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Emma Thompson Donates Black Prada Jacket For Clothes Recycling Campaign

Academy Award-winning British actress, comedian, and screenwriter Emma Thompson is among several celebrities who will be re-styled and given a new lease of life in a clothes recycling campaign.

Camden Council’s (located in the UK) ‘From bin bags to glad rags’ campaign will offer residents lessons in sewing and needlework, and show how old clothes can be reused. Designers from a green charity, TRAID (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development), will reuse Thompson’s black Prada jacket, and a cap from Scott’s film Robin Hood. The day-long event is part of the council’s goal to fight climate change.

Other celebrities endorsing the campaign are Terry Gilliam and Ridley Scott as well as comedians Julian Clary, who donated a Christian Lacroix shirt and Victoria Wood, who gave her jumper.