Cate Blanchett in Armani Prive
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
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
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
Everyone loves a shoe porn shot.
Cate Blanchett in Valentino
And earlier this weekend, she wore a Valentino blanket that's been drizzled with matching cheap hair extensions.
Cate Blanchett in Stella McCartney
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
I wish I looked this cool when I traveled.