Argentina Fashion Week - Gabriel lage & new entrepreneurs

Héctor Vidal Rivas: From my point of view World Fashion Organization is something very important for all Fashion Week member countries, like Argentina Fashion Week, and any other fashion week in the world, because it will empower all of us, spreading Fashion Weeks and generating important business, non only for international organizations but the national designers too, whom will be positioned in the World within international schedules. So I think World Fashion Organization is, with no doubt, a very important platform to the overall growth for all, pointing in the same direction so being able in this manner integrate into the world fashion scene. Dra. MARCELA CARDILLO: Every way of spreading and promoting the creative industry is always interesting for us. It is fundamental, to maintain the identity that make us being so diverse and attractive for the World. I believe fashion left to be an elite class thing. It has to be with conduct patterns, and other global factors. It has to do with an identity subject. With the tradition from and between generations. The Productive Identities program, coming since 2005, promotes the continuity of the process through a join task into the various Ministries, as Cristina Fernández, President of Argentina, develops Productive Identities. Micro-credit programs generates a tool for artisans to become productive. Dra. KARINA YAROCHEVSKI: We are very to happy to participate in Argentina Fashion Week, thanks to the space they provide to the social economy entrepreneurs from all over Argentina, to be part and be able to show every craftsmanship and designs on the runway. Products fundamentaly joined to natural value, and ancestral essence of our country. Throughout the Social Development Ministry we work very strongly for social inclusion. Guiding people that bets into their work, who aspire to have a better qualitty of life. We work with the concept of fair trade. It means the possibility of direct sales between manufactures and consumers, another important foundation in which people have the possibility of buying directly to the representant entrepeneurs of the culture of our country. Our Micro-credit interventions and programs allow entrepreneurs to access small credits to obtain raw material, capital assets for business establishment. Currently, we have more than 800,000 people that access micro-credit programs in Argentina. Near 60% of micro-credit whole of capital goes to the textile industry. All this tools we provide from the Social Development Ministry make entrepreneurs to empower self confidence and hope, providing opportunities to live in a more fair country, with equality rights. SUSI FROSASCO: The people that we participate in this kind of event come mostly from the midlands and agricultural areas, then we haven’t got access to the industry, but thanks to the Social Development Nation Ministry, we are now linking with the World Fashion Organization, this is really very important for us because we didn’t know one each other before. I feel gratefull and hope this is an starting point for many people in terms to benefit of the exchange. The intrigue of the life allow us to improve. SANDRA DECARLI: This is a chain, we received a call from Social Development, and who appears..., the World Fashion Organization, finally designers not famous, even in their own region, are now going out to the World. CARMEN MILLAN: Our objetive is keeping on growing. We are independent looking for a place to settle and continue growing. GRACIELA SALVATIEGA: This is so beautiful, and very big for me, all looked amazing, well, at list for me, but big, big, I never dreamed to be here. RAMON BAIRROGIA: Yes, This is a dream for all of us to see our designs dressing the models, even more inside the ambient it is being showcasing here. We cannot believe at all that we are able to show here our culture and the things we do coming from a very small village as most of us come. I am still in a cloud. NORMA FLORES: It has been a great experience for me. It´s being a great growth for us and for our institution, to show what we do, so people know about it and can expand, so we can sell and have more commercialization. CRISTINA GUZMAN: We really valorate and appreciate what Social Development Nation Ministry is doing for us. The ministry supported us through all the chain, training, education and point of sales. The Ministry supported not only all of us, but all the developments, our families children and communities as well. FLAVIO FLORES: Thanks God we have seeing the fruits of our work represented on the models body, seeing people clapping is beautiful, fantastic, it was something we never imagined to live such a wonderful experience. PABLO RIVERO:I believe World Fashion Week is providing a unique opportunity to designers and artist, with this initiative World Fashion Week gives the right opportunitty to many artist that really have a great potential, creativity, capacity... they are meritor to be here. Dra. MARCELA CARDILLO: Not everybody have the sufficient resources to launch a store to sell their designs. I think fashion is effortly joined to the culture of Argentina. This is our input from the Secretariat, is a support based on economic training. Artisans enjoy absolut freedom of forms and textures for manufacturing, colors, all very diverse. They are covered for this training by the Seretariat and University, so the can later commercialize their products and make business. Commemorating the Bicentenary, last year we organized a Fashion Show recreating historical times that included in the runways the showcase Productive Identities and it was a truly luxury to witness, it is incredible the creativity they have. I wish lost of success to World Fashion Week, in many other editions, to continue in time with its social labor always in the terms of humanity colaboration and solidarity. I truly wish best of success in many editions to come. GABRIEL LAGE: World Fashion Week is a fabulous initiative, specially for Argentinian designers, where it hasn´t been an easy journey for designers nowadays because of the crisis and just now we are having step by step presence in the international market and that´s a fabulous thing for the whole world and designers, it is necessary, there are so many talent that is not known, this will help them to become known, its is a fantastic opportunity, with no doubt, for everything that is design in the world. ENRIQUE MEYER: The participation of our country during World Fashion Week and to accomplish an outstanding selection to represent it, it is very important for the Argentinian Design. HECTOR VIDAL: The 1st Annual World Fashion Week I think is very important for all Designers and countries, because it will open new international commercial avenues for all, so Argentinian designers can become visible to the world. I think it will be of vital importance for all designers, and fashion weeks around the world