After making heads turn in a pristine white saree by Manish Malhotra, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan returned for her second red carpet appearance at Cannes 2025 in  a custom Gaurav Gupta Couture gown — a sculptural, galactic silhouette created exclusively for her red-carpet appearance.

Decoding Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's second look

Originally envisioned as the “Heiress of Clam” in Gupta’s Paris Couture Collection: Across the Flame, the silhouette was reinterpreted for Aishwarya to reflect both cosmic symbolism and timeless elegance. The gown is hand-embroidered with an abstract rendition of the cosmos in bursts of silver, gold, charcoal, and black, accented with micro glass crystals to capture dimension and light.