Here are one of the best appears from the Cannes Film Festival purple carpet.

Sixty-plus ft of purple carpet and 24 steps was the gauntlet visitors needed to run — or stroll — because the Cannes Film Festival started. That’s 60-plus ft to make an entrance, create a long-lasting second, catch the eyes of the watching world.

The purple carpet is the present earlier than the screening(s), and yearly the crystals appear to get brighter, the skirts frothier, the equipment extra dramatic. Whether it’s Fan Bingbing with tigers gamboling over the wilds of her robe, Uma Thurman in sweeping cardinal satin or Helen Mirren with hair dyed to match her ice-blue gown, there’s no denying a part of the enjoyable of the pageant lies within the vogue follies earlier than the movies. (Now repeat that 10 occasions quick.)