The Cannes red carpet so far: from Sienna Miller in boho-chic to Michelle Yeoh having fun in Bottega Veneta – in pictures

There has been a lot to enjoy on the Croisette so far this year. Jane Fonda has been leaning into the ‘mob wife’ look, Cate Blanchett came as an Oscars statuette and Yseult has been tearing up the red carpet rulebook

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Main image: Michelle Yeoh attends the Horizon: An American Saga red carpet at the 2024 Cannes film festival. Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

  • The model Heidi Klum went big for the opening night – wearing a deep red corseted gown from the Lebanese designer Saiid Kobeisy. While other events toy with different coloured carpets – remember the tie-dye effect earlier this month at the Met Gala – Cannes sticks to a traditional burgundy hue, meaning the red on red trend is guaranteed.
    Model Heidi Klum in a red gown on the red carpet

  • Working with her stylist Cristina Ehrlich for the opening ceremony of Cannes, Jane Fonda appears to have leant into the ‘mob wife’ trend. The blazer of her black, tailored Elie Saab suit was complemented by a giant diamond choker necklace from the Italian jewellery brand Pomellato. Fonda draped a cheetah- print coat from Forte Forte around her shoulders. Red lipstick and a heavy smokey eye - two ‘mob wife’ essentials – finished her look.
    Jane Fonda on the red carpet in a black jumpsuit and cheetah print jacket

  • French model and musician Yseult wore Dior haute couture to the Megalopolis premiere. Strikingly modern, the look honoured Christian Dior’s iconic ‘New Look’ with its characterful silhouette made up of the house’s signature ‘Bar’ jacket and full pleated skirt. Looking historic, contemporary and chic at the same time is no mean feat.
    French model and musician Yseult wearing Dior haute couture to the Megalopolis premiere at the Cannes film festival 2024

  • Killers of the Flower Moon actor Lily Gladstone wore iridescent Gucci on the opening ceremony red carpet. It was on-the-nose glitz in contrast to a Gucci shirt dress she had worn earlier that day, topping the look off with the brand’s platform horsebit loafers, a current, quirky It shoe and a fun choice for a festival that historically has had a footwear axe to grind.
    Killers of the Flower Moon actor Lily Gladstone wearing iridescent Gucci on the red carpet for the Cannes 2024 opening ceremony

  • Another red-on-red look, French actor Juliette Binoche went big on the glamour with her custom Dior haute couture gown, which she wore to the opening ceremony. The wet-look hair was a dishevelled foil – at least in terms of optics – that stopped the look being too traditional.
    French actor Juliette Binoche wearing a Dior haute couture gown on the red carpet at the Cannes 2924 opening ceremony

  • Making history as the first female American director to serve as a Cannes jury president, Greta Gerwig has been on a lot of the festival’s red carpets. Speaking to Vogue, her stylist Karla Welch said: “We can either follow some sort of rules, or just do what we want – and we’re sort of doing both!” So far we’ve seen Armani Privé, Chanel, and (pictured) a sparkling Saint Laurent gown at the opening ceremony.
    Director Greta Gerwig in a burgandy sequinned gown

  • A blast from the past? For the premiere of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Naomi Campbell wore the Karl Lagerfeld-designed haute couture dress she debuted in 1996 for the Chanel haute couture autumn/winter collection. She wore it then with a directional headpiece; this time she paired it with deep-wave curls. Campbell is pictured with Law Roach, who styled her for the event. The stylist regularly works with Zendaya, and favours archival looks for the red carpet.
    Naomi Campbell, in a Chanel haute couture dress designed by Karl Lagerfeld, with Law Roach on the red carpet

  • Léa Seydoux chose a silver sequinned Louis Vuitton gown for the premiere of Le Deuxieme Acte – a comedy by the French director Quentin Dupieux, in which Seydoux plays the protagonist, Florence.
    Actress Léa Seydoux in a silver sequinned dress on the red carpet with photographers in the background

  • At the premiere of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Sabrina Elba chose a sparkling asymmetric, white and black ombre gown from Fendi, featuring a single long sleeve that trailed along the red carpet.
    Sabrina Elba wearing a ombre, asymmetric white and black dress with diamonds

  • The three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep was presented with an honorary Palme d’Or — the festival’s highest honour — at the opening night ceremony on Tuesday. For the occasion, the actor wore a delicate silk Dior haute couture wrap-style dress, which, reportedly, took 650 hours to make.
    Meryl Streep in a long, white Dior haute couture dress – smiling on the red carpet

  • Fresh from his Met Gala co-chair duties, Chris Hemsworth was back on the red carpet for the premiere of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. He wore a Tom Ford chalk-coloured evening jacket, with a satin collar, paired with simple black tuxedo trousers.
    Actor Chris Hemsworth in a white blazer and black trousers on the red carpet

  • For the premiere of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, in which she plays Imperator Furiosa, Anya Taylor-Joy hit the Croisette in a strapless haute couture gown from Dior. Its intricate embroidery detailing required over 1,200 hours of work. Jewellery from Tiffany & Co added to the old Hollywood glamour.
    Anya Taylor Joy in a ball gown on the red carpet with posing

