Ash at Cannes

Alright, you have to make the allowance that the lady hasn’t whittled away the extra post-pregnancy kilos and then look at her from a fresh perspective. Try that and you can’t help but nod an approval for Aishwarya Rai as the lady put her most glam foot forward on the red carpet in Cannes 2012.

Those who thought that the traditional Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla sari with an overlong blouse Ash wore for amFar event was rather regressive for a fashion outing on the Cannes red carpet can have their answer now. Aishwarya Rai stunned everyone with her glamourous appearance on the red carpet in a dark grey Elie Saab gown at Palais des Festivals on May 25 for the premiere of the movie ‘Cosmopolis’.

The gown is said to be part of Elie Saab’s Fall 2011 couture collection.

Not conscious of her weight, Aishwarya Rai walked the red carpet confidently, waved at the media and even blew kisses to the photographers, perhaps as a subtle gesture of mocking her critics who have been tom-tomming about some of her recent fashion faux pas rather too much.