THEaetitia Casta he chose the least conventional way possible to sign his return to Cannes 2026. After five years of absence from the Côte d’Azur catwalks, the 48-year-old French actress and supermodel has literally undermined the rigid liturgy of the festivalabandoning plastic poses and occasional smiles in favor of spontaneity. The occasion was the premiere of Karmathe new out-of-competition work by Guillaume Canet, but the media’s attention has shifted entirely to an out-of-programme with a high level of joy.
The improvised waltz and the flight on the stairs
The real show took place in the heart of the climb towards the Palais des Festivals. Breaking every institutional parade, Laetitia Casta started waltzing on the red carpet together with her colleague Vincent Macaigne. A moment of pure cinematic euphoria between knowing glances and thunderous laughter.
The waltz mentioned by Laetitia Casta and Vincent Macaigne on the red carpet at Cannes 2026. (EPA/SEBASTIEN NOGIER)
Not happy with having slowed down the strict timing of security, the actress and top model she let herself be carried up the staircaselifted bodily by her rider without the slightest concern for the safety of her high fashion dress. An improvised performance that provided the funniest images of the day.
The partner in the “crime”: who is Vincent Macaigne
The one who supported the game of this spontaneous choreography was Vincent Macaigne47 years old, set partner of Laetitia Casta and a leading figure in French comedy. Known to the general public above all for his roles as a neurotic intellectual in the cult series Dix pour cent (known in Italy as Call My Agent!), Macaigne perfectly embodies the wrinkled and openly anti-heroic charm of contemporary French cinema.
Laetitia Casta, Armani velvet for Cannes 2026
Despite her acrobatic moves on the red carpet, Laetitia Casta’s style remained impeccable thanks to her dress. For the event, the choice fell on a Mermaid bustier dress in black velvet by Armanimade luminous by a shower of crystals set on the décolleté. The slim line of the dress, completed by an important Messika sapphire pendantcarried the show perfectly.
Laetitia Casta in an Armani dress at Cannes 2026. (Photo by JB Lacroix/FilmMagic)
A keen eye for archive details immediately noticed how the same model had already been shown off by Selena Gomez in Los Angeles the previous autumn. If the American pop star had toned it down with a masculine blazer, the French top model preferred the purity of the nude line. A plastic demonstration of how bring high fashion with absolute lightness.
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