SPFW N51 presents the Sankofa Project to support racialized entrepreneurs
The SPFW N51 and the IN-MOD Institute presented the Sankofa Project, co-author of the Blacks in Fashion movement and the social innovation startup VAMO (Vetro Afro Indigenous in Fashion), to support racialized entrepreneurs.
The initiative aims to promote inclusion in Brazilian fashion and give visibility and support to racialized entrepreneurs.
In the Sankofa project, eight selected brands participate in three editions of São Paulo Fashion Week, receive mentoring and monitoring from lawyers, publicists, accountants and psychologists, and the advice of a “godmother” – a veteran brand consecrated at the SPFW:
Ateliê Mão de Mãe (Gustavo Silvestre, Projeto Ponto Firme)
Az Marias (Isaac Silva)
Meninos Rei (João Pimenta)
Mile Lab (Juliana Jabour)
Naya Violeta (Apartment 03)
Santa Resistência (Angela Brito)
Silvério (Vitorino Campos)
Ta Studios (Patricia Viera)
The initiative’s support strategy is created from the individual shortcomings and needs of each label.
“It’s more of a school than an exhibition stage,” explains Natasha Soares, co-founder of Pretos na Moda, for Vogue.
“In the African tradition of the Acã people, Sankofa is an ideogram represented by a bird with its head turned backwards, or by two curved lines that form a heart. For the writer, teacher, and human rights activist of the black population, Abdias do Nascimento, its meaning is: ‘return to the past to resignify the present and build the future.”
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