Angela Lindvall Inside the Met Ball
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Supermodel Angela Lindvall has been a cover girl for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, and the face of brands from Valentino to DKNY, but for the past 10 years her mission has been to bring a personal interest in sustainability to her professional career. Angela founded the non-profit Collage Foundation to bring national awareness to environmental issues, co-hosted “Alter Eco” with Adrian Grenier, and is on the founding board of Natural Resources Defense Council’s Clean by Design Initiative. Now, with her brand-new EcoCelebrity Blog by Angela Lindvall hosted at EcoStiletto, we get an inside look at the ultimate ecoista’s life.
Hello, ecoistas! I’m thrilled to be a part of your community with my new EcoCelebrity blog on EcoStiletto. After 10 years of being an environmental activist, it’s so exciting to see my work in fashion finally starting to collide with my personal interests in sustainability. Way back in 2000, I created The Collage Foundation for the purpose of using pop culture and mainstream media channels that I am involved with to expose sustainable solutions to the mainstream.
As I first began to educate myself more thoroughly about the current ecological issues that we face, I was startled to comprehend the extent of our culture’s extreme disconnection with the environment. For the first time, I truly realized how important it is that we have a mutually beneficial interaction with the environment and how everything we put into our water, air and land in turn affects our health and well being. At that point I was overwhelmed by the fact that the majority of people were more interested in what celebrities were doing than on the global environmental crisis that was unfolding all around them.
Of course now, many years later the word “green” has become a symbol for a sustainability movement that has spread well into the mainstream media. We still have many challenges to face, but at least now the issues are being brought to the forefront by the media and, in turn, corporate America. People are becoming more aware of the choices they can make as consumers and citizens to have a lower negative impact on our precious home, Earth.
And I’m proud to be a part of it all! Check back here each week as I update with what I’m doing between living the glamorous life of fashion and film, raising children, supporting my favorite charities and running my seven acres outside of Los Angeles, CA.
Currently, I’m in New York doing my “fashion” work, which I’m so grateful allows me the opportunity to pursue all my dreams. On Monday, I went to the 2011 Costume Institute Gala—better known as the Met Ball. This photo of me with my friend Karlie Kloss; I’m wearing an Andrew Gn dress, borrowed for the night, plus wearing jewelry from the new John Hardy Hijau Dua line made with recycled silver that I co-designed—this year, they’ll plant 600,000 bamboo seedlings to offset carbon emissions! Oh, and I’m also wearing DKNY PURE, my favorite scent, which is made with sustainably harvested vanilla that supports women in Uganda.
Who says you can’t be glamorous and love the planet?
with Love & Light,
