The 8 Best Dressed Stars From the 2026 Cannes Film Festival
The annual film festival has come to a close—and these were the stars who turned the glamorous red carpet into a fashion playground.
Reported by Vogue.
Two weeks. The Croisette. And enough custom gowns, sculptural silhouettes, and peacocking suiting to fuel a full season of trend forecasts. The 2026 Cannes Film Festival just wrapped, and if the films were the reason everyone showed up, the red carpet is the reason we couldn't look away. According to Vogue, eight names rose above the rest — and what they had in common was a refusal to play it safe.
The jury members alone carried the fashion conversation. Demi Moore, styled by Brad Goreski, treated Cannes like a high-fashion dress rehearsal with no final night — cycling through a sculptural red Gucci gown and a shocking pink Matières Fécales ballgown with equal conviction. Ruth Negga and stylist Karla Welch did something trickier: they pulled Old Hollywood references into something that felt genuinely contemporary, layering Balenciaga leather opera gloves and a Saint Laurent black lace peplum gown into a vision that was classic without being costume-y. And Chloe Zhao made the strongest case for director-as-style-icon, self-styling in collaboration with Schiaparelli and Gabriela Hearst and looking like she had absolutely no interest in blending into the background.
The Men, the Supermodel, and the French Icon
The suited contingent didn't just show up — they escalated. Stellan Skarsgård moved through Cannes in a rotation of impeccably tailored looks, from sleek Ami Paris to a color-punctuated Loewe suit, quietly proving that style sharpens with age. Colman Domingo made a brief appearance and still managed to dominate the conversation: his Valentino moments — caped in purple, then bedazzled into full suiting spectacle — were exactly the kind of theatrical commitment Cannes deserves. Renate Reinsve, meanwhile, wore a series of custom Louis Vuitton looks styled by Karla Welch that landed somewhere between effortless and exacting — the precise frequency a 2026 movie star should be broadcasting.
Bella Hadid and stylist Mimi Cuttrell made the supermodel's Cannes visit feel like an event within the event — mixing vintage Elie Saab with a custom Schiaparelli lace gown reinterpreted from a 1969 Jane Birkin design, which is the kind of fashion-history flex that lands differently on an actual runway regular. And closing out the list: Isabelle Huppert, who wore a purple-skirted Balenciaga look with a crisp white collar and a flowing red Gucci gown with a train that could sweep the entire Palais des Festivals. French cinema royalty, indeed.
When the fashion is this deliberate — this committed to drama over safety — Cannes stops being a backdrop and becomes the whole story.
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