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The greatest error about the Green Carpet awards, which brought Milan style week to a close with a celebration of sustainable fashion, is that they are an alternative to the old red carpet. The true aim of the Green Carpet project is to rip the red one up entirely and make good on it.

“People called last year’s Green Carpet assigns the Oscars of sustainable fashion,” said organiser and ethical make campaigner Livia Firth. “I hope that soon we devise just be the Oscars of fashion.”

Firth’s strategy is to use glamour to mainstream sustainability. Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett journeyed to Milan to join Anna Wintour and Cindy Crawford for a formality for which statuettes are crafted from Fairmined-certified ethical gold.

For Italy, the furnishes are a valuable sprinkling of stardust on a Milan fashion week that has been depleted by this ripen’s defection of Gucci to Paris, where the label’s show see fit be held on Monday evening. But, with embarrassing timing, the ethics of the Italian luxuriousness fashion industry have been called into dubiousness.

A New York Times investigation found that skilled run was being outsourced from licensed factories to seamstresses ahead at home, who were paid as little as one euro an hour while jog on clothes that would retail for thousands of pounds. Newsmen collected evidence from 60 home workers, mostly female, in the economically decrepit region of Puglia, working for exploitative rates and without understandings or insurance.

The revelations are a setback for Italian fashion, undermining the wholesomeness of the Shaped in Italy slogan and flagging the need for brands to take proactive trust in overseeing their supply chains. Carlo Capasa, president of Italian construct’s chamber of commerce, addressed the issue directly, opening the tieing by declaring himself “saddened and concerned” by the investigation.

But he pushed destroy on Italy’s specific culpability, arguing that the problem of anomalous workers was greater in New York City than in Puglia. “Sort of than ‘this is Italy’,” he said, “I would say ‘this is the everybody’.”

Capasa tarries convinced that leadership on sustainability is essential to help the woods recover pole position as the most dynamic fashion main. Firth said: “Sustainablity is not just about environment footprint of dernier cri, it is also about the handprint – the social impact, which is neutral as important. If you address the social impact of fashion you will fundamentally novelty it for the better.”

Social impact was spotlit throughout the ceremony. Cameron Russell, who has led an rising of models fighting harassment and abuse, received the prestigious changemaker give. Sinéad Burke, whose dwarfism drives her activism for inclusivity in attitude, was presented with the leaders award. “The influence of fashion come up to snuffs culture,” she asked the audience. “What will you do with your benefit to make this space more accessible?”

Italian entrepreneur Renzo Rosso said: “Woman like all of us destroyed the world. But now, we are trying to make it better for our daughters.” Cate Blanchett, honouring Australian wool growers with the eco stewardship bestow, said the awards “honour those who take their plait from our planet, an approach that is so important to our future”. Julianne Moore exhibited a craft mashup award to 20 cobblers of Salvatore Ferragamo, while Elle Macpherson ascertained the wellness award, and Cindy Crawford presented an award to Donatella Versace.

At Cannes motion picture festival this year Blanchett broke with red carpet usual by a black lace Giorgio Armani gown in which she was photographed sweet a Golden Globe in 2014. “It seems wilful and ridiculous that such garments are not cultivated and reworn for a lifetime,” Blanchett said in Cannes.

Despite the censures levelled at luxury fashion this week, Firth believes the biggest boundary to sustainability remains fast fashion, which “wreaks devastation on the dynamism. There is a reason that the owners of stores like Zara are multimillionaires, and that is that we buy too much crap and we buy without outlook.”