Cannes 2025: Halle Berry had to change your dress due to new clothing limitations

Member of the jury of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, the American actress Halle Berry was forced to “change” the dress for the opening ceremony this Tuesday, May 13 due to new clothing restrictions.

“I had an incredible (Gaurav) dress Gupta to wear tonight, but I can’t because the train is too long. Of course, I will follow the rules, so I had to change course,” he said at a press conference, a few hours before climbing the steps with a long dress with white and white stripes.

Others did not do the same. The German model Heidi Klum has surveyed the carpet followed by a long pink train, when the Chinese actress and influencer Wan Qianhui appeared in a voluminous white skirt.

The organizers have published this year a letter from the festival that prohibits “attire, in particular long trains, whose volume makes good circulation of the guests and complicates the seat in the room”, but also “naked in the red carpet.” At this point, “I think it’s good,” added Halle Berry.

High heels are no longer an obligation

Another change ratified by this letter, on the red carpet, high heels are no longer necessary for women. The regulations allow “elegant shoes and sandals with or without heel”. “I think it’s a very good rule,” said the French president of the jury, actress Juliette Binoche.

In 2023, American actress Jennifer Lawrence, present in competition this year to Die, my love From Lynne Ramsay, he had caused a sensation when climbing the steps with flip flops because the shoes planned for her were “too big,” he said.

Before her, Julia Roberts and Kristen Stewart, who presents her first film Water chronology In the section a certain respect this year, he had also eliminated his shoes in the steps in 2016 and 2018.

Questioned by the AFP on Monday, the festival said that “the explicit rules (R) have already been applied for a long time.” While transparent dresses are regularly seen in the red carpets, “it is not about regulating clothes but of prohibiting total nudity (…), in accordance with the institutional framework of the event and the French law,” added a spokesman.

With respect to the “too big” outfits, the festival “reserves the right to reject access.”