ABOUT US
THE MEETING BETWEEN FASHION AND PEOPLE
African Fashion Gate is a permanent workshop for cultural initiatives and concrete projects to fight persistent forms and episodes of racism, discrimination, and exclusion in the world of fashion, art, performance, and sports.
It pursues its objectives through two macro initiatives:
The Center for Advanced Studies of Fundamental Human Rights
LA MODA VESTE LA PACE
For some years, AFG has presented La Moda Veste la Pace Award, a public recognition conferred on eminent figures that have distinguished themselves for their dedication to inclusion and rejection of discrimination and racism. The event has been organized in Brussels, the seat of the European Parliament, under its High Patronage, and in Rome at the Italian Delegation of the European Commission.
African Fashion Gate also organizes the annual appointment La Moda veste la Pace at the Museum of Decorative Arts at the Louvre, coinciding with the Paris week of fashion. It has also been held in Minsk, Belarus since January 2019 to launch a call asking the authorities to set an official moratorium on executions and to commute the death sentences of prisoners.
THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES OF FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS
The Higher Studies Centre for Fundamental Human Rights aims to assist the European
Parliamento Subcommittee on Human Rights in Brussels and the European Union Agency for
Fundamental Rights in taking measures or defining initiatives to combat these issues.
Drawing on specialists and experts in the field, it studies the extent and evolution of racism and
xenophobia in the fields of Art, Entertainment and Fashion. It analyses their causes, consequences
and effects, in particular through the creation of a European Racism and Xenophobia Information
Network, in charge of gathering information at a national level.
EXECUTIVE
Makaziwe Mandela (Maki)
Daughter of Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela since 18 July 2022 is the
Honorary President of AFG.
Mariteou Dione
President of African Fashion Gate and Director of the La Moda Veste la Pace Award.
Mariteou Dione
President of African Fashion Gate and Director of the La Moda Veste la Pace Award.
Marlena Ianniello
Vice President of African Fashion Gate.
NICOLA PAPARUSSO
AFG Founder and Director of the Center for Advanced Studies of Fundamental Human Rights
NICOLA PAPARUSSO
AFG Founder and Director of the Center for Advanced Studies of Fundamental Human Rights
Axel Mario Paparusso
La Moda Veste la Pace Award Director
AFRICAN FASHION GATE IS ALSO IN THE WORLD WITH:
Bamba Fall (Senegal), Kaïgé-Jean Bale Simoës de Fonseca (Francia), Maria Francisca Pereira De Oliveira (Brasiela), Amel Ayachi (Tunisia), Andy Salandy (North Carolina), Yorda Shenen (Washington), Aries Maximus Ogbuokiri (Inghilterra UK), Francisco Valderrama Uceda (Spagna)
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