Ditch sequins to be kind to the planet, Bafta stars told
Guests given eco-friendly advice on how to make gowns last longer by washing out wine stains
AVOID sequined gowns and resist throwing away wine-stained outfits, Bafta has implored its celebrity guests as it reminds A-listers to choose environmental substance over style on the red carpet.
The Baftas are the glamorous centrepiece of the British film industry’s calendar, and the red carpet is a parade of the latest fashions, but stars have been urged to “stop buying into every trend” and make their wardrobes eco-friendly.
Celebrities should ditch the glitzy staple of gowns bedecked with sequins as they contain “harmful microplastics”, according to a new Bafta style guide that warns that they “shimmer for a few hours then languish at the back of the wardrobe for a few years, before lying intact in landfill for a few centuries”.
Luminaries of the film world have also been reminded to wash their clothes – which may become blemished
‘It’s time to stop buying into every trend and think more carefully about what we already have’
with “red wine spillages” during a night of awards ceremony celebrations – rather than wastefully throw away their stained outfits.
The Bafta style guide produced with the London College of Fashion states: “We’ve all been there the day after the night before – stained shoes, red wine spillages. Instead of throwing away your clothing and accessories, try bringing them back to life with specialist cleaning.”
The guide addressed to guests set to attend the 2022 Baftas this evening at the Royal Albert Hall has stressed the environmental harms of the fashion industry, which produces a vast carbon footprint to create garments that are often worn briefly and then discarded.
The guide states that the “red carpet is a powerful platform” and gives celebrities an opportunity to promote sustainable fashion.
One way for stars to do this, the pamphlet of fashion tips states, is to be less on-trend.
It advises: “The most mindful way to a more sustainable nable wardrobe is to reclaim your existing one. It’s time to stop buying g into every trend and think more carefully refully about what we already have.”
The red carpet pet could become a display of darned d and patched-up garments, according ng to the guide, which has advised powerful werful – and wealthy – figures in the film lm industry to mend as well as wash their heir clothes, rather than simply replace them.
It states that “sustainability is about cherishing it through hrough careful laundry, maintenance and repair”, and has pointed film stars tars in the direction of “home repair kits” its” for their outfits.
Along with washed and repaired items, celebrities es may also consider wearing second-hand second- clothes, or renting ing outfits for the evening, according ording to the guide issued ahead head of the
2022 awards.
It states that t “there’s a positive movement ment toward no longer feeling ng the need to own things, but still getting to enjoy them”, m”, in a reiteration of a message ssage first relayed to stars ahead head of the 2020 Baftas.
That year the attendant stars of the screen, en, which on the night included uded Olivia Colman, were given ven advice on how to make their heir wardrobes more sustainable, tainable, including buying g secondhand clothing.
Bafta has pledged edged to stage carbon-neutral utral ceremonies and continues tinues to make reforms to its ts annual show and persuade e celebrities to make greener ner sartorial choices.
Guests will be encouraged to take coaches es instead of cars to the ceremony, eremony, where Jane Campion’s pion’s The Power of the Dog is expected to receive the lion’s ’s share of awards. The film’s star, tar, Benedict Cumberbatch, an advocate dvocate of environmentalism who has joined Extinction Rebellion protests, is hotly tipped ipped to take home the best st actor award.
Other stars hoping g to win at this evening’s ceremony, remony, hosted by Rebel Wilson, ilson, the Australian comedian, an, include the best actor nominees nees Leonardo DiCaprio and Will Smith, mith, and best actress hopeful Lady y Gaga.