"Cate: from fashionista to Cruella
Why has the beauteous
Cate Blanchett started dressing like Cruella De Vil? The question was posed by the European fashion writer
Lisa Armstrong when she returned from the latest fashion shows in Paris.
Armstrong, who saw Blanchett front row at an Armani collection, noted that the actor no longer uses the Los Angeles stylist
Jessica Pastor, who had made her look like an ethereal elf princess, and "the results can be volatile".
Magnet, the Los Angeles website that represents Pastor, still boasts on its website of the Blanchett-Pastor connection, showing pictures of the actor in many red carpet moments, as well as on
Vogue and
Harpers Bazaar covers.
Pastor has styled Blanchett for the Academy Awards in the past, and this year is said to be styling
Jennifer Hudson of
Dreamgirls, Blanchett's rival for this year's award of best actress in a supporting role.
Blanchett had flown to the Armani show from Louisiana, where she is filming
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which also stars
Brad Pitt.
Stills from the movie show her in a 1950s-style swing coat, not a Cruella look, but appropriate for a movie about aging in reverse.
Based on an
F. Scott Fitzgerald story,
Benjamin Button is about a 50-year-old man who begins to age backwards. Regaining his youth, he falls in love with a 30-year-old woman.
Also on Blanchett's busy movie schedule is the
Bob Dylan flick
I'm Not There and a new Elizabeth I movie,
The Golden Age, both in post production."
I came across this article today ,I'm kinda confused what's the point, she looks fabulous recently!
