Deepika Padukone in Giambattista Valli

Understated!

Alina Baikova

This is pretty amazing. (She is or was allegedly dating Leonardo DiCaprio, who must love Cannes as a place to screen potential girlfriends. He gets older and the models stay the same age.)

Diana Penty in Nedo

This is STUNNING.

Hofit Golan

I feel like you'd be interested to know that The Telegraph once literally wrote a story called WHO IS HOFIT GOLAN? (Amusingly, she's currently claiming to be 33 years old, and she was ALSO "in her 30s" in 2014. Someone's math is questionable!) (She's not 33.)

Xin Zhilei

This is sort of like if you were really, really inspired by your duvet.

Priyanka Chopra (in Georges Hobeika) and Nick Jonas

Priyanka's dress is beautiful, but also these two always look like they're taking prom photos. (It's amusing.)

Priyanka Chopra (in Georges Hobeika) and Nick Jonas

Nick DOES seem like he'd be a helpful Train Wrangler.

Priyanka Chopra (in Georges Hobeika) and Nick Jonas

And Umbrella Holder! Full husband points to Nick Jonas this weekend.

Ming Xi

This is very Take Swan Lake And Make It FORMAL!

Huma Qureshi

"What are your feelings on ruffles? BECAUSE I LOVE THEM."

Penelope Cruz in Chanel

The length of this dress feels a little wonky, but the best part of it is that it vaguely implies Penelope is wearing a backpack. And why not? Bring in your snacks, some flats, maybe a travel pillow, if the movie is long.

Penelope Cruz in Chanel

Alas, it is just an illusion.

Penelope Cruz in in Chanel

What a face, though!

Araya A. Hargate in Jean Paul Gaultier

This is RIDICULOUS and therefore tailor-made for Cannes. (I do always think it's sort of a shame when someone wears a dramatic red gown on a carpet that matches it, because it tends to blend in.)

Toni Garrn in Ralph & Russo

This is very pretty.

Toni Garrn in Ralph & Russo

With a (relatively) understated train.

Elle Fanning in Vivienne Westwood

This is FULL princess, and it works on her.

Petra Nemcova

One of the best things about Cannes is that you'll often get snaps like this, where  model is posing her butt off, and someone is just wandering past in the background.

Isabeli Fontana in Ali Younes

This fabric is really neat; would this be better if (and this is a nitpick) the vee-neck were slightly more narrow?

Aishwarya Rai in Jean-Louis Sabaji

Aishwarya Rai has arrived! This is, of course, very eye-catching and dramatic and costume-y -- she is very VERY reliably fun at Cannes.

Aishwarya Rai in Jean-Louis Sabaji

She looks like a VERY glamorous insect.

Aja Naomi King in Zac Posen

This orange sherbet color IS, in fact, delicious.

Kimberley Garner in Rami Al Ali

If you're risking a quad strain just to stick your leg out of your dress, you're doing it wrong.

Josephine Skriver

Never has someone looked SO BORED in such a giant gown -- in part, I think, because there is an optical illusion created by her hand and that man's collar that makes it seem like she's smoking. Well, she IS in France.

Madison Beer

This looks like one intense funeral.

Catching Up On The Most Interesting Things That Happened This Weekend At Cannes: The Giant Gowns

Many of these are VERY fluffy.