{"id":195149,"date":"2021-07-15T15:15:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T13:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/madagascan-designer-eileen-akbaraly-honored-at-cannes?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-07-15T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T13:15:01","slug":"madagascan-designer-eileen-akbaraly-honored-at-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/madagascan-designer-eileen-akbaraly-honored-at-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"Madagascan designer Eileen Akbaraly honored at Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/387c0eadfe62b06\/600\/418\" alt=\"Made for a Woman\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cannes (France), first place in world press coverage thanks to its famous film festival, a platform of global influence, has just hosted the 5<sup>th<\/sup> edition of the Better World Fund. At the podium, Eileen Akbaraly, founder of Made For A Woman (www.MadeForAWoman.shop), reaffirmed her entrepreneurial and creative commitment to an innovative project which is respectful of nature and profoundly human. She received the Unity Peace Award BWF.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A stone&rsquo;s throw from Spike Lee&#039;s &ldquo;summer palace&rdquo;, the splendid president of what is, this mid-July, the most important crossroads for celebrities on the planet, a conscience of tomorrow was invited to this forum of new worlds. This was an opportunity for the young Madagascan raffia-palm craft brand to promote its values and ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Invited to speak at the high-end advocacy session &lsquo;Mastermind&rsquo; at the opening of this day presented by the Better World French endowment fund, Eileen Akbaraly challenged the public regarding the modern mission of companies. <em>&ldquo;Customers want transparency about the origin of materials, products that have meaning, an identity inseparable from their territory. The act of purchasing is aligned with a certain relationship to the world which values human action and demonstrates natural balance.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is a major development for all economic and creative players from the South as well as the North, confirmed by the presence of other panelists such as OECD adviser Louis Mar&eacute;chal, the president of the Ren&eacute; Moawad Foundation, Michel Moawad from Lebanon, geopolitician Mikaa Mered, Ghanaian politician Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, and even international lawyer St&eacute;phane Brabant.<\/p>\n<p>During the evening, several hundred prestigious guests were able to appreciate the immanent beauty of the unique works of Made For A Woman, produced in the brand&#039;s workshops in Madagascar. Bags, tunics, and hats, made by hand in the tradition of the living heritage of Madagascar and colored without heavy metals or dangerous chemicals, offered testimony to a desire to magnify this inseparable link between nature, women, and men who inherit it and the risky, daring part called intelligence in action. Traceability was illustrated by the film &ldquo;The Raphia Journey&rdquo; by Geoffrey Gaspard, produced by Eileen Akbaraly, which was presented to guests on the Croisette.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/bit.ly\/2TdHCJN<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the event, Eileen Akbaraly received the Unity Peace Award [Best Commitment] from the collective Union-Life International.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Manuel Collas de La Roche as a forum conducive to advocacy for peace, solidarity, and humanism, the Better World Fund held its 5<sup>th <\/sup>edition within the prestigious framework of the 74<sup>th<\/sup> Cannes Film Festival. Over the years, it has honored personalities of international rank including Jean-Michel Cousteau, Mary J. Blige, Denis Mukwege, Forest Whitaker, and HRH Prince Albert.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Made for a Woman.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more images:<\/strong>&nbsp;https:\/\/bit.ly\/3z2ZOoO<\/p>\n<p><strong>Press Office:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"mailto:fazdahall@gmail.com\">fazdahall@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>+27&nbsp;834&nbsp;133&nbsp;346<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:vincent.garrigues@meroe.global\">vincent.garrigues@meroe.global<\/a><br \/>\n+33&nbsp;640&nbsp;460&nbsp;542<\/p>\n<p><strong>MADE FOR A WOMAN<\/strong><br \/>\nAnosivavaka, Ambohimanarina,<br \/>\nAntananarivo, Madagascar<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madeforawoman.shop\/\">https:\/\/MadeForAWoman.shop\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/madeforawoman\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/madeforawoman\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/2be106533a5445f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/2be106533a5445f\" alt=\"Made for a Woman\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/2be106533a5445f\">Download logo<\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannes (France), first place in world press coverage thanks to its famous film festival, a platform of global influence, has just hosted the 5th edition of the Better World Fund. 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