7 Times Celebrities Attended Red Carpet Events Without Footwear

Even if you’re a regular commoner, you can most likely afford to buy shoes, although you probably aren’t dropping $500 on a pair of Air Jordans. But who knows. We don’t know you, although we wouldn’t mind being friends if you’re open to the idea. But we digress as usual. Celebrities not only own shoes, they typically own dozens if not hundreds of them. And we aren’t talking about the New Balances that your middle-aged high school social studies teacher fancied. They buy diamond studded shoes because they can. But from time to time, famous folks surprise us by attending red carpet events sans footwear. We’re going to talk about this because it’s a slow news day. Or at least we can imagine it is when you happen to read this article.

Back in 2016, Julia Roberts, aka “Tinkerbell”; aka “George Clooney’s best platonic friend somehow” attended the Cannes Film Festival wearing a black Armani Privé gown that probably cost more than your boss’s car. She was there ostensibly to promote her film “Money Monster,” but what really got everybody’s attention was the fact that she neglected to bring shoes with her. We can only assume she had difficulty getting them through customs because they were made from the fur of some endangered woodland creature. But in any event, it caused a mild stir given that Cannes has a strict dress code that calls for shoes, but obviously one they weren’t going to enforce. Although it certainly would have been interesting to see a couple of large bouncer types usher her out of the festivities for such a blatant and earth-shattering violation of decor.