Green Carpet Fashion Awards Co-Chairs Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis – The Hollywood Reporter

The Green Carpet Fashion Awards are coming to LA for Oscar Week.

Previously held in Milan, the elegant awards event – which honors environmental and social sustainability in the world of fashion and the entertainment industry – will be held in Los Angeles on March 8. The night will be co-chaired by a star-studded quintet: Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, Simu Liu, designer and director Tom Ford and model Quannah Chasinghorse, who will host the evening.

“Fashion can and should be a lifeline,” Livia Firth, the force behind the Green Carpet Awards and founder of sustainability consultancy Eco-Age, said in a statement. “Sustainability solutions are cross-cutting solutions and we all need to come together and create strong pathways with human and ecological justice at center stage. GCFA will showcase just that – the level of commitment and focus we all need to reflect, bringing together two powerful and interconnected industries to enhance a collective transformation.”

Eco-advocate Firth founded the Green Carpet Challenge in 2010 — in which celebrities make sustainable choices on the red carpet — and launched the Green Carpet Awards in 2017. Late last year, Firth and Eco-Age also debuted The GCC Style Manuala guide for celebrities and fashion designers on ways to be eco-friendly and inspire fans to make conscious choices too.

In 2012, Davis took on the green carpet challenge wearing a Giorgio Armani dress made from recycled gas cans, and Blanchett is a standard bearer of the upcycling movement, choosing to wear previously worn dresses on the carpet. red and not the new clothes. Ford’s sustainability efforts include its Tom Ford Ocean Plastic watch.

Added Firth of the upcoming awards event, “This is not a celebration of an industry with the power to distract. Rather, it’s recognition of an industry that needs to use its power for people and the planet. Fashion is a spectrum industry comprehensive, touching billions of lives around the globe and supported by a healthy biosphere. We must use that reach and power to bring about intentional change.”

Scriptwriter and production designer Stefan Beckman will be the creative director of the awards, which also boasts a board that includes modeling agency pioneer Bethann Hardison, model Amber Valletta, designer Christopher Bevans and Vogue Sustainability Editor Tonne Goodman. Green Carpet Fashion Awards partners and supporters include L’Oréal, Farfetch, Candiani Denim and 1 Hotel West Hollywood.