Bella Hadid Continues Her High-Octane Vintage Streak in Cannes
Whether she’s in Marc Jacobs’s Louis Vuitton or Elie Saab couture, Bella Hadid’s thoughtful vintage looks are all the more reason to hand her the Queen of Cannes title…again.
Reported by Vogue.
Cannes has a way of bringing out maximalism in everyone, but Bella Hadid is doing something more considered — and honestly, more interesting. According to Vogue, the model's time on the French Riviera has been less about dressing for the moment and more about raiding the archive with surgical precision.
The centerpiece so far: a pale aqua duchesse satin zip-up dress from Marc Jacobs's spring 2003 collection for Louis Vuitton — the one shown in October 2002, when Hadid was barely six years old. Peter Pan collar, tie belt, body-contouring seams. Vogue critic Sarah Mower wrote at the time that "girl nation was thrown for a loop" by the rainbow of dresses Jacobs sent down the runway. Two-plus decades later, Hadid proved it still lands. She paired the look with pointed-toe heels from Louis Vuitton's iconic Takashi Murakami collaboration, complete with a flower appliqué that read as playful rather than precious.
An Archive Deep-Dive, Not a One-Off
The Louis Vuitton moment is just one thread in a much longer pull. Her Cannes arrival look was a 1999 Prada Sport capri set — futuristic in exactly the way that early-aughts sportswear always promised to be. For a beachside lunch with her mother Yolanda, she showed up in a hip-belted Jean Paul Gaultier halter dress. And she's been deep in an Elie Saab spiral: a lace-trimmed floral top for a daytime outing, then a sequined gold gown from Saab's 2004 couture collection to the Chopard Miracle Gala. Custom Prada and Haider Ackermann's Tom Ford have also made appearances, because of course they have.
What makes this more than a flex is the range — casual to couture, sportswear to evening — all executed with a consistency of eye that most stylists would kill for. Hadid isn't just wearing old clothes; she's constructing an argument for why the best fashion already exists and why knowing the difference matters.
The real takeaway from Bella Hadid's Cannes run isn't the individual pieces — it's that a deep knowledge of fashion history, worn with genuine conviction, will always outperform whatever's fresh off the runway.
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