Cate Blanchett delivered a powerful speech at the InStyle Awards this week as she spoke about sexual harassment amid the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
“Women like looking sexy but it doesn’t mean we want to f**k you,” she told the audience as she accepted her Style Icon award on Monday. “No one says to Steve Bannon, ‘You look like a bag of trash. Do you want me to throw you out?’
“But the comments that get said about what women wear on the red carpet, I mean, if you troll through those trolls on the internet – just don’t.”
Cate Blanchett at tonight’s #InStyleAwards: “We all like looking sexy, but it doesn’t mean we want to f—k you.” pic.twitter.com/3FKFjJJVzC
— Andrea Mandell (@AndreaMandell) October 24, 2017
The actress also took the opportunity to thank her favourite fashion titans, saying: “For me, the true icons of style, and I think there’s a bit of a theme emerging here tonight, it’s that for me it’s always those women who’ve been utterly themselves without apology—whose physical presence and their aesthetic is really integrated in a non-self-conscious way.”
She added: “Women who know how they look, it’s not all of who they are but just an extension of that, and it’s about women who feel free to wear what they want when they want and how they want to wear it.”
Preach!
