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From capes to plunging necklines, all the fashion fun of Cannes film festival

The best outfits, the looks that might trickle down and styles that should stay on the riviera

Thanks to interview duties and press calls, as well as throngs of paparazzi outside hotels and nearby Nice airport, the festival also offers celebrities the chance to show off their daywear: the sunglasses, casual Breton tops, jeans and trainers. From Helena Christensen looking like a Tolkienian princess in Vivienne Westwood to the French producer and executive Nicolas Seydoux in pink florals, stars at this year’s festival have been wearing capes that were either brilliantly daft or elegant and embellished. Photograph: Sarah Meyssonnier/ReutersFrom the actor Elsa Pataky and Greta Gerwig in Armani Privé to the French model and former Miss France Maëva Coucke, the coy, butter-wouldn’t-melt sweetheart neckline, its place in art history secured by John Singer Sargent’s 1883-4 portrait of Madame X, has been turning up the mercury this week.

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