On Monday, more than 300 women in the entertainment industry, including actresses, producers, agents and lawyers, came together to announce a new sexual harassment action plan known as Time’s Up, with a goal to end the imbalance of gender power across all industries.

In an open letter about the initiative, the women not only announced a legal defense fund and push for new legislation as part of this initiative, but also confirmed reports that many actors and actresses planned to wear all black to this Sunday’s Golden Globes in solidarity with survivors of sexual harassment. And it looks like this protest will be even more visible on the red carpet than previously thought: According to the Hollywood Reporter, participants will also be wearing a specially-designed pin meant to draw further attention to the cause.

Whereas last awards season, many attendees pinned blue ACLU ribbons to their red carpet looks, you can expect to see many black and white pins that read “Time’s Up” this time around. They were designed by famed costume designer Arianne Phillips and commissioned by Reese Witherspoon, one of the initiative’s lead backers and a 2018 Golden Globe nominee, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “Reese asked me to come to the actor’s group [at a planning session for Time’s Up], and told me they were going to be wearing black and would I consider creating a pin for the nominees and male presenters,” Phillips told the publication. “We were up against the holidays, but I said I could do it, and the first person I called was my partner-in-crime [L.A. jewelry designer] Michael Schmidt.”

Booth Moore, Hollywood Reporter‘s Style and Fashion News Director, posted a photo of the pins on Instagram.

Phillips and Schmidt somehow managed to quickly turn around a design and produce 500 pins just in time for the Golden Globes. “I met so many great women, and it was such an honor to be called to action,” Phillips added.

In the New York Times piece announcing Time’s Up, Eva Longoria said of the red carpet blackout: “For years, we’ve sold these awards shows as women, with our gowns and colors and our beautiful faces and our glamour. This time the industry can’t expect us to go up and twirl around. That’s not what this moment is about.”

While Phillips is asking her fellow designers to donate to the Time’s Up legal defense fund, you can too by simply visiting their GoFundMe page here.

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