Eco-Warrior Tasha Tilberg by Greg Swales for Fashion Canada April 2022

Supermodel turned sustainability eco-warrior Tasha Tilberg covers Fashion Magazine’s April 2022 climate crisis issue. Simply stated, Tasha Tilberg always saw modeling as a financial means to an end, a financial goal that she adeptly achieved wearing her septum piercing, hand-poked tattoos and granola meets grunge aesthetic.

Tilberg underscores her essential identity to writer Annike Lautens this way:

Tilberg says that even from the beginning of her career, modelling was always just a job, not an identity. “When I introduce myself to someone, I never call myself a model,” she reflects. “It’s one of the things I do, but it’s not who I am. I was always buying my freedom. I did this because I wanted to buy a tractor.”

Her major success in modeling allowed Tilberg to buy her first farm at age 16.

Photographer Greg Swales [IG] captures Tasha Tilberg, styled by Leila Bani.

AOC is confused by the fashion choices, which seem not to have any sustainability or ethically-made credentials. Tilberg has a very close relationship with Gabriela Hearst, and yet neither Hearst’s own label or Chloé features in the fashion shoot. Tilberg speaks of Another Tomorrow, a conscious clothing brand out of New York and Dhara. We don’t see them.

Hey, if Fashion Canada chooses to write about the coming climate apocalypse but not use ethical, sustainable clothing in its fashion cover story — or at least a 50/50 mix — who are we to criticize?

Moncler is featured in the fashion story, and they were ranked in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices 2021 as the highest scoring stock in the Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods. That doesn’t mean they are great. It means they are the best of the lot.

This is fashion world at its best, right. Hopefully, we are wrong and stylist Leila Bani’s fashion choices for Tasha Tilberg have more integrity than it appears. We’ve invested enough free time — 3o minutes — trying to answer the question. If they don’t care to feature fashion industry sustainability in an issue on climate catastrophe, there’s not much more we can do. ~ Anne

For more in-depth about Tilberg’s environmentalism, read: Elizabeth Cabral: SustainChain UN Assembly Fashion Sustainability Dialogues Sept 16-18 AOC Fashion