  • The Luxembourgish-German actor Vicky Krieps, the star of Phantom Thread, chose a soft wool twill jacket and matching khaki-coloured long skirt from Bottega Veneta for her second day at Cannes. This is serious fashion from an actor who knows her way around clothing.
    Vicky Krieps on the red carpet in a khaki blazer and long skirt

  • Suited and booted and ready for business, Faye Dunaway, the American actor and star of Bonnie and Clyde, chose a structured cotton melange jacket and curved trousers from Bottega Veneta. She finished her look with the brand’s Spada loafers.
    Faye Dunaway on the red carpet wearing a suit with film maker Laurent Bouzereau

  • For his Cannes debut and the premiere of his upcoming movie, Bird, the Irish actor Barry Keoghan pared back his statement ‘exuberant’ red carpet style, keeping it simple in a grey silk jacket, pleated plastron shirt and polished leather pumps, all from Burberry.
    Actor Barry Keoghan on the red carpet wearing a suit

  • Actor Aubrey Plaza went for Loewe on the red carpet at the Megalopolis premiere. The Spanish brand has been the smart choice for many of the most fashion-forward celebrities for red carpets so far this year. Here, Plaza serves up old Hollywood glamour with a quirky twist, thanks to that intriguingly placed ruffle.
    Actor Aubrey Plaza wearing a Loewe gown on the red carpet at the Megalopolis premiere

  • After scooping a Bafta for best supporting actress for her role in Top Boy, the British actor Jasmine Jobson returned to the red carpet to promote her new film, Bird, in which she co-stars with Keoghan. Her Louis Vuitton outfit featured a silver crystal embroidered bandeau top styled with a black high-waisted skirt.
    Actress Jasmine Jobson, wearing Louis Vuitton, poses for the cameras on the red carpet at Cannes

  • The American singer Teyana Taylor paid homage to the late Italian designer Roberto Cavalli, who died last month, by wearing an 80s jumpsuit from the designer, featuring his archival Ray of Gold print.
    Teyana Taylor in a stripe jumpsuit

  • Indian actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan attended the premiere of Kinds of Kindness, the upcoming film by Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos. A ‘brilliantly bonkers’ dress for a reportedly ‘brilliantly bonkers’ film, she was wearing Falguni Shane Peacock, an Indian fashion house best known for wedding wear.
    Indian actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan attended the premiere of Kinds of Kindness, the upcoming film by Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos. A ‘brilliantly‘ bonkers’ dress for a reportedly ‘brilliantly bonkers’ film, she was wearing Falguni Shane Peacock, an Indian fashion house best known for wedding wear.

  • Eva Green wore Chanel haute couture to attend the premiere of ‘gangster trans musical’ Emilia Perez. The rosette has become a failsafe 2024 way to add a little pizazz to any outfit. Not that this dramatic monochrome look needed it – the pockets add practical appeal, too.
    Eva Green wore Chanel haute couture to attend the Emilia Perez red carpet. The rosette has become a failsafe 2024 way to add a little pizazz to any outfit. Not that this dramatic monochrome look needed it – the pockets add practical appeal, too.

  • French actor Omar Sy looked subtly Matrix-esque for his arrival at the premiere of Emilia Perez. Perhaps best known for the show Lupin, Sy had opted into the current menswear penchant for brooches on the red carpet last week, also pushing the boat out in a suit that looked normal from the waist up, but like a magic eye from the waist down.
    French actor Omar Sy looked subtly Matrix-esque for his arrival at the premiere of Emilia Perez. Take a bow.

  • Directional doesn’t quite do Demi Moore’s look justice. With the striking point of her dress looking like the stamen of an anthurium, or a sideways stalagmite, the look felt apt to attend the premiere of her new body horror, The Substance.
    Directional doesn’t quite do Demi Moore’s look for The Substance red carpet justice. With the striking point of her X dress looking like the stamen of an anthurium, or a sideways stalagmite, the look spoke to the current moment for sculptural dressing.

  • Belgian director, rapper and president of the Caméra d’Or Jury, Baloji attended the Kinds of Kindness premiere in a highbrow look from Antwerp-based designer Jan-Jan Van Essche.
    Belgian director, rapper and president of the Caméra d’Or Jury, Baloji attended the Kinds of Kindness premiere in a highbrow look from Antwerp-based designer Jan-Jan Van Essche.

  • Euphoria actor Hunter Schafer looked like a glorious jellyfish in this reflective satin Giorgio Armani Privé look, inspired by the brand’s spring 2011 couture collection, to attend the Kinds of Kindness premiere. Her Cannes wardrobe so far, which has included big name brands such as Armani alongside more emerging names such as Kiko Kostadinov, has provided ample proof of her sartorial chops.
    Euphoria actor Hunter Schafer looked like a glarious jellyfish in Giorgio Armani Privé to attend the Kinds Of Kindness premiere.

