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If Cannes has a rebel successful residence, it’s Kristen Stewart.
The Chanel ambassador, 36, has spent a decade defying nan festival’s strict dress code — and her 2 latest looks from nan Cannes Film Festival 2026 are nary exception.
At nan Saturday photograph telephone for her caller drama “Full Phil”, Stewart wore a Chanel outpouring 2026 couture set: a sheer grey tweed polo garment layered complete a skin-toned vessel apical pinch a coordinating knee-length skirt complete shorts. She vanished nan look pinch vintage Nike Swoosh saddle oxfords and a Chanel Lune ring.
The actress’ longtime stylist, Tara Swennen, told Vogue nan lightweight underpinnings made nan group look “more revealing than it was.”
While she whitethorn person gotten distant pinch her sneakers astatine nan photograph call, nan casual footwear is specifically verboten astatine Grand Théâtre Lumière gala screenings.
That didn’t extremity Stewart; for nan evening’s premiere, she changed into a red-and-black knit Chanel gown from nan house’s autumn 2026 collection, nan loose knit showing disconnected a achromatic bra and high-waisted briefs underneath.
She paired it pinch a Chanel Premiere Ribbon reddish watch ($6,050) and a Comete Harmonie ringing — positive achromatic Ruby Brown 3306 Dames high-top sneakers that she flashed arsenic she made her measurement crossed nan reddish carpet.
Both pairs of kicks came consecutive from Stewart’s ain closet, Swennen told Vogue.
Stewart’s dress-code dodges person go a Cannes tradition. In 2016, she ditched her Christian Louboutin heels astatine nan “Personal Shopper” premiere, changing into a brace of beat-up Vans aft finishing nan step-and-repeat. She kicked disconnected nan show successful a bid of red-carpet T-shirts and returned nan pursuing twelvemonth pinch a bleached buzz cut.
Her astir pointed protestation came successful 2018, erstwhile she pulled disconnected her Christian Louboutin heels connected nan Palais steps. At nan time, nan festival’s unwritten dress codification required women to deterioration precocious heels.
“Things person to alteration immediately,” Stewart told IndieWire. “If [a man and I] were stepping nan reddish carpet together and personification stopped maine and said, ‘Excuse me, young lady, you’re not wearing heels. You cannot travel in’ — past [I’m going to say], ‘Neither is my friend. Does he person to deterioration heels?'”
Cannes has since loosened its footwear stance but tightened others, banning naked dresses, voluminous trains and sneakers astatine gala screenings.
That hasn’t slowed Stewart down. Last year, she skirted nan dress code by layering a sheer skirt complete shorts astatine nan premiere of her directorial debut, “The Chronology of Water,” and besides turned up successful a astir afloat unbuttoned Chanel tweed jumpsuit and a shot headdress pinch a shorts suit and tie.
Swennen — who has dressed Stewart since nan character was 14 — told Vogue she thinks nan guidelines person room for interpretation.
“If it’s not trashy and group stay polished, I deliberation [the rules are] malleable,” Swennen said. “People should consciousness free to spell and bask themselves and beforehand their creation — and beryllium authentic to themselves.”
