Cate Blanchett Struts Through Awards Season

An occasional Armani model, she’s in Chanel one night, Yacine Aouadi the next.

 

Although she can be a chameleon on screen, convincingly playing Elizabeth I or Bob Dylan, Cate Blanchett is a touch more predictable on the red carpet, typically favoring elegant cuts, often in black and often by Armani Privé.

 

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But this year Ms. Blanchett has been exploring a range of designers, according to her longtime stylist, Elizabeth Stewart, which “really demonstrates her interest and curiosity about all things, including fashion.”

 

Ms. Blanchett, 46, an Oscar winner in 2014 for “Blue Jasmine,” has been nominated for the 2016 Golden Globe for best actress in a dramatic role, for her performance in “Carol,” and is favored to get another Oscar nomination (bringing her career total to six) for that film when the nominees are announced early next year. Predictably, she has been a red-carpet mainstay in this prequel to awards season.

 

Wearing Chanel haute couture at a Museum of Modern Art benefit in her honor in November.

At a Museum of Modern Art benefit in her honor in November, she glittered in Chanel haute couture. Perhaps only she could get away with ruffles, sheer sleeves, embellishment and an asymmetrical hem all in one dress.

 

In a chartreuse Lanvin dress at the New York premiere of “Carol.”

Then there was a puckered chartreuse Lanvin creation, worn to the New York premiere of “Carol” to support the recently ousted designer Alber Elbaz, Ms. Stewart said.

 

The designer Antonio Marras, creator of the romantic high-neck dress Ms. Blanchett wore on “The Tonight Show” (“Cate’s version of a little black dress,” Ms. Stewart said), is one of the actress’s new favorites.

 

Alexander McQueen (along with Armani and Givenchy) is also in her stable of go-to designers. Despite the severe high neck, one of the brand’s light-colored gowns, which the the actress wore to the BFI London Film Festival Awards in October, felt fresh compared with her usual predilection for black.

 

But she will also go for looks by less corporate labels, like the regal floral-encrusted Schiaparelli couture velvet dress she wore in London for a screening of “Truth.”

 

And what of the indies? At an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences party, Ms. Blanchett revealed a rare slice of midriff in a vaguely ’70s dress by Proenza Schouler.

 

She wore a daring Esteban Cortázar look with unconventional cape sleeves to a London screening of “Carol.” The actress is “open to all and mixes in new discoveries with long-term relationships,” Ms. Stewart said.

 

Spreading the love, Ms. Blanchett wore a demi-couture “tattoo” dress by the relative unknown Yacine Aouadi to the New York Film Festival. It was the designer’s first red-carpet appearance.

 

"We are always onto the next thing," Ms. Stewart said.

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