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# Oscars Fug or Fab: Cate Blanchett in Armani Prive
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/oscars-fug-or-fab-cate-blanchett/
- Published: 2014-03-03T16:00:20.000Z
- Updated: 2015-02-26T00:59:36.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:37

## Cate Blanchett in Armani Prive

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/476221907.xml)

It's not un-pretty, and it's occasion-appropatie, but it's also just... nude and be-spangled. Like so many other things. It's Taylor Swift. It's Kate Mara. It's Kristen Wiig. (Or a loose version of a Britney or J.Lo catsuit.) And somehow the ubiquity of that style makes it banal, even if gleamingly, glitzily so, and Cate Blanchett and "banal" don't compute together. She elevates it, but... let's own what's really going on here: We're dealing with one blogger and her dashed hopes of having something really offbeat come out and surprise me with how much I liked it -- or something HEINOUS that delighted me with its crapwittery.

## Cate Blanchett

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/476205291.xml)

Another angle for your pleasure. Again: aspects of it are lovely, and she is lovely, but it's just someone else's party, to me.

## Cate Blanchett in Roksanda Ilincic at the Independent Spirit Awards

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/475911477.xml)

That's more like it, to me. I can get with this. She's selling the khaki stripe better than I expected when I saw this on the runway, and while the shoes are a little aggressive, the whole thing is very Blanchett in a way I appreciate.

## Cate Blanchett

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/475912527.xml)

Everyone loves a shoe porn shot.

## Cate Blanchett in Valentino

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wenn21137984.xml)

And earlier this weekend, she wore a Valentino blanket that's been drizzled with matching cheap hair extensions.

## Cate Blanchett in Stella McCartney

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/476025877.xml)

At least the Armani and the Valentino FIT HER, though. Stella McCartney just made Cate Blanchett look dumpy, which has NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, ever, in history, and ought to be impossible.

## Cate Blanchett

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/spl708661_003.xml)

I wish I looked this cool when I traveled.

[Oscars Fug or Fab: Cate Blanchett in Armani PriveCate Blanchett wears things that make me die inside, and things that make me swoon, and things that make me confused for feeling one way when I should probably feel the other. But one thing Cate almost never does is put on things that feel like I've seen their cousins a hundred times on other people, and that's why this disappointed me. Well, that and the sparkly fishing lures. Although if you were EVER going to get me to fish, that would be the way. \[Photos: Getty\]![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/476221907.xml)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/oscars-fug-or-fab-cate-blanchett-03-2014/)