Have we seen that dress somewhere before, Jane?

11 April 2012
The Weekender

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It's a fashion nightmare many women have experienced - you turn up at a big event in your super new outfit, only to find your thunder has been stolen by someone with the same sense of style.

But most such dress disasters don't happen in the full glare of the world's media.

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Snap: Jane Fonda and Anne Consigny

Snap: Jane Fonda and Anne Consigny

That's what happened to Jane Fonda at the closing ceremony of the 60th annual Cannes film festival on Sunday evening.

The 69-year-old Hollywood star looked stunning as she walked down the red carpet in a full-length designer evening gown.

But the photographers who were covering the event couldn't help feeling they had seen it before.

And sadly for Miss Fonda, they were right.

French actress Anne Consigny had picked an identical dress to wear for the screening of her

film The Diving Bell And The Butterfly five days earlier.

The only difference was that 44-year-old Miss Consigny had the bow on her beige and gold hooped dress tied neatly while Miss Fonda had let hers hang loose.

If the American actress was made aware of the double up, it certainly didn't seem to put her off her stride.

She carried on with her job of presenting the festival's top prize the Palme d'Or to Romanian director Cristian Mungiu for Four Months, Three Weeks And Two Days.

Miss Consigny's movie won American film-maker Julian Schnabel the best director prize.

Britain had no films in the official competition but low-budget movie Control, about the life of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, won a special mention.

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