There could be some consternation between the broader Sleeping Beauties theme of sustainability and circularity, and the overconsumption of the $3 trillion trend trade.
And sustainability can typically be laborious to search out within the interpretations on the notoriously maximalist crimson carpet.
Stella McCartney has been a longtime champion of cruelty-free and sustainable practices in her work, and tonight’s seems to be—worn by Cara Delevingne, Ed Sheeran, and his spouse Cherry Seaborn—characteristic zero-emissions VRAI created diamonds.
In response to a press launch from Stella McCartney, who could have two attire within the Met exhibition, Delevigne’s crimson carpet look is “probably the most sustainable” of her cohort, and has “the emission equivalency of recycling 11.3 tons of waste as an alternative of it going to a landfill, since each carat of VRAI created diamonds produced saves 143 lbs of carbon dioxide.”