21-03-2025
Cate Blanchett wasn't allowed to wear T-shirt under Armani dress
Cate Blanchett wasn't allowed to wear a T-shirt underneath a black Armani Privé gown.
The Australian actress hit the red carpet at the 2023 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards wearing a black sequin dress with a black lace neckline.
Blanchett often re-wears her red carpet dresses and thinks of new ways to put a fresh spin on an old look, but designer Giorgio Armani did not support her idea to switch the black lace with a T-shirt for the gown's next outing.
"I wanted to wear it with a T-shirt but Mr. Armani wouldn't let me. You gotta respect the maestro, right?" she said in Vogue's Life in Looks video series.
With the 2023 awards look, the Oscar-winning actress reached out to the Armani Privé team and asked if she could use black lace instead of the original material. She suggested re-purposing the lace left over from a dress she wore to the 2014 Golden Globes.
"I said, 'Look, I know there's this leftover lace from the dress that I'd worn to the Globes all those years before.' They found an offcut and so they made the internal corset out of that offcut," Blanchett explained.
The Carol star noted that some people were shocked when she re-wore her 2014 Globes dress to the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival in 2018.
"I remember people saying to my publicist, (in hushed tones), 'Oh, Cate's wearing... she's worn that dress before.' As if I didn't know. 'Oh really?' I was so pleased to wear it again because I'd loved it so much," she continued. "When you have something so beautiful like that, it's a crime to wear it once."
