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Brigitte Bardot wore this black spaghetti-strap dress with spotted lining to give the photographers a flash of her famous legs in 1956.

Penelope Cruz looked positively dreamy in lilac tulle-wrapped Marchesa in 2011.

At a 2009 screening of Inglorious Basterds, Natasha Poly ensured that we all wanted to be her in this dreamy steel-grey textured Roberto Cavalli gown embellished with black pailette sequins. Swoon.

Ok, you got us. This isn’t a dress. But regardless, Tilda Swinton owned the red carpet at the Cannes premiere of Ocean’s Thirteen in 2007 – and had us vowing to tap into our inner androgyny more often.

That is, until Angelina Jolie appeared at the same event in this canary yellow knot-front Emanuel Ungaro gown, and scored a heavy-duty style hit of her own. Is there anything this woman can’t wear?

• Mischa Barton was on a fashion high in this simple-yet-beautiful dove grey gown at the 2007 Cannes premiere of A Mighty Hear

Model Gemma Ward’s pirate-style ensemble in 2007 was a breath of fresh air. You’ve got to hand it to a girl who eschews the ubiquitous platform stiletto in favour of fierce peeptoe booties.

Oh, to have an occasion to wear Christian Dior Couture. We lived our dream vicariously via Eva Green in this Geisha-inspired gown at Cannes in 2007.

Gwen Stefani made a dazzling case for her own label, LAMB, at the 2011 Cannes amfAR Gala.

In an iconic Cannes moment, Sharon Stone stole the show at the premiere of Unzipped in 1995 when she did, indeed, open up her Valentino skirt to flash the assembled paparazzi. Fortunately, she was also sporting a pair of hand-beaded Valentino hot pants

Sophia Loren set the sartorial standard at the 8th Cannes Film Festival in 1955 in this bridal-style princess gown accessorised with a fur shawl, opera gloves and gobstopper jewels. Be still, our beating hearts.

When it comes to Cannes style, no gallery would be complete without red carpet stalwart Fan Bing Bing – here, in 2011, in an incredible neo-Gothic bustier gown by Elie Saab.

Noemie Lenoir turned more than a few heads in this abstract, orange-skirted gown at the Cannes Opening Ceremony in 2003. Love it or hate, you certainly won’t forget it – and that’s the point, non?

The flowers, the ruffle, the sash.... Penelope Cruz lived our childhood dreams of being a princess for real when she wore this Valentino Couture gown in 2005.