More than 1,500 fashion industry guests attended the CNMI Sustainable Fashion Awards held at the La Scala theater on Sunday evening.
, and the Biodiversity Conservation Award to Oasi Zegna. The former was handed out by Kiara Nirghin, a South African inventor of a method to increase food security in drought stricken areas, to CEO Patrizio Bertelli, who attended with Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons.
One very moving moment was when ARA Lumiere founder Kulsum Shadab Wamab received the Social Impact Award for her work with gender-based violence. She and actress and trans activist Indya Moore hugged and helped three survivors of acid attacks overcome the emotion of flying out of India for the first time to stand on stage at La Scala in the beautiful black and gold embroidered saris they created. The reception could not have been warmer – and quite a few tears were shed in the audience.
Pierpaolo Piccioli, who has long supported and worked with Akech, on this occasion bestowed the Human Rights Award to Bangladeshi businesswoman, university academic and poet Rubana Huq, who has been shining the light on the garment industry in Bangladesh.Renzo Rosso trumpeted the work of his wife Arianna Alessi for the OTB Foundation, which received the Philantrophy and Society Award, from the hands of Italian rapper Ghali.
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