by LAIRD BORRELLI-PERSSO
Even among the splendor of the cloister-style garden created in the Piazza della Scala for the 2019 Green Carpet Awards, which celebrate the people and organizations steering fashion in a more sustainable direction, there was no missing Hamish Bowles, Vogue’s own multitasking Renaissance man, and the creative director of the event.
He was dressed in a lilac, flower-print Libertine suit,* a wardrobe staple that he decided to give another turn in the spotlight in the spirit of the evening...Sustainability, said Bowles,
“Has to be an essential part of the dialogue. The Amazon is on fire. We have seen what’s happening in the natural world and it is linked to forces that we can in many ways regulate, control, and mitigate against if we work very, very proactively and very, very, very fast... to regulate and be mindful about supply chains and sustainability and their imprint.”
Bowles’s creative fingerprint was there throughout the event, which this year also marked the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death.
*... a head-to-toe ensemble referenced the crustacean Dalí painted on a dress for Elsa Schiaparelli...A series of pieces hung with embroidered sardines and the odd brown trout was intended both as ...
"an homage to sardines and sea life and our planet.”
