Taylor Russell Takes her Natural Curls to Cannes

Taylor Russell touched down at the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival on Monday with a head full of frizzy coils.

The 31-year-old actress was spotted at the “Hope” photo call outside Palais des Festivals, where she teamed her natural texture with a Schiaparelli gown straight from Daniel Roseberry’s fall 2026 runway and a pair of Dior Oblique B1I sunglasses.

Her dark brown curls were loosely pinned up behind her ears. But with the wind blowing by the water, few strands stayed put. The effortless aesthetic is not one that’s often associated with Russell’s red carpet nomenclature. In fact, the filmmaker will typically style her hair straight or in soft, sleek waves slicked back in a bun for premiere press, awards ceremonies and the annual Costume Institute Gala. To that point, organic curls are mainly reserved for high fashion runway presentations.

An ambassador for Dior, Russell paraded her free-flying texture around Paris Fashion Week last fall. And before she left for Cannes last week, she sported a similar hairdo at the Dior cruise 2027 show inside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Here, her curls coincidentally powered the agenda portrayed on the catwalk, where a complex assortment of cuts and colors challenged the monster of homogenized beauty. But unlike her look at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, there was no attempt to tame the texture. Instead, her fluffy pixie was allowed to shape-shift and move how it pleased.

In addition to the hair, models parroted one major makeup message at the Dior Cruise show: A lip is only as powerful as its flush. Definition was not a priority on the runway. Instead, models were fixed with faded lips courtesy of Peter Philips and the Dior Addict Maximizer in 001 Pink. The technique settled somewhere between the hyper-trendy cloud aesthetic and the Nina Park-coined contour lip — think leftover, post-meal color.

Take a closer look at the trend here.