Blanca Padilla's Ardent Environmentalism by Rafa Gallar for ELLE Espana June 2022 AOC Fashion

Spanish model Blanca Padilla is styled by Bárbara Garralda & Sylvia Montoliu in a sea and earth-honoring fashion story lensed by Rafa Gallar [IG] for ELLE Espana’s June 2022 issue.

The focus for June is environmental awareness and damage to our oceans and seas.

Once again, we find ourselves in this mentally-twisted fashion reality of having an environmental activist model creating an informative environmental narrative about the urgency of climate action and fashion’s significant role in creating the increasingly significant damage to the planet.

The clothes featured are largely unsustainable with no eco-credentials called out. Stella McCartney is represented and Chloe is included with a high probability of being sustainable.

Blanca Padilla does an excellent job as both model and activist. In the interview she obliquely references fashion’s professed inherent contradictions around sustainability.

Where Is the Sustainable Fashion for an Environmental Issue?

It’s one thing to make the effort and fail. In that case, we would side with ELLE Espana. Because trying is everything. But I don’t get the feeling that ELLE Espana even notices these very obvious contradictions in their editorial strategy.

Blanca Padilla herself speaks at length about her ongoing collaboration with Ecoalf. She mentions being guided by American model Cameron Russell. Giada Lubomirski, founder of the international Ecoshaker platform is news to AOC.

I went through this same restrained diatribe over Fashion Canada putting Tasha Tilberg in the identical position a couple months ago.

There is no excuse in my mind for not having sustainable clothes in this fashion story. Or at least a 50/50 mix. Elle Espana could promote their effort ‘Getting It Half Right is Better Than Being Dead Wrong.’

We say thanks to Blanca Padilla for both her modeling efforts and excellent interview about the critical environmental peril in which we live. ~ Anne