Aishwarya Rai at Cannes since 2002 - Page 2

I find most of her gowns tacky now. The 2017 red Ralph and Russo, that black Ashi studio no., the red Naeem Khan, that aqua green no from 2015, the brown oscar de la renta from 2015-very definition of tacky.

Some of the previous one's are horrible when I look at them now

But still she managed to look pretty

Hi, here it is.

Aishwarya always looks stinning even when she was fatter.

Never mind that Ash's choices improved greatly between 2005-10 before Sonam even debuted on the red carpet. Also, never mind the fact that Ash was the one who really made couture mainstream in Bollywood. Who was wearing gowns to events before she was to Cannes?

I still remember people cribbing with comments like "Why can't Ash wear a sari? Is she ashamed of Indian wear? Blah blah blah". Now no one questions Sonam or Deepika when they were gowns because it is more or less accepted in India, with majority of Indian actresses appearing in gowns even for Indian events, and it was Ash who was the first mainstream actress who sported gowns in a big way and got people used to it.

Ash was doing whatever she was doing for the first time. There was no precedent. At the same time, she was never a fashionista, i.e., she gave two hoots about fashion, and whatever effort she put in was because she had to represent the brand. In fact, she took it so easily, she had no stylist until 2015 and all her choices were a reflection of her own personality (once she chose a gown only because it had pockets and was comfortable for her to wear 😆). Neither did she give two hoots about her weight, which always kept fluctuating - she doesn't ever exercise and she makes no bones about it. And for all the big hoohaa about how she isn't fashionable, she always overshadows those running behind fashion and the latest trends, so it's no big loss :P

Anyway, nowadays I find this scrutiny about stars' style ridiculous because they don't even really decide what to wear, they have stylists and dedicated teams who decide how one's look is going to be like weeks ahead in advance. So no credit to the stars but to the stylists. If stars can be given any credit, it is about how they were able to carry it off, that's all.