the important thing appears which have come out of the Cannes Movie Competition 2025 pink carpet up to now.