2018 Golden Globes red carpet turns black as stars support #TimesUp

Los Angeles: Golden Globes, the first Hollywood award show of 2018, kicked off with a focus on sexual harassment instead of fashion as Hollywood A-listers arrived on the red carpet dressed in black to support the Times Up initiative and #MeToo movement.

Black was the colour of the night as almost all the female actors including big names like Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie, Heidi Klum, Catherine Zeta Jones, Margot Robbie, Alison Brie, Jessica Biel, Claire Foy, among others turned the Globes dark on the fashion front.

The Times Up initiative was launched by powerful Hollywood women such as Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon, Eva Longoria, Kerry Washington and others to fight sexual harassment in the industry following allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and numerous others in the show business.

Streep, who is part of the initiative, and Michelle Williams arrived with gender and racial justice activists as their guests.

While Streep walked the red carpet hand-in-hand with justice activist Ai-jen Po, Williams arrived in an embellished off-the-shoulder look with Me Too founder Tarana Burke at her side.

"People are aware now of a power imbalance and its something that leads to abuse. It led to abuse in our own industry and led to abuse in domestic work... in the military, in Congress... and we want to fix that. We feel emboldened to stand together in a thick black line," Streep said on the red carpet.

Before the carpet, women from the film industry encouraged their peers to join the movement, via Instagram and Twitter announcements.

Witherspoon, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rashida Jones, Brie Larson and Tessa Thompson created a video together to urge those at the Globes to join them in wearing black.

While women were all up to support the anti-sexual harassment initiative their male peers also did their bit for the movement by donning Times Up pins on the lapels of their tuxedos.

Justin Timberlake, Hugh Jackman, and Strangers Things stars Gaten Matazarro, Finn Wolfhard, Daniel Kaluuya, Bradley Whitford, Ewan MacGregor, Jude Law, James Franco, William H Macy, Noah Schnapp, Nick Jonas and host Seth Meyers were among the leading men taking part in the movement by adding the black-and-white pins to their looks.

To show his support, "This Is Us" actor Chris Sullivan not only donned a Times Up pin to his look, but also painted his fingernails black.

Celebrities who could not attend the 2018 Golden Globes, supported Times Up by sharing their pictures in all black outfits on social media.