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Fug and Fab: Cate Blanchett

Jul 26, 2012 By Jessica AT 12:00 pm

You know I love her. But — and you know this is coming…..BUT:

Things I am confused by:

  • ….is that…a scarf?
  • Or is that part of her shirt?
  • If I keep making this face I’m making right now trying to figure this out, will I need Botox sooner?
  • Are her shoes….?????
  • WHY?
  • …spats? Maybe? Or….????????
  • Or is that top like some kind of…poncho scarf cape wrap?
  • differential equations.

At least she made up for it later:

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Unfug It Up: Cate Blanchett

Feb 1, 2012 By Heather AT 8:00 am

I miss Cate Blanchett. She had a very quiet 2011, but she’ll roar back to the red carpets next year with The Hobbit: OMG They Are Making Two Movies Out Of It: I Couldn’t Even Get Through The Book: Great, Now I’m Having Academic Flashbacks. In the meantime, things like this remind me why we need to have her back, and soon:

Besides the shoes being underwhelming, this looks like a tunic yanked over a petticoat. Which should only happen if you’re a saucy Medieval lass trying to find peasant clothes that fit, so she can masquerade as a  young worker boy and find out what Life Is Really Like and then fall in love with someone and then rip off her wig. … And now you can imagine what I read in school when I was supposed to be poring through all that Tolkein.

What would you do with this? Frankly, I think the tunic part would make an awesome little mini-dress if it were stitched up just-so.

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Fug or Fab: Cate Blanchett

Dec 2, 2011 By Jessica AT 11:00 am

Looking at Cate Blanchett here, I had this moment where I was all, “this outfit is so summer for December.”

Yeah, she’s in Australia. It’s summer there. I knew that — although it does make me wonder something: In the United States, we always say that you ought not wear white after Labor Day, AKA After Summer Is Over (even if we don’t really buy that or believe it anymore). Is there a corollary to that in the other hemisphere? Are there little old ladies in Sydney clutching their pearls because someone is wearing white after…Valentine’s Day? Please enlighten me, international readers. These are things I want to know!

As far as her specific white goes….it’s tough with Cate, as you know. In many ways, I think she is so Cate Blanchett-y that she can pull off looks that other women can’t. That being said, although there is something about the neckline on this that makes it look a bit like it might be on backwards, I like this on her. I feel like this is the dress you wear when you’re getting married at the courthouse, but it’s the chicest courthouse wedding in the world.

What do you think, Fug Nation?

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Who Fugged It more (Or Less): Cate Blanchett vs. Nicola Roberts

Jul 6, 2011 By Heather AT 10:00 am

Hey, remember this, from about two years ago?

She is doing “Hello, lovers” before “HOLA LOVERS” was even a glint in J.Lo’s eyes. Personally, I think it was a test. She was like, “You think I can pull off anything, eh? Well how about GRANDMA’S AFGHAN?”

Fast-forward to Monday:

we’ve come so far in two years

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Fugte Blanchett

Jun 9, 2011 By Heather AT 9:00 am

Like a Charlie Kaufman movie, this started off rather well…

… and then devolved into something completely freaking confusing, where it felt like he said, “Shoot, I have to end this thing SOMEHOW, let’s just throw this in there and be done with it.” Those shoes, and those unflatteringly loose slacks, are this outfit’s version of the last act of, say, Adaptation; confusing, sort of unsettling, and the type of thing you hope a martini will clarify until suddenly you’ve had four and now you’re just befuddled AND buzzed.

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Oscars Well Played: Cate Blanchett

Feb 28, 2011 By Jessica AT 10:30 am
Front View
Arm Pit!Back View!
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A caveat: this is admittedly crazy.  But I think it’s also very HER. And on a night when everyone else looked, honestly, kinda dull, it was nice to get a little crazy up in this bitch. Let’s take a closer look.

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