From Gisele to Amber Valletta: Meet the 5 Models Making Being Eco-Friendly Totally Fashionable Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Gisele Bündchen1/5Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Bündchen is extremely active when it comes to the environment: The Brazilian beach babe has tapped into her South American roots for several projects, ranging from launching a clean-water project in her hometown of Horizontina to a shoe collaboration with Grendene that raised funds for the rainforest. In 2009, Bündchen became a Goodwill Ambassador for United Nations Environment Programme. Plus, the supermodel and her family have put their money where their mouths are, living in a sustainable, eco-conscious house in Los Angeles that is built from recycled materials and solar panels.
Photo: Courtesy of Angela Lindvall2/5Angela Lindvall
Warning: A visit to Angela Lindvall’s Instagram will provoke some serious wanderlust, namely when it comes to the supermodel’s eco-friendly oasis in Topanga Canyon, California. The Vogue cover girl is an environmentalist as well as a Kundalini yoga teacher, and her home is full of sustainable farming elements (free-range chickens and a charming greenhouse among them). Additionally, Lindvall launched the Collage Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on environmental awareness.
Photo: Getty Images3/5Kirsty Hume
The flaxen-haired Scottish stunner spent the nineties helming major campaigns for Chanel and Valentino and recently made a comeback on the Prabal Gurung fall 2015 runway, but it s her interest in all-things au naturel that s got us swooning: In spring 2014, she lent her face to Awaveawake—an eco-conscious label by Jaclyn Hodes. And Hume’s involvement in Mother Earth isn’t exclusively fashion-minded—in her daily life, Hume is an active forager and takes courses on harvesting crops.
Photo: Craig McDean/Yoox Images4/5Amber Valletta
The supermodel who protested the construction of a power plant in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her family when she was only eight years old is now the founder of the eco-friendly e-commerce site Master Muse. Pieces on offer have included everything from a biker jacket by The Sway, which is made from motorcycle seats, to sandals by Coclico, a label that tracks its carbon usage and invests in renewable energy projects.
Photo: Courtesy of Organic by John Patrick5/5Donna Jordan
Though Donna Jordan, muse to Andy Warhol and Vogue, once remembered the seventies as a bleak time for the eco-conscious, telling _Vogue’_s Lynn Yaeger, “Nobody thought about green anything back then; it was not part of the vocabulary," the model is doing her part to bring the green movement back into focus, striking an eco-friendly pose along with her daughter, Kate Ballo, for the sustainable label, Organic by John Patrick in 2011.
