by Milan – Carlo Capasa pushes back on the narrative that lacks in Italy that is missing ethics.
The President of Camera Nazionale Della Moda Italiana became loud on Wednesday and defended the country’s high-end fashion supply chain against the ongoing claims that it does not meet as the principles of quality, work ethics and sustainability to which the sector is not met.
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Such accusations that were in media reports and on social media have recently followed alleged exploitation, abuse and sweatshop programs in the Italian fashion supply chain.
The most recent link between Loro Piana with Sweatshop -Subunter, who does not properly checks the brand and follows previous similar incidents for Dior, Giorgio Armani, Valentino and Alviero Martini. All brands were placed under the judicial administration, whereby the probes of the two previous brands have been completely solved and the procedural administration procedures were canceled.
“The message is wrong and dangerous. It conveys the idea that fashion is the same as the work result and luxury,” said Capasa at the end of a press conference here to reveal the edition of the CNMI Sustainable Fashion Awards 2025 in September.
“As much as it should not exist, the illegal supply chain is limited to a small part,” he said, finding out how, according to reports from the National Institute for Statistics or IStat, the sector allegedly illegally employs around 30,000 employees, compared to a total employment of 600,000 people in industrial operations. According to Capasa, the balance is far below different industries.
“According to our estimates, irregular suppliers only contribute 2 to 3 percent of the fashion creation in the country,” he added. “Brands are an injured party in these incidents. Conformed brands and supply chains are negatively influenced,” he offered.
“How can it be in an economic interest in a brand if it only covers 2 to 3 percent of production,” he continued.
“So who is interested in portraying this phenomenon as widespread?” Capasa asked rhetorically. He suggested that the poor advertising by competitors – which he did not call – have recently appeared and aimed at the global recognition of Italy.
The manager also refuted the assumption that the discrepancy between the manufacturing costs and the associated retail prices is the proof of abuse practices, as in reports on the case of Loro Piana is widely proposed that he should sell cashmere jackets with a price of 3,000 euros, which would presumably only cost 100 euros through its subcontractors. As reported, the Luxuse label denied this claim.
“It is a strategy that can be hit in Italy as the first global manufacturer of high-end and luxury fashion,” said Capasa.
As reported, Camera della Moda did not take these problems easily.
The moderation is one of the signatories of the Memorandum of Understanding published last May to combat the exploitation of employees, the non -declared work, tax evasion and unfair contractual practices in the fashion supply chain.
Confindustria Moda and Confindustria Accessori Moda, including, including the Milan Prefecture Prefecture, includes the unexpectedly binding memorandum to combat these problems. The scope is currently limited to the Lombardy region, which observers have described as one of his weaknesses.
For this purpose, the same fashion associations and unions on the subject spoke to the topic in a separate fashion-roundtable on Tuesday in the Ministry of Companies in Italy. The government asked the government to define a nationwide obligatory protocol to ensure that the sector complies with fair work standards.
“Regular employment, traceability and compliance must be systemic standards for the sector to protect our most valuable brand: Made in Italy,” said Confindustria Moda President Luca Sburlati. “A uniform national auditing protocol is not only desirable, but also necessary and urgent. We may not be able to fully recognize it, but we also stand by attacks from abroad,” he offered.
“It is astonishing that institutional actors cannot build a mandatory nationwide system for certification of legality in the entire supply chain – one that ensures decent jobs and wages; compliance with the national collective work agreements that were signed by the most representative unions of the unions and employer associations, and the security conditions for the security administration and measures for unfair competition. and Uiltec Uil in a joint explanation.
“The survival of the entire supply chain is at stake,” Capasa agreed on Wednesday.
In accordance with his mission to support the sustainable development of Italian fashion, Camera Della Moda intended on September 27 for the 2025 edition of the CNMI sustainable fashion awards.
The seventh edition of the awards takes place during the Milan Fashion Week, which takes place from September 23 to September 29, organized for sustainable fashion in cooperation with the Allian for sustainable fashion and takes place in the Teatro Alla Scala.
The event is distributed 10 awards for craft and craft. Diversity, justice and inclusion; Radio; Biodiversity and water as well as the groundbreaker and visionary awards.
A special award-the Bicester Collection Award for aspiring designers, who is funded by the value individual trade operator in the possession of shopping destinations-is rewarded for three up-and-coming designer brands.
The finalists include the Galib Gassanoff institution; Sake, the Colombian designer and textile researcher Ana Tafur and Simon Cracker, founded by Simone Botte and founded by Simon Cracker since 2019 and founded by Simon Cracker.
All three brands will enjoy a business-oriented mentoring program that is powered by the Bicester collection, while the winner has the opportunity to present his collection in the apartment.
“This is our sixth year, which has worked together on this award … but our commitment to innovative design and creativity has been involved in the past 30 years, it is part of our DNA,” said Desirée Bollier, chairman and global chief dealer for value -transport trade. “We have looked after more than 100 designers, and some have created amazing careers. We offer you a platform that is visible on three continents – the USA, Asia and Europe and Great Britain – on which we welcome 50 million guests a year, and a mentoring program. The combination of talent and view allows these designers to be out in their business points where they offered.
An independent jury, chaired by Paola Deda, chairman of the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion and Director at UNECE, will assign all awards. The jury panel includes the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto; Federico Marchetti, chairman of the Fashion Task Force of the Sustainable Markets Initiative; Chloe Mukai, head of the ethical fashion initiative, and Xenya Scanlon, Head of the UN -FASHION4LIEN initiative and Chief of Communications, external relationships and partnerships at the United Nations Convention to combat desert formation.
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