Sartorial Protest

Why Hollywood Women Are Reportedly Wearing All Black to the Golden Globes

Some of this year’s nominees may be planning a sartorial protest.
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Black will apparently be the color to watch on the red carpet at next year’s Golden Globes. Per People, some Golden Globe nominees plan to wear all black to the January 7 ceremony to protest sexual harassment in Hollywood. No specific stars are named, but several nominees have already been vocal in speaking out against Hollywood harassment, including Meryl Streep and Jessica Chastain.

People reports that both nominees and presenters will be taking part in the plan and might continue it throughout the awards season. Since dozens of allegations began surfacing against former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in October, seasoned actresses including Streep, Judi Dench, and more have spoken out in protest of the archaic “casting couch” system.

“The behavior is inexcusable, but the abuse of power familiar,” Streep said in a statement at the time. “Each brave voice that is raised, heard, and credited by our watchdog media will ultimately change the game.”

Though this awards season is particularly influenced by the ongoing sexual assault revelations, it won’t be the first time the Globes were influenced by current events. At the very beginning of this year, days before the start of the Trump administration, Streep delivered an impassioned speech against Trump, and Hugh Laurie took his own aim at the incoming troubling administration (“I’ll be able to say I won this at the last ever Golden Globes . . . I don’t mean to be gloomy, it’s just that it has the words ‘Hollywood,’ ‘foreign,’ and ‘press’ in the title.”)

Women in Hollywood have more concrete plans for change, as well. During an interview with Gloria Steinem at the Massachusetts Conference for Women last Thursday, Streep spoke about the very specific demands she and other women in Hollywood are making for equal pay.

“We are after 50/50 by 2020,” she said, per U.S. News & World Report. “Equal means equal. And if it starts at the top, none of these shenanigans would have filtered down and it wouldn’t have been tolerated.”