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Cannes: Cate Blanchett in LV; Simone Ashley in Westwood; Viola Davis in Gucci

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The Cannes Film Festival is finally over and done with, and we now have a few months to recover for the double-whammy of Venice and Toronto. First, let’s get to the Cannes Film Festival’s winners. While Jennifer Lawrence left Cannes with a lot of awards-season buzz, she did not pick up an acting award for Die, My Love. The acting awards went to Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent (a Brazilian film) and Nadia Melliti for The Little Sister. The Palme d’Or (the grand prize of the festival) went to an Iranian film, Un Simple Accident. The runner-up prize, the Grand Prix, went to Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value. The Jury Prize went to two films: Sirât and Sound of Falling. Distributor Neon has now won the Palme d’Or six years in a row. Incredible.

Now, let’s get to the fashion. The last days of Cannes were surprisingly great when it came to fashion moments, too bad that most people were already burned out from all of the Z-listers traipsing around in terrible gowns. Let’s start with the queen, Cate Blanchett, who wore a custom Louis Vuitton. Why doesn’t LV make this kind of dress for their brand ambassadors, huh?

More fashion notes: Simone Ashley’s Vivienne Westwood dress is a DREAM and all of the fashion girls are obsessed; Viola Davis stunned in Gucci; Elle Fanning’s Chanel fairy-princess look is on brand, but I think she could do better; I’m not crazy about Aubrey Plaza’s Miu Miu or Margaret Qualley’s Chanel; Halle Berry (Cannes jury member) ended the festival in Dior, which was good except for the shoulders; Gillian Anderson’s Emilia Wickstead dress is truly one of my favorite dresses ever, that shade of green, the way she styled it, the cut, it’s all perfect.

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Lauren Sanchez wore Roberto Cavalli to the Cannes amfAR gala: yikes or fine?

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The Cannes Film Festival is winding down, and the Closing Ceremony will be held this weekend. Thursday night was one of the final nights for big premieres, and you could tell that people are running low on energy across the board for these red carpets. Also happening last night: the annual amfAR gala adjacent to the festival. The gala was really a who’s who of “no thanks.” Kevin Spacey has been stalking around the festival this week, and he turned up at the amfAR gala for some reason. Disgusting. But on-brand for Cannes – they love Hollywood predators and abusers. One of the other big-name guests at the gala? Lauren Sanchez! She’s been around the festival all week, not attending any of the premieres or screenings, but attending some of the charity events. She walked the amfAR carpet solo, but Jeff Bezos was there, inside the event. Sanchez wore a Cavalli gown.

Paris Jackson wore a wacky dress to the amfAR gala, but overall, she looks pretty good.

Speaking of cleaning up nice, Cara Delevingne wore Ashi Studio. I find this rather boring fashion-wise, but I’m happy to see Cara looking so healthy and pulled-together.

Prince Harry’s cousins Lady Eliza Spencer and Lady Amelia Spencer were on the Cannes red carpet:

Aishwarya Rai wore Gaurav Gupta last night – she’s so beautiful!

Helen Mirren wore Badgley Mischka – I feel like this is very British (derogatory).

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Jodie Foster: Young actors just want to act, they don’t care about scripts or quality

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Jodie Foster was in Cannes to premiere her latest starring role in Vie Privée, which screened out-of-competition. Jodie is fluent in French, and this film saw her acting and performing in French in a French production. Jodie has come back to acting in a bigger way in recent years, after largely taking a hiatus from Hollywood to raise her sons. But she loved this script, and she was especially chatty in Cannes. Some highlights from her Variety interview:

Doing a French movie, acting in French: “I’ve been wanting to go back and do a French movie, because I haven’t done one in a long time. For me, it’s always about trying to find the right piece of material. I didn’t want to do some overblown American and French co-production. As an actor, I need a story. And a lot of French movies, which I love, are behavior films where you just sort of follow people around for three days or something. That’s not what I do. I’m interested in narrative…It is fun [to act in French]. Acting in French was helpful, because I’m a different person in French than I am in English. I have a more vulnerable way about me. I’m less confident, not as sure of myself, which I think is more fun.

