Cate Blanchett Rewears 2015 Oscars Gown at BAFTAs & Styles Loewe Joggers With Stuart Weitzman Boots

In February 2023, Cate Blanchett attended the 76th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) in London, where she was recognized for her lead role in Tár.

Her appearance served as a practical case study in sustainable high fashion, a movement she has quietly led for decades by opting to re-wear significant archival pieces rather than requesting new commissions.

Cate Blanchett at the 76th EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) held at the Royal Festival Hall on February 19, 2023 (Credit: PA Images / INSTARimages / Cover Images)

Cate Blanchett Rewears Her Maison Margiela Oscars Gown at the 2023 BAFTAs

For the ceremony at Royal Festival Hall, Blanchett revisited a custom Maison Margiela gown designed by John Galliano. The dress originally debuted at the 2015 Academy Awards, but its return to the red carpet eight years later felt entirely contemporary.

By pairing the velvet floor-length piece with repurposed Tahitian pearls from Louis Vuitton, she demonstrated how shifts in styling can keep a single garment relevant across eras.

Cate Blanchett and Eddie Redmayne pose in the press room during the 87th Annual Academy Awards at Loews Hollywood Hotel on February 22, 2015, in Hollywood, California (Credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock)

It was made from black silk and velvet and featured a mod-high neckline, padded shoulders with frayed cap sleeves, and a floor-sweeping short train. Although it appeared conservative at the front, the large keyhole cutout at the rear exposed a bit of flesh.

Cate Blanchett revisits her archival Maison Margiela black silk and velvet gown from the 2015 Oscars, pairing the sculptural silhouette with sleek pointed-toe pumps that sharpen the look’s clean, elongated line at the BAFTAs (Credit: Cover Images)

The Lord of the Rings star originally styled the dress with a Tiffany & Co. turquoise necklace.

But for the BAFTAs, she traded it for a Louis Vuitton necklace designed by Francesca Amfitheatrof, featuring repurposed Tahitian pearls, gold, diamonds, and a 23.78 ct step-cut Nigerian Tourmaline from existing pieces.

She also added a pair of Tahitian pearl stud earrings and a statement white-gold-and-diamond ring from Louis Vuitton’s Stellar Times High Jewelry collection.

Cate Blanchett wears pink makeup and updates her recycled gown with a repurposed Louis Vuitton Tahitian pearl necklace (Credit: Abaca Press / INSTARimages)

Glam-wise, the Benjamin Button actress wore a fresh look featuring pink eyeshadow, lipstick, blush, and mascara, all applied by makeup artist Mary Greenwell. Hairstylist Nicola Clarke then swept her blonde hair back into a bun.

#WithRefugees Blue Ribbon Adds Meaning to Cate Blanchett’s BAFTAs Look

Aside from promoting eco-fashion, Cate Blanchett was also pictured wearing a blue ribbon to show “solidarity with and support for refugees and displaced people around the world.”

Cate Blanchett wears a blue ribbon to show support for refugees and displaced people around the world (Credit: Dutch Press Photo / Cover Images)

As per a statement from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, “Artists have been invited to wear the #WithRefugees ribbon as an emblem of compassion and solidarity for those who have been forced to flee their homes because of war, conflict, and persecution.”

Blanchett also said: “Whenever I have met refugees – in places such as Lebanon, Jordan or Bangladesh, here in the UK, or back home in Australia – what has struck me has not been their ‘otherness’ but how many things we share in common.”

Cate Blanchett Wins Best Actress and Honors Women in Film

Cate Blanchett bagged the BAFTA Best Actress award, beating out nominees Viola Davis, Ana de Armas, Danielle Deadwyler, Emma Thompson, and Michelle Yeoh.

While she had been predicted to win the award, Blanchett was surprised and said she “didn’t prepare anything because it’s been such an extraordinary year for women.”

Cate Blanchett wins the BAFTA Best Actress for her role as a world-renowned lesbian conductor in Tár (Credit: PA Images / INSTARimages / Cover Images)

“This is extraordinary,” she said. “As you’ve seen in those clips, all of my fellow nominees, the conversation with all of you off the screen and on the screen has been nothing short of remarkable, and we know that we’re just the tip of the iceberg.”

“Every year, these idiosyncratic, remarkable performances just break down the myth that women’s experience is monolithic, so thank you to BAFTA for recognizing all of us. We sit in dialogue with one another.”

She then thanked Focus Features “for being such extraordinary partners [as] this [Tár] was very dangerous and career-ending, potentially, undertaking. It does take an army. It’s the ensemble, it’s all of the people who spend hours and hours [working] every single day.”

Cate ended her speech by thanking the cast and crew of Tár as well as her family, including her husband Andrew Upton and their four children.

Cate Blanchett honors her fellow female nominees in her acceptance speech (Credit: Cover Images)

Cate Blanchett Styles Loewe Joggers With White Stuart Weitzman Booties

The previous week, Cate Blanchett appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to talk about her Oscar nomination for Best Actress, making a Lydia Tár concept album, playing Aussie Rules Football on gravel in Tasmania, and learning how to conduct, speak German, and play piano and the accordion for her role in her latest psychological drama.

The star of An Ideal Husband had been wowing fans with her unpredictable fashion choices. And for her TV appearance, she opted for an elevated casual look, partially tucking a pale yellow asymmetric dress into a pair of stone-washed denim joggers from Loewe’s Spring 2023 collection.

Cate Blanchett visits Jimmy Kimmel Live! in a pale yellow Loewe asymmetric dress with stone-washed jogger pants on February 13, 2023 (Credit: BauerGriffin / INSTARimages)

To complete the laid-back yet stylish outfit, Cate slipped her size-9 feet into Stuart Weitzman’s Stuart 100 Stretch booties.

Cate Blanchett finishes her elevated casual look with white Stuart Weitzman sock booties (Credit: BauerGriffin / INSTARimages)

Staying true to the label’s iconic flawless-fit sock bootie construction, these boots feature sleek pointed toes and about 4-inch stiletto heels.

Stuart Weitzman’s ‘Stuart 100 Stretch’ sock booties boast the label’s iconic flawless-fit sock bootie construction with sharp pointy toes and stiletto heels

How Cate Blanchett’s Shoe Choices Define Her Red-Carpet Style

From archival couture reworn with fresh intent to sharply tailored press looks grounded by precise footwear, Cate Blanchett’s style rarely hinges on the clothes alone. Her shoes do the quiet work—lengthening the line, balancing proportion, or adding just enough contrast to keep even the most dramatic silhouettes controlled.

Whether she leans into sculptural platforms or pared-back stilettos, the throughline is consistency: every pair is chosen to support the overall composition, not compete with it.

That same instinct plays out across her most memorable appearances, where subtle shifts in heel shape, height, and finish redefine the look without overwhelming it. Revisit some of her strongest shoe-led moments below.