{"id":36197,"date":"2023-05-22T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T02:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=233623"},"modified":"2023-05-22T22:06:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T18:06:24","slug":"cannes-film-festival-stiletto-heels-rule","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/cannes-film-festival-stiletto-heels-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes Film Festival 2023: The Fashion Set\u2019s Footwear Choices Are An Unexpectedly Rebellious Coup De Th\u00e9\u00e2tre"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_233625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233625\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-full wp-image-233625\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jennifer-Lawrence-Cannes-2023.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer-Lawrence-Cannes-2023\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CANNES, FRANCE &#8211; MAY 21: Jennifer Lawrence attends the &#8220;Anatomie D&#8217;une Chute (Anatomy Of A Fall)&#8221; red carpet during the 76th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 21, 2023 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the Boulevard de la Croisette, your choice of red carpet footwear is not merely a menial stylistic decision, but one that (dependent on your selection) holds the power to alter the trajectory of your <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/search\/?search=cannes%20film%20festival%202023&amp;tags=cannes%20film%20festival%202023\">Cannes Film Festival<\/a> experience. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of all the revered red carpets to walk, the \u00fcber-glamorous procession along the C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur has the most sartorial reverence\u2014and the strictest dress code. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until recently, wearing stilettos was compulsory for female attendees, with the rule set to ensure a veneer of elegance and opulence was maintained. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2016 and 2018,<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/julia-roberts-george-clooney-amal-clooney-red-carpet\/\"> Julia Roberts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/kristen-stewart-crimes-of-the-future-cannes\/\">Kristen Stewart<\/a> respectively fiercely defied this mandatory dress code by taking off their towering heels mid-carpet, walking up the steps of the Palais des Festivals et des Congr\u00e8s completely barefoot.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_233630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233630\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-full wp-image-233630\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Julia-Roberts-Cannes.jpg\" alt=\"Julia-Roberts-Cannes\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CANNES, FRANCE &#8211; MAY 12: Actress Julia Roberts walks up upon their arrival at the &#8216;Money Monster&#8217; premiere during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 12, 2016 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Andreas Rentz\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, in 2023 actresses <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/jennifer-lawrence-cannes\/\">Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> and Isabelle Huppert are following in their contemporary&#8217;s footsteps by taking two very different approaches to the divisive footwear ruling, offering a sartorial coup de th\u00e9\u00e2tre just as entertaining as the events in the films premiering at the coveted festival. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Lawrence, her defiant-esque move to poke fun at the film festival\u2019s marred history of footwear transpired through subtle undertones. At the premiere of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anatomy Of A Fall<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014a film Lawrence has no affiliation with but attended to guerilla market <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bread and Roses<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a documentary she produced\u2014Lawrence literally stopped traffic in a crimson <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/dior-fall-2023-campaign\/\">Christian Dior Couture gown. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As she descended the movie theatre and cinephile heaven, she flashed eager photographers a glimpse at her black leather flip-flops that peeked out from underneath her gown.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_233626\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233626\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-full wp-image-233626\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jennifer-Lawrence-Flip-Flops-Cannes.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer-Lawrence-Flip-Flops-Cannes\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1539\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CANNES, FRANCE &#8211; MAY 21: Jennifer Lawrence attends the &#8220;Anatomie D&#8217;une Chute (Anatomy Of A Fall)&#8221; red carpet during the 76th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 21, 2023 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale &#8211; Corbis\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Elsewhere across the French Riviera, Huppert attended the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/the-most-anticipated-movies-of-2023-are\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Killers Of The Flower Moon <\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">premiere<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0in a more conspicuous way of paying homage to the polarizing requirement. Stepping out in a black lace Balenciaga dress, Huppert subversively opted for a shoeless look by wearing a pair of anatomic nude heels.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_233624\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233624\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-full wp-image-233624\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Isabelle-Huppert-Barefoot-Cannes.jpg\" alt=\"Isabelle-Huppert-Barefoot-Cannes\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CANNES, FRANCE &#8211; MAY 20: Isabelle Huppert attends the &#8220;Killers Of The Flower Moon&#8221; red carpet during the 76th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 20, 2023 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Daniele Venturelli\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Featuring toe indents, the result was a witticism that undoubtedly highlighted the double standard of forcing female participants to wear high heels. As Stewart said herself after she rebelled against the red-carpet rule: \u201cIf you\u2019re not asking guys to wear heels and a dress, you cannot ask me either.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_233628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233628\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-full wp-image-233628\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Kristen-Stewart-No-Shoes-Cannes-2018.jpg\" alt=\"Kristen-Stewart-No-Shoes-Cannes-2018\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US actress and member of the Feature Film Jury Kristen Stewart removes her shoes on the red carpet as she arrives on May 14, 2018 for the screening of the film &#8220;BlacKkKlansman&#8221; at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (Photo by Valery HACHE \/ AFP) (Photo by VALERY HACHE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the words of Maire Antionette: Let them all wear flats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42674,"featured_media":36198,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[4334,5526,65,35],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cannes Film Festival Guests Rebel Against Strict Dress Code Rule<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cannes Film Festival attendees including Jennifer Lawrence and Isabelle Huppert rebel against strict &quot;stiletto only&quot; dress code.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/cannes-film-festival-stiletto-heels-rule\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" 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