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10 Jaw-Dropping Black Fashion Moments At The 2019 Cannes Film Festival

Every fire look on the French Riviera. 
10 Jaw-Dropping Black Fashion Moments At The 2019 Cannes Film Festival
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By Nandi Howard · Updated October 23, 2020

The 72nd Annual Cannes Film Festival just wrapped and there were too many fashion wins to go unnoticed. Though the event is a forum for top actors, directors and producers to view, buy and sell films, the red carpet is usually what steals the show. Despite the on-going conversation about the lack of diversity in film, our brothers and sisters showed up and showed out this year in France. Get into our favorite Black fashion moments below.

H.E.R. in Giambatista Valli for H&M

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Aja Naomi King in Zac Posen’s Tulle Frock

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Liya Kebede in Valentino

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Maria Borges In Sheer Robert Cavalli

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Winnie Harlow in Jean-Paul Gaultier

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Jasmine Tookes in Zuhair Murad

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Kiddy Smile

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Tami Williams in Greta Constantine

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Cindy Bruna in Balmain

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Winnie Harlow

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