Cate Blanchett’s spoon top is more storied than one might think.
In 1973, a young man named Uri Geller appeared on the BBC’s The Dimbleby Talk-In. The self-proclaimed telepath demonstrated to a beguiled audience his supernatural abilities to bend forks, spoons, and knives with focus alone, and soon became one of pop culture’s most bemusing figures. Ikea produced a Geller-inspired stool; Nintendo made a spoon-brandishing Pokémon character in his image; and references to his work emerged in REM songs and the film The Matrix.
The Swedish designer Ellen Hodakova Larsson would also do well to harness this man’s psychic powers. That is because Cate Blanchett was last night photographed at the Los Angeles premiere of Borderlands in a halter-neck top Larsson’s team had constructed from 102 spoons, each one sourced from in and around Stockholm. The actress wore that domestic breastplate with the brand’s reconstructed trousers and knife-point stilettos. See also: Emma Corrin, who wore a Hodakova LBD made entirely from old belts at a screening of Deadpool & Wolverine at last month’s Comic-Con.
“Spoons are beautiful art pieces. Every spoon has a gorgeous shape, they’re very sensual and you feed your body with it. You put it in your mouth, and of course spooning! I don’t want to elaborate more on what spooning means…,” the magician said in 2019. These days, Geller is directing his paranormal talents toward the UK government, having previously declared he would use them to bring about a sewage leak in the Commons should it fail to hold a second EU referendum. I hope he succeeds, and if he does not, there is always an atelier in Sweden that could do with an extra seamstress of the mind.
This article first appeared in British Vogue.
