Bounties
On February 19, at the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Bafta ceremony took place, celebrating British cinema. That night, Cate Blanchett won Best Actress for her role in Tár, while Jamie Lee Curtis, here from behind, won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Ounce. Ke Huy Quan, right, was also awarded for his role in the film.
Cultured pearls
For the occasion, Cate Blanchett brought out a Martin Margiela evening dress, already worn in 2015 at the Césars, accessorized here with a Louis Vuitton necklace. Pearls have taken on a whole new dimension in recent years. Under the influence, in particular, of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, a century-old university society whose mission is to promote the role of African-American women and which traditionally gives each of its members a pearl necklace. The bourgeois jewel has turned into a true feminist symbol. Which is probably no stranger to Cate's choice.
Mode durable
In front of her, Jamie Lee Curtis had put on a palatine velvet jacket, demonstrating that even tailors can start fashions. In the 1960s, American tailors were indeed looking for a trick to sell new evening jackets to their customers already equipped with tuxedos cut in the traditional grain de poudre. They therefore began to promote this smooth velvet originating from the Orient, and managed to make it a credible alternative to classic jackets, to the point of imposing it in use in a sustainable way. Very durable even, judging by Jamie Lee Curtis' outfit sixty years later.
Calculation errors
The actor Ke Huy Quan, on the right, had also chosen to wear a palatine velvet jacket, without however sheltering himself from inelegance… Between the too tight black poplin shirt, the fake flower in the buttonhole and the fiftieth-year-old wooden bead bracelet unable to forget the young man he was, said jacket could not do much. To tell the truth, even the happy presence of a cummerbund, the traditional cummerbund, at the waist of the actor, is not enough to dissipate our unpleasant impression of non-mastery at the sight of this ensemble.
Anonymous passerby
Finally, note, on the right, the presence of a female hand and its black sleeve equipped with an imposing leather loop. Which leads us to think that this woman, visibly in charge of seating the guests, is wearing a trench coat. The opportunity to recall that this type of loop was used in the manufacture of trench coats because it allowed soldiers to firmly and precisely tighten their sleeves in order to prevent water from entering them, especially when they were lifting. arms to scan the horizon with a pair of binoculars. There you go, you know everything. Now quick, Caesars!
