An intimate dinner and cocktail celebration celebrated Eco-Age’s 4 awards honorees, together with famend designer and filmmaker Tom Ford.
The Inexperienced Carpet Vogue Awards (GCFA), led by Eco-Age founder Livia Firth, are uniting style and movie with a brand new wave of sustainability in Hollywood.
Final month, Firth hosted an intimate dinner and cocktail celebration to have a good time the award present’s anticipated transfer to Los Angeles for the 2023 occasion. Held on the San Vicente Bungalows, the night honored Tom Ford, Aurora James, Bethany Yellowtail and Rashad Robinson for Colour of Change. Firth hosted, alongside mannequin and activist Bethann Hardison and the honorees.
The Italy-based sustainability and communications company selected to make the transfer to Hollywood to mark the start of a brand new course for the GCFAs, which the group will proceed to drive ahead throughout 2023. Most just lately, the 2020 GCFAs came about on the Teatro alla Scala Opera Home in Milan, Italy, awarding 5 honorees, together with Zendaya and designer Sindiso Khumalo.
The Inexperienced Carpet Vogue Awards 2020 awarded 5 statuettes on Oct. 10 with winners together with Zendaya, for her work rising inclusivity within the fashion world, and designer Sindiso Khumalo. The awards have been held digitally, streamed on YouTube’s Vogue Channel, and included a mixture of movie, visible FX, holograms and augmented actuality.
The 4 honorees have been all chosen for representing completely different pillars of the GCFAs: Environmentally Restorative (Ford), Socially Simply (Yellowtail and James) and Economically Inclusive (Robinson). Ford is behind the The Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize, a pioneering and transformative competitors centered on ending plastic air pollution by innovating a substitute for plastic movie which is each ubiquitous and problematic within the style trade and past.
Moreover, Yellowtail was honored for eponymous model and style label B. Yellowtail, whose core values heart on championing indigenous craft, upholding social justice, and preserving heritage tradition and group, whereas James is acknowledged for her ardour for artisanal design and social justice with Brother Vellies, her model devoted to retaining conventional African design practices and strategies alive, whereas creating and sustaining artisanal jobs. Robinson accepted on behalf of Colour of Change, the racial justice group devoted to bringing financial inclusivity to the market and safe monetary equality for Black folks in America.
The Inexperienced Carpet Vogue Awards are held in honor of the Inexperienced Carpet Problem, which got here to fruition in the course of the 2010 awards season. Since, a number of stars have supported the problem by sporting sustainable manufacturers on pink carpets, together with Penelope Cruz, Olivia Colman, Thandiwe Newton, Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender.
“This isn't a celebration of an trade with the ability to distract. Slightly it’s the popularity of an trade that should leverage its energy for folks and planet,” stated Firth. “Vogue can and must be a lifeline. We have to come collectively and forge sturdy paths with human and ecological justice centre stage. All these awarded right here in the present day look disaster and battle within the eye. By doing that and actively creating our future we embrace energetic hope. The GCFAs champion energetic hope and deep, truthful work for transformation.”
Livia continued, “At present’s style panorama has modified dramatically and, after two years of pandemic and now conflict and battle, diaspora and trauma, we're all feeling overwhelmed. Vogue is a full spectrum trade operating throughout the globe, touching billions of lives and reliant on a wholesome biosphere. We should use that attain and energy to deliver purposeful change. We additionally know that sustainability options are intersectional options, that environmental justice is completely interlinked with social justice. The Inexperienced Carpet Vogue Awards are about all of this, showcasing the extent of dedication and focus that all of us must mirror; they're about pulling collectively as an trade that should step up. This is the reason this new idea for the GCFA marks for us a vital level for the style trade, utilizing additionally the ability of Hollywood as motion pictures and style have all the time been interlinked, flirting with one another in a symbiotic relationship.”
Further attendees of the night time included Nikki Reed, Amber Valetta, Heidi Klum and Alessandra Ambrosio.
