The Cannes Film Festival made a controversial decision to ban sheer dressing on its red carpets in 2025, provoking strong reactions from celebrities and stylists. In 2026, Riley Keough decided to test the event’s rules by showing up in a sheer look from Chanel’s latest spring collection.
Styled by Jamie Mizrahi, Keough wore a blush organza set featuring a tailored blazer and a matching skirt, both pieces completely sheer with embellishments trimming the hem’s edge. She paired it with nude ankle-strap pointed-toe pumps with a black toe cap — a Chanel signature.
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Keough, an ambassador of the French house, is at Cannes this year as the lead of “Butterfly Jam,” Kantemir Balagov’s English-language debut, which opened Directors’ Fortnight on Wednesday evening. The film is a coming-of-age story set inside New Jersey’s Circassian immigrant community, costarring Barry Keoghan and Harry Melling. The actress, however, wore her sheer statement for another premiere, “Histoires Parallèles (Parallel Tales),” held Thursday evening.
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The Cannes Film Festival updated its dress code in 2025, prohibiting guests from showing nudity or wearing voluminous outfits on the red carpet. “For decency reasons, nudity is prohibited on the Red Carpet, as well as in any other area of the Festival,” the statement published on the festival’s website said, adding, “Voluminous outfits, in particular those with a large train, that hinder the proper flow of traffic of guests and complicate seating in the theater are not permitted.” The ban on sheer or naked dressing came a year after Bella Hadid and Naomi Campbell went viral with their sheer looks on Cannes’ red carpet.