If it's not the outfit that makes the monk, it's not the price of the dress that makes the star! In an Instagram post from March 28, Eva Longoria had fun looking back on her first look from the Cannes festival. A long gold dress with a laced open back and crocheted back legs. A dazzling outfit she spent...$40 on. Or around 60 euros.
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“Proof that it’s not the dress!”
In the caption of her post, Eva Longoria wrote “Remembering this $40 dress that I wore on my first red carpet in Cannes. Proof that it’s not the dress, but the woman who wears it!!” With humor, she debunks the cliché of the superstar wearing only haute couture dresses to be elegant. It's not a question of price, but of self-confidence. “I said to myself, I'm just going to wear this one, this gold mesh, which makes me feel good,” Longoria recalled in the columns of
People
magazine about the moment she chose the dress. “No one would have known it was a $40 dress.”
His first Cannes Film Festival
It was in 2005 that Eva Longoria climbed the steps of Cannes for the first time. While in a relationship with basketball player Tony Parker for a year, she was invited to the premiere of the film
The Naked Truth.
She tells
People
about her arrival at the festival and this famous question, which she didn't expect: “who are you wearing?” 'I was like: What do you mean?' It’s mine, it’s from Melrose,” she laughs. Now the face of L'Oréal, her
red carpet
looks in Cannes, of which she has become a regular, cost much more. But this memory is worth gold.
Eva Longoria before climbing the steps of the Cannes Film Festival. (In Cannes, May 27, 2023). Marechal Aurore / Marechal Aurore/ABACA