And every time we mentioned it, people were like, ‘What?’ Investors would look at us like we were speaking another language. No one was talking about sustainability apart from a small group of us. I was shocked at how little everyone knew about this 12 years ago. I also started seeing how many problems there were through the supply chain, on every level, whether it be worker rights, human rights, diversity issues, climate issues, or animal rights. When I stepped away in 2000 for about a decade, I started getting into environmental activism, which is why, when I decided to get back into fashion, I knew I couldn’t do it the way I was before. “I didn’t know what it was, but my internal compass was saying something isn’t right. “When I was modeling in the 90s, I felt a discrepancy,” Valletta said. What came out of that was nothing short of inspiring. That is why, last month in Los Angeles, in the wake of announcing the Green Carpet Fashion Awards (GCFA) moving there, we hosted the first of The GCFA Talks with actor, model, and activist Amber Valletta sustainable fashion content creator, photojournalist, National Geographic storytelling fellow, academic, and labor rights activist Aditi Mayer and designer, tech genius, and creative director of Eddie Bauer, Christopher Bevans. We need to have honest conversations that tie all the threads of sustainability together. Yet today, this is what keeps happening: we read about an initiative that is supposed to “solve it all,” or a commitment from a brand about one side of the story (oft en climate) without ever mentioning the other (often social). My friend, Professor Hakan Karaosman always says that sustainability is such a multi-faceted issue it is impossible to condense it into one topic. Aditi Mayer, Livia Firth, and Amber Valletta
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