Ahead of making another fashion statement at the 76th annual Cannes Film Festival opening night on May 16, Brazilian supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio takes a look back at all the looks she wore during the last decade attending the event. The list includes the princess-inspired Zuhair Murad gown from 2018, her fiery Julien Macdonald dress from 2019 and the dramatic Stephane Rolland bridal dress from 2022.
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Alessandra Ambrosio in Roberto Cavalli at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
Image Credit: Getty Images “It’s just a very glamorous dress that shows your curves,” Ambrosio told WWD. “The thing is, when you’re on that carpet, you don’t have a lot of time to play around. And I think this was just a dress that I didn’t have to do too much.”
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Alessandra Ambrosio in Atelier Versace at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival
Image Credit: Getty Images “I love Versace. The way they make the corset around your waist and your torso is just impeccable. So when I put to try it on, I just loved it. It’s very tight. The corset is all around the waist. I remember it was hard to breathe, but it was worth it on that carpet.”
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Alessandra Ambrosio in Michael Kors at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
Image Credit: Getty Images “I just love the whole minimalist style [of this dress] and also the sharp lines on the dress. I just thought it was a beautiful, very different kind of dress.”
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Alessandra Ambrosio in Zuhair Murad at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
Image Credit: Getty Images “I love Zuhair. He’s such a nice person and one of my favorite designers and he does do the most amazing couture dresses,” she said. “He just makes breathtaking dresses and I thought this one was a great one, just because he had pants and the open skirt. So I had never really seen that before and I just thought it was so cool.”
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Alessandra Ambrosio in Zuhair Murad at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Image Credit: Getty Images “When I put it on, it just felt like I had body tattoos,” Ambrosio said. “And then I had this beautiful jewelry, this gorgeous emerald gigantic necklace that I wore turned it around.”
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Alessandra Ambrosio in Roberto Cavalli Couture at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Image Credit: Getty Images “I just thought it was like a gorgeous, beautiful shape, different than the puffy dresses. It’s more like body-contouring, and I was just trying to go for classic glamour.”
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Alessandra Ambrosio in Zuhair Murad at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Image Credit: Getty Images “I just felt really like a gorgeous Disney princess. I love that champagne color. The whole gown is just beautiful. It’s sexy, but not vulgar,” she said.
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Alessandra Ambrosio in Ralph & Russo Couture at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival
Image Credit: Getty Images “It’s very ethereal,” Ambrosio said. “This dress is like very light, very comfortable. That was an easy one to play around on the red carpet.”
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Alessandra Ambrosio in Julien Macdonald at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival
Image Credit: Getty Images “It was it’s super sexy. I love the red. That’s one of my favorite colors to wear on the red carpet.”
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Alessandra Ambrosio in Stephane Rolland at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival
Image Credit: Getty Images “I was so intrigued with the way this dress was done,” the model said. “It looks like there’s spheres or rocks attached to my body, and I love the princess skirt. I just thought it was a mix of classic with modern.”
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Alessandra Ambrosio in Alberta Ferretti at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival
Image Credit: Getty Images “I just felt like a mermaid,” Ambrosio said. “This one has different patterns, which I thought was super cool, and the bottom it’s kind of mermaid style. I thought it was really beautiful. So I kind of I tried to do a mermaid’s hair. My hair was really long and kind of curly.”