Marcia Grandini/Film Awards TV Les Misérables is the first French film in competition at Cannes 2019, but it’s not the classic by Victor Hugo (there have been enough adaptations of late). Director Ladj Ly’s first fictional film is set in Montfermeil, Paris, which inspired Hugo, but is set in the modern day and centres around […]
Chanel is travelling the world showing its cruise 2018–19 collection, with its second appearance in Bangkok (after Paris). Guests were invited to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel before embarking on traditional Thai boats to travel down the Chao Phraya River. Celebrities included Chanel ambassadors Lily-Rose Depp, Tilda Swinton, Caroline de Maigret, Soo Joo Park, […]
Emma McIntyre; Gisela Schober; Andreas Rentz It’s not often that feel-good comedies make it into the Cannes official selection, but Gilles Lellouche’s Le grand bain (Sink or Swim) premièred on day six of the film festival. The film stars Mathieu Amalric and Guillaume Canet, as two of a group of men who found a synchronized […]
Araya A. Hargate, Deepika Padukone, Praya Lundberg, Kangana Ranaut attend Festival de Cannes’ day 4
Vittorio Zunino Celotto; Emma McIntyre; Mike Marsland Plenty of celebrities attended the 71st Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival) première of the Chinese film 江湖儿女 (Ash Is the Purest White), directed by Jia Zhangke (賈樟柯), including Thai actress Araya A. Hargate (a.k.a. Chompoo), in a feathered jumpsuit by Ashi Studio’s spring 2018 couture collection, and […]
Making headlines this month: Mai Davikha is a Thai actress and celebrity, and the youngest superstar in Thailand. She is the spokeswoman for HM Queen Siriki’s breast cancer campaign, which began in 2017—she shared a modelling photo to her 6·6 million audience. Selena Gómez is well known as an American singer and actress, and […]
Pascal Le Segretain, Venturelli The Cannes Film Festival’s fifth day’s screening of The Meyerowitz Stories at Cannes saw L’Oréalistas Sonam Kapoor, Araya A. Hargate, Andie MacDowell, Iris Berben, Heike Makatash and YouTuber EnjoyPhoenix, as well as Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Jessica Chastain, Mary J. Blige, Coco Rocha, Olya Kurylenko, Laetitia Casta, Isabelle Huppert, Karena Ng, […]
Andreas Rentz; Venturelli; courtesy Giambattista Valli Aishwarya Rai Bachchan wowed the Cannes Film Festival crowds at the première of Robin Campillo’s Aids drama 120 battements par minute (120 Beats Per Minute) in a stunning strapless red Ralph & Russo gown. L’Oréal Paris’s global make-up director Val Garland used True Match foundation (in Amber Gold) […]
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rihanna among the most glamorous at Festival de Cannes, day three
Venturelli; Pascal Le Segretain; Andreas Rentz; courtesy Dior Aishwarya Rai Bachchan always causes a stir when she heads to the Festival de Cannes, both as a L’Oréal Paris spokeswoman and as an actress in her own right. This year, her powder blue ballroom gown, by Filipino designer Michael Cinco, was covered with beads and featured […]
Sonam Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai, Araya A. Hargate, Chloë Sevigny, Heike Makatsch at Cannes’ day 5
Tristan Fewings, Venturelli Sometimes, you can find style at the Festival de Cannes away from the red carpet, and Chloë Sevigny looked fashionable with her Chanel black and silver resin bag from its Paris in Rome 2015–16 collection. But as usual the real action was on the red carpet where we saw sumptuous gowns and […]
Venturelli, Andreas Rentz, L’Oréal Paris Aishwarya Rai Bachchan wore an extravagant golden Elie Saab gown for the fourth day at the Festival de Cannes, attending the première of The BFG (short for Big Friendly Giant), based on the Roald Dahl book, and directed for Disney by Steven Spielberg. Rai Bachchan, easily one of the […]
