Amal Clooney and Jacqueline Fernandez up the fashion ante at Venice Film Festival

Laywer's husband George, Adam Driver and Patrick Dempsey among muted Hollywood turnout

George and Amal Clooney, wearing vintage Dior. Getty Images

George Clooney was one of a handful of Hollywood stars at the festival this year. EPA

The Clooneys were also spotted out and about in Venice. Getty Images

Rita Ora wears Boucheron jewellery at the film festival. Getty Images

Adam Driver at the premiere of his film Ferrari. Reuters

Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez on the red carpet. Getty Images

Hollywood actor Patrick Dempsey and his wife Jillian Fink. EPA

Dempsey also stars in Ferrari. Getty Images

From left, Mads Mikkelsen, Hagberg Melina and Amanda Collin on the red carpet for Danish movie Bastarden (The Promised Land). Getty Images

Model Barbara Palvin at the premiere for Poor Things. Reuters

Model Neelam Gill on the red carpet for Poor Things. Getty Images

British actor Emma Thompson with Clooney in Venice. EPA

Raya Abirached on the red carpet for Dogman. Getty Images

Amal Clooney joined her husband George on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival, with the actor one of the few Hollywood stars in attendance.

The elegantly dressed human rights lawyer wore a vintage Dior slip dress, complete with a train. She teamed the pastel outfit with chandelier earrings, strappy sandals and a metallic clutch.

Also in attendance was Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez, who was on the red carpet for the Adam Driver movie Ferrari. Driver's co-star, the dapper Patrick Dempsey, attended with his wife, Jillian Fink.

Other stars spotted at the festival include Mads Mikkelsen, Rita Ora and Emma Thompson, as well as models Neelam Gill and Barbara Palvin.

Lebanese presenter Raya Abirached attended the first day wearing a Rami Al Ali fishtail dress.

While no major Hollywood stars were present at the festival's opening press conference, highlighting the scale of the American film industry's ongoing strikes, competition jury members Laura Poitras, Damien Chazelle and Martin McDonagh all wore T-shirts that read “Writers Guild on Strike!” in a gesture of solidarity with the American writers' and the actors’ unions.