Immensely proud to have been part of this judging panel and to be coming to Italy this September for the 2022 CNMI Sustainable Fashion Awards, which will be held on 25 September at La Scala Theatre in Milan, at the end of the Milano Fashion Week. For the first time, the CNMI set up an Advisory Committee made up of more than 25 international and Italian associations and non-profit organisations engaged in topics related to sustainable fashion, allowing them to play an active part of the project, with the aim of making a first selection of the nominations for the awards. Each member of the Advisory board was asked to select from five to twenty nominees who had to fill in and submit an application form, more than 200 applications were received, analized and elaborated by a technical committee which assigned a scoring on the basis of an evaluation grid based, on the framework of the Ethical Fashion Initiative. Chaired by Dame Ellen MacArthur, founder of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The Members of the Jury are: 1. Dame Ellen MacArthur – Founder and Chair of Trustees, Ellen MacArthur Foundation 2. Carlo Capasa – Chairman Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana 3. Simone Cipriani – Head and Founder of the Ethical Fashion Initiative at the International Trade Centre, Chairperson of the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion 4. Roberta Annan – Founder Africa Fashion Foundation 5. Paola Deda – DIRECTOR – Forests, Land and Housing Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE) 6. Kerry Kennedy – President Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights 7. Teneshia Carr – CEO of Blanc Media Inc. and Editor In Chief of Blanc Magazine 8. Federica Marchionni – CEO, Global Fashion Agenda 9. Ai Tominaga – Model 10. Samata Pattinson – CEO of RCGD Global and Cultural Sustainability Pioneer 11. Teddy Quinlivan – Model and activist 12. Michelangelo Pistoletto – Artist See you this September Italy!!!