On a recent afternoon this May, model Barbara Palvin found herself in a situation moms-to-be know all too well. She'd had a special event outfit all picked out, one she felt confident wearing in her pregnancy. But at the rate her body was changing along with her growing baby, the maternity clothes weren't quite landing night-of like they had just days before. Only, Palvin wasn't getting dressed for just another date night or work event. She was contending with a custom Ella Mae gown styled by Marc Eram for the Cannes Film Festival.
In fittings, "It fit like glove and it was perfect," Eram tells Marie Claire from Los Angeles, where he's just landed after the flight home from the Nice Airport. "Then when it came to putting it on the day of the carpet, after she'd done glam, it was like a little boxier in the corset and the bodice of it." There wasn't cause for concern, though. Eram is an expert who's worked with Palvin for years; they're as much friends as they are a stylist-client duo. If he could dress her for dozens of premieres and parties pre-baby, he could ensure their tribute to Eileithyia, goddess of birth, worked. And as the photos of Palvin ascending the theater steps at Cannes show, her hair in ethereal waves and her dress's caped sleeves fluttering in the wind just behind her baby bump, he did.
