The Green Carpet Fashion Award.

The 2019 edition of the GCFAs will take place on Sunday 22rd September 2019 from 6.30pm (GMT+1) at the iconic Teatro alla Scala in Milan. 

Hamish Bowles, American Vogue’s international editor at large, is the creative director for all elements of the GCFAs again this year, including La Scala Square, which last year was transformed into a beautiful garden.  This year’s event theme will be inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci in the 500th anniversary year of his death.

“This year we celebrate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci, the protean genius – artist, inventor, designer, botanist, writer – whose glorious artistic legacy continues to illuminate the city of Milan,” said Hamish.

“Pietro Magni’s 1872 statue of da Vinci, depicted in distinguished old age, dominates the Piazza della Scala, the storied square that in turn links La Scala with the Palazzo. All three of these places are the key protagonists in the 2019 Green Carpet Awards evening, so it seemed appropriate to pay homage to da Vinci with an aesthetic that draws on his exquisite works and on Renaissance tapestries, and evokes the organic and sustainable monastic gardens, and the refectories that the artist himself would have been so familiar with. In these evocative spaces we come together to celebrate the great talents of our wider fashion and sustainability community.”