Bella Hadid Wears a Black Gown With a Thigh-High Leg Slit to the 2025 Cannes Film Festival

Bella Hadid made a dramatic entrance in Cannes, France, yesterday, debuting honey-blonde hair as she arrived at her hotel. Now, the model is back on the red carpet of the city’s film festival, opting for (rule-adhering) decadence. The model wore a black Saint Laurent dress with a thigh-high leg slit and cross-back at the Cannes Film Festival’s opening ceremony. She accessorized with emerald and diamond earrings from Chopard. The emeralds alone were 118.68 carats on the stunning statement piece.

Hadid’s arrival comes shortly after the festival banned nudity and “excessively voluminous” clothing on the red carpet, according to Variety. Just last year, she wore a revealing sheer dress at the premiere of The Apprentice at the festival. But with today’s look, it seems she is abiding by the new rules—for now.

Shortly before Hadid’s red carpet appearance, British Vogue published a new interview with her. In it, the model discussed her life in Texas, along with how she separates her work persona from her real self. There’s a toll to being in the fashion industry, she admitted.

“Just being a human being and having to look in the mirror every single day, I think it really does something to your self-confidence and to your soul,” she said. “That’s why I say the girl who’s at work is Belinda. And then the minute that I get home, I’m on the couch, that’s just Bella again. Because Belinda just does her job. She slays. She can be crying from 5 A.M. to 7 A.M. but by the time she gets to work, a smile’s on her face and she’s going to do her job and get through it. That’s Belinda for me. I get emotional thinking about it, because it’s like I have put on that alter ego for a very long time. It’s almost a mask because when I get home I am just a depletion. I’m a skeleton.”

Hadid has been working to find her center amid her mental and physical health struggles. “For me, going through severe depression and Lyme and anxiety and work, and then going home and not having a lot of time to recap, then horse showing, it’s just a lot altogether,” she said. “I saw something the other day and it made me cry, because I cry for everything. I was scrolling and it was this girl and she’s like: ‘I’m 30 years old and I just don’t know what my path is supposed to be. I don’t know what the universe or God’s biggest plan is for me.’

“I think that’s where I struggle, being able to understand where I belong,” Hadid said. “Because when it comes to my philanthropy, to Palestine, to my horses, to work, and then my family and my friends, all of these are separated in multiple different countries. To be my singular self, I don’t know how to be in all of those places. I know it means I need to find love within. I know it means I need to be at home within myself, but I’m such a people person. I’m such a people pleaser.”