CANNES, France — Ruth Negga was taking a break from jury duty to attend the Dior and Madame Figaro fete Saturday night, as the Croisette buzzed with parties up and down the boulevard.
Negga has worn a string of standout looks on the red carpet, picking from some of France’s best-known houses, including a sleek white Celine dress, and pivoting from a custom Saint Laurent — originally shown on the runway as a minidress and transformed into a column gown for the red carpet — to a menswear-inspired tuxedo from Ami Paris.
“I must defer to my stylist, Karla Welch. I just turn up and I go like this,” she said, posing with outstretched arms. “And she makes it beautiful. I honestly think she’s an artist and a genius, and there’s a rhythm and a flow to the looks that happens very organically, but there’s a lot of work that’s gone into it. So, I just go with that energy.”
For her opening-night look, she wore a Dior haute couture gown by Jonathan Anderson.
“I love green. Jonathan’s Irish, I’m Irish, so why not represent,” she said of the deep sage color, a subtle nod to the country’s signature hue.
