Amidst all the hype and hoopla of the L’Oreal Indian actress brigade and what it wore on the Cannes red carpet, an even more significant piece of fashion news might have just gone unnoticed, had it not been spotted by our eagle eye: Melita Toscan du Plantier, leggy widow of the French film producer Daniel, creative force behind the Marrakech film festival, friend of Louboutin and Lagerfeld, and dyed in the cashmere fashionista, chose to wear Surily Goel to the Vanity Fair and Chanel dinner during the festival.

Karl Lagerfeld and Sharon Stone. Pic/AFP