Jennifer Lopez wowed in a sheer Charbel Zoe couture gown at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday. The illusion-paneled silver design by Charbel Zoe featured skillfully placed embroidery to achieve a sophisticated-yet-barely-there effect.

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On the first day of the Cannes Film Festival, the Chinese actress Fan Bingbing made a grand entrance in a custom Ralph & Russo gown with Chopard Jewels.

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On Thursday Fan Bingbing switched into a dusty gray V-neck tulle Marchesa gown featuring billowing sleeves and multicolor feather-and-crystal floral appliqués at the Mad Max premiere. She accessorized the design with a matching floral headpiece and dazzling diamond earrings.

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Naomi Watts, in a grey Elie Saab Couture gown, arrives at the Opening Ceremony and premiere of ‘La Tête Haute’.

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For the Mad Max premiere, Naomi opted for a strapless black lace Ralph Lauren creation, featuring a black chiffon train, which gave her a dramatic silhouette.

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Julianne Moore dazzled in a custom-made crimson Givenchy gown styled with matching velvet pumps and a selection of Chopard jewels. The crocodile panel along the bodice made for a decadent marriage of velvet and leather!

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Emma Stone attended the photocall for her latest Woody Allen film 'Irrational Man'. Despite battling the wind gusts, she looked absolutely stunning in an Oscar de la Renta chantilly lace ruffled cocktail dress paired with Christian Louboutin ombré pumps.

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Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, showed off her toned physique in a pale pink SS15 couture gown by Ralph and Russo at the screening of 'Irrational Man'. The backless dress had a plunging lace design, with a dramatic scooped cape and train, collar and a daring thigh-high slit.

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Cheryl's dress featured an elaborate backless design with a cape detail and train.

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The L'Oreal ambassador famed for her natural beauty accessorized her dress with diamond drop earrings, while her hair was styled into a modern wet look up do.

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Li Bingbing attends “The Sea Of Trees” Premiere on May 16, 2015 in Cannes, France. Her baby-blue Zuhair Murad Spring 2015 Couture intricately embellished gown had all the makings of a fairytale with its enchanting embroidery, alluring silhouette, and the sweeping beauty of the half-ballgown skirt and train. The Jimmy Choo ‘Cloud’ clutch was a lovely addition.

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Li Bingbing on the balcony of her hotel before attending the premiere.

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Dior Cruise 2016 Show at the home of Pierre Cardin

Le Palais Bulles Théoule-sur-Mer near Cannes

With shape one of the essential ingredients of fashion, Raf Simons and Dior sent home an unforgettable message for the cruise 2016 season, parading an architectural, yet frothy collection at Pierre Cardin’s otherworldly Bubble Palace, whose interlocking spheres cling to the rocky hills above the Bay of Cannes.

 “Look at this view. The most amazing place in the south of France,” Simons said during a terrace preview. “I find this architecture exceptional,” Simons said. “I find it very young, feminine and playful.”

Le Palais Bulles: A utopian project that encompasses earth, sky and sea, where the future is built organically from the forms and architecture of the past. In this Collection Croisiére, Raf Simons, Artistic Director of Christian Dior, looks to the landscape and memory of the South of France.

Gaining inspiration from the colors, textures and light of the natural world of the Cote d’Azur, together with the style of the people who have inhabited it, the designer draws on tradition and technique to realize clothing for today. In so doing, Le Palais Bulles (Bubble Palace) becomes a metaphor for the approach to the collection overall.

I wanted an idea of freedom, playfulness and individuality to come to the fore in this collection, especially in consideration of the Dior archive,” explains Raf Simons. “It is not a heavy concept; it is light and young and there is a literal lightening of this clothing to make it fresh."

"Much of the design architecture comes from Mr Dior’s manteaux, his coats. But the heavy fabric is stripped away, the scale is played with and elements of their style are ‘collaged’ into other forms and garments.”

“We tried to make it very, very light, and much younger, and therefore also more futurist and modernist.”

With actresses Marion Cotillard, Dakota Fanning and Zoe Kravitz among front-row guests at the finale evening show, the Dior event seemed an unofficial curtain-raiser for the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival.

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After the evening show, guests crowded on to the terraces for cocktails and a fireworks display.

Spectacular Fireworks After the Show

Situated on the cliffs of Théoule-sur-Mer, the venue for the show – Le Palais Bulles – is by the Hungarian architect Antti Lovag. Fascinated by Inuit and early human dwellings that were spherical in shape, the architect began this masterwork in 1975, commissioned by Pierre Bernard. Bernard’s house came into being in 1984; by the time of his death in 1992 he requested in his last will that work on the house continue under its new owner. That new owner was and still is Pierre Cardin, the great couturier and former Head of Atelier Tailleur to Mr Christian Dior. With his immense foresight and patronage the house has flourished.

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