Cannes Film Festival dress code: management raises its head

Maybe all tanned, but certainly not all naked. On Monday, May 12, on the eve of the first red carpet walk at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, a few lines detailing the dress code in effect this year set the carpet alight. "For reasons of decency," the Festival now states on its website, "nudity is prohibited on the red carpet. […] The Festival's reception teams will be obliged to prohibit access to the red carpet to anyone who does not respect these rules." Panic abounds in the fashion press, on full pre- red carpet duty, and among overworked stylists in the suites of the Croisette palaces. So goodbye to the "risqué outfits" (pronounced with a French accent ) and the "naked dresses" that have flourished in recent years at gala events, culminating at the last Grammy Awards with Bianca Censori's flesh-colored, completely transparent dress, accompanied by Kanye West as the creepy bodyguard of his accessory-wife .

This example is the most extreme, but Cannes has also seen its own surge in transparency in recent years. In 2024 alone, models Bella Hadid and Natasha Poly made a name for themselves with two barely-there dresses, one with exposed nipples and the other in a very low-cut bodysuit.