The Cannes Movie Pageant 2025 has begun and there have been some changes to their gown code that has pressured Halle Berry to make a wardrobe change.
Based on Reuters, the “Catwoman” star, who can also be a pageant jury member this 12 months, defined what occurred in a information convention. She stated, “I had an incredible gown by [Gaurav] Gupta to put on tonight, and I can’t put on it as a result of the prepare’s too huge.”

The change within the gown code reportedly befell simply hours earlier than the pageant kicked off on Might 13 – so it’s comprehensible why Berry’s outfit wanted to be switched. Nudity is one factor on the listing that’s been banned and, in efforts to maintain the visitors of the pink carpet beneath management, so has “voluminous outfits,” which incorporates lengthy trains as nicely.
Berry added, “I needed to make a pivot. However the nudity half I do assume might be additionally a superb rule.”
The look she went for was a vertically striped black and white halter robe. The gown had an genuine draping impact that trailed barely behind her when she walked but it surely didn’t depart a prepare on the bottom — thus following the brand new guidelines of the event.
Followers reacted to those guidelines in Web page Six’s report.
One individual stated, “Thank goodness!! Sick of folks with no pants and tremendous cleavage.”
A second wrote, “Glad they’ve a nudity rule now. This isn’t a PornHub award present.”
A 3rd stated, “Thank God as her see by met gala gown confirmed off an excessive amount of down there we didn’t must see!”
Throughout the Met Gala on Might 5, the gown code was “Tailor-made for You,” so most individuals wore some form of menswear or go well with. For that occasion, Berry wore a striped robe with one set of stripes being a strong black with sequins and the opposite set being a mesh black.
Much like her Cannes Movie Pageant gown, the stripes have been vertical and went all the way in which all the way down to kind a small prepare. However, as a result of the see-through components went all the way in which down, the her crotch got here perilously near being uncovered and it seems the actress didn’t have any undergarments on. The 58-year-old bought some flak for the controversial robe.
Whereas most have been relieved concerning the new guidelines of the gown code for the Cannes Movie Pageant, some folks weren’t glad with Berry’s backup outfit.
“Her style in formal put on is questionable,” stated one.
A second stated, “These should not her greatest seems to be. I don’t know why she thought the large vertical striped robe flattered her in any method. It’s a giant tent gown! She’s fairly however wants a brand new stylist.”
However not everybody abided by the principles like Berry. Mannequin Heidi Klum and Chinese language actor Wan QianHui each seemingly didn’t get the memo — or selected to put on what they happy — on the pink carpet, with each carrying clothes with lengthy trains behind them.
Klum, wore a pink robe made up of blooming ruffles that fashioned right into a prepare a number of toes behind her. QianHui’s look made her a two-time offender. The cream coloured robe not solely had a prepare on it however the ruffled layers had a voluminous hoop skirt form.
The pageant put out an announcement saying, “The goal is to not regulate apparel per se, however to ban full nudity on the pink carpet, in accordance with the institutional framework of the occasion and French legislation.” They stated the pageant, “reserves the correct to disclaim entry to people whose apparel may impede the motion of different friends or complicate seating preparations within the screening rooms.”
The 78th version worldwide movie pageant will go on till Might 24.