To be simultaneously confronted with images from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and those documenting the bombardment of Gaza is a jarring condition of the social media age – one that’s clearly inspired certain celebrities to make a political statement on the Croisette this year. Bella Hadid in her Michael and Hushi dress. Photo: Getty See Bella Hadid in a Michael and Hushi dress constructed from traditional keffiyeh scarves, Pascale Kann in a look from the Palestinian brand Trashy Clothing’s spring/summer 2024 collection, and Cate Blanchett in a Haider Ackermann X Jean Paul Gaultier dress that seemed to nod to the colors of the Palestinian flag when photographed on the red carpet.
Note the green in Cate Blanchett’s train. Photo: Getty “I’m doing my dream job and I’m getting to travel the world, but then I’m hyper-aware of what’s happening in Rafah at the moment,” Nicola Coughlan – who has been sporting the Artists for Ceasefire pin while promoting the third series of Bridgerton – said in an interview this week. “And I just feel like, if I have this global platform, which I do at the minute, then I can hopefully raise funds for aid organizations.
” The relationship between posing on a red carpet such as the one at Cannes and taking meaningful political action is, of course, complicated. The proliferation of Ceasefire pins at this year’s Oscars, for example, felt like a potent riposte to censorship, but I’m not sure Cara Delevingne’s “Peg the .
