PRESS RELEASE
21st of March 2023

The 10th edition of the La Moda Veste la Pace Award washeld in memoriam of Vivienne Westwood.
The event was held thanks to the esteemed patronage of the European
Parliament at the Spazio Europa managed by the European parliament
Office in Italy and by the European Commission Representation inItaly, in Via IV November 149, Rome.
African Fashion Gate awardedNaomi Campbell, Massimo Giannini, Renzo Rosso and Arianna Alessi, Lelio Gavazza,
Luisa Panconesi, Piero Piazzi and Massimo Leonardelli
At noon on March 21st– “The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination”– Spazio
Europa in Via IV November 149 in Rome, managed by the European Parliament Office in Italy andby the European Commission’s Representatives in Italy, was the venue for the 10th Edition of
the international La Moda Vesta la Pace award created by the founder of African Fashion Gate APS
Nicola Paparusso, which since its inception has boasted patronage from the Camera Nazionaledella Moda Italiana, the National Office Against Racial Discrimination for the Presidency of theCouncil of Ministry and the Italian Football Federation.
The event, held thanks to the esteemed patronage of the European Parliament, was inmemoriam of Vivienne Westwood, who Nicola Paparusso and African Fashion Gate knew andrespected.
After an introductory speech by Antonio Parenti, the Head of the European Commission Representation in
Italy, Mariteou Dione, President of AFG awarded:
Naomi Campbell, fashion icon, actress, activist and founder of Fashion For Relief, a non-profit
organization that collaborates with other charities and foundations, for having undertaken andcontinuously supported a campaign against racism in fashion and beyond. She has always been
inspired by Nelson Mandela, who nicknamed her his honorary granddaughter.
The super top model was unable to attend the event and sent a video contribution;
Massimo Giannini, Director of "La Stampa" for his sensitivity to social issues. "Mobilitarsi è undovere" is the title of his editorial published on December 7th 2022 in which he promoted a collectionof signatures in support of an appeal addressed to Mohammad Reza Sabouri, the Islamic Republic ofIran’s Ambassador to Italy, to the head of the Iranian judiciary and to Antonio Tajani, Minister ofForeign Affairs, for the release of FAHIMEH KARIMI, volleyball coach and mother of three, detained
and sentenced to death by the regime for kicking a member of the Basij paramilitary;
Lelio Gavazza Executive Vice President of Sales and Retail for the Bulgari Group for his profoundcommitment to promoting the values of equality and diversity, in compliance with the highest
standards of conduct;
Luisa Panconesi Presidente del Comitato Evento LuisaViaRoma x UNICEF for sponsoring
important initiatives created to support UNICEF programs aimed at protecting and ensuring therights of the most vulnerable children in the world. In particular, in 2022, she led a significant
collection of funds to support UNICEF programs in response to emergencies, with a focus on crises inUkraine and Syria;
Piero Piazzi, President of Women Management and Massimo Leonardelli, CEO of
Leonardelli PR for their commitment respectively as Ambassador and President of TO GET THERE(https://www.togetthere.it/) the ETS they founded, active in Uganda and South Sudan in helping orphaned
and HIV-positive children abandoned and in conditions of extreme poverty with the local support of theComboni nuns and doctors of the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome;Renzo Rosso, Founder and President of the OTB Group, and Arianna Alessi, Vice President of theOTB Foundation, because in addition to the many projects they support with their foundation that
focuses on young people, women and integration, they have worked to welcome Ukrainians refugees into
Italy by providing them with accommodation, food, clothes, health care, education and training, andincluding them in their company in compliance with all contractual rights. Although he was unable toattend the event, Renzo Rosso invited African Fashion Gate to an awards ceremony at the OTB
headquarters in Breganze, Italy on April 3rd.
Before the award ceremony at 10:30am, the Società Benefit held a debate focusing on bridging
the gap between companies and the third sector and the coexistence of business with benefit.
This served as a dialogue between politicians, entrepreneurs, researchers and professionals, aiding themto understand which are the best paths and the practices to adopt in order to to foster integration andsynergy between for-profit and non-profit activities.
Debate participants:
Giandomenico Cressoni Chartered Accountant, Accounting Expert, Legal Auditor, and partner ofStudio Associato Cressoni Ghizzi Zeni was the moderator;
Mauro Del Barba first signer of the Società Benefit provision and President of Assobenefit;
Adriano Marsala Expert in Società Benefit and ESG Indicators;
Maurizio Zordan CEO of Zordan, one of the first Italian manufacturing companies to become a SocietàBenefit;
Massimiliano Ghizzi President of the Gruppo TEA SpA.

African Fashion Gate
With representatives in Europe, Africa, North America and South America, AFG is a permanentworkshop for cultural initiatives and concrete projects to fight persistent forms and episodes ofracism, discrimination, and exclusion in the world of fashion, art, performance and sports.
For some years, AFG has presented La Moda Veste la Pace Award, a public recognition conferred oneminent figures that have distinguished themselves for their dedication to inclusion and rejection ofdiscrimination 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 EuropeanCommission. African Fashion Gate also organizes the annual appointment La Moda veste la Pace at theMuseum of Decorative Arts at the Louvre, coinciding with Paris Fashion Week. 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.

La Moda Veste la Pace Award

To date, the award has been bestowed upon fashion icons such as Franca Sozzani, the late director ofVogue Italia, stylists Valentino Garavani, Giorgio Armani and Vivienne Westwood, the president of
the National Chamber of Italian Fashion Carlo Capasa, Santo Versace and figures belonging to othersectors such as Gabriele Gravina, president of the Italian Football Federation, Paolo Del Brocco
managing director of Rai Cinema, the Italian-Pakistani journalist Sabika Shah Povia, the world
motorcycling champion Franco Morbidelli, the Roma football team player Ebrima Darboe, the tiktoker
Khaby Lame, the musical group Simple Minds and Makaziwe Mandela, daughter of the Nobel Peace
Prizewinner and President of South Africa Nelson Mandela, who since July 18th 2022 has been theHonorary President of AFG.
The award statue, designed by Axel P, depicts the silhouette of an African model winged by an olive branch
to signify the victory over prejudice and discrimination. It also reminds us, through the fingerprint of
which the body is composed, of the irrepressible right to our identity. The La Moda Veste la Pace Awardwas created entirely in Italy by Maestro Davide Simone according to the principles of eco-design andsustainable development. In addition to being an award, it represents a commitment to the environment.
For more information: www.africanfashiongate.org
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