The spoons were recycled, we promise.
Just a month after she broke the internet by wearing a black halter top covered in 102 spoons, Cate Blanchett recycled those spoons for a new outfit at the Toronto International Film Festival. According to WWD, her new blazer reused the silver spoons from her previous look, which graced the red carpet at the premiere of her movie Borderlands. This time around, the spoons were featured at the TIFF premiere of Disclaimer, a TV series that co-stars Sacha Baron Cohen and Lesley Manville.
WWD reports that the Hodakova outfit, which featured a black tailored blazer and wide-leg pants, used silver spoons sourced from around Stockholm. The industry publication describes Hodakova’s vibe as embracing an “upcycling aesthetic,” so the spoons having a second life on another ‘fit is very, ahem, fitting. Blanchett finished the look with Jimmy Choo stilettos pumps. Just like the first time she wore silverware on the red carpet, she kept things minimal and sleek, letting the spoons steal the spotlight.
The Oscar-winning actress has her stylist, Elizabeth Stewart, to thank for the look. Hodakova's designer, Ellen Hodakova Larsson, has more than just the Cate Blanchett seal of approval to celebrate. She just took home the LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers, which awards her "400,000 euros and a year of mentorship from the experts at luxury conglomerate LVMH, which is home to brands like Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Givenchy. That means that there could be more flatware on the red carpet soon, especially as Larsson looks to expand her line and helm the world’s “first fully sustainable fashion house."
“As long as we believe in this way of reusing discarded pieces and not only putting them on a pile, but actually using them again, I believe that that kind of circularity both will be needed, but also will be even bigger. So, this is like a step-by-step period, but we’re reaching more sources every day, and we have a really good system right now,” she said at the awards ceremony today. "We’re working so hard to just make everyone believe that this is actually workable, and I’m happy to speak about it, because we can’t produce and overproduce. Everyone knows that this beautiful earth is hurting because of our lust to create, to make money, and that’s why I’m here, to have a little bit of a different take on. I feel thankful that…in this big company, they actually see the potential of it."