The Hottest Trend On The Oscar’s Red Carpet: Sustainable Fashion
This year at the 2020 Oscars, celebrities turned the red carpet into a green carpet with their use of sustainable fashion. Lots of the biggest stars of Hollywood used their platforms to bring the media’s awareness to eco-friendly clothing options and looked good while doing it! Here are a few of our favorites:
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Margot Robbie, nominated for best supporting actress, showed us a glamorous black dress that put the planet first. She looked stunning in a vintage Chanel dress from the 1994 collection.
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French actress Léa Seydoux wore a beautiful white floor-length gown by Louis Vuitton. Its organic silk faille was made from Tencel Luxe filament yarn, which is wood-based. She even wore organic satin sandals, in addition to the eco-friendly dress. Seydoux’s garment was made in collaboration with the Red Carpet Green Dress campaign, a women-led initiative devoted to environmental activism.
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Olivia Colman wore a Stella McCartney caped gown that was made with a sustainable velvet material. This isn’t the first time that we have seen her rock sustainable fashion, though. This follows up the ethical lab-grown diamonds that the star wore to the BAFTAs just last week.
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Kaitlyn Dever wore a red Louis Vuitton gown that was also made with a silk satin certified by Red Carpet Green Dress. Dever’s custom platform shoes, meanwhile, were made by Aldo, a certified climate-neutral brand, having earned the title by recently offsetting 100% of its carbon emissions produced back in 2017.
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Little Women’s Saoirse Ronan and Gucci got on board with the sustainable mindset to create this stunning look. The label actually used the same black fabric as her BAFTAs gown to create her Oscars dress.
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The sustainable fashion did not stop with the women. Fan-favorite Timothée Chalamet wore a zip-up bomber jacket and trousers by Prada. The two pieces were both made of recycled nylon.
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Reality star Kim Kardashian West outdid herself with her archive gown at the Vanity Fair after-party, wearing a dress from the 2003 collection of which only two exist. The other is sitting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lily Aldridge wore not one, but two vintage dresses for the 2020 Oscars, the first being an archival Ralph Lauren design (from spring/summer 2013). For the after-party, she changed into a gorgeous white Gucci dress designed by Tom Ford circa autumn/winter 2004.
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Lead Actor winner Jaoquin Phoenix wore a sustainable Stella McCartney suit for the 2020 Oscars, the same one he had worn all awards season, in an effort to reduce waste and to draw attention to the climate emergency. For someone who won an Oscar for acting crazy, he sure is sane when it comes to opening the public eye to climate change.
Hopefully as more award shows and Red Carpets happen this year, we see more people hop on the trend of sustainable fashion.
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Writer: Tabitha Labrato
Editor: Gillian McKendree
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