Iconic Red Dresses in Cinema

Red dresses always attract attention and stand out from others. Red dresses in films or TV shows emphasize the character or mood of the heroine and make it clear that passion or danger awaits us in the plot.

22 iconic red dresses in cinema:

1. Vivien Leigh in "Gone with the Wind" (1939) wore two red dresses.

Costume designer: Walter Plunkett.

3. Zsa Zsa Gabor as Jane Avril in "Moulin Rouge" (1952).

This dress was created by Elsa Schiaparelli.

4. Grace Kelly in a red lace dress with a bolero in “Dial M for Murder” (1954).

Costume designer: Moss Mabry.

5.-7. Brigitte Bardot wearing red dresses in "And God Created Woman " (Et Dieu… créa la femme, 1956), “La Parisienne” (Une Parisienne, 1957) and "A Woman Like Satan" (La Femme et le Pantin, 1959).

8. Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (1953).

Costume designer: William Travilla.

9. Audrey Hepburn in "Funny face" (1957).

Her fashionable outfit created by Hubert de Givenchy.

10. Gina Lollobrigida in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame " (Notre-Dame de Paris, 1956).

11. Romy Schneider wearing a red dress by Yves Saint Laurent in "Max and the Junkmen" (Max et les Ferrailleurs, 1971).

12. Meryl Streep in “Sophie's Choice” (1982).

13. Emilia Clark in “Me Before You” (2016).

14. Xenia Lukyanchikova in "Red queen" (2015).

15. Kate Winslet in “The Dressmaker” (2015).

16. Cameron Diaz in “The Mask” (1994).

17. Emma Stone in “Gangster Squad” (2013).

18. Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman” (1990).

19. Mélanie Laurent in “Inglourious Basterds” (2009).

20. Keira Knightley in “Anna Karenina” (2013).

21. Julia Roberts in “Mirror Mirror” (2012).

22. And the potentially iconic red dress: Emma Stone in the new film “Cruella” (2021). Costume designer: Jenny Beavan.