Amal Alamuddin Clooney on the red carpet at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, on May 16, 2025. (Credit: AFP)
She mistook a pen for her e-cigarette and stained her Chanel jacket with ink. "Coco would have loved the spontaneity of the gesture, habibi," laughs Nada, a 45-year-old retired interior designer.Nada is fifty-something with a bob haircut, freshly plucked Kate Moss-style eyebrows and a sharp tongue. From her perch on Martinez beach, the Lebanese woman living in London orders her third morning espresso with an imperious snap of her fingers. The native of a "forgotten little village" in the Bekaa "that nobody cares about, and rightly so," has come to Cannes to support a patron friend she doesn't wish to name.Her parents were born into poverty and rose the ranks to become luxury real estate tycoons in London's affluent suburbs. With her feet buried in the warm sand, Nada calls herself "a crazy...
She mistook a pen for her e-cigarette and stained her Chanel jacket with ink. "Coco would have loved the spontaneity of the gesture, habibi," laughs Nada, a 45-year-old retired interior designer.Nada is fifty-something with a bob haircut, freshly plucked Kate Moss-style eyebrows and a sharp tongue. From her perch on Martinez beach, the Lebanese woman living in London orders her third morning espresso with an imperious snap of her fingers. The native of a "forgotten little village" in the Bekaa "that nobody cares about, and rightly so," has come to Cannes to support a patron friend she doesn't wish to name.Her parents were born into poverty and rose the ranks to become luxury real estate tycoons in London's affluent suburbs. With her feet buried in the warm sand, Nada calls herself "a crazy...