Jane Fonda repeats 6-year-old gown at Oscars, pairs it with 'last article of clothing' she ever bought
In keeping with a statement she made earlier, actress Jane Fonda turned up to the Oscars 2020 on Sunday, February 9, held in the Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, wearing the same outfit she wore to Cannes in 2014.
She donned a crimson beaded Elie Saab gown - the same one she wore six years ago - as she got up to present the Best Film category at the Academy Awards. Her signature gray pixie haircut added that extra edge to her look. Her choice to repeat the years-old outfit was made after she declared on camera she will no longer buy any new piece of clothing after “Greta (Thunberg)... made me think a lot about consumerism" last year in November while protesting against climate change on Capitol Hill.
At the time, she wore a red coat that she had gotten arrested with four times in a row for protests. “You see this coat? I needed something red and I went out and found this coat on sale. This is the last article of clothing that I will ever buy. When I talk to people and say, ‘We don’t really need to keep shopping. We shouldn’t look to shopping for our identity. We don’t need more stuff,’ I have to walk the talk. So I’m not buying any more clothes," she said.
Fonda carried the same coat, which was draped over her arm at the Oscars on Sunday.
“This is the front line of the climate crisis here in California,” Fonda said at Friday’s protest. “And literally what happens here, can impact the rest of the country and the rest of the world.”
The 'Grace and Frankie' star has religiously held Fire Drill Fridays protests at the U.S. Capitol, her most recent protest in Los Angeles was on Friday, two days before the Oscars. She was joined by Best Actor winner Joaquin Phoenix at the protest, who spoke about climate change in his winning speech.
Stylist Micah Schifman who has styled celebrities like Patricia Clarkson, Camila Morrone and Isla Fisher, told The Hollywood Reporter that Fonda’s choice to wear red “demands attention and is a statement of its own. Almost in the sense that ‘red’ is a verb or an action word."