Organizers of the Cannes Film Festival have banned risqué outfits from the annual ceremony after years of provocative red carpet displays.
The new nudity rules, devised for ‘the sake of decency,’ will be implemented when French director Amélie Bonnin’s Leave One Day opens the ceremony this week.
According to organisers, the austere move is an attempt to the stifle the celebrity trend for ‘naked dresses’ – namely provocative outfits that reveal considerably more than they conceal – on the red carpet.
‘For decency reasons, nudity is prohibited on the red carpet, as well as any other area of the festival,’ states a Cannes festival document.
‘The festival welcoming teams will be obligated to prohibit red carpet access to anyone not respecting these rules.’
It’s understood that the iconic venue now adopts a more conservative dress code, with suits, dinner jackets, and floor-length evening gowns generally favoured over headline-grabbing ensembles.
Classic little black dresses, cocktail dresses, pant-suits, dressy tops, and elegant sandals, ‘with or without a heel’, will also be permitted.
The 78th Cannes Film Festival will take place at the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière with some of the highest profile film screenings across a packed seven-day schedule in Cannes.
