This week saw the final few stunners at Cannes make their mark, while others went down the wrong route with post-Memorial Day white and summery shades of yellow. It’s getting warm outside, kids — who can take the fashion heat?
The hits:
Camilla Belle
Paired with simple jewelry and slicked-back hair, the outfit looked young, fresh and fashion-forward without being an evening event eyebrow-raiser. Lindo maravilhoso!
Chloë Grace Moretz
After years of admirable but solid flops, it seems Moretz has risen from the ashes. The actress played icy phoenix in Cannes wearing this Chanel Haute Couture dress.
Ethereal and elegant, the 17-year-old has never looked better. Let’s just pray she hasn’t peaked.
Elle Fanning
Speaking of chic teens, Elle Fanning held nothing back for the “Maleficent” world premiere in Hollywood.
This lilac Elie Saab embroidered couture gown is simply gorgeous — pitch-perfect for the real-life Disney princess. The delicate choker was a surprising, successful touch.
Emily Blunt
Frankly, we haven’t paid too much attention to Emily Blunt since her scene-stealing bit in “The Devil Wears Prada,” despite her many good roles since, including the one in that Tom Cruise movie …
Anyway! This sprightly printed Osman dress and the easy-breezy manner in which Ms. Blunt pulled it off puts her back on the radar.
Natasha Poly
Perhaps to make up for the Elena Lenina mishap, fellow Russian Natasha Poly brought Soviet glamour to Cannes in this pearly white pleated Vionnet gown.
The supermodel finished the look with subtle jewels and cat eyes for an extra kick.
The misses:
Dita Von Teese
We 100 percent get Dita Von Teese’s whole retro thing, but, sorry, here she looks like a cockatoo corpse that’s been chilling since the ’40s.
Earth to Dita: Canary yellow looks frightful on colorless skin, and your pinup shenanigans are starting to grow tiresome. Try again.
LeAnn Rimes
Nothing says “washed up” so loudly and symbolically as a raggedy white outfit, paired with bad peep-toes, no less.
The blanched get-up Rimes wore this week to the Indy 500 may have gotten a pass in Indianapolis, but the country crooner obviously failed to realize these pics would also hit the World Wide Web.
Mariah Carey
As we all know, Mariah Carey is an eternal internal 13-year-old, so this sparkly teal prom dress should come as no surprise.
It was unforeseen, however, that Carey would decide to take the train-wreck look to an actual train — the grimy New York City subway, to be exact.
Yes, she sat right down where a homeless person probably slept.
But look, she’s just like us!
Nina Dobrev
On the subject of prom attire, this sequin yellow-gold dress had no place at the World Music Awards, where Nina Dobrev sported it. She looks suffocated and ready to put on a pageant sash and feign concern for literacy, the environment and world peace.
Although, most of the time Dobrev is so safe and unoriginal with her outfit choices that she’s neither here nor there, so at least she got some attention.
Pamela Anderson
Oh, Pam. What happened to your grown-up pixie cut? It suited you so well. Now you’re back in has-been territory, and that’s nowhere you want to be.
These extensions are insane and you look like a My Size Barbie that’s been tortured by an evil 2-year-old.
Honorable Mention: Angelina Jolie
For her turn down the “Maleficent” world premiere red carpet, Angelina Jolie, like Fanning, embodied her film character to a T. This severe black Atelier Versace gown, with its swirling
strapless structure, is equal parts fantastical and sinister.
Still, the rubberized silk fabric — however interesting and innovative — reeks of trash bag. Lucky, Jolie has the presence to pull it off.