The Best Dressed Celebrities at the Cannes Film Festival
From Bella Hadid in a custom, Jane Birkin–inspired Schiaparelli dress to Demi Moore in hot pink Matières Fécales
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
Cannes is many things — a film festival, a business summit, an excuse for the world's most photographed women to remind everyone exactly why they are the world's most photographed women. This year's red carpet delivered, and then some. According to Harper's Bazaar, the standout looks ranged from surrealist couture to sharp-shouldered minimalism, with a few genuinely unexpected choices thrown in to keep things interesting.
Bella Hadid showed up in Schiaparelli — a house that suits her specific brand of structural glamour — while Chloe Zhao also turned to the label, proving Schiaparelli had a quietly dominant moment on the Croisette. Cate Blanchett wore Givenchy with the kind of effortlessness that makes the rest of us want to reconsider our entire wardrobes, and Kristen Stewart did what Kristen Stewart does best: made Chanel look cool in a way that feels genuinely earned rather than contractually obligated.
The Ones Who Really Went For It
Demi Moore in Matières Fécales was the curve ball nobody saw coming — a boundary-pushing Canadian label that has no business being this good, and Moore had the nerve to wear it on one of fashion's most scrutinized stages. Meanwhile, Ruth Negga in Celine and Taylor Russell in Dior both brought a quiet intensity that read as confident rather than cautious. Daisy Edgar-Jones in Balenciaga landed somewhere between editorial and red carpet, which is exactly the difficult sweet spot most people miss entirely.
The real conversation piece, though, was Helena Bordron arriving in a vintage YSL gown from 1997 — a full archive pull that underscored what the most fashion-literate dressers already know: that the most powerful move on a carpet saturated with brand-new couture is to show up in something that has already proven itself across decades. It's not nostalgia. It's taste.
When a red carpet this size produces looks worth actually talking about — not just documenting — it means the women wearing them made real choices, not safe ones.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
