“Carol” star Cate Blanchett attends the 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California.
Prom may be tonight, but don’t forget, there’s always the pre-parties, darlings.
“I’m Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett and I invite you to gag on my whimsy.”
Honestly, we’re not feeling the dress on its own merits, which we’ll get to in a second, but our main issue here is that we don’t think this is her dress to wear. Whimsy really isn’t in her wheelhouse, it would seem. She looks vaguely uncomfortable in this, as if she thinks she looks silly. The facial expressions are there, but the posture gives off this “resigned” feeling, as if she figured “Oh, well. I’m out of dresses and this one seemed like a good idea at the time.”
But who knows? Maybe she loves it and we’re reading it wrong. Doesn’t mean we like it, though. It could be that we’ve just hit the wall on all the Gucci whimsy of late, but we think it’s more to do with the horrible skin-colored fabric (Blanchett skin, that is) and the fact that the embroidery is somewhat obnoxiously large and random. There doesn’t appear to be a theme or point to it all except “Look how much STUFF we can fit on this dress!”
Style Credits:
Gucci Long-Sleeve Beaded Embroidered Gown from the Spring 2016 Collection
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