10 fashion trends from the Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival concluded Saturday, May 25 with a final glamorous red carpet walk.

This year’s festival left little room for fashion eccentricity or audacity, with outfits each proving as elegant and refined as the next, including a multitude of voluminous gowns, sheath dresses and mini styles matched with impressive trains.

In terms of trends, pink, gold and white topped the bill for colours, while shorts, asymmetric dresses, draping, capes and suits all went down a storm on the Cannes red carpet.

Here’s a roundup of ten standout fashion trends from the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

Springtime vibes

Elle Fanning, Hofit Golan and Blanca Blanco. Picture: Loic Venance/AFP

Draping

Eva Longoria, Toni Garrn and … Toni Garrn again. Picture: Valery Hache/AFP

White looks

Bella Hadid, Aishwarya Rai and Marta Lozano. Picture: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP

Asymmetric gowns

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Petra Nemcova and Winnie Harlow. Picture: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP

Fifty shades of pink

Gelila Bekele, Josephine Skriver and Madison Headrick. Picture: Loic Venance/AFP

Capes galore

Julianne Moore, Nadine Leopold and Kimberley Garner. Picture: Valery Hache/AFP

Stylish suits

Izabel Goulart, Anja Rubik and Cindy Bruna. Picture: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP

Going for gold

Eva Longoria, Helen Mirren and Leonie Hanne. Picture: Christophe Simon/AFP

Shorts

Charlotte Casiraghi, Leomie Anderson and Marion Cotillard. Picture: Loic Venance/AFP

Sheers and see-throughs

Maria Borges, Natalia Vodianova and Winnie Harlow. Picture: Loic Venance/AFP

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