Makers 2024

Combatting human trafficking and empowering its survivors is the purpose of Beauty for Freedom. The foundation aims to provide a therapeutic approach based on creative programs that foster skills training among young people at risk of exclusion and among victims of human trafficking.

Having a physical disability should not be synonymous with being unable to dress fashionably. Under this precept, Free Form Style was launched, a brand responsible for designing and producing clothing collections intended and adapted for people with functional diversity. Inclusive clothing that improves their self-esteem and promotes their autonomy.

Female artisans from all around the Mediterranean basin face oblivion and the devaluation of their work. Itinérance Méditerrannée brings together and supports these women in order to safeguard their skills and cultural heritage. Through different actions, Itinérance draws attention to the work of these artisans, promoting its value and importance.

We buy more and more clothes and wear them for shorter periods of time. But not only that, what happens to those jeans you no longer wear also negatively affects the environment. Menostrash does not fight to reduce the consumption of clothing, but rather to ensure that clothing already in circulation and disused can be recycled without toxic substances. The project employs processes of classification, cleaning and combination in order to create new products for the fashion market, accessories and adornments from what is recycled.

Today, the fashion world is still dominated by white people. Mentoring Matters works to give people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds equal access to paid job opportunities in this field. Through individual mentoring programs, they support candidates and connect them with a network of paid job offers.