Her style choices, even off-screen, are rarely safe. They can be spectral, unexpected and freighted with meaning, be it resurrecting a gown from her archives, embracing tailoring traditionally coded as masculine or elevating an emerging artisan with the quietest of cues. The red carpet — once derided as a sartorial wasteland where good taste went to die, if you can believe it — takes on a different energy in her presence. Blanchett meets it with the same fervour she brings to deconstructing a character and, by her own admission, the same gusto she reserves for loathing the whine of a leaf blower (a fact that the internet and countless memes have gleefully confirmed).
Cate Blanchett, Roger Federer, Uniqlo creative director Clare Waight Keller and artist and designer KAWS discuss Uniqlo’s 20-year US celebration with MoMA, uniting fashion, art and innovation under the timeless vision of LifeWear
Somewhere between her Oscar-winning depiction as a fallen socialite swathed in couture for Blue Jasmine and her portrayal of a world-renowned conductor chasing her white whale in the form of a 120-year-old Mahler symphony for Tár, Cate Blanchett solidified her place as a fashion icon. The Best Actress recipient has mastered the rare alchemy of being celebrated as a touchstone of glamour and a consummate actor, often treating her costumes as a kind of performance in parallel with her cinematic roles.
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