Tiffany Haddish and Keira Knightley on the red carpet to Princess Beatrice borrowing Queen Elizabeth’s wedding dress – green celebrities championing recycled fashion
Good style never goes out of date – these fashionistas, including Keira Knightley in Chanel, make the case for reviving iconic dresses again and again
Green red carpets are not a new concept. Celebs recycling wedding dresses, however, are another matter. Bridal gowns and red carpet high fashion are marketed as rarefied and timeless, but what are we to make of their single-use status among the world’s most photographed women?
While there has been a long (and fascinating) history of heirloom or hand-me-down wedding dresses among the general public, too few celebrities have followed suit, raising thorny questions about wastefulness.
Fortunately, these famous, fashionable faces are leading the recycling charge, with more sure to follow …
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Princess Beatrice … and Queen Elizabeth
The British royal family are no strangers to repeating outfits, but Princess Beatrice, daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, recently became a bona fide bridal boundary-breaker.
For her July 17 wedding to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, the royal donned a Norman Hartnell gown loaned from her grandmother Queen Elizabeth. Updated with organza sleeves and a modified (formerly bubbled) hem, the ivory silk number was worn by the queen on at least three occasions; at a 1961 state dinner in Rome, a 1962 special viewing of Lawrence of Arabia, and the 1966 state opening of Parliament.
Keira Knightley