The golden moment of Oscars Week was found last night at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards.
Cate Blanchett, Tom Ford, Naomi Campbell, Alicia Silverstone, Annie Lennox, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jerry Hall, Simu Liu, Mike D, Trudie Styler, Simone Ashley, Georgia May Jagger, Rafferty Law, Heidi Klum, Amber Valletta, Petra Němcová, Maria Carla Boscono, amongst others, walked the interactive carpet at this year’s Green Carpet Fashion Awards at NeueHouse Hollywood.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 09: Cate Blanchett attends the Green Carpet Fashion Awards 2023 on March 09, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Green Carpet Fashion Awards)
“Oscar week is hugely powerful in terms of it’s the biggest communication platform that we have. And so to use this platform and to start talking about some meaningful conversations is what we need. This is how do we need to come together as an industry and as citizens to improve the world,” Livia Firth, co-founder & creative director of Eco-Age told Knockturnal on the carpet.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 09: Leo Cerda (2nd from L), Sônia Guajajara (2rd from R), Livia Giuggioli Firth (R), and guests attend the Green Carpet Fashion Awards 2023 on March 09, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Green Carpet Fashion Awards)
The annual awards celebrated positive forces in fashion and entertainment, championing interconnected cultural change and the most inspiring efforts that drive it. The GCFA 2023 is co-chaired by Simone Ashley, Cate Blanchett, Quannah Chasinghorse, Viola Davis, Tom Ford, Salma Hayek and Simu Liu.
Celebrating six cultural archetype honors that are crucial to collective transformation in any community, the event included two special honors in fashion and entertainment and, closing the night, a special recognition of fourteen female leaders, for their inspirational activism, understanding and interplay between environmental action, civil rights, equality, global feminism and building a better collective future.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 09: Annie Lennox attends the Green Carpet Fashion Awards 2023 on March 09, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Green Carpet Fashion Awards)
“I started the Plastic Innovation Prize three years ago with a harrowing fear that the world our children would inherit would no longer be a livable one,” said Ford during the ceremony. “I wanted to be a part of the solution, not be an arbiter of the problem. Watching the brilliant minds within this competition has given me extraordinary hope in making the impossible possible.”