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Actress Cate Blanchett was awarded the Style Icon award at the InStyle Awards 2017 and she took the stage to make a powerful statement about sexual harassment on Monday.
After thanking a number of designers and her stylist, Blanchett went on to praise women who aren’t afraid to be themselves.
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In her speech, she she shared what style and fashion mean to her.
“For me, the true icons of style…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 into part of who they are, and women who know how they look is not all of who they are, but just an extension of that,” Blanchett said.
She also took aim at the unfair standard women are held to, specifically when it comes to issues of presentation and appearance.
“It’s about women who feel free to wear what they want, when they want, and how they want to wear it,” she added.
The Thor star continued: “You know, we all like looking sexy, but it doesn’t mean we want to f**k you.”
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“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,” she concluded.
“I have to say, bring it on ladies,” Blanchett said. “Break it wide open.”
Watch Blanchett’s speech in the video above.