From gowns made of plastic bottles, to upcycling your red carpet look on the fly, more and more uber cool celebrities are making sustainability look utterly glam – and we love to see it.

Longtime sustainability champion Emma Watson turned heads in her Calvin Klein trouser-gown at the 2016 Met Gala. It’s hard to believe that the silky material is woven from yarns made from recycled plastic bottles. The gown’s hybrid design was made to be repurposed, with the trousers and bustier able to be worn on their own and the train detachable for future red carpet looks.

Not only did Billie Eilish abide by the widely misunderstood theme of 2022’s Met Gala, her gilded age gown by Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele was made entirely from upcycled materials, worn with vegan platform shoes, and a vintage choker.

Hailee Steinfeld wore a swirling vortex of upcycled ocean debris to the 2021 Met Gala. The Magnetosphere Dress, which took over 640 hours to make out of hand and laser-cut layers of Parley Ocean Plastic, was apparently “slightly uncomfortable” to wear on the night.

Rising designer Conner Ives made his Met Gala debut in 2021, with 18-year-old Natalia Bryant wearing his sequin bubble ball gown, created using recycled PPET plastic. Vogue editor in chief, Anna Wintour chose the young model to wear the dress on the night, before it featured in the American Lexicon Exhibit.

The weekend after Saoirse Ronan wore ablack satin gown to the2020 BAFTAS, she stepped out at the 92nd Academy Awards in a gown that looked almost … familiar. In a suave move, the young actress repurposed the material from her first gown into this dreamy lilac number just a week later.

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