All the best looks from Venice Film Festival 2026

The 2026 edition of the Venice Film Festival kicked off with perhaps the most Venice Film Festival image of all time: George and Amal Clooney tearing across the lagoon in a water taxi, his hand gripping the rail, her hair whipping in the wind, spray erupting around the hull. It was an appropriately cinematic entrance – it could have been a still from, I don’t know, a film! – for a 65-year-old movie star who will this week receive the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Ellen Burstyn will receive the same honour at 93, while appearing in two films: Kornél Mundruczó’s Place to Be and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Marilyn Monroe biopic, Flesh Impact. And there are plenty of other releases for film buffs to stroke their chins over, among them Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-tipped black comedy Wild Horse Nine; Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime, a Robert Pattinson-led portrait of To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen; and Bunker, Florian Zeller’s marital drama starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem.

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Just as closely scrutinised will be what the actors – and, increasingly, the directors – wear on the red carpet. This is, after all, the festival that last year offered the first glimpses of new-era Chanel, Dior, Versace and Bottega Veneta before their respective runway debuts, and which has given us Lady Gaga’s feathered Valentino couture gown in 2018 and Zendaya’s wet-look Balmain dress in 2021. Vying for their own place in that canon over the coming week will be Dakota Johnson, Pamela Anderson, Claire Foy, Susan Sarandon, Jack O’Connell, Orlando Bloom, Stephen Graham, Parker Posey and Phoebe Bridgers, alongside two pairs of distinguished siblings: Kate and Rooney Mara, and Noel and Liam Gallagher. Can’t wait to see the latter middle-fingering photographers from the back of a vaporetto, parkas zipped to the chin. Scroll down for the best fashion moments from the 2026 Venice Film Festival.

Emma Corrin in Celine and Cartier.

Vittoria Ceretti in Giorgio Armani.

Mackenzie Davis in Celine.

John Malkovich in Dior.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Celine.

Parker Posey in Valentino.

Laura Dern.

Mariacarla Boscono in Chanel.

Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Valeria Golino.

Kendall Jenner in Giorgio Armani.

Akinola Davies Jr in Celine.

Domhnall Gleeson.

Rooney and Kate Mara.

Orlando Bloom.

Posey Parker in Valentino.

Laura Dern.

Jack O’Connell in Dior.

Jonathan Bailey.

Maggie Gyllenhaal in Celine.

Nicholas Galitzine.

Claire Foy in Bottega Veneta and Swarovski.

Stella Maxwell.

Laura Dern in Prada.

Amal and George Clooney.

Bianca Balti in Ilya Migmoon.

Alessandra Ambrósio.

Laura Dern.

Claire Foy in Bottega Veneta.

Jack O’Connell

George Clooney.

Kendall Jenner.

Emilia Schüle in Miu Miu.

Bianca Balti in Brunello Cucinelli.

Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Nicolas Maupas.

Jack O’Connell

Claire Foy in Bottega Veneta.

Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Amal and George Clooney.