Collecting the gong for ‘Icon of Style’ Blanchett referred to true icons of style, being “women who know how they look is not all of who they are, but just an extension of that.”
“It’s about women who feel free to wear what they want, when they want and how they want to wear it. I mean, you know we all like looking sexy but it doesn’t mean we want to fuck you” she said.
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
She would have already won the night with that perfect one liner, but she topped it off by chipping Donald Trump’s right hand man, Steve Bannon in the process.
“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.”
The audience, which included Cindy Crawford, Brie Larson, Selena Gomez and Ellen Pompeo cheered loudly.
As did all the women in the world.
