Blake Tells Reporter There's A Time And Place For Fashion

Blake Lively will talk about the designer whose show she sits on the front row of at Fashion Week, and will smilingly respond to questions about her gown at awards ceremonies, but think before you ask her about fashion when it's not appropriate. One journalist was given short shrift by the actress upon enquiring about her outfit at Variety's Power of Women event, where Lively was honoured for her work with the Child Rescue Coalition campaigning against child pornography.

"Really? At this event, you're asking me about my outfit?" Lively was seen to say in a video that a reporter from USA Today shared on her Twitter. "Seriously. Would you ask a man that? I'm here so we become more aware, and that we change, and that we build women up. So, you can ask me another question."

The actress took to the stage during the event and spoke graphically and unflinchingly about the kind of child pornography that is being traded online - and which she is campaigning so vehemently against.

"Thirty to fifty million files a day are being traded, that we know of, and this is happening to every child and to any child. Ninety per cent of children know their abusers, so our children are at risk. You know this person, it may be a doctor, it may be a coach. I always believed that people working with children want to help them, but oftentimes the kind of people who want to lure children in work in a profession that gives them access to children and lots of them."

Lively alluded to the red-carpet incident with a picture of her outfit on Instagram alongside the caption: "Women are... Strong. Brave. Capable. Leaders. Mothers. Daughters. Bosses. Women are... unstoppable."

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The designer who did create her look, Brandon Maxwell, seemed far from perturbed about his name having been omitted from her pre-event interviews, posting her look on his Instagram and lauding her for her important work.