Haiti - Economy : Craftsmen of Haiti engage in ethical fashion
Came from Rio de Janeiro, the designer Ana Suassuna of the famous Brazilian house Osklen, booming in the luxury world, with stores in the United States, Italy or Japan promotes ethical and responsible fashion, among Haitian artisans with whom she learns to make fashion jewelry. As thirty other houses, Osklen is a partner of the Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI), a program born in 2009 with the support of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
"The fashion world has lost its soul by forgetting what was the basis of the market, this partnership between the artisans," deplores the Italian Simone Cipriani, founder and Director of EFI "Today, fashion speak the language of marketing. We must recover our soul."
The old model of Italian-Haitian, Stella Jean shares this vision "it was natural to partner with this initiative [...] it is time to change that. We need to appreciate again, to buy a little less in quantity, a little more in quality [...] I learn from craftsmen, I give them my point of view, we are growing up together [...]"
The will of Stella Jean, Ana Suassuna, Simone Cipriani and all program partners for ethical fashion, is to promote a responsible fashion to develop the economies of the South.
André Paul Lafrond in the workshop where he works the ox horn for 32 years, welcomes the prospect of foreign contracts "This brings me work here [...] Some speak only to leave Haiti, but, look, we can work and live well our life in our country."
