Nude bans on the red carpet in Cannes

The red carpet is rolled out before the opening of the 78th edition of Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday evening on May 13. The star parade is on its way. But just in time to the festivities comes new rigorous clothing rules. Those who plan a gala rendward « nude » outfit have to think about it. For example, the directing star guest Kristen Stewart who has gone on red carpets without pants lately.

According to The industry magazine Variety Is it a topless demonstrant from 2022 and the celebrity Bianca Censoris naked revelation at Grammygalan that haunts. The clothing ban also applies to those who have invested in what the festival calls « excessively voluminous clothes » and long trailers. The question is whether Greta Gerwig would be admitted this year with the pink Barbie dress that she carried in 2024. The restrictions will already have affected the actor Halle Berry who is sitting in the Gold Palm jury, she told me at a press conference that she planned a large trailer, but had to rethink.

The question is of course where the limit goes for what is for naked? If actors and other celebrities want to parade in just the brass in front of hundreds of costume -clad and high photographers, let them do it. It looks sickly uncomfortable, but I’m not the one who takes away from an experience. And who can deny a lady or lord a fabulous trailer?

Remember what headlines were around the big « heel noise » ten years ago when it was suddenly not okay for women to get in flat shoes. But does festival manager Thierry Frémaux really want a fashionable censor debate right now, instead of focus on its brilliant film program?

And there will be a little double standards when a festival that praises the freedom of art and always loved provocations on the white canvas should suddenly control the guests’ clothes.

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