Sunday, September 22, 2013

Cannes Latest

This year, we're reporting live from Cannes with Calvin Klein Euphoria to tell you what it's really like at the most fashionable film festival of the year. 

Day Three
The festival is barely underway but alas, our final day in Cannes has arrived. And with it, the sun. Bloody typical. However, in the last 24 hours, we have achieved many fabulous things: we have danced with Cara Delevingne, chatted to Carey Mulligan about her mum and ordered room service in the Hotel Martinez at rougly 3.30am. 

After chatting to CK One Insider Bip Ling about all things make-up, and being made-over by make-up genius, CK Color head make-up artist Hung Vanngo, we headed out for some red carpet action.

All dressed up and positioned on the Calvin Klein black carpet, ready to talk to the stars... Pretty chic, non? Seriously, non. It was blowing a gale and pouring with rain. But while Nicole Kidman didn't want to stick around to chat (very sensible,) Carey Mulligan, Rooney Mara and Naomie Harris all braved the rain to talk to us about women in film. 


We'll be posting videos oh-so-soon so stay tuned to hear all about the three beautys' female inspirations. 

After two hours on the not-so-glamorous but still super-stylish CK black carpet, we were ready for a glass or three of champagne. Now off-duty, we could enjoy one of the famous Cannes parties. So imagine our joy when we were joined on the dance floor by none other than Cara Delevingne, looking super-stylish in a sequined black tux with a towering quiff. We can confirm - this girl looks even more beautiful in real life. And she's one of the most down-to-earth celebs we've ever had the pleasure of meeting. She was happy to chat, dance and take photos with anyone that approached her. With Rita not in town, perhaps she was in search of a new wifey? We were happy to volunteer. She told us about her aspirations to act and to sing, hinting that she might move on from modelling in the not-too-distant future. Before she retires though, she agreed to strike a pose with us. Profile picture = sorted. 

After a late-night croque-monsieur (when in France...) in our room at about 4am, we called it a night - waking this morning to find the sun shining for our last few Cannes hours. We'll sign off now to go for a final stroll down the sunny Promenade de la Croisette.

Oh sod it, it's bucketing down again. Marvellous. 

Day Two
Our mission this morning: to find out how the other half live. (Leo is still a no-show in our lives, by the way, NOT THAT WE CARE). A stroll down Boulevard de la Croisette (in the drizzle) takes us to the festival proper, where a grand, red-carpeted staircase leads to one of the screens. Last night it was filled with stars headed to get a first peek at The Great Gatsby (if they hadn't already caught a showing following its earlier US release, that is). This morning, the only celebrity in sight is Pudsey the dog, of BGT fame, who's being carried around in what we can only describe as a doggy Popemobile. 

Now on to the yachts - despite walking very slowly up and down the various jetties, no yacht-party invitations were forthcoming. The sun does make an appearance, however, and suddenly it's clear what makes Cannes just so fabulous: the warm Rivierra sunshine and the clear blue sea. C'est magnifique.  A spot of lunch with a glass of white goes from tres bien to parfait when The Lumineers strike up a song right next to us. You can hear six seconds of their song on repeat in our Vine post.

(We think you'll agree, we chose the best six seconds).

Alas, it's now back to work we go: tonight we'll be interviewing the likes of Carey Mulligan, Nicole Kidman and Naomie Harris at the Calvin Klein Euphoria/ Independent Film Project party to celebrate women in film, hosted by Francisco Costa, creative director of Calvin Klein. It's a hard life.

DAY ONE
Let's just get this out of the way first off: we haven't seen Leo yet. It's the opening day of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and Leonardo DiCaprio is definitely in town (this picture was taken of him here - although it doesn't appear to be pouring with rain or blowing a gale force wind, which I can assure you, it is). But, this picture aside, we have yet to clap eyes on Jay Gatsby, the man of the hour, the man everyone in town is talking about. 

But aside from the Leo no-show, it's been pretty fabulous so far. On our plane out here were Naomie Harris and Rooney Mara (not bad flying companions). There was also a fluffy white Shih Tzu puppy who had his own seat.  On arrival at the Hotel Martinez, we were met with about 100 celeb spotters who, as you can imagine, were pretty excited when our car pulled up and we climbed out. Or not. They did get more excited, however, by Cara Delevingne, who arrived at our hotel just a few minutes after we did. 

Here's the moment we pulled up at the hotel...

This evening we spotted the likes of Julianne Moore and Fan Bing Bing headed to an opening night party, while we sipped champagne in the hotel bar trying to pluck up the courage to head out into the downpour. Let us tell you: Cannes in the rain is pretty much the same as anywhere else in the rain - people running around bumping umbrellas and trying to find anywhere to eat/get out of the rain/curl up and cry. There will be no yacht-hopping for us while this weather continues, so while we sit out the storm in the comfort of our hotel room, this is the closest we'll be getting to Leo...

Before we left, we wrote...

We're headed to Cannes with Calvin Klein to bring you all the gossip live from the most fashionable film festival of the year.

Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, Carey Mulligan, Naomie Harris and Lynne Ramsay are to be celebrated at a 'women in film' party at this year's Cannes festival, hosted by the IFP (Independent Filmmaker Project), Calvin Klein Collection and euphoria Calvin Klein.

We'll be reporting from the red carpet and inside the party, as well as star-spotting on the opening days of the festival.

Stay tuned! 

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