She’s fascinated by young actors today: “When I was a kid, I worked so much that by the time that I was 18, I needed to take a different approach. I see a lot of young actors, and I’m not saying I’m jealous, but I don’t understand how they just want to act. They don’t care if the movie’s bad. They don’t care if the dialogue is bad. They don’t care if they’re a grape in a Fruit of the Loom ad. If I never acted again, I wouldn’t really care. I really like to be a vessel for story or cinema. If I could do something else, if I was a writer or a painter or sculptor, that would be good too. But this is the only skill I have.

On Nicole Kidman pledging to work with so many female directors & actually doing it: “Wait, what? [Foster bangs the side of the couch she’s sitting on]. That’s incredible. She’s always working!… I’ve watched things change a lot. When I started acting, the only woman I ever saw on set was a makeup artist or script supervisor. Then I started seeing some more female technicians. But the last bastion has always been directors. When I decided to direct, I was lucky. The people that made decisions knew me, so they didn’t consider me a risk as a first-time director. But as an actor, before my last three projects, I only had made one movie with a woman director. That’s over 50 years.

Whether she would make a similar pledge to work with female directors: “It’s hard for me to be in the business of saying, half my movies are going to be made by women or men or whatever. Shouldn’t it be a more instinctual choice? You would hope that you’d be interested in the human being. I mean, Jonathan Demme on “Silence of the Lambs” was my favorite feminist director. That said, I think some sort of quota system is important when it comes to giving first-time filmmakers an opportunity. You need to start the process early so we all get the same opportunities.

What happened after she turned 60: “Something happens at 60. There’s a hormone that gets injected in your body, and suddenly you’re like, “Oh, I don’t care.” This all coincided with me getting really excited about helping to tell other people’s stories and to elevate voices that hadn’t been heard before. So with “The Mauritanian,” I was in that movie so I could tell Tahar Rahim’s story, not my character’s story. With “True Detective,” I wanted to engineer my part so it served the indigenous characters’ story. I want to bring whatever wisdom or experience or money or status I have as an actor to help with that. I got to tell my story, it’s someone else’s turn. And that’s much more fun. Who knew being a part of a community was so much more rewarding than being the person that has to open the movie on 1,500 screens?

The IDGAF Era: “My 50s were hard for me. It’s hard to embrace the transition. You feel like you’re a worse version of who you were. But something happened a few years ago. I woke up one day and was like, “I don’t care about any of the things that I cared about before. I’m gonna go down a different path.” Your kids grow up, your parents pass away, maybe you get divorced. Those life changes are shattering. But there’s a freedom that comes with that. As painful as it is to lose this other identity of being a dutiful mother or daughter or wife, you can also be like, it’s just me now.”

[From Variety]

This is an amazing observation from an older actor: “I see a lot of young actors, and I’m not saying I’m jealous, but I don’t understand how they just want to act. They don’t care if the movie’s bad. They don’t care if the dialogue is bad.” It’s true in the sense that a lot of actors – especially non-nepo babies who have really struggled in the industry – are just happy when they get a job, any job. They just want to book jobs and keep it moving. Jodie doesn’t get it because she was working with Martin Scorsese when she was 12 years old, you know? But I also think Jodie should acknowledge that a lot of the younger actors don’t care about quality anymore, and there’s been such a realignment where… the youths don’t give a sh-t about working with auteurs or finding great scripts. They don’t have the patience or the money to wait for a “good” project.

