Amal Clooney brings classical touch to Venice as she stands out from the crowd at the DVF Awards with a vintage blush lace dress and tulle overlay skirt

Many feared glamour would be in short supply in Venice this week as the US actors’ strike stopped them hitting the film festival’s red carpet.

But George and Amal Clooney brought their star power to the city where they married in 2014 as they arrived for an awards ceremony.

Human rights lawyer Mrs Clooney, 45, was one of five women honoured for her work supporting victims of war crimes and other abuses. She wore a blush lace slip with an uneven hem and a sheer skirt from John Galliano’s 2000 collection for Christian Dior.

Her husband, 62, looked dapper in a black suit with a navy blue shirt, worn without a tie and tastefully unbuttoned. The Ocean’s Eleven actor arrived hand-in-hand with his wife at the DVF Awards on Thursday in an elegant water taxi.

They were pictured socialising in the historic gardens of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and at one point Mr Clooney was seen gazing admiringly at his wife.

Coincidentally, the ceremony honouring Mrs Clooney fell on the opening night of the 80th Venice International Film Festival – an event her husband would normally have attended.

George and Amal Clooney brought their star power to the city where they married in 2014 as they arrived for an awards ceremony

But he will not do so this year and the festival will be starved of its A-listers and glamour as striking actors are prohibited from promoting their films.

The DVF Awards were founded by fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg 14 years ago to recognise female leaders dedicated to transforming the lives of other women across the globe.

Another winner, actress Dame Emma Thompson, 64, sat next to the Clooneys at the awards, jokingly grabbing the actor’s seat marker and biting it.