Fashion at Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet; Nicole Kidman, Moore, Crawford and More [PHOTOS]

Fashion and film festivals always go together, and the 66th Cannes Film Festival, which kicked off on Wednesday, was no exception. Celebrities from around the world walked the red carpet ahead of the screening of Baz Luhrmann's film, "The Great Gatsby" which opened the prestigious film festival.

"The Great Gatsby" is a 3D romantic film which is an adaptation of F Scot Fitzgerald's novel with the same name. It features Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Debicki, Jason Clarke and Amitabh Bachchan. Interestingly, it has hit the theatres in the US and has collected more than $50m at the box office.

The who's who of celebrities from around the world - Zhang Yuqi, Fan Bing Bing, Cara Delevingne, Tanya Dziahileva, Cindy Crawford, Freida Pinto, Julianne Moore, Audrey Tautou, Vidya Balan, Vahina Giocante, Ludivine Sagnier and several others - walked the red carpet on Wednesday. They looked stunning in designer outfits.

The prestigious Palme d'Or award will be announced at the festival which begins on 15 May and ends on 26 May, 2013. It is presided over by American director Steven Spielberg and hosted by French actress Audrey Tautou.

The jury includes Nicole Kidman, Christoph Waltz, Bollywood actress Vidya Balan, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, French actress Ludivine Sagnier, Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi, Japanese director Naomi Kawase, Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, French actor-director Daniel Auteuil and Romanian director Cristian Mungiu.

The Cannes Film Festival will also celebrate the 100th year of Indian cinema with a special screening of the film, "Bombay Talkies" by Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar. Satyajit Ray's 1964 classic, "Charulata" will also be screened at the film fest.

Vidya Balan arrived at the Grand Hyatt Cannes Hotel Martinez on Tuesday on the eve of the opening of the International film festival. She looked gorgeous in a dark brownish-red lehenga, high neck choli and black dupatta which were designed by her friend and designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee.

Other Indian celebrities who will be seen at the event are Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajinikanth, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sonam Kapoor, Nandita Das, Sherlyn Chopra and others.