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Felicity the Samoyed is a star on the Cannes red carpet

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The latest Spike Lee joint, Highest 2 Lowest, had its big premiere at Cannes on Monday. But even though Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, and ASAP Rocky are the stars, all eyes were on the bombshell in the blue gown. Of course I’m talking about Fabulous Felicity, the Samoyed who accompanied her person Julia De Cadenet on the red carpet. (Oh, Rihanna was there too?) De Cadenet has a background in the French film industry, which is why she attends the festival frequently, but it’s her current work as an animal activist that brought her and Felicity together. In 2009, De Cadenet founded NoToDogMeat, an animal rescue that saves dogs from the meat market in China. Felicity was rescued from a slaughterhouse in 2018 — but not before the bastards cut off her tail — and became De Cadenet’s foster fail. And now she’s living her best life by De Cadenet’s side as an ambassador for NoToDogMeat, and trotting amongst celebrities at Cannes. I love a good rags to riches story.

Speaking with Express.co.uk in August 2024, De Cadenet shared that Felicity’s origins were much more humble. She shared that the Samoyed was rescued from China in 2018, in a slaughterhouse that she alleged was killing cats and dogs to be sold for meat.

Working alongside other activists form the U.K.-based charity she founded in 2009 — called World Protection for Dogs and Cats in the Meat Trade, or NoToDogMeat — De Cadenet told the British outlet that Felicity’s tail had been cut off in the slaughterhouse, but she and other rescuers were able to take 17 pets from the facility and safely transport them to a shelter in northern China.

“I brought her to France. Initially, she did have a home, but sadly when the person found out that she was missing her tail, she didn’t want her anymore,” De Cadenet said, sharing that she believed the Samoyed would only be living with her temporarily.

“She ended up with me and I used to say to her, because she’s very bossy, ‘You are not going to stay here, I’m going to find you a home,’” the activist added.

Now, more than six years later, Felicity is living the luxurious festival life, making appearances at the star-studded event in part due to De Cadenet’s background as a movie producer.

The pup is also serving an important role as a “campaign dog,” as De Cadenet has called her, as she helps to raise awareness about the pet meat trade and NoToDogMeat — as well as to help familiarize potential adopters with pets who have survived hardships like Felicity.

“This is what I have often found with adoptions of rescues, there are two types of people: There are the kind of people who say, ‘I’ll have any dog, I just want to give them a home and love,’ and they do,” she told Express.

“Then there are other people who really want a breed dog and they want a perfect dog,” she added. “Our dogs are not perfect, they are often missing limbs, eyes, tails, you know, they may not be perfect, and so they get rejected.”

According to De Cadenet, Felicity’s Cannes appearances also simply serve as “a bit of light-heartedness and great publicity for what we are doing, whereas normally we are walking among hell and suffering.”

“She loves to meet people she’s meeting and greeting everyone,” she added of her pup.

[From People]

The indomitable spirit of a dog! I’m in pieces over Miss Felicity’s bravery; she survived a harrowing situation, yet had the wherewithal and self-love to say, “I deserve to be in my fabulous era, now!” And so she is. I also love how De Cadenet thought Felicity would be going off to another home, but Felicity was like, “Bitch please, I’m your new mascot and 1 at Cannes!” For maximum merriment, I highly recommend perusing this lady’s Instagram, @fabulous_felicity_. My current fave is this video of Felicity heading into Anne Fontaine for a dress fitting of that knockout blue number she’s been donning this year. Comparing this gown to the yellow one she wore last year, Felicity is definitely adhering to the festival’s new fashion rules about shorter train lengths. Now all we need are some paparazzi photos of Felicity in her designer duds, being escorted up the famous croisette steps by that dapper canine thespian — and Palm Dog winner — Messi, the Border Collie from Anatomy of a Fall. Let’s make it happen, folks.

Dog bless the special people at NoToDogMeat who are saving the lives of very good boys and girls in China. DoVe Project is another great organization that’s working to end the dog meat trade in South Korea. Long live our pups!

