Alicia Vikander picks yellow and Cate Blanchett comes dressed as a mermaid … Hollywood’s leading women opted for a decidedly sugary look on the red carpet
In pictures: the best and worst of Oscar fashion
The Oscars red carpet has never been exactly at the vanguard of feminism. Unless the five-hours-in-make-up, half-starved-to-death thing is an ongoing subversive agitprop immersive theatre piece orchestrated by Reese Witherspoon to make a point about the gender pay gap in Hollywood by illustrating how much harder the women of Hollywood have to work than the men to pass muster on the red carpet. (That would be awesome.) Or unless, perhaps, Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander chose mint and lemon as their red-carpet colours this year in order to start an #oscarsopastel meme in support of #oscarsowhite. But so far, no word on this from their people, sadly.
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