The transparent dress or the unstoppable weapon of seduction on the Croisette.
Every year glamour, splendor and sensuality come together on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival, a meeting place between the 7th art and the incessant and flamboyant world of fashion.
Slit dresses, finery shining with a thousand lights, majestic trains... The actresses and models put on their most beautiful trappings in order to make an impression during this exercise in ultra-scrutinized charm.
Among them, the transparent dress, which reveals a neckline, a bust, or the whole body, is the ultimate argument of glamor married to the transgressive side of Cannes.
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The mythical transparent dresses of the Cannes Film Festival
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A moment of grace
During the opening ceremony of the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, Monica Bellucci had rushed on the stage of the Palais des Festivals in an imperial navy dress, all in transparency and had passionately kissed her stage partner, Alex Lutz.
A mythical moment marked as much by the kissing scene as by the hypnotic power of the transparent dress signed by the Dior house which had hinted at the birth of a breast.
Four years later, the French actress Mélanie Thierry had been tempted twice, on July 12 for the climb of the steps of the film
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in a vaporous green dress signed Dior then on July 13 for the film
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In the simplest device, wearing only panties, the sparkling openwork creation in Céline sequins, signed the moment of grace of the 2021 edition.
From Bianca Jagger... to Kendall Jenner
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Bianca Jagger and Helmut Berger at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975. (Cannes, May 1975.) Getty
In 1975, the actress and former companion of the Rolling Stones singer, Bianca Jagger, was one of the first to dare to be transparent on the Cannes red carpet.
Dressed in a long black dress with a slit, the 1970s icon wore a tulle top in the same shade of which only the embroidered leaf concealed the chest.
A stroke of brilliance that later inspired the leading actress of the 1990s, Sharon Stone.
Or even more recently Kendall Jenner to walk the red carpet like a white swan in 2018 in a Schiaparelli creation.
And Eva Longoria during the opening ceremony of the 2022 edition. The transparent dress, the creation that crosses time like an invisible thread between generations.
