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DEEPIKA KILLS IT AT CANNES
In her second outing at the Cannes Film Festival (the first was in 2010), actor Deepika Padukone (left) went for a plum-hued dress by the label Marchesa and she decided to romance risqué in sheer tulle.
The label has, in the past, been favoured by many Indian celebs. Its co-founder, Georgina Chapman, on a visit to Mumbai in April, met some Bollywood stars.
Celebrity stylist Elizabeth Saltzman is behind Deepika’s look — they settled on this dress when Deepika was at the Met Gala, in New York, this month.
While world media were mostly mum on Deepika, back home, she created a buzz among designers.
“Love her look, and she looks relaxed in the dress, which is most important,” says Ritu Beri. And Rina Dhaka feels, “The sheer, fluid style is so ‘now.’” She adds that a softer blush tone would have worked even better.
“She is a rage! Put her in a rag and she’d still look like a million bucks. But [her] makeup was underwhelming,” says Anand Bhushan. For Suneet Varma, the colour wasn’t a winner but “the sheer and leg show is sexy.”
Astarry, starry night indeed! The 70th Cannes Film Festival opened on Wednesday with stars such as Will Smith and Marion Cotillard. This time, the security measures were tighter than ever at the festival. There were efforts to restrict easy access. Along with more metal detectors, there was an anti-drone system as well. This is also the first festival held since the truck attack in the city of Nice which killed 86 people June last year.
The night began with Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts, with Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Cotillard. While some films were praised, critics weren’t enamored with Desplechin’s farcical, self-referential drama about a filmmaker visited by a long missing ex-wife.
Actor Monica Bellucci presided over an opening ceremony that included a slight dig at the best picture envelope flub that had concluded this year’s Academy Awards ceremony. The evening ended with a new envelope being brought out The interaction dissolved into a dance that ended with Bellucci kissing Alex Lutz.