Dior and Elle Host Dinner at Cannes

High above the hustle and bustle of the Croisette, guests including Harvey Weinstein, Zhang Ziyi, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Paz Vega mingled on Sunday night at a poolside cocktail and dinner hosted by Dior and Elle magazine to celebrate the Cannes Film Festival. Dior had decked out a section of the Club Costes by Albane on the rooftop of the JW Marriott hotel with a mix of exotic blooms and fake foliage inspired by the hanging garden set of its spring 2014 catwalk show. Fresh from the previous night’s

screening

of “Saint Laurent,” one of 18 films in competition for the coveted Palme d’Or prize, Jérémie Renier said he was globally pleased with critics’ reaction to the movie, the second about Yves Saint Laurent to be released this year.

“I think the film is bound to split opinion a little because it takes a stance. It’s a real film d’auteur, it’s a Bertrand Bonello movie, so he brings it his touch, his vision. I think at least it’s original. It’s not the kind of biopic people are used to seeing,” said the Belgian actor, who stars as Saint Laurent’s partner Pierre Bergé.

Renier said he played off his longtime friendship with fellow actor Gaspard Ulliel, who plays the late couturier. “I think our friendship means there is a bond that you can see onscreen and in the way I look at him,” Renier remarked. Aymeline Valade made the jump from modeling to movies to play Saint Laurent muse Betty Catroux, but she didn’t take any acting classes beforehand. “Bertrand wanted me to stay authentic,” Valade explained. “I try to be focused on what I’m doing and not to intellectualize or rationalize everything.”

The French model dyed her hair blonde for the part and has kept it that way since. “For the time being, it’s like a fetishist thing, I think, to bring the movie, I don’t know happiness? Luck?” she said. On the subject of hair, John Nollet said he was getting ready to launch a collection of haute couture hair accessories at Colette during Paris Couture Week in July. He revealed that the braid Nicole Kidman sported for the screening of “Grace of Monaco” on the opening night of the festival was actually a feather made of hair.

The one-of-a-kind pieces are handmade by couture ateliers including embroiderer Lesage and feather house Lemarié. “I want to launch this trend, especially since we have so little time to prepare actresses for the red carpet, so the more elements are prepared in advance, the more you can achieve a different effect. Otherwise, with only 20 minutes to work with, you always end up with similar looks,” Nollet explained.

RED CARPET SHOW,Cannes Film Festival: Runway to Red Carpet

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Every night over the ten days of the Cannes Film Festival, stars of fashion and film walk the famous 24 steps of the Palais des Festivals in looks from the latest shows, or custom-created by fashion's biggest names. The red carpet is a runway of pure silver screen style, showing off the best of Fashion Week alongside bespoke creations made especially for Cannes. From the runway to the red carpet, we bring you the most on-trend looks from the 67th Cannes Film Festival.

De Grisogono hosts Fatale in Cannes party

It’s the last days of the Cannes Film Festival and the stars are showing no signs of slowing down. Last night at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, Fawaz Gruosi welcomed a bevy of beauties including Amber Heard in a subdued Vionnet top and skirt accented with dangling, shoulder duster diamond earrings from the jewelry house, Cara Delevingne in a beaded, flapper-esque dress from Roberto Cavalli with a diamond sautoir from de Grisogono, and Riley Keough in a slinky cocktail dress from Saint Laurent. Joining them to take in a performance by Jason Derulo were models Anne V, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in Cushnie et Ochs, and Toni Garrn in Elie Saab.

Cannes Film Festival 2014

Despite strikes and grave weather alerts, the 67th Cannes Film Festival took a kick start on 14th May 2014 with a crowd of international guests and celebrities from all around the world to honor the much awaited annual film making week this year. The Marché du Film is the most important event in the industry and the leading meeting place for 20 000 film professionals, including 3 200 producers, 2 300 theatrical distributors, 1 500 sales agents and 790 festival programmers.

It gives people the

opportunity

to network their skills and projects with some of the best professional in film making around the world. Actors and directors like Tonie Marshall, Sofia Coppola, Nicole Kidman, Ashwariya Rai, Christian Duguay and many more graced the event. It is usually a week of complete hustle bustle of conferences, competitions, awards and celebrity glitz and glam.

Since its inauguration in 1946, the Festival de Cannes has always celebrated passion for film. Throughout the years, the unvarying increase in participants and new economic issues has made the Festival the annual meeting place for film industry professionals. People from all around the world wait anxiously for the start of this unforgettable flight of events.

The first Marché du Film came to be in 1959 with a few dozen participants and one screening room made out of fabric stretched across the top of the old Palais Croisette. This miniature market became the international event it is today: conceived, organized, and planned around one goal: the successful production of all films.

This year’s opening ceremony started off with the confident and witty Lambert Wilson who entertained the crowd with fits of laughter and nostalgia from time to time. Reminiscing the directors and producers who had left the stage for good and also appreciating the new and innovative young professionals struggling to make a mark in the competitive clout.

The festival has had hard critique and has proved to be the best in film production and direction. The film “Grace of Monaco” initiated the press conferences of the week. The Australian actress Nicole Kidman was the first to speak, describing the demanding nature of playing Grace Kelly. "It was a real challenge, one of those parts that made a particular impression on me."

Olivier Dahan the director of the film refocused on the angle the film takes. "By looking exclusively at the year 1962, I wanted to give a complete portrayal of the actress and the woman in the intimate context of having to make some deeply personal choices. She is married, she has children, yet she is faced with some real internal battles."

Moreover, the festival was filled with fashion frenzy celebrities wearing amazing line of dresses and suits embellished with glitz and glimmer. The international festival has been managed by a board of directors and was registered as a non-profit association in France in 1972. Since then the festival has been one of the biggest in the film making industry.

On 14 January 2014, Pierre Lescure was elected President of the Festival de Cannes by the Board of Directors. He will take up his functions from 1st July 2014, taking over from Gilles Jacob, who has been appointed Honorary President.