Selma Blair delivered a wonderful speech as she accepted Glamour’s 2023 Daring to Disrupt Award, but she started speaking before she even got to the stage, letting her clothes lead the conversation on the red carpet.
The actor and disability advocate, who has been open and vocal about life with multiple sclerosis (MS), wore a sweater with the names of several prominent disability activists embroidered on it—an all-too-fitting move that harkens back to Natalie Portman’s 2020 Oscars cape embroidered with the names of snubbed female directors.
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Blair and her icy blonde bob certainly wore the sweater well with a navy lace gown, diamond cuff earrings, and of course, her iconic diamond-encrusted cane.
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Among the names woven into the sweater’s exterior were Alice Wong, founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project; Irish writer, academic, and activist Sinéad Burke; Keely Cat-Wells, disability rights activist and CEO of Making Space; president and CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities Maria Town; Andraéa LaVant of LaVant Consulting; KR Liu, nationally awarded disability advocate and head of brand accessibility at Google; and the late Judy Heumann, widely known as the mother of the disability rights movement.
Selma Blair has always been a fan of fashion, and her MS diagnosis only deepened her interest in the medium. Last year she signed on as chief creative officer of Guide Beauty, which creates accessible beauty tools, and launched an accessible collection with Isaac Mizrahi.
“Disability does not seem escapist,” she told Glamour about the venture. “But I love clothes. I love pretty people doing pretty things.” Clearly, activism and style are one and the same.
