Heidi Klum is not playing by the rules at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival! The 51-year-old model stepped out on the red carpet for the opening ceremony of the French film festival, and to a screening of Leave One Day, wearing a dramatic look that might just breach newly-released dress code rules. Klum, who is …

The robust 2025 festival lineup includes such splashy, star-driven studio titles as Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme” (Focus), Ari Aster’s “Eddington” (A24), Scarlett Johansson’s “Eleanor the Great ” (Sony Classics) and Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning.”

The Cannes Film Festival kicked off its 78th edition with the Opening Ceremony and the world premiere of Amélie Bonnin’s debut feature, Partir Un Jour (Leave One Day), led by Juliette Armanet, Bastien Bouillon, and François Rollin.

A day after it was revealed the Cannes Film Festival was banning nudity and “voluminous outfits” from its red carpets and beyond, long trains and massive dresses still captivated attention. Heidi Klum,

She’s a fashion rule breaker. Heidi Klum didn’t comply with the Cannes Film Festival’s new dress code, hitting the opening ceremony in a billowy floral Elie Saab gown with a dramatic floor-grazing train — which violated one of the regulations that just went into effect.

Freelance workers at the Cannes Film Festival, supported by French labor org Sous les écrans la dèche, plan protest at the opening ceremony.

The 78th Cannes Film Festival begins May 13, 2025, with 24/7 streaming on YouTube, Mubi, FilmyDoo (2:30 PM IST), and the official website. The opening ceremony starts at 7:15 PM local time (10:45 PM IST),