Watch as Alia Bhatt gets ready for the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival. For her very first Cannes, the Bollywood superstar wears a shimmering custom Gucci dress, accessorized with a silver mini Jackie handbag. While sitting in glam, Alia also explains how she often flips from introverted to outgoing, and reveals an extremely valuable elbow “tip.”
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Be very generous with your lip balm. So generous that if you have leftovers,
you can put it on your elbow. And that's a tip. That's an elbow tip.
Today is the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival 2025 and I am getting ready for
the red carpet of the closing ceremony. This is my first time at the Cannes Film Festival.
I am, of course, always excited. A bunch of nerves. I truly thrive in this sort of chaos.
It's a bit strange. I don't know why. But like the chaos always tends to find us.
A couple of minutes ago, we had no electricity for the last four hours. So, Amit over here was
actually taking my hair extensions and he put it on a tong and he put it out in the sun so that it
could heat up because we had no electricity. We figured it out as we're going. But now we're very
grateful and thankful that the electricity is back. Do I feel like I blend into any of these
big sort of international red carpet events? If you knew who I was personally, I'm a combination
of shy and outgoing. Like I have my days where I can be like totally working it. Literally within
seconds, I'll be like shut the door. Nobody look at me. I'm like hiding under the covers. So,
I'm a true Piscean in that sense where no emotion is constant. Everything just keeps changing.
I think I'm still like finding my calm on the red carpet. You know, there is a certain
overwhelming energy especially when there's like so many photographers like here, look here,
look over the shoulder, this down, up, wave, you know, smile. Yesterday, somebody was saying do
something with your hands and I was like I'm not sure what I should do with my hands. What did you
do? I did Namaste. That just comes very naturally to me. My team, Puneet, who has been with me for
12, 11, 10 years now. Like too long. Amit, who I've also actually known since the beginning
of my career and who I've attacked and not let him leave for the last two and a half years.
That's Rhea. So, Rhea is the one and only stylist who can make me do things that I will never do.
Because she just has this like very persuasive, gentle but very clear tone. So, it's like what if
she's envisioning it, it's just gotta happen. So, that's why everybody loves it when I work
with Rhea because they're like okay at least you won't like boss us around and tell us exactly what
to do which is the same thing again and again. For me, the people that I surround myself with
is really important I think for anybody to just be surrounded by the people that they feel very
comfortable with and then they trust deeply especially in a creative field like ours. We
literally spend all our time together. So, it's very important that we like each other otherwise
things can get awkward. This is a custom beautiful outfit for Alia. It's actually
the house of Gucci steak on a traditional Indian saree. It's got the signature Gucci
GT monogram which I mean I think it looks so beautiful on a saree. They created this very
sexy, very minimal silhouette and then added this really dramatic drape which I thought was
really smart and really modern way to interpret it. I think it takes that like signature Italian
glamour and mixes it with Indian exuberance and creates something really special. I'm done with
quiet luxury. It's over for me. Bye. No, I'm just kidding. I just think that there are times where
you whisper and there are times where you scream with joy and I think this is one of those times.
It's Alia's debut at Cannes. She's the first ever Indian Gucci brand ambassador and I think to just
celebrate those two worlds coming together what could be a better moment than the closing ceremony
at Cannes. This is a custom little mini Jackie. In India, usually when we wear a saree we'd wear
like a traditional bag like a portly and it's usually really small. I just feel so proud to
be able to put like a piece of my culture into this huge moment. Okay Vogue, so I'm about 90%
ready. I'm gonna go change and then we do final touches and then we're fully ready.
Okay, thank you Vogue. That was us on last looks and now we're gonna hit the red carpet.
