Daphne Groeneveld Covers ELLE Italia Earth Day Issue Fashion Story by Laurie Bartley

Top model Daphne Groeneveld channels “tree huggers”, a stereotypical image of white Americans from the late ‘70s hugging trees, writes Patagonia. It’s easy to forget that passion around saving the environment is over 50 years old.

The Earth Day cover story of ELLE Italia takes up the topic of humans’ relationship with our earth in an issue that touches the lives of prominent environmentalists, including Alice Braga, Amber Valletta, Gisele Bundchen, Jane Fonda, John Kerry, Jonathan Franzen and Muhammad Yunus,

Photographer Laurie Bartley [IG] captures Groenevld at a farm in Sicility wearing Saint Laurent on the cover and Ermanno Scervino, MM6 Maison Margiela,Sportmax and more in the bucolic fashion story styled by Miki Sessa./ Hair by Alessandro Rebecchi; makeup by Giovanni Iovine