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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“…the type of thing you hope a martini will clarify until suddenly you’ve had four and now you’re just befuddled AND buzzed.” I swear, it’s like you are in my life.
Make this a “Scroll up Fug” and everyone would think it’s Hillary Clinton.
She looks SHORT! That’s unforgivable. How could she allow herself SUCH a thing?? From the goddess Blanchett – it’s so sad…
I didn’t know they were auctioning off Dana Scully’s suits from season 1 of “The X-Files.”
That’s Hillary-esque! It makes her hips look huge.
Samina, my first thought was, “Looks like she’s been shopping at a Hillary Clinton garage sale.” Wrong color for her, doesn’t fit well and those shoes are heinous.
OMG! Did we finally find something EVEN Cate Blanchette can’t pull off?!
What an odd outfit. It looks as if she’s wearing nothing underneath the jacket, the jacket is too long and the fastening makes it look as though her hips are too big for it, the trousers are loose in the wrong way and the shoes are simply horrid. I actually didn’t recognise her.
Either she looks stumpy or I’ve just never noticed her huge head before, but this is the first time she’s ever looked Olsen-sized to me.
My real issue is with the shoes, though… It looks like she fashioned pointe shoes out of duct tape like a crazy junkyard ballerina.
Can we throw pointy toed shoes on the bonfire with all the nude shoes?
They are so godawful fugly.
I watched Home Alone (with my kids) recently and couldn’t believe what Catherine O’Hara was wearing. Wow, women wore some really oddly proportioned suits back then. And that’s all I can think about as I look at this: the jacket that is about a foot too long, the stumpifying pants. Plus this is a terrible color for her and the shoes are fugly.
I read this is an Armani. My question is: from what year?
I saw a closeup of her at this event and was all, “Cate Blanchett, you are a goddess. A normal-colored, non-extensioned, cleavage-covering, classy goddess with the miraculous ability to pull off flesh tones.” And now I’m just sad. From the waist up: awesome. The waist down: Betty White.
Why does her foot look so broken?
As if Hillary would wear those shoes. That would be something to see.
I think the pointy toed shoes are worse because they look like flats that her feet are too wide for. Like the Penguin.
Maybe Cate just WANTS to be The Penguin, for one stinking day. Is that okay with everyone?
Anybody stop to think about that? About one of the world’s leading actresses waking up one day, feeling quite penguin-y, and deciding to follow her sartorial urge for once? She’s fabulous; it’s not like she has to live her life proving it. She can spend one day waddling around in a shortsuit with pointy feet, right?
Right???
Wow. Free country, my Aunt Fanny.
I saw this and I thought, SCULLY!
That is a Charlie Chaplin silhouette.. oh, Cate. Beloved as The Tramp was, he should not be your fashion muse, even if you mix it with a few parts Her Majesty, the Queen of England.
Maybe all of her own clothes were lost in a flood or a bushfire or something (they have a lot of natural disasters in Australia) and she had to do the best she could with charity donations. ‘Cause this sure as hell was never meant for somebody her size. Also, she should have chucked those shoes INTO the bushfire. They are irredeemable.
OMG MIDGET!
As everyone has already said, it’s CRAZY how short this makes her look! She’s NOT a short lady, and this makes her look like she’s 3ft. tall and just put on her dad’s suit… and his scuba diving flippers.
This is very penguin-esque.
Rose stumpification suit, oh, Cate! It is indeed penguin-esque. Fuuuuuug.
@CJ It is Armani, Fall 2011. It you look at Red Carpet Fashion, it was paired with different pants on the runway. http://www.redcarpet-fashionawards.com/page/3/
HER FACE IS SO GORGEOUS.
That is all.
I like it! In an artistic, not sartorial way. It’s like a cross between an S. Dali melt and a beige-rose femme Charlie Chaplin. How could she resist painting a moustache over her top lip?
The color and fabric are perfect, the tailoring here on Cate? Not so much. The jacket has too short a sleeve with an unpleasant gaping at the crotch area. Shouldn’t the double-breast cut go all the way down, straight ,and not wing out? And even if those leg-curtains were hemmed to the proper length, each leg has enough fabric for two. There’s enough extra fabric here to make a matching vest. Or maybe she could swaddle her feet, because anything, even a bare foot, would be an improvement.
Oh Gawd! I so was not expecting that. Yikes. Her face and hair are freakin’ gorgeous though.
She looks so great from the hips up. I didn’t even mind the beige jacket until I saw the pants. I could have dealt with it until I saw the whole unrelenting field of beigeness, plus ill-fitting pants, plus distracting shoes. Alas, being amazingly beautiful only goes so far.
Cigarette pants were MADE for Cate Blanchett. She should never be allowed to purchase trousers that have more than 1/2cm clearance around her thighs.
Agree with Samina – Hillary Clinton written all over that.
It…doesn’t fit. In any way. Whose closet did she raid and why would anyone make something in that color anyway?
That whole “pointy toe elongates the leg” thing doesn’t work when the bottom half of your trousers is bent against the floor.
I am sad now.
Yes, how on EARTH did Cate Blanchett’s legs come out like Toulouse Lautrec’s? Are flat shoes that powerful?
@Pink Coat: I think we did.
She wears some crazy things and yet pulls them off, but even she can’t pull this one off. I don’t think anyone can. This is truly hideous despite being so bland. The colour, the fit…just ugh to everything.
Hmmmmmmmm, on first glance it’s a fug but I want to see another angle. Cate does not look like this without a reason. It has something to do with the shoes though, they look like they’re not on properly.
The camera angle is wrong here, this is like a primer on how to distort the human figure without even trying. Her head is more than half the length of her arm! And yeah, she is probably tiny–even so, if you stand above her and point the camera down you’re going to make her look like a skinny, stunt-legged dwarf with a massive cranium.
Flat shoes really are a mistake with this suit.
I think because she usually looks so elegant, this is surprisingly depressing.
Fabulous face, hair, and skin.
she is Cate Blanchett from the waist up and Hillary Clinton from the waist down
How in the world did Blanchett manage to look STUMPIFIED?? There’s no hope for the rest of us.