Oscar Dresses: Cate Blanchett' Oscar dress 1999
Cate Blanchett in Oscar dress by John Galliano at 1999 Academy Awards
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Yet no other Hollywood star's back has become as eye-popping an erogenous zone as Cate Blanchett's on the red carpet. Cate Blanchett first drew public attention in all its lithe, smooth silken glory at the 1999 Oscars, thanks to her Oscar Dress - John Galliano back-embroidered butterfly-festooned gown. Blanchett turned her back to the press, turned with a smile, and the strobes clicked away. She repeated the same striking move the following year, this time emphasizing the unusual back motif of her Gaultier couture Oscar Dress with some of the most original gold jewelry that had ever been created to create an Indian Princess image. Even the back of her hair was speckled in gold pieces.
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"You can get so many exotic looks with her," says jewelry designer Cynthia Bach. "All Cate's features are striking, exotic. She doesn't have that perfect Hollywood reconstructed face. And she has the most beautiful long back and not one little ounce of fat, even after having her baby. She doesn't play it safe, ever." Blanchett's thoughts on the back view? "I didn't want to give anyone a chance to get tired of my face. Besides, I assumed the photographers had seen enough cleavage."
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"I guess I've spent my whole life dressing up," Blanchett says, "whether it's as an actor or the masking up you do when you go to an event. My absolute credo is: You must have fun with it. And then there's the incredible life experience of getting to chew the fat with people like John Galliano or Alexander McQueen." Ever since Blanchett met Galliano, she's worn his Oscar Dress to the Award, the Golden Globes (an embroidered bejeweled gray pinstripe Dior couture suit), and donned a sparkling white Dior couture gown to the London premiere of "Charlotte Gray". "With John," says Blanchett, "you're talking about someone who's just extra-gifted, who understands the cut of something. He's wicked - wickedly smart, wickedly funny - and he's up for anything. He's creating things that will be referenced for years to come. Hedi Slimane, Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier - all geniuses. They prove that "genius" doesn't have to go hand in hand with "asshole."
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