Cate Blanchett Wore Louis Vuitton To The ‘Paper Tiger’ Cannes Film Festival Premiere

Cate Blanchett was back on the red carpet this evening for the Paper Tiger premiere during Cannes Film Festival.

You haven’t liked most of her recent red carpet looks. The Maison Margiela look got no love, but will this custom Louis Vuitton design win you back over?

Velvet has always carried a kind of aristocratic melancholy, but here it felt more like a gothic heroine wandering through modern myth. The core of the look was the extraordinary hand-made plissé collar exploding around her neckline like a raven in mid-flight. It transformed the gown from elegant to dramatic.

I know some will say this is a trusted silhouette for Cate, and I would agree, but the sculptural collar, recalling Elizabethan portraiture, Old Hollywood severity, and the dark romanticism of high opera all at once, is what sold the look to me.

I’m glad the neckline was kept free from jewelry here, with only the Infini ring, Whisper earcuff, and earrings from Louis Vuitton’s Mythica High Jewelry collection completing the styling.

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