We also talk to Charo Izquierdo, director of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid, about this situation."If you go to a design school, and I go because I give many classes in them, you find 20 girls and 1 boy, and instead at the time of truth there are more men who get on the catwalk.I don't know if there will be more women in the workshops, but as creative directors there are more men.I think that in the end this will end up transforming, it will be like energy, because really if there are so many women studying in fashion schools, more and more women will be more and more creative directors ".Because talking about fashion means thinking about Coco Chanel, Donna Karan, Miuccia Prada, Philo ... but following that female thread we find that, for example, Maria Grazia Chiuri is the first woman in front of Dior in all her years of history, or that the same thing happens with Givenchy and Clare Waight Keller.
And if creativity is dominated by men, the offices too."I have reflected on it for a long time.Large fashion companies are directed, in their vast majority, by men.Like electricity, banking ... These days we celebrate the progress that we have a newspaper director but how many years have we had to wait to see it?Fashion is a mirror, and what happens in other areas of society.The only asset is that in the fashion media, women are the voice, "says left.For the director of MBFWM, the solution passes, first, to "make visible the problem and demand those who have the ability to work to eliminate it to do it".Also "tell it, doing studies or publishing news to know the real situation" and above all "work so that women have the same opportunities to reach the positions of responsibility or raise their own brands and create in themselves and in theirtalent".
Von Furstenberg explains that fashion "is a creative industry and that is why they play with some advantage, because creative people have a greater sense of equality and empathy.It is something that is seen in the way we act with others.But now we need to transfer all that to tangible facts, real opportunities for women both in their careers and in their life so that they can continue to grow ".Also in life, yes, because 30% of women in the industry consulted claim that having a child is a brake on their professional aspirations.But only 7% of men believe it like this."Above all, it is important that we do not pretend that everything is fine, because it is not true," concludes the designer.Well that.
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