Director Stefano Albertini opens the event. All pictures © Mauricio Fonseca
Simone Cipriani passionately works the mic- It’s capitalism with a higher purpose in which the purpose is people and the profit is the happy outcome of doing good business. - Simone Cipriani
The evening's panelists- When you dedicate yourself to others to design, to use knowledge, to use your talent, to use the best materials, to do everything that you do, you are being noble. - Oskar Metsavaht
Molly Yestadt in a fedora straight from her collection, Yestadt Millinery
The crowd listens attentively.- This is usually how my process works. Meet an artisan, place an order, and rely on the authority of the artisan to create the design. - Andrew Ondrejcak
One of Andrew Ondrejcak's original designs, featuring an apron a Haitian artisan custom made for him at his request- If we don’t know how products were made, we can’t ensure anything about them: the quality, whether the price was fair, let alone any social or environmental impact. - Leonardo Amerigo Bonanni
Leonardo Amerigo Bonanni (left) and Zolaykha Sherzad (right)- Fashion was such a strong statement, especially during the Taliban. If you look at women, identity was totally reduced to nothing with head-to-toe burqas. - Zolaykha Sherzad
The 1984 photographic portrait by journalist Steve McCurry called "Afghan Girl," which inspired Zolaykha Sherzad