Fashion Deserves the World
Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (CNMI), in conjunction with the start-up Mygrants, presents a new project to promote inclusiveness in the international fashion system.
To mark World Refugee Day on 20 June, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (CNMI) announced the project Fashion Deserves the World. This initiative is part of the UNHCR’s calendar of events and is presented in conjunction with Mygrants, the start-up and B Corp founded by Christian Richmond Nzi to offer refugees and migrants resources useful for developing their skills and gaining access to work. The project, part of CNMI’s policy of fostering inclusiveness in the international fashion system, will ensure that young refugees and migrants who wish to work in the textile and clothing sector will receive free access to a series of technical training services. Applications to Fashion Deserves the World should be submitted by 30 September 2021 on the website of Mygrants, which will send a shortlist to CNMI and together they will choose the best fifteen candidates. The finalists will be following online training courses in December 2021 and January 2022, after which CNMI and Mygrants will secure placements for the candidates selected through contacts with various Italian companies. Fashion Deserves the World is part of a programme launched by CNMI in 2018 on the theme of inclusiveness, reaffirmed in 2019 by the Manifesto, which describes the development of its policies. “We are truly proud to present this new project, which marks a very important step in the evolution of our fashion system towards greater inclusiveness,” said Carlo Capasa, the CNMI’s Chairman. Christian Richmond Nzi, Founder and CEO of Mygrants, added: “I believe that Fashion Deserves the World can provide an answer to all those young migrant talents eager to enter the Italian high fashion industry. I would like to thank Carlo Capasa for his far-sighted policy and his whole team for their perseverance. Together, we will continue to achieve crazy, wonderful things, making them seem normal.”