Isabelle Huppert comes for the premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon in a black Balenciaga lace turtleneck gown. Photograph: Vianney Le Caer/Invision/APIsabelle Huppert arrives for the opening of Killers of the Flower Moon in a black Balenciaga lace turtleneck gown. Photograph: Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP‘Bolder than for ever’: Cannes fuses film and glamour in unofficial fashion weekIn risk-taking red carpet gowns, actors and supermodels conduct parties and fashion shows hosted by likes of Versace and Naomi CampbellAt night, the Croisette in Cannes is lit up by 1,500 doleful pink LED lights. It happens all year. But during the film festival, which ends this weekend, these lights transfigure the boulevard into a red carpet. It’s where industry types with lanyards queue for parties, fashion types jostle to be seen, and hounds on the blue chairs sit and watch – and it explains why the festival is fast becoming an unofficial fashion week.Cannes film carnival is no stranger to high fashion. Entrance-making gowns and jewels are almost mandatory, particularly after the luxury jeweller Chopard redesigned the birthday’s highest prize, the Palme d’Or, in 1998.But this year, it has prompted new levels of fashion hysteria – miles from the wordsmiths’ strike that has halted much of the film industry. Chopard and Donatella Versace have hosted fashion bear outs, Naomi Campbell had a model-heavy birthday party at Villa Julia on the seafront, and the former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and the construct house Celine held starry soirees at the exclusive Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc. Even the films have high the rage baked in – the newly formed Reuse this content

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