The only thing missing? Shoulder pads.
The 81st annual Venice Film Festival is in full swing, and as expected, all movie stars in attendance are churning out all of their best looks for the glamorous events. Consider Cate Blanchett no exception, as she stepped out for the photo call for her forthcoming AppleTV+ series, Disclaimer, in a playful take on the 1980's power dressing trend.
The actress appeared at the event on August 29, wearing a black suit with a white button down underneath. This wasn't just any black suit, however. The blazer and pants, both from Moschino's Fall/Winter 2024 ready-to-wear collection, featured larger-than-life polka dots, some of which created an optical illusion by appearing to be three dimensional. She kept the rest of her look relatively simple, wearing black pointed-toe heels and dainty earrings.
The daring look made it's debut on Moschino's runway and was styled with a smaller polka-dot print tie, large bauble earrings, and a bold red lip.
Blanchett’s suit isn’t the only eye-catching look she has worn in Venice. Earlier this week, she stunned in an Armani Privé gown at the premiere of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The dress featured horizontal rows of tiny crystals creating a mummy effect, and she accessorized with an off-the-shoulder pearl body chain.
In Disclaimer—which will be told in seven chapters—Blanchett stars as Catherine Ravenscroft, an acclaimed journalist who built her reputation on "revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets. As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys both her own life and her relationships with her husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and their son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee),” according to the official synopsis of the series, per The Hollywood Reporter.
“I play a woman who has things that she has buried, traumatic things that she has buried,” Blanchett said of the role at its first screening in Venice, “And so I did think about what happens to repressed memories and things that we have avoided rather than dealt with. And I found it fascinating and quite painful.”