Uganda Was Well Represented at The Green Carpet Fashion Awards in Los Angeles

All the highlights that you missed

The annual Green Carpet Fashion Awards (GCFA) event recently happened in Los Angeles, activists, designers, actors and stars gathered for the awards ceremony that celebrates the power of fashion and entertainment for an innovative cultural, social, environmental and ethical transformation.

In attendance were @barbiekyagulanyi, @bobiwine, Ugandan environmentalist, tourism goodwill ambassador and fashion model @iamjudithheard who was a 2024 GCFA Young Leader Honorees, and @vanessanakate1, who was a co-chair at the event alongside Zendaya, among others. Zendaya, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Donatella Versace, Jennifer Coolidge, Annie Lennox, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Amber Valletta and Trudie Styler, walked the red carpet at this year’s Green Carpet Fashion Awards at 1 Hotel West Hollywood, alongside some of the world’s most respected leaders, young activists and Indigenous representatives. The annual awards celebrate leaders who are creating collective transformation and showcases the need for an intersectional approach to achieve change.

The highlight of the night saw Vanessa Nakate, on behalf of a group of young leaders, honor U.N. Secretary General António Guterres as The Sage, in acknowledgement of his courage, clarity of message and unwavering work on environmental and social justice.