Look of the Week: The Irony of Bella Hadid’s Jane Birkin Tribute
Bella Hadid’s custom Schiaparelli look took 22,160 hours of embroidery and turned a summer crochet staple into a nearly naked couture gown.
- On Wednesday, model Bella Hadid debuted a custom ivory Schiaparelli gown at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, featuring trompe l'oeil lace embroidery and a dramatic tiered mermaid train.
- Designed by creative director Daniel Roseberry, the gown honors late style icon Jane Birkin by referencing the crochet dress she wore to the Union of the Artists gala in Paris in 1969.
- The intricate design required 22,160 hours of embroidery work, with the Italian luxury fashion house utilizing the expertise of 130 artisans to complete the piece.
- Although the festival's dress code prohibits nudity for decency reasons, Hadid's see-through lace gown and dramatic cutouts successfully navigated the guidelines on the red carpet.
- Marking her 10th year at the festival, Hadid continues her long-standing style presence after debuting in 2016 wearing a custom Roberto Cavalli design.
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Look of the Week: The irony of Bella Hadid’s Jane Birkin tribute
What better way to honor one of fashion history’s most famously spontaneous moments than with an elaborate custom gown that took 130 artisans a combined 22,160 hours to produce? If only irony always looked this glamorous.
The creation put on by the model took 22,000 hours of needlework
Fashion model Bella Hadid paid tribute to Jane Birkin on the red carpet in Cannes yesterday. She did so in a contemporary version of a Schiaparelli dress that Birkin wore nearly 60 years ago. The embroidery for the dress took more than 22,000 hours to complete.
Bella Hadid Channels Jane Birkin in Custom Cannes Film Festival Gown That Took 22,000 Hours to Embroider
Hadid sported an updated silhouette of Birkin's iconic dress, which the late actress also wore to Cannes nearly six decades priorBella Hadid on May 20 (left); Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg in May 1969 (right)Credit: Arnold Jerocki/GC Images; Gilbert TOURTE/Gamma-Rapho via GettyNEED TO KNOWBella Hadid's Schiaparelli gown, worn at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, was inspired by Jane Birkin's 1969 Cannes lookThe custom gown required more than 22,…
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