Wow! We’re in ecstasy with this Jane Fonda editorial lensed by Tiffany Nicholson for Who What Wear. Tracy Taylor styles Fonda in Gabriela Hearst, Warren, Frame Le Plazzo Jeans, Lingua Franca ‘Outlaw’ cashmere sweater — PERFECT for Fonda — and more.

Jane celebrated her 82nd birthday in handcuffs, arrested for a fifth time at a climate change protest in Washington, DC. Jane makes it clear in her interview that clothes do not inspire her. And yes, Tracy Taylor whipped up largely sustainable pieces for the Tiffany Nicholson photo shoot. Jane is on the record saying that her red protest coat —not the Nancy Pelosi red Max Mara coat — is the last item of clothing that she will ever buy.

Amanda Montell sits down with Jane for the interview on activism and protest.

Reflecting on what first ignited her “inner revolutionary”, Fonda cites the filmography of her father, actor Henry Fonda—’12 Angry Men’, ‘Young Mr. Lincoln’, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’, ‘The Wrong Man’. “They were films about justice, about fairness, about anti-racism,” she recalls. “I think they fertilized the soil of my soul, if you will.” And what inspires her now? “Student climate strikers”— 17-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner and Time’s 2019 Person of the Year Greta Thunberg. Jane really likes Greta.

“One of the reasons I’ve moved to Washington, D.C., for four months was to get out of my comfort zone and put my body on the line, as Greta Thunberg calls us to do,” Fonda explains. “I want to help wake people up. I want to try to role model with my own body.” According to Fonda, the willingness to kill a night or two behind bars for a cause as pressing as the end of the world should be nothing special. “It needs to become the new norm,” she says. “So I’m very encouraged when I have people coming from Washington, California, Oregon, Colorado, Vermont, and Ohio to join me in civil disobedience, people who’ve never done it before.”

AOC wants to positively call out Who What Wear for acknowledging the complexity of being a shopping site interviewing Jane Fonda, who vows never to buy another piece of clothing. We share their Editorial Note: Although Who What Wear is a fashion and shopping site, we encourage our readers to be mindful of their consumption habits through regular coverage of sustainable brands (see our sustainable winter shopping guide) and vintage shopping (see our story on the vintage versions of this season's It items).