Samata Pattinson, CEO at RCGD Global, has been announced as main stage host at this year’s Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen
RCGD Global
Covered by Ashley Buchanan
First Published: 05/05/2023
Location: Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, 4th May 2023: Samata Pattinson, CEO at RCGD Global, has been announced as the main stage host and special advisor at this year’s Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition, taking place on the 27th and 28th of June 2023.
This year’s theme is ‘Ambition to Action’, reflecting the need for proven implementation in the fashion industry. With an uplifting sense of clarity, the agenda will focus on delivering tangible impact solutions with the expertise of fashion stakeholders including designers, youth citizens, and industry leaders like Samata Pattinson.
As CEO of Founder Suzy Amis Cameron’s RCGD Global (best known for its sustainable design initiative Red Carpet Green Dress at the Oscars), Pattinson has been bringing sustainability to the forefront of conversation and action within the global apparel industry - collaborating and connecting with creatives from Ghana and Nigeria, across Italy and New Zealand. Working with established brands such as Louis Vuitton, Giorgio Armani, and Vivienne Westwood, alongside small independent designers such as Ghanaian-born Michael Badger, the organisation’s Red Carpet Green Dress initiative at the Oscars has marked its 14th anniversary this year. RCGD Global’s partnership with The Academy extended in 2023 with Pattinson becoming the author of the official sustainable style guide for the 95th Annual Academy Awards.
In 2021, Pattinson joined COP26 as part of the SHE Changes Climate initiative, returning to Egypt for COP27 as keynote speaker. In the summer of 2022, she delivered the Billie Eilish Climate and Fashion focus at the Singers’ London Overheated Festival.
As one of the hosts of this year’s edition, Pattinson will bring to the stage her knowledge of sustainable design, cultural sustainability, and more than ten years of experience in the field.
ABOUT RCGD GLOBAL™
RCGD Global is a women-led global change-making organisation working from ‘moment’ to movement, bringing global cultural sustainability to the forefront of conversation and action within the fashion and design world. Celebrating its 14th year of the Red Carpet Green Dress campaign initiative at the Oscars, RCGD Global was initially conceived as a design contest by Suzy Amis Cameron (actress, environmental advocate, and author) when faced with the lack of ethical fashion choices while attending global premieres of husband James Camerons’ ‘Avatar’. The organisations’ work has since developed to include collaborations with global and small independent brands, partnerships delivering sustainable design solutions such as regenerative materials, educational work with the emerging design community - including workshops, internships, and work experience, and international design contest initiatives. Alongside a consultancy offering, RCGD Global’s R & D division delivers thought-leadership work for the industry, working with leading institutions such as the Institute for Sustainability Leadership, the University of Cambridge, and University of California, Berkeley.
RCGD Global works to draw attention to the importance of more sustainable practices in the design world and to be part of bringing those solutions to a global, culturally diverse market. Leading fashion houses including Louis Vuitton, Vivienne Westwood, Armani, Elie Saab, Swarovski, Christian Siriano, Bulgari, Dunhill, and Reformation have joined the campaign to create sustainable red carpet wear. Celebrities including Sophie Turner, Laura Harrier, Emma Roberts, Marlee Matlin, Danielle MacDonald, LaKeith Stanfield, Camila Alves, and Naomie Harris have joined the campaign as representatives of its Oscars red carpet green dress initiative. RCGD Global’s work has been featured in VOGUE, Vanity Fair, W Magazine, People, The Hollywood Reporter, WWD, Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, Refinery29, The Guardian, ELLE, LA Times, The New York Times, Business of Fashion amongst others, across over 100 countries.
Helmed by CEO, Samata Pattinson, a prior winner of the Global Design Contest in 2011 with over a decade of experience, Red Carpet Green Dress unveiled its rebrand to RCGD Global in 2022, to fully encompass the multitude of spaces that the organisation exists in with a focus on four core pillars:
> Collaborating with respected and mainstream platforms to foster sustainable conversations and action
> Developing accessible sustainable design solutions which create real effective change
> Being part of creating a more socially fair, equitable, and representative industry
> Helping to find language to create change
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ABOUT GLOBAL FASHION SUMMIT
Global Fashion Summit is the leading international forum for sustainability in fashion. Since its first edition in 2009, Global Fashion Summit has established itself as the nexus of agenda-setting discussions on the most critical environmental, social, and ethical issues facing the industry, people, and our planet.
The Summit has been spearheading the sustainability movement in fashion for the past decade by bringing together global industry leadership, change makers, and thinkers to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable fashion industry. It represents not just a leadership forum but an interactive space that aims to inspire leaders to act now.
Global Fashion Summit is presented by Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) – a non-profit organisation that fosters industry collaboration on sustainability in fashion to drive impact.