While directional tailoring is now a familiar sight during awards season, the hat still represents tricky style territory outside of weddings and royal church services (where, as Princess Beatrice knows only too well, things still have the potential to go awry). But there are always those rare, redoubtable celebrities willing to take the topper to the red carpet, whether they go the retro route like Elle Fanning, who revived Dior’s mid century silhouette, complete with macramé hat, at Cannes or lean into its meme potential, like Pharrell in a vintage Vivienne Westwood number that instantly spawned a parody Twitter account.
“It’s chic to repeat,” Cate Blanchett’s stylist Elizabeth Stewart posted on Instagram as the actor rewore a series of looks at Venice Film Festival in 2020. First, there was the sequined gown by Esteban Cortazar that she first wore at the London premiere of Carol. Then there was the reworked Alexander McQueen dress, which she had transformed into a top that she could pair with trousers showing what a dash of imagination can do in the world of red carpet fashion. It’s not the only time that Blanchett has repeated looks on the red carpet. She brought back a black lace Armani Privé gown from the 2014 Golden Globes for Cannes Film Festival in 2018, as well as rewearing a tattoo dress by young Parisian designer Yacine Aouadi that same year. More recently, the actor recycled a deconstructed Alexander McQueen gown at the Governors Awards in LA, as well as rewearing a statement puffed sleeved suit, also by McQueen, at the London Critics’ Circle film awards.
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