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Was Cate Blanchett’s Cannes dress a pro-Palestinian protest – or an optical illusion?
The actor’s red carpet gown looked a lot like the Palestinian flag, but with a subtle difference
“When I grow up I want to become Cate Blanchett, and have the subtlety to think the carpet is already red, so I can just wear a black & white dress with green lining to make such a strong point,” Dr Zahira Jaser, an associate professor at the University of Sussex Business School who is of Palestinian descent, wrote on X. Photograph: Lionel Hahn/Getty ImagesBlanchett styled the gown very differently for the Cannes premiere of the Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice than its original iteration for Jean Paul Gaultier’s couture offering. Last week at Cannes, a survivor of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel wore a yellow dress showing the faces of hostages and a sash that read “Bring Them Home” to the red carpet.
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