Some outfits do a girl no favours. Even if she is a supermodel.

And if you want the proof, have a close look at the lurid orange gown that Eva Herzigova slipped into at Cannes on Sunday. If your eyes can take it.

The plunging neckline, unforgiving fabric and garish jewellery shows how the wrong dress can make a woman stand out for all the wrong reasons.

Frock horror: Eva Herzigova's lurid orange frock, which she wore at Cannes on Sunday, should have stayed at home

But just 24 hours - and a different dress - later, all was beautifully right again.

This time Miss Herzigova chose a silver sequinned Alberta Ferretti mini dress that showed off her shape to perfection.

At 37, she managed to look both elegant and edgy and that quietly confident smile showed she knew it.

That's better: Gorgeous Eva Herzigova keeps it short and simple in a daring sequined mini dress by Alberta Ferretti

Three years ago, the girl whose curves stopped traffic in the 1990s Wonderbra 'Hello Boys' billboard ads had to fend off concerns about her dramatic weight loss.

After becoming a first-time mother three years ago, she admitted she hadn't been looking after herself.

But as she joined celebrities at jeweller Chopard's 150th anniversary party, she looked as if her new life in Italy with a multi-millionaire boyfriend Gregorio Marsiaj, and young son George agreed perfectly with her.

Party girls: Eva joins fellow supermodel Naomi Campbell at the party for Chopard's 150th anniversary

Night of glamour: Naomi Watts, in Roland Mouret, and Kate Beckinsale, in Temperley London, were among the other high-profile attendees