Demi Moore Found the Chicest Way Around the Cannes Naked Dressing Ban

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THE RUNDOWN

• Demi Moore attended the La Vie d’une Femme screening at the Cannes Film Festival in a semi-sheer Gucci gown.

• The design toyed with the festival’s naked dressing ban, which came into effect in 2025.

• Moore is part of the festival’s jury this year.

It’s only the second day of the2026 Cannes Film Festival, but Demi Moore is making a considerable splash on the Croisette with her fashion choices. For her latest appearance, the actress winked at the festival’s controversial“naked dressing” ban—in the most elegant way possible.

Moore arrived at theLa Vie d’une Femme(or “A Woman’s Life”) screening today in a lavender number by Demna for Gucci. The gown sat off her shoulders and clung to her figure with a ruched corset bodice. The dress’s skirt not only wound around Moore’s legs with a considerable slit to match, but it also was semi-sheer in fabrication—details that pushed ever so slightly against the event’s directive.

To test the waters even further, her gown had a long, winding train that trailed behind her, another element that the festival outright banned last year. Perhaps she might consider trying anaked shoenext?

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Moore is a member of this year’s jury, which might give her some leeway to bend the rules. (Although in 2025, Halle Berry was open about having to rework her wardrobe following the festival’s last-minute decision last year.)

Regardless of the intricacies of the festival’s dress code, Moore and her stylist Brad Goreski are embracing classic movie-star glamour. At the festival’s opening ceremony, the actress looked statuesque in a gilded Jacquemus gown paired with jaw-dropping Chopard jewels.

At the jury photo call earlier in the day, she tapped into thepolka dot trendwith aplayful, multi-color dress by Jacquemus.

As a member of the Cannes jury—a body that includes the likes of Ruth Negga, Chloé Zhao, and Stellan Skarsgård this year—Moore is scheduled to be a constant at the festival’s various premieres and events over the next two weeks. Fashion-wise, surely the best is yet to come.

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