There are few Hollywood film legends who know how to have fun with fashion and beauty quite like Andie MacDowell. The 64-year-old actor—and former model for the likes of Yves Saint Laurent and Bill Blass, lest we forget—has spoken regularly in the past about her decision to embrace her gray hair, telling Vogue’s Lauren Valenti last year that it was a “power move” after years spent coloring her curls a deep brunette. (A power move that also saw her become the face of Coach last spring for a Mother’s Day campaign alongside her daughter, the musician Rainey Qualley.)
MacDowell debuted her salt-and-pepper locks on the red carpet at Cannes last year for the premiere of Annette. And this year she returned to the festival with a new beauty look: an attention-getting crystal-embellished eye that could have come straight out of Euphoria.
Attending the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, MacDowell took to the Croisette in a green dress that was set off by the smattering of matching emerald crystals dotted under her eyelids by L’Oréal global makeup director Val Garland.
It isn’t the first headline-grabbing fashion moment MacDowell has had at this year’s festival, which she is attending as a spokeswoman for L’Oréal. On May 27 she made an appearance at the premiere of the acclaimed immigrant drama Mother and Son in an archival Dior haute couture gown from 2018—but it was her moment with fellow L’Oréal ambassador Helen Mirren that truly got people talking, as the pair danced down the red carpet, laughing gleefully.
MacDowell and Helen Mirren attend the premiere of Mother and Son at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