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Cannes: Elle Fanning wore Armani Prive to the premiere of her Scandi film

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Elle Fanning is such a doll! Elle turned up in Cannes to attend the premiere of Sentimental Value. Elle did a Scandi movie! She’s playing an American actress in the film-within-a-film about a dysfunctional Norwegian family. Renate Reinsve is actually the lead, I’m pretty sure – you might remember Renate from her absolutely incredible performance in The Worst Person In the World (Sentimental Value sees Renate reteaming with that same director, Joachim Trier). Anyway, it appears that Elle and Renate got along famously – when they first saw each other on the red carpet, they practically ran into each other’s arms. Elle is such a girl’s girl!! Elle wore a beautiful Armani Prive gown, and I think Renate’s gown is Louis Vuitton. Apparently, the Cannes audience loved this film & the audience gave them a 15-minute ovation.

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More photos from Cannes on Wednesday…Barbara Palvin wore a terribly unphotogenic Miu Miu. Yikes!

Elsa Hosk got to wear an archival Thierry Mugler (from the Fall ‘95 collection). This is… a lot. And I don’t even think it suits her.

Coco Rocha had an insane look on Wednesday – a “deconstructed mermaid gown” from Ionut Razvan paired with giant helmet hair. It’s certainly a bold look!

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Cannes: Scarlett Johansson wore an impeccable Prada at the ‘Eleanor’ premiere

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Last night, Scarlett Johansson premiered her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, at the Cannes Film Festival. Scarlett directed June Squibb and Erin Kellyman, and they were both there for the premiere. Scarlett’s husband Colin Jost also came out for the premiere. Let’s talk about Colin’s fashion first – Colin seems to do a lot of chest and arm work, which is great, but that means he looks sort of foolish wearing a slim-cut double-breasted suit or tuxedo? He should either go with a slim-cut single-breasted suit (if his goal is showing off his chest and arms) or go with a boxy double-breasted jacket. As for Scarlett, she wore a custom Prada in a pale blue. As I went through the photos, I looked at all of the angles of the gown – it really is tailored beautifully for Scarlett’s figure. Her red lipstick pops too.

Jodie Foster skipped her usual Armani and went with Loewe to the ‘Vie Privée’ premiere. I’m not a fan of any of it??

Georgina Chapman and Adrien Brody were out in Cannes last night as well. I’m still mad that he won his second Oscar, and I’m still mad about his long-ass speech. Georgina wore an archive Marchesa… remember when half the girls at any award show wore dresses like this? It’s giving me nostalgia.

Eva Herzigova wore one of the funniest looks of the festival – this is Balenciaga. I’m calling it the “boob bell dress.”

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Cannes: Rihanna wore a Smurf-colored Alaïa to ASAP Rocky’s big premiere

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Monday night was the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Spike Lee’s latest joint, Highest 2 Lowest. The film stars Denzel Washington, ASAP Rocky, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, Wendell Pierce and more. This was also Rocky’s first time walking the Cannes red carpet. He went all out, and of course he brought his lady with him too. It really happened for Rock and Rihanna in a real way: they complete each other, they’re soulmates and completely supportive partners. They have two sons together and people have their fingers crossed that Rihanna is expecting their much-longed-for daughter.

Rocky and Rihanna complement each other aesthetically as well – they’re both into fashion, they sometimes coordinate their looks, and they know how to pose together to maximize their joint slay. At the premiere, Rocky wore Saint Laurent, with Ray Bans (he designed them himself) and a Bulgari watch and Bulgari jewelry. Rihanna wore a turquoise Alaïa Fall 2025 which was customized for her growing bump. Her jewelry was Boucheron. She’s glowing! I love that color on her too, it’s sharp. It started raining in Cannes last night, so there were some lovely photos of Rocky holding the umbrella over Rihanna as they walked down the steps. It reminded people of those iconic photos of Prince Harry and Meghan.

Also: people think that Rihanna’s dress is a preview of her upcoming movie – she’s voicing Smurfette in the “live action” Smurfs. See, when you say that, sure, I can totally see it. She’s absolutely channeling a Smurf.

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