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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ellie Violet Bramley

‘We are very emotional’: keffiyeh-maker’s bittersweet reaction to surge in demand

Bella Hadid, wearing a red and white dress, walking with other people
Bella Hadid wearing a dress made out of red and white keffiyehs at the Cannes film festival. Photograph: Jacopo Raule/GC Images

There has been very little by way of political dressing at the Cannes film festival now taking place in the south of France, but the model and wellness entrepreneur Bella Hadid bucked the trend. Walking along the seafront on Thursday, she wore a dress crafted out of red and white keffiyehs.

While earlier in the week Cate Blanchett wore a dress that some saw as a pro-Palestinian statement, others as an optical illusion, Hadid’s dress, which is apparently the work of the artist and designer Hushidar Mortezaie, left no room for doubt.

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