  • Emma Stone ditched the giant sleeves that became her red carpet signature around the release of her previous film with Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos, in favour of this sparkly Louis Vuitton frock with a deep-V and subtle train.
    Emma Stone ditched the giant sleeves that became her red carpet signature around the release of her previous film Poor Things, in favour of this sparkly Louis Vuitton frock with a deep-V and subtle train.

  • Uma Thurman graced the red carpet in a regal cream look from Burberry to attend the premiere of Paul Schrader’s film Oh Canada, in which she stars with Richard Gere. Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw has called the film ‘muddled, anticlimactic and often diffidently performed’, but this elegant look is definitely none of the above.
    Uma Thurman graced the red carpet in a regal cream look from Burberry.

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once actor Michelle Yeoh chose an unusual, textured look over old school Cannes glamour, wearing this fringed leather skirt with a custom leather bustier and Knot clutch from Bottega Veneta for the Horizon: An American Saga red carpet. Speaking to industry journal WWD at the Golden Globes earlier this year, where she also wore the Italian brand, she said: ‘[Fashion is a] part of you. It’s an extension of how you feel, what you want to say ... why not have fun with it?’
    Everything Everywhere All at Once actor Michelle Yeoh chose an unusual, textured look over old school Cannes glamour, with this fringed leather skirt with a custom leather bustier and Knot clutch from Bottega Veneta for the Horizon: An American Saga red carpet.

  • Nodding to the recent TikTok-fuelled trend for all things ‘coquette’ and balletcore, Kinds of Kindness star Margaret Qualley wore Chanel on the red carpet. An ambassador for the French luxury house, Qualley is also a lifelong ballet dancer, so this pale pink tutu-adjacent dress couldn’t be much more on-brand.
    Nodding to the recent TikTok-fuelled trend for all things ‘coquette’ and balletcore, Kinds of Kindness star Margaret Qualley wore Chanel on the red carpet. An ambassador for the French luxury house, Qualley is also a lifelong ballet dancer, so this pale pink tutu-adjacent dress couldn’t be much more on-brand.

  • Kevin Costner was apparently visibly emotional after his western epic, Horizon: An American Saga, received a seven-minute standing ovation. Again, Bradshaw was less convinced. Tenuous perhaps, but you could draw a parallel to this outfit – while this classic tux is unremarkable, the larger-than-life bowtie merits celebration.
    Kevin Costner was apparently visibly emotional after his western epic, Horizon: An American Saga, received a seven-minute standing ovation. Again, Bradshaw was less convinced. While this classic tux is unremarkable, the larger-than-life bowtie merits a special mention.

  • Sienna Miller can seemingly do no fashion wrong, strong-arming the current resurgence of boho-chic with a little help from Chloé creative director, Chemena Kamali. This custom look by the designer was on show for the premiere of Horizon: An American Saga, in which Miller stars. Subtle, it had just the right amount of ruffle to make it red-carpet-special.
    Sienna Miller can seemingly do no fashion wrong, strong-arming the current resurgence of boho-chic with a little help from Chloe creative director, Chemena Kamali. This look, worn for the premiere of Horizon: An American Saga, in which Miller stars, was a custom look by the designer. Subtle, with just the right amount of ruffle to make it red-carpet-special

  • Dressing up as a giant present is a surprisingly perennial way of adding a bit of oomph to the red carpet. The actor Zoe Saldana did it with aplomb for the Emilia Perez premiere in this Saint Laurent dress.
    Dressing up as a giant present is a surprisingly perennial way of adding a bit of oomph to red-carpet dressing. The actor Zoe Saldana did it with aplomb for the Emilia Perez premiere.

  • A former Disney kid, Selena Gomez channelled old Hollywood glamour in black and white Saint Laurent for the premiere of Emilia Perez, in which she stars. Monochromes, which were big on the recent catwalks, are having their moment on the Croisette this year.
    A former Disney kid, Selena Gomez channelled old Hollywood glamour in black and white Saint Laurent for the premiere of Emilia Perez, in which she stars. Monochromes, which were big on the recent catwalks, are having their moment on the Croisette this year.

  • Actor Cate Blanchett could have been channelling the golden Oscars statuette in this sequinned custom Louis Vuitton look, which was suitably regal for someone who memorably once played Elizabeth I. The actor was attending the premiere of her new film, Rumours, which was apparently named after the classic Fleetwood Mac album.
    Actor Cate Blanchett could have been channelling the golden Oscars statuette in this sequinned custom Louis Vuitton look, which was suitably regal for someone who memorably once played Elizabeth I. The actor was attending the premiere of her new film, Rumours, which was apparently named after the classic Fleetwood Mac album.

  • Wearing green on a red carpet you do run the risk of looking Christmassy. Luckily, actor Julianne Moore stayed just the right side of festive in this off-the-shoulder gown, which she wore to Horizon: An American Saga.
    Wearing green on a red carpet you do run the risk of looking Christmassy. Luckily, actor Julianne Moore stayed just the right side of festive cheer in this off-the-shoulder gown, which she wore to Horizon: An American Saga.
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