{"id":66092,"date":"2020-09-06T14:13:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T14:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=66092"},"modified":"2020-09-06T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T14:13:50","slug":"cate-blanchett-re-wearing-old-gowns-2020-venice-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=66092","title":{"rendered":"Why Cate Blanchett is re-wearing her old gowns for the 2020 Venice Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cate Blanchett is breaking fashion\u2019s cardinal rule at the 2020 Venice Film Festival this week. The actor, who is the festival\u2019s jury president, is re-wearing old gowns, and for good reason.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, she hit the red carpet for the event\u2019s opening ceremony in Venice, Italy, in an Esteban Cortazar \u201cStingray\u201d midnight blue shimmer jersey gown from the designer\u2019s spring 2016 collection. It\u2019s not the first time she wore the ensemble, either.<\/p>\n

In 2015, Blanchett, 51, appeared in the same look at the BFI London Film Festival \u201cCarol\u201d premiere.<\/p>\n

Long gone are the days when stars could wear beautiful designer dresses on the red carpet only once. Blanchett is proof that the old-fashion standard is slowly, but surely, coming to a halt.<\/p>\n

By vowing to re-wear old dresses at the Venice Film Festival this year, Blanchett is making a case for sustainability. \u201cIt\u2019s chic to repeat,\u201d her stylist, Elizabeth Stewart,\u00a0posted on Instagram<\/a>\u00a0yesterday. \u201cWhen planning for any important event, make sure to look in your own closet first! Clothes are meant to be cherished and worn again and again. Even if you are a world-famous actress.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn her words, beautiful things can come out of sustainability!\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

In addition, Blanchett will be donating the dresses she wears, including the Esteban Cortazar gown, to the RAD at VENICE advocacy campaign. As part of the initiative, dresses will be auctioned off, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves as well as UN Women.<\/p>\n

\u201cCate has decided to re-wear some of her most cherished looks from the past and I am beyond honored to be part of this unforgettable moment and beautiful initiative, which gives a more profound purpose to the idea of the red carpet,\u201d designer Cortazar\u00a0wrote on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, Blanchett recycled another look from 2016 for the \u201cAmants\u201d premiere, arriving in the same Alexander McQueen gown she wore to that year\u2019s BAFTA Awards. By altering the dress into a top and pairing it with black trousers, she gave the piece \u2014 which will also be auctioned off \u2014 a new lease on life.<\/p>\n