Helena Christensen joined this year's Cannes Film Festival rule-breakers in a black naked dress on May 19.
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The iconic supermodel, 57, wowed in a sheer lace LBD that bared her abs at the screening of Amarga Navidad.
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The 2026 Cannes Film Festival dress code prohibits naked or sheer dressing due to "decency reasons."
For the second year in a row, the 2026 Cannes Film Festival has prohibitednaked or sheer dressingfor "decency reasons”—and attendees are getting creative withskirting around the Cannes dress code, or, in some cases,flouting it entirely. Case in point: Supermodel Helena Christensen made a rule-breaking NSFW style moment on May 19.
From the moment she left Le Majestic hotel, the 57-year-oldrunway starensured all eyes were on her as she unveiled ablack naked dressthat was constructed almost entirely from see-through black lace. Making a red carpet entrance at the screening ofAmarga Navidad,Christensen showed off different angles of her plunging slip dress, which featured black velvet bra cups trimmed with black lace and a dramatic backless design that was held in place with two pieces of string.
The Danish fashion model’s barely-there black silk number was covered in delicate sheer lace panels, exposing large swatches of skin on her midriff and legs. As she posed for photos at the legendary Palais de Festivals, Christensen revealed how she’d bypassed Cannes’s “decency” rules with opaque layers of black ruffled fabric wrapping around the top of her skirt in the front and the back.
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The mermaid-like silhouette of Christensen’s dress also featured a black silk trim at the bottom of the floor-skimming lace skirt, showing off just a glimpse of her strappy black stiletto sandals underneath.
Christensen accessorized her bold LBD with silver hoop earrings, a small black leather clutch adorned with a bow, and a white watch. She brought the drama by styling her chest-length chestnut brown hair in a French girl-coded blowout with her full bangs swept over one eye. A brown smoky eyeshadow and a dewy pink flush on her cheekbones and lips finished off her Cannes red carpet look.
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