Jennifer Lawrence and Husband Cooke Maroney Sealed Her Red Carpet Return With a Kiss

Every year, the stars make Cannes Film Festival a celebration of both cinema and serious fashion. While Bella Hadid can confidently take the title of Queen of Cannes with a clutch of archival, characterful, and dress code-defying looks, Jennifer Lawrence’s return to the Croisette has been equally elegant.

The actor, who is out in Cannes for the premiere of the Lynne Ramsay-directed film Die, My Love in which she stars alongside Robert Pattinson, began the night in a sophisticated, fanned out custom Christian Dior gown. The off-white dress featured layers of sculptural pleats, inspired by a 1949 Polenc dress by Dior, and which took 250 hours to make.

Earlier in the day, she also wore a different Dior ensemble that leaned more boho, in a white and black floral maxi dress with sheer sleeves and black piping—perfect for attending a Dior dinner and for a walk along the promenade, if she so wished.

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But it was Jennifer Lawrence’s second gown change of the night that cemented her place in the festival’s fashion history books.

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Lawrence donned a full black velvet, one-shoulder gown by Dior once again, with a twisted neckline and long, thin train that she wrapped around her arms. She accessorized with swirling silver and green stone earrings, and peep toe pumps.

Later, Lawrence received a standing ovation following the screening of Ramsay’s film, which is based on author Ariana Harwicz’s 2017 book of the same name. Already, reviews are raving about Lawrence’s performance as a woman who experiences postpartum depression and develops psychosis, opposite Robert Pattinson as her unfaithful husband. And in celebration and during the crowd’s rapturous applause, Lawrence gave her husband Cooke Maroney a passionate kiss.

Lawrence, who recently welcomed her second child, was five months pregnant while filming. “Having children changes everything. It changes your whole life. It’s brutal and incredible,” she told Vanity Fair of her view on motherhood. “So not only do they go into every decision of if I’m working, where I’m working, when I’m working, they’ve taught me—I mean, I didn’t know that I could feel so much and my job has a lot to do with emotion. It’s almost like feeling a blister or something—like, so sensitive. So they’ve changed my life, obviously, for the best and they’ve changed me creatively. I highly recommend having kids if you want to be an actor.”

Lawrence and Maroney certainly marked a special return to the red carpet in style.