The Film Awards season has begun so it is interesting to see what Livia Firth is doing this year for the Green Carpet Challenge. At the Golden Globes Cate Blanchett accepted her Best Actress award for her role in Woody Allen movie Blue Jasmine in a stunning pair of Chopard earrings from their Green Carpet Collection. The earrings have been set in sustainably sourced Fairmined gold from artisanal community mines in South America, supported by the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) – a Colombia-based charity and developer of the Fairmined standard – and adorned with 72 marquise cut diamonds representing delicate leaves. The diamonds are sourced from the IGC Group, one of the world’s oldest diamond firms, and their origin is certified by the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC).

I also came across a very interesting little film Livia has commissioned that makes you think about the story embedded in your clothes before you even wear them. Speaking about the film, Director Mary Nighy said: “Many people’s hands touch our clothes before we wear them. If we could see or speak to those people, we might think about them and our clothes quite differently. Handprint is a short film which imagines what it would be like if we could connect to the people who make our clothes, and encourages us to remember them.”